Flowtake
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Flowtake, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Flowtake's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free desktop recorder and editor · FFmpeg must be installed separately · No paid app tier or export paywall |
The facts
Each one read from Flowtake's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The project describes its use case as creating developer demos and includes a demo kit for maintainers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Capture
- It records a full display, selected window, or custom area, with optional camera, microphone, and supported system audio.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editing
- Its timeline supports cursor-driven zoom and pan, clip trimming and splitting, cursor and click effects, masks, backgrounds, overlays, audio tracks, and subtitles.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Export
- It exports locally to H.264/MP4 or VP9/WebM, with resolution, frame-rate, quality, and optional-audio controls.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Network features include YouTube upload and RTMP live streaming, and a local stdio MCP integration supports metadata-based timeline edits from an MCP host.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local storage
- Recordings, project files, and ordinary exports are stored locally, and Flowtake does not include cloud project sync.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Microphone recording
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Network data
- Using a network feature sends data to the service configured by the user; the app also makes GitHub release-check requests and some camera effects fetch model assets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Prerequisite
- Flowtake release packages do not include FFmpeg, which must be installed separately and available as `ffmpeg` on `PATH`.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Flowtake is an open-source, local-first screen recorder and timeline editor for polished developer demos.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Signing
- The current Windows artifacts are not Authenticode-signed, and macOS artifacts are ad-hoc signed, not Apple Developer ID-signed, and not notarized.checked 12 Oct 2026
- System audio
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Telemetry
- The current Tauri build has Sentry disabled and no active product-analytics integration.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Webcam recording
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform support
- Windows 10/11 x64 is the primary development and validation target; macOS 10.15+ Universal and Linux x64 are preview platforms, and Linux screen capture requires X11 or XWayland.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows,macOS,Linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
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