Panorama from pixels
Overlapping frames, aligned by phase correlation on an image pyramid, seams chosen where nothing moved, drift corrected globally. Every panorama carries a confidence; a poor one says so instead of pretending.
Features
What Quikap and QuikapStudio are built to do
Nothing on this page is in a release yet. Each feature below is described as it is designed and being built; the table at the end names every one with its state.
Quikap
Capture from a frozen screen
A global hotkey freezes every display at once, before the overlay appears. You choose a display, a window or a region on that frozen picture, with a crosshair, live dimensions and a pixel magnifier, by mouse or by keyboard. The capture is cut from the snapshot, never taken again.
- Mixed-DPI monitors, rotation and HDR are first-class concerns of the platform layer, not afterthoughts
- Every capture source says whether it can capture the cursor, audio, protected or minimised windows
- Typed failures: permission denied, protected content, the window disappeared, the display layout changed
Longer, wider, moving
Beyond one screenful
Panorama through the page
Where a browser or an accessibility tree exposes exact scroll positions, Quikap drives the scroll itself and knows about sticky headers and nested scrollers. The engines negotiate; the best one available is used.
Recording
Video with system audio and a microphone, on one monotonic clock. The cursor and the clicks are recorded as telemetry beside the pixels, not burned into them, so you decide how they look at export.
QuikapStudio
Edit on top of the original
A document is the capture plus layers: vector shapes, text, callouts, step badges, image stamps, effects and redaction. Commands are recorded, so undo and redo are exact. The canvas is tiled, with mip levels, and the viewport asks only for what is visible: a very large panorama is as easy to work with as a small screenshot.
- Secure redaction flattens and removes the pixels it covers at export, and tests try to recover them and must fail
- Blur and pixelate are visual effects, and are named as such; they are not redaction
- Colour profiles and HDR metadata are kept when the source exposes them
- Keyboard access and focus routing are designed in, not added later
Plainly
Every feature, and its state
Available in a release and tested by us. Less tested in a release, tested less widely than the rest. Being built in no release yet. Not yet not started.
| Area | Feature | State | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation | The control protocol and the artifact manifest, versioned and generated into both programs | Being built | Written and tested on both sides; no release carries them yet |
| Foundation | Signed updates: release key, signing script, verifier in both programs | Being built | In place; a fixture signed with the real key verifies |
| Foundation | Licenses, seats, activation, this site | Being built | Built and tested; one license covers both programs |
| Capture | Stills of a display, a window or a region, from a frozen screen | Being built | Windows first: Windows Graphics Capture |
| Capture | Overlay: crosshair, dimensions, magnifier, window highlight, keyboard nudge | Being built | GPUI shell behind a replaceable boundary |
| Capture | Clipboard and save; capture presets; repeat last region | Being built | |
| Capture | Scrolling and panoramic capture from pixels | Not yet | Phase correlation on image pyramids; tile-backed output |
| Capture | Scrolling capture driven through the page or the accessibility tree | Not yet | |
| Capture | Recording: video, system audio, microphone, cursor and click telemetry | Not yet | Hardware encoding; one clock for everything |
| Capture | Timed capture, colour picker, fixed-size region | Not yet | |
| Editor | Open an artifact; immutable source; undo and redo | Being built | |
| Editor | Tiled canvas with mip levels | Not yet | The canvas is a placeholder today |
| Editor | Arrows, lines, shapes, text, callouts, step badges, highlighter | Not yet | |
| Editor | Blur and pixelate; magnifier and spotlight | Not yet | |
| Editor | Secure redaction, destructive at export, with adversarial tests | Not yet | |
| Editor | Crop, canvas resize, background, shadow, border, rounded corners | Not yet | |
| Editor | Video trim and split; cursor and click effects | Not yet | |
| Editor | Library: history, tags, search | Not yet | |
| Editor | Export | Not yet | |
| Intelligence | Local OCR, text selection, smart redaction suggestions | Not yet | On your computer; no cloud |
| Platforms | Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit | Being built | |
| Platforms | macOS (ScreenCaptureKit) and Linux (portal, PipeWire) | Not yet | Designed for; not built |
| Platforms | Installers signed with a publisher certificate | Not yet | Verify the SHA-256 shown on the downloads page |
"Tested by us" will mean automated tests, golden images, and captures driven with real input on a clean Windows machine. It will not mean every monitor, every application or every keyboard. The status page says the same in words.
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.