desktop apps
Alovio Kadrr
pricing to be announced
A capture tool for Windows — take the shot, mark it up, record the screen, and get a link back.
works with: Windows
About this app
Windows gives you a snipping tool and a clipboard. Everything after that — marking up what you captured, recording a short clip instead of writing three paragraphs, getting it to somebody as a link — is somebody else's subscription. Kadrr is the whole loop in one tray app: capture, annotate, record, upload, share.
The capture step is where most tools quietly cost you a retake. Releasing the mouse does not fire the shot; the selection stays on screen with eight handles and a confirm bar placed where your pointer already is, so a wrong edge is a nudge rather than a redo. Click instead of drag and it adopts the window under the cursor. Escape steps back one level at a time.
Recording runs through ffmpeg on the GPU — ddagrab into NVENC, with the pixel format deliberately left alone because naming it forces a CPU colour conversion that triples the cost. Measured on one machine at 1080p30, that pipeline used 2.2s of CPU over eight seconds and dropped one frame in 240, against 10.7s and 21 dropped frames for the usual gdigrab path. The recording HUD is marked excluded from capture, so it is visible to you and absent from the file.
What you get
- The selection stays put after the drag, with eight handles — nudge an edge instead of starting over
- Click a window to adopt it as the selection
- An annotation editor with single-key tools, undo and redo
- Screen recording on the GPU: ddagrab into NVENC, measured at a fifth the CPU of gdigrab
- Lives in the tray, keeps a capture history, uploads and hands back a link