Recast

Recast 0.4.5

Local-first screen recording and editing agent

  • By KanakKholwal
  • GPLv3
  • Updated Aug 1, 2026
Download for Windows

About Recast

Local-first screen recording and editing agent

What's new in 0.4.5

Recast is an offline-first screen recorder and editor. Record, edit
(zoom, cursor smoothing, captions, annotations), and export entirely on
your machine. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose to share it.
> Platform status: Windows is stable. macOS (Apple Silicon &
> Intel) and Linux are in beta.
What's new in v0.4.5
Highlights
- One design across every dialog, from renaming a file to uploading one, replacing the three styles they had drifted into.
- The editor and Settings remember where you were, so a reload puts back the panel tab, sidebar, and timeline you had open.
- Frame-stepping and scrubbing keep the audio with the picture, and the preview's controls are laid out play on the left, annotation in the middle, fullscreen on the right.
Added
- Share destinations now carry their real mark: the Recast logo for Recast Cloud, the Drive logo for Google Drive, and the icon your own system uses for its share sheet, so the list reads at a glance instead of showing three near-identical clouds.
- Uploads report their progress to screen readers. The phase and percentage were on screen but were never announced, on the one operation in the app worth following.
Changed
- Every dialog now looks and behaves the same way. Rename, delete, upload, share, and the preview window had drifted into three different styles depending on when each was written, and each had picked up its own focus and keyboard quirks along the way.
- The preview player's controls are laid out in three zones: play and position on the left, the annotation tools in the middle, and fullscreen and playback settings on the right.
- The editor keeps the open panel tab, the sidebar, and the timeline in the page address, so reloading, or coming back to a project, leaves everything where you had it rather than snapping to defaults.
- The same is true of Settings: each tab has its own address, so a link that sends you to Settings to turn something on now lands on the tab that holds it.
- Recordings and Exports now share one search, sort, and grid/list control. They were separate copies, which is why a fix to one of them never showed up on the other.
- Deleting a share now asks first, as deleting a recording already did.
Fixed
- Stepping a frame or scrubbing the preview moved the video but left the system and microphone audio where they were, so sound drifted out of sync with the picture.
- The arrow keys in the preview were being taken by the page instead of stepping the video. …

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Technical details

PublisherKanakKholwal
Version0.4.5
Release date2026-08-01
LicenseGPLv3
Installer typenullsoft
Architecturex64
Package IDKanakKholwal.Recast
Install scopeCurrent user

Install Recast from the command line

Install with Windows Package Manager
winget install --id=KanakKholwal.Recast -e
Update to the latest version
winget upgrade --id=KanakKholwal.Recast -e
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id=KanakKholwal.Recast -e
Silent install with the offline installer
"Recast_0.4.5_x64-setup.exe" /S

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Recast version history

0.4.4 Jul 30, 2026

Recast is an offline-first screen recorder and editor. Record, edit
(zoom, cursor smoothing, captions, annotations), and export entirely on
your machine. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose to share it.
> Platform status: Windows is stable. macOS (Apple Silicon &
> Intel) and Linux are in beta.
Downloads
──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────
Platform │Asset
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
Windows (x64) │recast_0.4.4_x64-setup.exe
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
macOS Apple Silicon — beta │recast_0.4.4_aarch64.dmg
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
macOS Intel — beta │recast_0.4.4_x64.dmg
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
Linux (AppImage) — beta │recast_0.4.4_amd64.AppImage
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
Linux (Debian / Ubuntu) — beta│recast_0.4.4_amd64.deb
──────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────
Permissions
Recast asks for each of these at first launch. Grant only the ones
you record from:
- Screen Recording — required to capture your screen.
- Microphone — required if you record voiceover.
- Camera — required if you record from a webcam.
macOS surfaces these in System Settings → Privacy & Security; Linux
and Windows behave per distro / shell and appear in the runtime
permission dialogs.
Installation
Windows
1. …

0.4.3 Jul 27, 2026

Recast is an offline-first screen recorder and editor. Record, edit
(zoom, cursor smoothing, captions, annotations), and export entirely on
your machine. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose to share it.
> Platform status: Windows is stable. macOS (Apple Silicon &
> Intel) and Linux are in beta.
Downloads
──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────
Platform │Asset
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
Windows (x64) │recast_0.4.3_x64-setup.exe
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
macOS Apple Silicon — beta │recast_0.4.3_aarch64.dmg
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
macOS Intel — beta │recast_0.4.3_x64.dmg
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
Linux (AppImage) — beta │recast_0.4.3_amd64.AppImage
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────
Linux (Debian / Ubuntu) — beta│recast_0.4.3_amd64.deb
──────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────
Permissions
Recast asks for each of these at first launch. Grant only the ones
you record from:
- Screen Recording — required to capture your screen.
- Microphone — required if you record voiceover.
- Camera — required if you record from a webcam.
macOS surfaces these in System Settings → Privacy & Security; Linux
and Windows behave per distro / shell and appear in the runtime
permission dialogs.
Installation
Windows
1. …

0.3.1

Frequently asked questions

Is Recast free?

Recast is gplv3 software from KanakKholwal. Check the publisher's license terms for pricing and usage rights.

What is the latest version of Recast?

The latest version is 0.4.5, released on Aug 1, 2026.

Is it safe to download Recast?

The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 9d4852e7b329adf9f5f8703cb2c09305956676765715352570714f9356cc9d26.

Which Windows versions does Recast support?

Recast runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.

How do I install Recast silently?

Run the offline installer with "Recast_0.4.5_x64-setup.exe" /S, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=KanakKholwal.Recast -e --silent.

How do I uninstall Recast?

Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Recast and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=KanakKholwal.Recast -e.

Alternatives to Recast

Other Video programs for Windows from different developers.