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Download Focal for Windows

Focal_1.5.0_x64-setup.exe, 10.0 MB. Free to record and edit, with no time limit. Exporting needs a license.

Download the installer

Focal is a Windows app.

It runs on Windows 10 and 11, so nothing was downloaded to this device. Send yourself the link and open it on your PC.

Want the file anyway? Download the installer.

Windows asks you to confirm it, for now

Focal's installer is not code-signed yet; the certificate is on its way. Until it is, your browser and Windows treat it like any app from a publisher they have not seen before, and ask before running it.

The installer is published on GitHub, where its size and signature can be checked against latest.json, the same file Focal's own updater verifies before it installs anything.

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    Keep the download

    If Edge says the file isn't commonly downloaded, click … next to it in the downloads panel, then Keep, Show more and Keep anyway. Another browser that asks has a Keep option of its own.

  2. 02

    Open the installer

    From the downloads panel or your Downloads folder. Windows shows a blue box, “Windows protected your PC”, with only a Don't run button.

  3. 03

    Click More info, then Run anyway

    The publisher reads “Unknown publisher” until the signed build is out. The installer then runs with no administrator prompt, and Focal opens its welcome window.

After installing

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    Focal opens a welcome window and sits in the tray.

    The welcome window shows the shortcut and the three steps; the tray icon is where Settings, Projects and the latest recording live.

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    Press PrtSc anywhere.

    Drag a region, click a window, or press Enter for the whole screen. Choose your sound, then record. If another program owns Print Screen, Focal uses Ctrl+PrtSc and tells you.

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    Stop, and the editor opens.

    Automatic zooms are already on your clicks. Export when it looks right; the video lands next to the recording in Videos\Focal.

Record and edit for as long as you like

The free trial has every feature and no time limit. Exporting is what a license adds: until a key goes into Settings, nothing is exported and the preview carries a “Made with Focal” watermark. At the launch price a license is $79 once instead of $99, with no subscription.

Buy for $79, down from $99