The capture studio for Windows.

It quietly replaces about seven things you already have — and all of it lives behind the shortcut your hand already reaches for. Nothing to open, nothing to wait for, and nothing leaves your PC unless you send it.

One month free · Works offline · No sign-up to start

Image to text

If you can see it, you can copy it.

Someone’s screen share. A locked PDF. An error dialog. Code in a video tutorial. With Clarus, all of it is one hotkey away from being real text on your clipboard.

  • Works where selection doesn’t: dialogs, images, video frames.
  • Good with code: braces, symbols and spacing survive the trip.
  • 100% on your machine: text recognition runs locally on your PC, nothing is uploaded.
Privacy

Send the screen. Keep the secrets.

There’s always something on screen you’d rather not share: a name, an email, a number. Drag a pixelate box over it and it’s gone before you hit send.

  • Pixelate or blur: draw it, move it, resize it like any shape.
  • Works on recordings too: burned into every exported frame, not a layer anyone can peel off.
  • Local by default: nothing is uploaded unless you choose to share it.
Screen recording

Stop writing steps nobody follows.

Someone asks “how do you do that?” for the third time. With Clarus you hit record and do it once: clicks glow, keys show on screen, your voice comes along.

Mic + system audio

Record MP4 with your voice and the computer's sound together.

Webcam overlay

Add a camera bubble to put yourself on screen.

Click highlights

Show clicks and on‑screen keystrokes as you go.

Countdown timer

A 3‑2‑1 lead‑in, or up to ten seconds if you need longer.

Draw while recording

Annotate directly on the screen mid‑capture.

One‑click mute & discard

Silence the mic or throw the take away instantly.

Edit video

Keep the 20 seconds that matter.

You recorded three minutes; the good part is twenty seconds. Trim it, split it, cut the middle out, speed it up. All on a real timeline, without installing a real video editor.

  • Trim, split & remove segments on a multitrack timeline.
  • Independent audio trim and playback speed from 0.5× to 2×.
  • Zoom / punch‑in segments to draw focus to the action.
  • Per‑frame blur: re‑derived from each source frame and burned into the export, never an overlay someone can strip off.
  • Export to MP4, GIF, or MP3 with handy size presets.
Annotate

Every mark you’ll ever need.

Annotate a screenshot or a recording with arrows, boxes, text, step numbers, highlighter or blur. The editor is one click from any capture, or set it to open automatically. Every mark stays an editable object you can move or restyle any time. Draw it, then change your mind: a mark is never baked in until you export.

Capture

Snap it. It's already in your hand.

Every capture lands as a card in the corner: copy it, save it, pin it on top, or open the editor. Or skip all of that and drag the card straight into a chat, an email, a folder.

FullscreenThe whole display in one shot.Win+Shift+F
AreaDrag a precise region, crosshair and magnifier.Win+Shift+S
WindowSnap to any open window automatically.Win+Shift+W
ScrollingThe whole page, stitched into one tall image.Ctrl+Alt+E

All hotkeys are customizable.

And more

The little things that add up.

The shortcuts you know

Clarus answers Win+Shift+S, and Print Screen when Windows has it set to snip. No new shortcut to learn, and uninstalling gives them straight back.

Local first

Captures, edits and OCR all run on your PC. A connection is optional.

Originals stay untouched

Saving keeps your edits alongside the capture. The file you took is never written over.

Group and paste

Bundle a set of captures with Ctrl+Alt+G, then drop them all into a chat with one Ctrl+V.

Pin on top

Float a screenshot above every window for reference.

Color picker

Grab any pixel's color. Win+Shift+C

History

Search, sort, and favourite every past capture.

Drag out anywhere

Drop captures straight into any app that accepts files.

11 languages

Fully localized, including right‑to‑left Arabic.

Backgrounds

Set a screenshot on a gradient or your own wallpaper, with padding, rounded corners and a shadow.

Updates itself

New versions arrive quietly in the background — never in the middle of a recording.

Every window, every desktop

The window picker shows what is open across all your virtual desktops, not just this one.

Same area again

Re-shoot your last selection exactly, without drawing it a second time.

Your screen stays yours.

Capture, editing and OCR all run on your PC. Nothing leaves it unless you share it.