SwiftRec

A fast, free and open-source screen recorder for Windows.
Capture your screen, webcam and audio in one click — no watermark, no sign-up, no limits.

Features

• 🎬 Record anything — full screen, a single window, a custom region, or a specific monitor
• 🎤 Voice + system audio together — narrate with your microphone while capturing what plays on screen, muxed into one file
• 📷 Webcam overlay — add a webcam bubble on top of your recording for tutorials and reactions
• 🖱️ Show clicks & keystrokes — optional mouse-click and keystroke overlays, great for how-to videos
• 🖼️ Screenshots — grab full screen, window or region to PNG in a keypress
• ⌨️ Global hotkeys — start, pause and stop without switching windows
• 📦 MP4 / GIF output — clean H.264 MP4 or animated GIF, no watermark
• 🪶 Light & portable — tiny installer, runs on .NET Framework, no bloat

Download

➡️ Download the latest release

Two ways to run it:

Installer	SwiftRecSetup.zip — download, unzip and run SwiftRecSetup.msi to install. Adds Start-menu and optional desktop shortcut.
Runtime	Requires .NET Framework 4.7.2 (preinstalled on Windows 8.1 / 10 / 11)

Website: swiftrecpc.com

Telegram: @windows_free_software — free & clean Windows software, new releases posted here.

Quick start

1. Launch SwiftRec.
2. Pick a source on the toolbar — Full Screen, Window, Region or Screen.
3. Toggle the microphone 🎤 and speaker 🔊 icons for the audio you want.
4. Hit the red ● button (or the hotkey) to start, and ■ to stop.
5. Your clip lands in Videos\SwiftRec — open the folder straight from the app.

Screenshots

Build from source

SwiftRec targets .NET Framework 4.7.2 and builds with Visual Studio 2022 (or Build Tools) + MSBuild.

git clone https://github.com/Fi6uDvGWucFv/SwiftRec.git
cd SwiftRec
msbuild src/Captura.sln /t:Restore /p:Configuration=Release
msbuild src/Captura.sln /t:Build   /p:Configuration=Release

The build output appears in src/Captura/bin/Release/SwiftRec.exe.

Credits

SwiftRec is built on top of the excellent open-source Captura engine by Mathew Sachin, used and redistributed under the MIT License. All original copyright is retained — see LICENSE.md and the bundled third-party notices in licenses/.

License

Released under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify and distribute it.