Frequently Asked Questions

CaptureFlow records your screen straight to a shareable link. The upload runs while you record, so the moment you hit stop the link is already on your clipboard. No exporting, uploading, or waiting. You also get annotated screenshots that share the same way, plus team workspaces and a viewer with reactions, comments, and view counts.

Most screen recorders stop at the recording and leave hosting, sharing, and screenshots to other apps. CaptureFlow handles the whole flow in one place, and it is fully open source: use our managed hosting, or run it yourself on your own Cloudflare account and keep your data.

CaptureFlow uploads your recording as you record it, not after. By the time you stop, the file is already in the cloud and the share link is on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Recipients open the link to a viewer with reactions, comments, and a live view count, no app install required.

Yes, and with CaptureFlow you control where it lives. When you self-host, recordings and screenshots upload to your own Cloudflare account (R2 storage, D1 database). Nothing touches our servers at all.

When you create a share link, that artifact is stored so the recipient can open it from a URL. You control visibility per artifact (public, workspace-only, or private), and you can revoke or delete a link from your dashboard at any time.

Yes, that's the whole point. CaptureFlow is open source under the AGPL and runs entirely on Cloudflare: Workers for the API, R2 for storage, and D1 for the database. Deploy it to your own account and you own every recording, screenshot, and share link end to end. The repo and deploy guide live on GitHub and docs.captureflow.dev.

Everything is free when you self-host. CaptureFlow is open source under the AGPL: deploy it to your own Cloudflare account and use recording, instant share links, screenshots, and workspaces with no limits and no watermark.

The managed plan is for teams who would rather not run their own infrastructure: we host CaptureFlow for you, handle storage and updates, and you skip the Cloudflare setup entirely.

Beta means CaptureFlow is young and improving fast, not that it's fragile. Recording, sharing, and screenshots are stable and in daily use. Updates ship frequently, and a few rough edges remain (Intel Macs aren't supported yet, for example). It's open source, so you can read the code, file issues, or send a pull request. Feedback shapes the roadmap.

No. CaptureFlow never watermarks your recordings, screenshots, or exports, self-hosted or managed. It's open source, so there are no artificial limits baked in: record at up to 4K, for as long as you want.