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No, and it isn't trying to. RustyRecorder's job is making sure the footage exists and getting you a clean cut out of it fast. It doesn't render vertical, add captions, or publish anything. What comes out is a plain .mp4 that drops straight into CapCut, Premiere or DaVinci, which is where that work belongs. Being clear about where it stops is the point: it's the capture step in front of your editor, not a replacement for it.

Yes, and that's the part worth having. Save clip seals off everything recorded so far into its own finished file and starts a fresh one in the same motion. The capture never stops and nothing is lost at the seam. From there you trim it properly on the Clips page, against a filmstrip and an audio waveform, while the stream is still going. You aren't waiting on a VOD that shows up hours later, if at all.

Twitch, Kick, YouTube and TikTok are what most people use it for, plus the two live-selling platforms, Whatnot and eBay Live. Both arrived after launch, and both are handled natively rather than by screen capture. A lot of smaller sites work too. You don't have to guess: the add dialog has a Check button that probes the actual channel URL and tells you what it found, so you'll know before you save it.

Yes. RustyRecorder isn't a cloud service. It's a program on your machine, so it can only catch a stream while that machine is awake and online. People who run it seriously tend to leave it on a spare desktop, a mini PC, or a home server. In exchange, there's no monthly storage bill and no retention clock on anything you've recorded.

In a folder you pick: one subfolder per streamer, one plain .mp4 per session, named by date and time. Nothing is uploaded anywhere and nothing is in a proprietary format: the files play in VLC, load into an editor, and sync to whatever backup you already use. The app's Library page is just a nicer way to browse that same folder.

That's between you, the streamer and the platform you're posting to, and it genuinely varies. Some streamers actively want clippers, some don't, and none of it is a setting in the app. RustyRecorder records; what you publish is your call and your responsibility. Worth reading the rules of wherever you're posting, and worth knowing that most clippers who last do it with the streamer's blessing rather than around it.

Whatever the source offers. Pick per streamer, from best down through 1080p60, 720p, 480p or audio-only. Recording is a direct copy of the stream, and the conversion to .mp4 afterwards is a remux, not a re-encode, so there's no second-generation quality loss and no long export at the end.

No limits on channels or hours. The only limit is your free disk space. If you'd rather not end up with one enormous file, each streamer can auto-split its recording on a time limit, a size limit, or a category change.

No. Everything RustyRecorder needs to capture a stream and turn it into an .mp4 is already inside the app. One installer, nothing to set up alongside it, nothing to keep updated separately. And nothing is screen-captured: it pulls the stream directly, so it doesn't need a window open or a GPU to spare.

There's no notification of any kind. RustyRecorder requests the public stream the same way a player in your browser does, and it never chats, follows, or posts. It's not an invisibility cloak, since you're a connection to the platform like any viewer, but nothing tells a channel that a given viewer is recording.

Yes. Settings has an optional web interface that serves the same UI over your own network, so you can start, stop and check recordings from a phone or another computer. There's no account and nothing relays through us. It answers on your own network, and your own VPN tunnel reaches it the same way when you're away, without exposing anything to the internet. Left open, the network itself is the boundary, so Settings can also require a short PIN before a browser gets in, which is worth turning on if the network isn't fully yours. Either way the sidebar keeps a badge visible the whole time it's running so you don't forget it's on.

Both record natively, with nothing screen-captured. Add a Whatnot seller and RustyRecorder finds whichever show they're running. eBay Live works per event rather than per seller, since a seller can run several at once, so you add the show you actually want.

Yes. A key is tied to a machine, and Settings → Account can release that slot so you can activate on a different one. Your recordings aren't tied to the license at all. They're ordinary .mp4 files that keep playing regardless.

Subscribe on Whop and it hands you the RustyRecorder product page. Open the Software app in its sidebar. That's what generates your license key, and the installer download sits in the same place. Paste the key into RustyRecorder's activation screen on first launch. The activation guide below has it step by step.