Improvements

• Reduce skipped samples during recording in high-load scenarios.

Bug Fixes

• Improved editor performance on large projects with large number of clips.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused missed segments when trimming segments in the timeline.

Features

• 📝 Export Transcript: You can now export your video transcript as an SRT, MD, or TXT file.

Improvements

• Improved window recording stability.
• Borumi now remembers disabled sources across projects.
• Improved Squircle shapes when used in rectangular layouts.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the speed selector to behave incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug that could leak parts of the screen during transitions when the video was cropped.
• General stability improvements and UI polish.

Features

• ✨ Shadow controls for layouts and overlays: You can now customize shadows in layouts and overlays, or remove them entirely.
• 🖼️ Stroke controls for layouts and overlays: You can now add a stroke border to layouts and overlays and adjust it to match your design.

Improvements

• Borumi now remembers your previous screen region and camera settings when starting a new project.
• Improved color handling on macOS.
• Improved cursor tracking algorithm to be more smooth.
• Refined the editor UI for a cleaner editing experience.
• Added Use elevated window layer on macOS so the recorder and teleprompter can appear above apps like Keynote during presentations.
• Improved scrolling behavior in the new Teleprompter when using voice-activated modes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented short layout segments from being deleted correctly.
• Fixed a bug that always recreated the default project directory even after a different folder was selected.
• General stability improvements.

Features

• 🎤 New Teleprompter: Follow your script more easily while recording with automatic voice following and customization options such as a dark theme, alignment, text size, and much more.
• 📐 More canvas formats: Choose from new video formats, including Fit screen to match your screen recording exactly (removing padding) and Custom size to set the exact dimensions you want.

Improvements

• Improved recording performance on macOS for more stable captures with fewer frame drops at higher resolutions.
• Improved performance for heavily sped-up videos on macOS. You can now speed clips up to 20x with smoother results.
• Improved automatic cursor tracking during zooms so the focus point better matches your mouse position.
• You can now convert image overlays into clips and clips into image overlays.
• Added a theme setting so you can choose a Borumi theme independently from your system theme.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the editor to stutter with very large images.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to untrim the last clip in a video.
• Fixed a bug that prevented hex values from being edited correctly in color inputs.
• General stability improvements.

Features

• ✍️ Add text to your videos: You can now add text directly to your videos from the new Elements panel in the editor.
• 🧩 New Elements panel: Manage both text and overlays from one place, and save your favorite elements so you can quickly reuse them across projects.

Improvements

• You can now right-click segments in the editor timeline to change properties such as the clip type.
• You can now unlink grouped clips in the editor by right-clicking them and selecting Unlink.
• Improved the look of captions so they feel more polished in the final video.
• Borumi now remembers the last export directory when exporting a video.
• Improved import heuristics to better handle different kinds of media.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the countdown to stop working after changing projects.
• Improved synchronization with certain cameras on macOS.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the spacebar to misfire on Windows.
• Improved source selection in the Record tool when many sources are available.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused weird characters to appear when pressing arrow keys on macOS.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused trim operations to misbehave.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused crackling sounds with imported videos.
• Improved handling of HDR videos on macOS.
• Improved face centering reliability.
• Various stability improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed small UI bug in the editor clip panel.

Improvements

• Introduced a “Minimal” voice enhancement mode that only does audio level adjustments.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused music to be imported as B-roll.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the transcription to crash.
• Improved installer on Windows.
• General stability improvements.

Improvements

• Add ability to adjust synchronization of Camera sources, similarily to Microphone sources.
• Add ability to adjust take sync after recording.
• Add ability to control playback speed in the Take preview.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused audio glitches when recording.
• General stability improvements.

Features

• 🎯 Automatic face centering: Your camera video now stays centered automatically in the final video. You can disable this behavior in the Clip panel > Face centering.
• 🔍 Camera zoom effects: Add different kinds of camera zooms to your video to make your videos more interesting.

Improvements

• Introduced several performance optimizations on macOS, improving overall performance and up to 2x faster exports.
• Improved export performance on Windows with up to 20% faster exports.
• Added a screen region indicator on Windows while recording, similar to the one already available on macOS.

Bug Fixes

• Improved stability when saving projects on external drives.
• General stability improvements.

Features

• 🎬 Import video overlays: Add short video clips as overlays in your project by dragging and dropping them into Borumi.
• 🖼️ Import animated GIFs: You can now drag and drop animated GIFs into Borumi.

Improvements

• Improved importing logic for video content.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that incorrectly caused the music to be overridden when changing track.
• Improved stability on older Windows versions.
• Various other stability improvements.

