BackendStudio – Screen Recorder & Video Editor for Windows
Record your screen and edit the footage into a finished video — all in one native Windows app. Capture any display with system audio and microphone narration, drop your clips onto a multi-track timeline, cut, split, merge and arrange them, mix the audio, then export a single polished MP4. Perfect for tutorials, demos, walkthroughs and presentations. Free on the Microsoft Store, works entirely on your own machine, and never uploads your recordings.
Download BackendStudio
Available on the Microsoft Store — free to download and use. No subscription, no ads.
Or view the listing at apps.microsoft.com.
Record and edit in one place
No more juggling a separate recorder and editor. BackendStudio captures your screen and lands the recording straight in the media bin, ready to trim and arrange on the timeline — then export a finished MP4. Everything runs on your PC; your footage never leaves the device.
Changelog — what’s new in each release
Full release history — screen recording, media import, the multi-track timeline, editing, preview, audio, export, and project autosave & recovery.
View the full changelogUser Guide — every step explained
A plain-English walkthrough of recording, importing, the timeline, splitting & trimming, audio, preview, exporting and projects — and the keyboard shortcuts.
Read the User GuideFeatures
🎥 Screen Recording
Record any display at your chosen frame rate, with system audio, microphone narration and an optional webcam/camera overlay — ideal for tutorials and reaction-style demos. Smooth constant-frame-rate capture keeps audio and video in sync, a live timer shows elapsed time, and each recording drops straight into the media bin ready to edit.
🎬 Multi-Track Timeline
Arrange your footage on a professional multi-track timeline — stacked video and audio tracks with a ruler, playhead and zoom. Drag clips to position them, trim with edge handles, and snap to the playhead and neighbouring clips (hold Shift to snap freely).
✂️ Cut, Split, Merge
Split a clip at the playhead, copy and paste, merge adjacent pieces back together, and move clips between tracks. Editing is non-destructive — your original files are never modified — and everything is covered by full undo/redo.
📥 Import Your Own Media
Bring in existing video, audio and images by drag-and-drop or a file picker. The media bin shows a thumbnail, resolution and duration for each item, with waveforms for audio — so you always know what you’re grabbing.
▶️ Preview As You Go
Preview a single clip paused on its first frame, or hit Composite to play back the whole timeline — all tracks combined — and scrub through it with the playhead to check your edit before you export.
🔊 Audio Mixing
Set per-clip volume, add fade in and fade out, and mute or solo whole tracks. All audio is mixed down into a single clean track on export, honouring your mute/solo choices.
🖼️ Clip Adjustments
Fine-tune each clip from the Inspector — reposition, scale and rotate a clip for picture-in-picture, set its opacity for overlays, tweak colour (brightness, contrast, saturation), change playback speed, and dial in volume and fades. Stacked video tracks composite in order, so overlays sit exactly where you want them.
🎬 Titles & Transitions
Add titles to caption your video, and smooth the joins between clips with crossfade / dissolve transitions. Dedicated Titles, Effects and Transitions panels keep everything a click away while you edit.
📤 One-Click Export
Render the entire timeline into a single MP4 at your chosen resolution and frame rate. Export is hardware-accelerated — it uses your PC’s graphics hardware for fast rendering — with a live progress bar and a Show in folder button when it’s done.
💾 Projects, Autosave & Recovery
Save your work as a project file and pick up where you left off. A friendly welcome screen offers New / Open / Recent, autosave quietly protects your progress, and crash recovery offers to restore unsaved work after an unexpected close.
⌨️ Keyboard-Driven
A dense, professional light-theme layout modelled on pro editing tools, with keyboard shortcuts for the whole workflow — new/open/save, import, split, copy/paste, merge, delete, play/pause, zoom and undo/redo — so editing stays fast.
🔒 Private by Design
BackendStudio works entirely offline — no account, no cloud upload, no telemetry. Your recordings and projects stay on your machine. Ideal for internal demos, confidential walkthroughs and anything you’d rather not send to a web service.
💸 Free, No Subscription
BackendStudio is free on the Microsoft Store — no subscription, no watermark on your exports, and no ads. Just download it and start recording.
Screenshots
The editor — recording options with camera preview, composite preview, the multi-track timeline, and the clip Inspector
Latest Release
Version 1.0 — July 2026
The first public release — screen recording with system audio, microphone and camera overlay, media import, a multi-track timeline, cut/split/merge editing, titles & transitions, colour adjustments, composite preview, audio mixing, MP4 export, and project autosave & crash recovery.