ClipvellaScreen recorder for Windows
Show a product, explain a process, or record a tutorial. Capture your screen, add your camera and voice when you need them, and save an MP4 on your PC.
Your first recording
No account to create and nothing else to install. Open Clipvella, and you’re ready to record.
Pick a whole screen, one window, or an area you drag out. More than one display? Choose it from the list.
Switch on your camera, microphone, and computer audio when you need them. The preview shows where your camera will sit.
Click Start recording or press Ctrl + Shift + R. A three-second countdown gives you time to get ready.
Click Stop & save. Your MP4 lands in Videos\Clipvella, ready to play, trim, or share.
Changed your mind during the countdown? Click Cancel or press Ctrl + Shift + R again, and nothing is recorded.
Video size templates
Pick a template, and Clipvella draws a frame of that shape on your screen. Your MP4 is saved at the template’s exact size.
A smaller area is enlarged to fit the template, which doesn’t add detail. Choose Original size to keep what you capture at its own size.
Templates are handy starting points, not a check of each platform’s upload rules. Clipvella isn’t affiliated with YouTube, Instagram, or X.
While you record
Pause to think, show your face, and see exactly what’s being recorded. Settings lock while you record, so nothing changes mid-take.
Pause and resume
Pause to gather your thoughts, then pick up where you left off. Clipvella leaves the paused time out of your finished video.
Global shortcuts
They work while Clipvella is in the background.
Camera overlay
Put your webcam in any of the four corners so viewers can see you as you explain. The live preview shows where it will sit.
Sound
Record your microphone, your computer’s audio, or both, mixed into one stereo track.
Recording glow
A soft blue glow outlines the area you’re recording and turns amber while you’re paused. It follows a window you move, lets your clicks pass through, and never appears in your video.
Set it up your way. Choose 30 or 60 fps, High quality or Smaller file, and whether the mouse pointer shows. Clipvella follows your Windows light or dark mode and hides itself from the recording.
A finishing touch
Cut a slow start or a few extra seconds at the end. Clipvella saves the trimmed clip as a new MP4 and leaves your original untouched.
Clipvella12.5, or a time like 1:30.Trimming re-encodes the clip, so each cut lands exactly where you set it.
On your computer
Clipvella has no account, cloud upload, or usage tracking (telemetry). It records without an internet connection.
Captured on your PC
Records and encodes locally
Yours to play, trim, or share
This describes the Clipvella app. For this website, see the privacy policy.
Free and open source
Clipvella is free to download and use, and its source code is released under the MIT License. There’s no account to create, no watermark, and no trial to run out.
Read the code to see how it works, report a bug, or contribute a change. Each release also includes the complete source for its bundled FFmpeg video engine.
Clipvella is a free, open-source screen recorder for Windows 10 and 11. Record your screen, a window, or an area, add your camera, microphone, and computer audio, and save an MP4 on your PC.
Yes. Clipvella is free to download and use, with no account and no watermark. Its source code is released under the MIT License.
Yes. This page announced the app as Takebud, and as FramePop before that. It launched as Clipvella with version 1.0.0, and old links to this page now lead here.
Yes. Clipvella records without an internet connection or an account. The installer and portable ZIP include the .NET runtime and the FFmpeg video engine, so there’s nothing else to install.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Version 1.0.0 was tested on Windows 11. Windows 10 hasn’t been tested yet.
Yes. Switch on your camera, microphone, and computer audio in any combination. Your camera can sit in any of the four corners.
Yes. Choose YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels / Stories for a 1080 × 1920 video. There are also landscape, square, and 4:5 portrait templates.
Yes. Paused time is left out of your video. Trimming saves a new MP4 and leaves the original unchanged.
In your Windows Videos\Clipvella folder. Click Recordings in Clipvella to open it. Uninstalling removes the app only; your recordings and preferences stay where they are.
Not always. Minimized windows, protected video, some games, and hardware-accelerated apps may appear blank. Keep the window restored and visible, or record the whole screen with the app in windowed mode.
The installer adds Clipvella to the Start menu, includes an uninstaller, and doesn’t need administrator rights. The portable ZIP needs no installation: unzip it and open Clipvella.exe.
The downloads aren’t code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say the publisher is unknown. If you trust the file, choose More info, then Run anyway. You can compare your download with the published SHA-256 checksums first.
Report bugs and suggest improvements in the issue tracker. To contribute a change, read the contributing guide in the source repository.
Show. Record. Carry on.
Clipvella v1.0.0 for Windows 10/11 x64.
Free and open source under the MIT License.
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