Features

• 🎵 Add music to your videos: You can now drag and drop a song into Borumi (or select it from the Music panel) and add it directly to your video.
• 🖼️ Image overlays: You can now drop images into Borumi or paste them directly (Cmd+V on macOS, Ctrl+V on Windows), then position them in your video. They are also animated automatically.
• 📥 Smarter video and audio imports: Borumi now automatically detects imported media types (camera recordings, screen recordings, music, and microphone tracks) and automatically arranges your layout. This includes external footage like phone camera videos and screen recordings from other tools.
• 💬 Global caption customization clip: When the Captions panel is open, you now get a dedicated captions clip in the timeline so you can style captions across the video and customize them for specific sections.

Improvements

• Improved timeline stability with fewer jumps while trimming and cutting clips.
• In the script editor, creating a new scene now uses Cmd+Enter / Ctrl+Enter instead of just Enter.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed edge cases in timeline operations.
• Fixed transcript bouncing back and forth in some cases on Windows.
• Fixed an issue where the screen preview sometimes did not appear on Windows.
• Improved transcription reliability.
• Several other stability improvements.

Improvements

• Added way to turn off Snapping in the editor timeline.
• Improved transcription accuracy for several languages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the transcript “correct” function to not work properly.
• Various stability improvements.

Improvements

• Added Squircle layouts for a more modern look.
• Refined the Enhance Voice filter to sound less distorted.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Copy/Paste on macOS Tahoe.
• Fixed various bugs with transcript editing.
• Fixed a bug that caused slow transcriptions on Windows.
• Fixed some stability issues with the recorder, sometimes getting stuck.
• Various stability improvements.

Features

• 🔍 Better auto-zoom and cursor following: We improved the auto-zoom and cursor following logic to make your videos look better, especially on portrait videos.
• 🎛️ Advanced layout controls: You can now adjust the layout more precisely by using the “Advanced” section in the layout panel. You can now also control the “overflow” of a screen, which controls whether it overflows its bounds when zoomed in.
• 📐 New built-in layouts: We introduced several new layouts you can choose from, including some without background.

Improvements

• Add ability to control camera mirroring inside the Editor.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the crop dialog inputs to not update correctly.
• Various stability improvements.

Improvements

• Several reliability improvements to window recordings on both Windows and macOS.
• Several stability improvements to transcript-based editing.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused glitches when transitioning between scenes.
• Fixed an audio synchronization issue when recording windows.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused links not to open on macOS.
• Fixed a bug that caused the recorder to get stuck on “Getting things started…”
• Mitigate issues that sometimes caused Borumi to hang on Windows.
• Other general stability improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Borumi to hang when loading recent projects.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the UI to break when scrolling inside Borumi.

Features

• 🎛️ Per-clip speed controls: You can now adjust playback speed for individual clips (up to 8x speed).
• 🧩 Copy/paste clips in the timeline: You can now copy and paste clips (including layouts, zooms, etc) inside the timeline.
• 🧭 Alignment guides: Snap and align elements more easily in the preview.

Improvements

• Improved transcription speed on Windows.
• Improved transcription accuracy for Danish.

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug that prevented some projects from being renamed on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused unnecessary low-disk warnings on macOS.
• Fixed various captions and transcription issues.
• Fixed a bug where the space key could change playback speed by accident.
• Fixed a bug that prevented exporting recordings on macOS.
• Fixed broken waveforms in the take preview.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused glitches in the editor when changing formats.

Improvements

• More performance improvements on Windows (both editor and exports should be faster).

Bug Fixes

• Increased bitrate for output videos on Windows, reducing artifacts.

Improvements

• Several performance improvements on Windows.
• Improved hints inside the take preview.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Borumi to hang when opening projects in the Edit tool.
• Various stability improvements.

Features

• 🕵️‍♂️ Blur effect: You can now apply a blur effect to your videos. This is useful if you want to hide sensitive information. You can enable it by selecting a screen clip on the canvas and click on the blur button.
• 🖼️ Crop: You can now crop clips on the canvas. This is useful if you want to limit the area of the screen that is visible, or if you want to better align your camera recording.
• 🔤 Better caption controls: You can now freely move and customize captions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused gaps to appear in the timeline.

Features

• Export individual scenes. You can now export individual scenes from your video. (When exporting a video, select “Custom settings”).
• Take drag & drop. You can now drag & drop takes between scenes in the Record tool. This is useful if you want to rearrange the takes in the video.

Improvements

• Improve rendering performance on Dual-GPU Windows laptops (eg. Intel + NVIDIA).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused errors with certain microphones on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that prevented changing the transcription text in the editor.
• Improved stability of the export process on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain external cameras from working on macOS.

