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Local Windows/macOS desktop tool for recording screens and editing tutorial or text videos, with editable cursors, captions and TTS voiceover.

Open-source alternative to:CamtasiaScreen Studio

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What is it?

TronCut is a local desktop app for making tutorials, demos and text-based videos. It records the screen and lets you edit the recording afterwards, including the mouse cursor, which is captured separately from the picture on Windows so its style, size and click highlight can be changed later. Zoom animations can be generated from click and hover positions and can follow the cursor when zoomed in.

The editor provides a multi-track timeline with trimming, splitting, snapping, ripple delete, undo/redo, crop and rotation, color and blur effects, and keyframe animations for position, scale and opacity. Text templates and a separate caption track are available, and captions can be generated locally from timeline audio using Qwen3-ASR or SenseVoice.

Voiceover can be created from typed scripts with Windows system voices, Kokoro or VITS ONNX models, or LuxTTS ONNX voice cloning. Projects are stored as readable JSON with media and cursor data kept in the same folder, and MP4 export tries hardware encoders before falling back to software encoding. A CLI for scripted editing is also included.

Key features

  • 01Records the screen on Windows with the mouse cursor stored separately so its style can be edited afterwards
  • 02Generates click-based zoom animations that follow the cursor, with optional background scaling
  • 03Multi-track timeline with trimming, snapping, ripple delete, undo/redo and keyframe animation
  • 04Local speech-to-text captions from timeline audio, placed on a separate caption track
  • 05Text-to-speech voiceover with Windows voices, Kokoro/VITS ONNX and LuxTTS voice cloning
  • 06Saves projects as readable JSON with media kept alongside, and exports MP4 with hardware encoding when available

Use cases

  • Recording software tutorials and demos with zoom and cursor effects added after recording
  • Making text-only or caption-driven explainer videos without a camera
  • Generating narration from a script for a silent screen recording
  • Editing video with scripted or AI-assisted steps through the included CLI

Quick start

  1. 1

    Download the app from the GitHub Releases page

  2. 2

    Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/Achuan-2/TronCut.git
  3. 3

    Install dependencies from the project folder

    cd TronCut && pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
  4. 4

    Start the development app

    pnpm dev

Things to know

  • Supports only Windows and macOS desktop platforms.
  • Licensed under AGPL-3.0, a copyleft license that requires derivative works to be released under the same terms.
  • Building from source needs Node.js 22+, pnpm, Rust 1.85+, and on Windows the Visual Studio 2022 C++ toolchain and CMake.
  • Running from source needs FFmpeg/FFprobe on PATH, and file, recording and export features require Electron.

In collections

Windows apps and utilitiesAI video & audio tools

Topics

#screen-recorder#video-editor#electron#ffmpeg#subtitles#text-to-speech#speech-recognition#windows#sensevoice#typescript

FAQ

What is TronCut?
Local Windows/macOS desktop tool for recording screens and editing tutorial or text videos, with editable cursors, captions and TTS voiceover. TronCut is a local desktop app for making tutorials, demos and text-based videos. It records the screen and lets you edit the recording afterwards, including the mouse cursor, which is captured separately from the picture on Windows so its style, size and click highlight can be changed later. Zoom animations can be generated from click and hover positions and can follow the cursor when zoomed in.
Is TronCut free to use? What license does it have?
TronCut is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Check the license terms before using it in commercial products.
Is TronCut still maintained?
Actively maintained. The last commit to TronCut was on Oct 25, 2026.
What can I use TronCut for?
Recording software tutorials and demos with zoom and cursor effects added after recording Making text-only or caption-driven explainer videos without a camera Generating narration from a script for a silent screen recording Editing video with scripted or AI-assisted steps through the included CLI
How do I install TronCut?
Download the app from the GitHub Releases page Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Achuan-2/TronCut.git Install dependencies from the project folder: cd TronCut && pnpm install --frozen-lockfile Start the development app: pnpm dev
Where can I get TronCut?
The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/Achuan-2/TronCut

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