21.9k stars · AGPL-3.0 · cap-v0.5.9 (2026-08-11)
Open-source Loom with automatic cursor-follow zoom — an amateur screencast that looks funded.
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What it is
A desktop screen recorder that captures your screen and webcam and produces a shareable link, in the mould of Loom. Its distinguishing trick is automatic zoom: it follows your cursor and pushes in on whatever you are clicking, without you editing a single keyframe.
Why it matters
Everything else in your marketing depends on someone understanding Grasppy, and the drill-into-a-subtopic idea is exactly the sort of thing that lands in a video and dies in a paragraph. You already own Camtasia, so this is not about replacing your editing suite — it is about the twenty other recordings you will never open Camtasia for: a reply to a support question, a feature teaser, a clip for a cold email. The auto-zoom removes the exact step that makes those feel cheap, and because the share link reports who watched and how far, a demo becomes a measurable marketing asset rather than a file.
- Cursor-follow zoom is genuinely automatic — the polish costs you no editing time
- Share links carry view analytics, so a demo becomes a number and not just a file
- Self-hostable if you ever want the videos on your own Hetzner box instead of theirs
- Overlaps SnagIt and Camtasia — you are adding a fourth recorder, not replacing three
- AGPL-3.0 on the main app. Fine as a tool you use; read it before embedding anything
- The cloud tier is where the sharing lives; self-hosting the sharing half is real work
Later it can run self-hosted alongside your other containers (see Coolify, 08) so demo links live on your own domain.
Standalone tool on your Mac to begin with — nothing touches Grasppy's code.