Features

• 🔤 Captions. You can now add Captions to your videos! You can choose between many styles, with more customization options coming in the next release.
• 📜 Better transcriptions. We introduced several improvements to our transcription engine:
  • Improved accuracy and synchronization on transcripts in English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish.
  • In the past, Borumi sometimes transcribed in the wrong language, so we introduced the ability to explicitly select the Transcription language in the settings.

Improvements

• Improved audio quality in exported videos.
• Turn off the behavior that hide the camera when the cursor goes on top. This was the source of a lot of confusion, so we’re turning it off by default. You can turn it back on in the Cursor panel.
• Bring back noise cancelling to imported videos.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes several issues when editing in the timeline.
• Fixed changelog not showing on Windows.
• Improved GPU support on Windows by supporting DX12.
• Fix a rare crash on macOS when trying to export a video.
• General stability improvements.

Features

• 🔈 System audio recording. You can now record your system audio by enabling the “System Sound” source in the Record tool. On macOS, this feature requires macOS 14.2 or newer.
• 🖱️ Cursor customizations. You can now customize the cursor style, size and behavior. This includes:
  • Choosing between Mac or Windows-style cursor.
  • Hiding the cursor.
  • Disabling the behavior that hides your camera when overlapping the cursor.
  • Hiding the cursor when still.
• 📷 Camera rotation. You can now rotate your camera inside Borumi, making it easy to record portrait videos.

Improvements

• Added more playback speed options in the editor (1.25x and 1.5x).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rotation issues when importing vertical videos.
• General stability improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the take preview to get stuck.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused cameras to get stuck when changing source.
• Fixed a bug that prevented importing videos without audio.
• Fixed a bug that prevented editing the script on macOS 12.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused black rectangles to appear in the recording on Windows on some systems.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented changing the microphone sync adjustment.

Features

• 🔈 Enhanced Audio Quality. You can now enable an “Enhanced Audio” mode that improves microphone quality by automatically adjusting volume and reducing noise, resulting in better videos.
  • You can disable this mode in Settings > Recording > Enhance voice recordings.
• 🏎️ Editor Playback Speed. You can now change the playback speed of your videos while editing (e.g., 2x).

Improvements

• Improved auto-zoom behavior. It’s now smoother.
• Improved the responsiveness of the Recorder.
• Improved audio/video sync with Bluetooth microphones and added the ability to adjust microphone sync.
• Removed the “Audio” panel from the Editor. You can now control audio properties in the “Clip” panel.
• General stability improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that miscalculated the available space on macOS.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes showed the wrong transcript in the Editor.

Improvements

• In the editor, the timeline is automatically centered when changing the zoom.
• In the editor, the timeline is automatically centered when playing.
• On older hardware, Borumi will ask the user before starting the transcription process. This behavior helps keeping the editor more responsive, and can be changed in the settings.
• General stability improvements.

Bug fixes

• Improved export stability on macOS for longer videos.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the cursor to lag behind in videos.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused microphone drops and cracking sounds on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that prevented recording when no camera is connected.

Improvements

• General stability improvements.

Features

• 👌 Sharper Screen Recordings. We reworked the rendering pipeline to produce sharper screen recordings. Text should be a lot more crisp now.
• 🖼️ Wallpaper Backgrounds. You can now choose between 100+ beautiful backgrounds for your video.
• 🌠 Custom Backgrounds. You can also select your own image as a background for your video.
• 📂 Custom Project folder. You can now change the folder where Borumi saves your projects (Settings > General > Saves new projects to)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented imported videos from playing correctly.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused audio sync issues when the system is under heavy load.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented users from renaming projects on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Borumi to become all white and unresponsive.
• Fixed a rare bug that could have caused Borumi to crash on macOS.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused playback issues on Windows.

Improvements

• Refined Record tool UI to be more polished.
• Add ability to export diagnostics manually, which is useful to report issues if the Send Feedback dialog is not working.

Features

• 🖼️ Favorite layouts: You can now save layouts as favorites and quickly reuse them across projects when editing.
• 📹 Import external videos and images: You can now import videos and images inside your project.
  • This is an early release, and we’ll be improving this feature a lot in the next few weeks.
• 🎞️ Brand new timeline editor: Editing should be a lot more snappy now, especially on longer videos.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused low resolution window recordings on macOS.
• Fixed a bug that still showed a project in the “Recent projects” list after it was deleted.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused interleaved words in the transcript.
• Fixed a bug that caused the play button to be glitchy on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused source names to overflow in the Record tool.

Improvements

• The seek bar is now draggable inside the editor. We’ll ship more updates to this in the upcoming releases to make it more snappy.
• Added the ability to copy the transcript from inside the editor (Ctrl/CMD+C after selecting the text).
• Improved scrolling behavior in the timeline.
• Added changelog inside Borumi when a new version is available.
• Added option in the Settings to disable auto-transcription of clips. This could be useful if you’re running on an older machine.

