Never miss the clip.

Yes. ClypDat is open source under GPLv3, and the full source is on GitHub. There is no paid tier, and you do not need an account to record, save or edit clips.

ClypDat never loads code into the game process. It reads finished frames from Windows through DXGI Desktop Duplication, the same OS interface screen-sharing tools use, so there is no hook or overlay DLL inside the game for anti-cheat to find.

Press Insert. ClypDat writes the last minute of gameplay to your library, named after the game and the time it was saved.

The key and the length are both in Settings > Replay Buffer. Length presets run from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.

Windows 10 or 11 on x64. ClypDat encodes on NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF or Intel Quick Sync, whichever your GPU has, and falls back to the libx264 software encoder when none is available.

Encoding runs on the GPU's dedicated video encoder, not the shader cores the game renders with, and downscaling happens on the GPU before a frame reaches the encoder.

Your selected FPS is never lowered on its own. If the encoder can't keep up on your machine, turn on Frame-rate Protection in Settings > Replay Buffer: it drops the capture FPS while the encoder is overloaded and restores it once it recovers.

No. Recordings, thumbnails and audio tracks stay in the library folder on your PC. The optional ClypDat account exists for Xbox activity and linked sign-ins; it never receives your footage.

Turn on Full Session Recording, then press F8 to start or stop it. The full session is written to a separate file while the rolling buffer keeps running, and audio is resynced every 60 seconds so a six-hour recording stays in sync.

A storage limit deletes the oldest sessions automatically once you pass it.

Yes. Game audio, chat and microphone are saved as separate tracks, and any extra app you enable in Recording Audio gets its own track too. The editor sets each track's volume, and Export mixes them into one track for players that only read the first.

ClypDat checks the window in front against, in order: games you added yourself, its own game catalogue (refreshed from GitHub once a day), and games installed through Steam, Epic Games, Battle.net or Riot.

Nothing is guessed from the window. For Steam, ClypDat reads the app manifest in every Steam library folder on your PC, which names each installed game and where it lives. Epic's install manifests, Battle.net's product database and the Riot Client's install list do the same job for those launchers. Steam apps that Steam itself labels as tools or software are skipped, so Wallpaper Engine never starts a recording.

If a game is missed, add it in Settings > Game Detection: pick it while it's running, browse to its .exe, or give ClypDat a folder to scan. A scan adds games it recognises and asks you about uncertain ones, such as Unity apps. Anything picked up by mistake can be excluded from the same page.

If you set the capture source to Desktop Capture, ClypDat records a monitor instead, and switches to the game's window while one is detected.

Settings > Import Clips finds clips recorded by Medal and SteelSeries Moments and copies or moves them into your ClypDat library, keeping their titles, games and dates.

ClypDat checks for a new release when it starts and, by default, installs it before the main window opens. If you installed through WinGet, winget upgrade ClypLabs.ClypDat works too.

Take the Installer. It installs to your user folder, so it needs no admin approval, and it updates itself. Portable runs without installing, the Zip is the raw build folder, and the MSI is for IT-managed deployment.

Not today. Capture is built on Windows APIs (DXGI Desktop Duplication and Windows Graphics Capture), so ClypDat runs on Windows 10 and 11 only.