Quikap captures
Stills of a display, a window or a region; scrolling and panoramic captures; recordings with system audio, a microphone and the cursor's clicks. Small, resident, answered the instant you press the key.
In development · Windows 10 and 11 first
Capture what you saw. Keep it yours.
Quikap freezes the screen before it shows a thing, so the capture is exactly what you saw. QuikapStudio edits on top of it and never changes the original. Both write to your own disk and to nowhere else.
Signed updates No cloud, no tracking
Two programs
A capture utility that must never fail, and an editor that can afford to be rich
They are separate processes and separate downloads. They meet only through a versioned local protocol and files on your disk, so one can be updated, or fail, without the other.
QuikapStudio edits
Arrows, callouts, step badges, blur and secure redaction on a tiled canvas that treats a huge panorama like a small screenshot. A library of what you captured; trim and split for recordings.
Local-first, by construction
No account, no upload, no telemetry. A capture is a folder of ordinary files on your disk. The only things either program sends anywhere are described, in full, on one page.
The frozen screen
The overlay comes second, so it is never in the picture
When you press the hotkey, Quikap snapshots every display first. Only then does it draw the overlay you select with. What you select is cut from that snapshot, never captured a second time: an open menu stays open, a tooltip stays put, and nothing of the overlay ends up in the capture.
- Crosshair, dimensions and a pixel magnifier; the window under the pointer is outlined
- Mixed-DPI monitors and negative desktop coordinates are handled as a matter of course
- Escape cancels with nothing left behind
Non-destructive
Every edit is a layer on the original, except the one that must not be
A document in QuikapStudio is the original capture plus what you put on it. Undo is always there, and an export is a new file. Secure redaction is the deliberate exception: it removes the pixels it covers from the export, and the export is tested to make sure they cannot be recovered. Blur and pixelate are visual effects; redaction is not.
- A tiled canvas with mip levels: a very large panorama never needs one contiguous bitmap
- Coordinates stay in source space; rendering converts to device pixels late
Updates
An update is trusted because it is signed, not because of where it came from
Every release carries a manifest signed with the Quikap release key. Each program checks that signature against a key compiled into it, then checks the installer's size and SHA-256 against the signed manifest. A server, a mirror or a network in between can refuse you an update. None of them can hand you a forged one.
- Only a newer version is ever offered: an old release cannot be replayed to take you backwards
- Each program reads its own channel; a release of the other program is never applicable
- Nothing downloads until you agree, and you can skip a version
Built for
The capture you make a hundred times a day
Keyboard first
A hotkey to capture, keys to nudge and size the selection, exact coordinates when you want them.
Longer than the screen
Scrolling and panoramic capture, from pixels alone or driven through the page itself, with a confidence you can read.
Record with telemetry
Cursor and clicks are kept apart from the pixels, so they can be shown, styled or left out when you export.
Plain files
A capture is a folder: a PNG or a video, JSON and CBOR. Open it with anything.
Getting started
From a license key to a first capture
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Sign in
With your Exprezoe account, or with a license key you were given. One license covers both programs.
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Download and verify
Download the installers and check each SHA-256 against the one shown.
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Activate
Enter the key in each program once. Each installation takes one seat, which you can give back at any time.
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Capture
Press the hotkey. The screen freezes, you choose, and the capture opens in QuikapStudio.
Plainly
Where Quikap is today
You are reading about a tool that sees everything on your screen. You should know what is finished, what is not, and what we have only tested ourselves. Today, nothing is released.
| Area | Today |
|---|---|
| The contracts the two programs share | Written and tested |
| Signed updates, licenses, this site | Built |
| Still capture on Windows | Being built |
| The editor's canvas | Being built |
| Recording, panorama, OCR | Not yet |
| macOS and Linux | Not yet |
Questions
Asked before you have to ask
What is Quikap?
A capture utility: screenshots, scrolling and panoramic captures, screen recordings with audio and cursor telemetry, taken from a frozen snapshot of the screen so that what you select is what you saw. It stays small and fast, and it writes every capture to your own disk as an artifact that other programs can read.
What is QuikapStudio?
The editor for those captures: annotations, callouts, step badges, blur and secure redaction on an infinite, tiled canvas; a library of what you captured; a timeline for recordings; export. Edits never change the original capture.
Why two programs?
Capture must be instant and must not fail; editing is rich and changes often. They are separate processes and separate downloads, and they talk only through a versioned local protocol and files on your disk. One can be updated without the other.
Where do my captures go?
To your own computer, and nowhere else. There is no cloud, no account to create, no upload. A capture is a folder of files that Studio opens; you can also open it with anything else.
Which platforms?
Windows 10 and 11 first. macOS and Linux (Wayland) are designed for and not built. Nothing on this site has been shown for a platform other than the one it names.
How do updates reach me?
Each program checks this site's channel for itself, verifies the release's signature against a key built into it, downloads the installer when you agree, and checks its size and SHA-256 before running it. It never installs an older version.
How do I get a license?
One license covers both programs. Licenses are issued by a person at Exprezoe while the products are in early access; there is no sign-up on this site.
Is there anything to download yet?
Not yet. Both programs are being built, and the downloads page says so until a release is published. Nothing on this site claims a feature that is not in a release.
Quikap and QuikapStudio are being built
Nothing is released yet, and this site will say so until a release is published. Licenses are issued to teams we can support well while the products take shape; one license covers both programs.