SpatiLabs · Windows

Record your screen without opening a screen recorder.

A tiny native Windows utility for instantly capturing a window, a region, or an entire screen — with microphone and system audio.

Press Select Record

Your screen recorder shouldn't become another application you have to manage.

Caramel is a tiny native Windows screen recorder that stays out of your way.

Just press → select → record.

A gesture, not a piece of software

  1. Press a shortcut.
  2. Choose a window, a region, or the whole screen.
  3. Choose your microphone and system audio.
  4. Record.
GIF /caramel/media/gesture.gif

1080 × 1350 · looping GIF

Shortcut, selection, record. Nothing else in the frame.

Shortcut → choose what to capture → record.

Caramel feels like a native Windows version of macOS's built-in screen recording.

The Mac comparison

The Mac has it built in. Windows has Caramel.

QuickTime Player gave the Mac simple screen recording: open the app, hit record. But no system audio, no single-window capture, and a heavy .mov file. Caramel is that idea, finished — for Windows.

CaramelQuickTime Player
PlatformWindows 10macOS, built in
LaunchGlobal shortcut, lives in the trayOpen the app (or press ⌘⇧5)
CaptureWindow · Region · Full screenFull screen · Region
System audioYes — WASAPI loopbackNo — needs extra drivers
MicrophoneYesYes
OutputMP4 · H.264 · faststart.mov
FeelA buttonAn app you open

It doesn't feel like OBS.

If OBS feels like a studio, Caramel feels like a button.

What it actually is

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Instant

Launches when you need it.

  1. Instant. Launches when you need it.
  2. Native. Built around Windows, not a web stack.
  3. Quiet. Lives in the background until you call it.
  1. Instant — launches when you need it.
  2. Native — built around Windows, not a web stack.
  3. Quiet — lives in the background until you call it.

Native. Instant. Beautiful. Invisible.

The edge of the recording

The recording area becomes part of the interface.

Choose a window and Caramel draws its border. The screen itself says what is about to be recorded. A small native object, not a control room.

GIF /caramel/media/outline.gif

1600 × 1000 · looping GIF

The selection edge drawing itself around a window.

This is what will be recorded.

Window · Region · Full screen

You see something. Then it is a file.

WEBP /caramel/media/window.webp

1600 × 1000 · still

One window chosen. The rest of the desktop falls quiet.

Window
WEBP /caramel/media/region.webp

1600 × 1000 · still

A region, mid-drag. Just the rectangle.

Region
WEBP /caramel/media/screen.webp

1600 × 1000 · still

The whole display. One monitor, edge to edge.

Full screen

Light when idle

70 MB of RAM. 0% CPU in the tray.

Caramel sleeps until you call it. No background workers, no web stack warming up — just a tray icon waiting for a shortcut.

WEBP /caramel/media/tray.webp

1600 × 1000 · still

Task Manager: Caramel idle in the tray.

Asleep in the tray.

One take

The whole gesture.

MP4 /caramel/media/product.mp4

1920 × 1080 · H.264 · muted · 10–20s

You see something. You press a key. It's recorded.

Drop the film on this frame. It plays when the file is there.

You see something. You press a key. It's recorded.

A small sweet thing. It shows up, does the work, and disappears.