What changed.
Every release, newest first. Vuoom updates itself from inside the app.
Vuoom 2.0.2
Sharper exports, zooms without the hotkey, a pointer that changes shape, and a lighter touch on your PC while you record.
New
- Auto zoom: a take recorded without pressing the zoom hotkey now gets a few calm zooms where you clicked (at most four a minute). Press the hotkey even once and only your own zooms are used. Switch it off in Home > Options or Settings.
- A pointer that changes shape: the smooth pointer becomes a text beam over text, a hand over a link, and resize, move and crosshair pointers like the real one.
- Your own hotkeys: change the zoom and stop hotkeys in Settings > Shortcuts. The app you are recording no longer receives them (Ctrl+Shift+Z used to also trigger Redo in it).
- Bigger, sharper MP4: exports keep the take's own size, up to 4K, and its frame rate. Balanced is 1080p at 30 fps; High quality is full size at up to 60 fps.
- Smoother GIF gradients: backdrops, shadows and the webcam are dithered so they don't show bands, with a switch in the export card.
- Same area as last time: the region picker offers the area you recorded before, and Record remembers whether you last chose a region, the full screen or a window.
- Copy report: Settings > About gives you your versions, GPU, displays and the end of the log, ready to paste into a bug report. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Better
- Frames keep every pixel: a frame (Subtle, Studio) is now added around the recording instead of squeezing the recording, so text stays as sharp as it was recorded. Annotations on a project saved with a frame may sit slightly to the side of where they were.
- MP4 colors match everywhere: the color conversion is fixed (BT.709) and written into the file. The encoder uses the High profile and variable bitrate.
- Cleaner scaling: exports and the preview are scaled on the GPU, so small text no longer breaks up when a take is exported smaller than it was recorded.
- Lighter recording: only the parts of the screen that changed are compressed, and the editor preview is drawn at the size it is shown.
Fixed
- The frame's shadow is now drawn, and a frame no longer stretches the recording sideways.
- Recording a window on Windows 10 holds the frame rate you chose.
- The outermost row of pixels of an export is no longer mixed with the backdrop.
- Saving a project is all-or-nothing, so a full disk or a crash mid-save can't break an earlier save.
- Opening a project that can't be opened keeps the clip you had and says why.
Install
Vuoom_2.0.2_x64-setup.exe: the installer (recommended).Vuoom_2.0.2_x64_en-US.msi: the same app as an MSI.- Already on 2.0 or 2.0.1? Vuoom offers this update itself.
Vuoom 2.0.1
Choose where your videos go, turn the live preview on or off, and a lighter touch on your PC while you record.
New
- Save location: pick the folder your exports and projects go to in Settings > Storage (it starts as
Videos\Vuoom). Open it in File Explorer with one click. - Skip the save dialog: turn off "Ask where to save" and every export goes straight into your folder. A new file never replaces an old one.
- Live preview switch: tick or untick "Live preview" on the recording panel, even in the middle of a take. It is also in the Options menu and Settings > Recording.
Smoother
- The live preview draws 30 times a second instead of 60, half the work for a picture you only glance at.
- Saving frames and drawing the preview now step aside when your PC is busy, so the app you are recording and the panel stay responsive.
Fixed
- Check for updates in Settings > About now always answers: the new version, "You have the latest version", or why it could not check.
Install
Vuoom_2.0.1_x64-setup.exe: the installer (recommended).Vuoom_2.0.1_x64_en-US.msi: the same app as an MSI.- Already on 2.0? Vuoom offers this update itself.
- Save location: pick the folder your exports and projects go to in Settings > Storage (it starts as
Vuoom 2.0
A free, native Windows screen recorder that zooms where it matters. Version 2 is a new studio: sound, a webcam, captions made on your PC, and tools to mark up your video.
Record
- A calmer start screen: pick what to record, with sound, camera and options on one row.
- Sound: your microphone and your computer's audio, kept in sync with the picture. Voice clean-up removes background noise and evens out your volume.
- Webcam: pick a camera, preview it, and show it as a bubble in a corner. Choose its shape and size, or mirror it.
- Smoother capture: faster full-screen recording, a real-time live preview, and zooms (Ctrl+Shift+Z) that appear the moment you press them.
- The recording panel stays on screen but never shows up in your video, even when it sits over the area you're recording.
- Sensible defaults for new takes, with the same frame rate, zoom and countdown choices everywhere.
Edit
- A redesigned studio: a tool rail grouped by task, a timeline with a frame strip, and panels you can show, hide and resize.
- Captions: made on your PC by an offline speech model (nothing is uploaded). Fix the words, retime or restyle them, and save a subtitle file (.srt).
- A smooth, re-drawn pointer that can hide when it's still, and motion blur on zooms and pans.
- Text you type right on the video: double-click a label to change it, and use several lines (Shift+Enter).
- New tools:
- Pen and Marker (P): draw freehand.
- Spotlight (L): dim everything except what matters.
- Zoom and Crop tools, alongside arrows, shapes, highlights and Hide for private details.
- Frame and backdrop: padding, corners and shadow sliders, custom backdrop colors, four new backdrops (ocean, forest, sunset, sand), and your own picture as the backdrop.
- A tidier Clip panel: search your settings (Ctrl+F). Sections start folded after every take and show their current value at a glance.
- More life: gentle motion as panels, sections and tools appear (it turns off if Windows is set to reduce motion), and clearer icons.
- Export: your export settings are remembered, and the project saves instantly.
Install
Vuoom_2.0.0_x64-setup.exe: the installer (recommended).Vuoom_2.0.0_x64_en-US.msi: the same app as an MSI.
If you already use Vuoom, it updates itself to this version.
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Vuoom v0.1.33
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Vuoom v0.1.32
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Vuoom v0.1.31
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Vuoom v0.1.30
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Vuoom v0.1.29
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.msi— Windows installer (recommended).exe— NSIS installer
Vuoom v0.1.28
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Installation
.msi— Windows installer (recommended).exe— NSIS installer
Vuoom v0.1.27
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Installation
.msi— Windows installer (recommended).exe— NSIS installer
Vuoom v0.1.26
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.msi— Windows installer (recommended).exe— NSIS installer
Vuoom v0.1.25
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.msi— Windows installer (recommended).exe— NSIS installer
Vuoom v0.1.24
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Older releases are on GitHub.