Features

• 🎞️ Brand new transcript editor. Editing should be a lot more snappy now, especially on longer videos.

Bug fixes

• Fixed recorder positioning on macOS, which sometimes was invisible because positioned outside of the visible area.
• Fixed a bug that caused wrong scaling of Borumi when text-sizing options were selected on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the screen region picker to show in the wrong position with multiple screens.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Borumi to crash on Windows when moving the window.

Improvements

• Improved responsiveness of the editor, especially on longer videos.

Features

• Add initial support for importing external videos and images.
• Optimize editing experience on Windows (when hardware acceleration is supported).

Improvements

• Limit preview quality to FullHD to save resources (export quality is always the maximum available).

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented recording on older versions of Windows.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Borumi to hang when editing long videos

Features

• 📷 Brand-new recorder look that can now be resized freely
• 🔍 Automatic screen zooms generation
• 🔈 New countdown sound with ability to change it or disable it in settings

Bug fixes

• Fixed a layout bug that sometimes caused side-layouts to collapse
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused a login error on Windows
• Fixed the duration of the first screen zoom segment being too short

Improvements

• Improved reliability of screen recording on both Windows and macOS
• Added automatic audio fading between segments, reducing “pops” between scenes
• Improved responsiveness of Borumi during previews and editing
• Automatically scroll transcript while playing inside the Editor
• Improved error messages and troubleshooting steps during recording

Bug fixes

• Fixed crashes and macOS dialog boxes getting stuck
• Rebuilt the playbook system to improve synchronization between audio and video during previews

Improvements

• Made screen recording on macOS significantly more stable
• Recordings are now much less likely to freeze unexpectedly
• Borumi will now notify you immediately if something goes wrong instead of silently failing
• Improved behavior when switching Borumi to full screen

Features

• Added ability to customize the audio output device
• Added “Optimized recording mode” in Settings > Experimental for lower CPU usage and less dropped frames

Bug fixes

• Fixed audio problems when connected to audio devices having many outputs
• Fixed bug that caused a portion of the screen recording to be lost on macOS

Improvements

• Improved the recorder on macOS for better responsiveness and fullscreen app compatibility
• Improved recording performance

Features

• Added estimated time remaining indicator during video export

Bug fixes

• Fixed several issues with custom layouts for significantly improved stability
• A few additional stability improvements

Improvements

• Improved video format selection: easily switch between YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram formats
• Made the exporting process more efficient, reducing resource usage and improving reliability, especially for longer videos

Features

• Added ability to choose export quality when exporting videos (4K for highest quality, 720p for faster exports)
• Mirror camera preview for more natural and intuitive recording

Bug fixes

• Fixed crash that could occur during audio playback on machines with many audio channels
• Fixed synchronization issue on Windows that caused video and audio to go out of sync on high refresh rate monitors

Features

• Renaming a project also renames the project file on disk for easier project identification

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug that prevented moving multiple clips in the editor
• Fixed bug that caused weird visual artifacts with the Screen Region picker on macOS
• Reduced CPU consumption when starting Borumi

Improvements

• The “recent projects” section now better reflects the actual state of projects
• Improved resolution of Window and Region screen recordings on macOS
• Improved audio playback to reduce cracking sounds inside the Editor

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug that in rare cases caused screen recordings to be silently lost on macOS

Features

• 🖼️ Custom backgrounds: Customize video backgrounds with custom gradients and colors to better align with your brand

Bug fixes

• More stability fixes on Windows

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug that caused screen recordings to be shorter than camera recordings in some cases
• Fixed bug that caused bluetooth headphones from being recognized correctly on Windows
• More stability fixes

Bug fixes

• Several bug fixes and improvements for better stability

Features

• Smooth Zoom-in Effect: Create professional-looking zoom-in effects inside Borumi

Bug fixes

• Several bug fixes and improvements for better stability

Improvements

• Several performance improvements in the editor for more responsive canvas experience

Bug fixes

• Several bug fixes and improvements for better stability, especially on Windows

Features

• Introduced better way to send feedback for easier troubleshooting

Improvements

• Improved stability of Windows version

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue that caused Borumi to hang with large projects when editing

Features

• First Windows version release (early access)
• Introduced adaptive preview to keep the editor more snappy on less powerful devices

Bug fixes

• Fixed cracking noises on macOS
• Fixed compatibility issue that prevented some older Intel Macs from running Borumi

Bug fixes

• Fixed audio playback problems on certain macOS devices

Improvements

• Improved stability of video recording

Features

• First public Beta release for macOS