Changelog
What is new in Acrux, release by release. Each update lands on the Microsoft Store, and the same notes go out in the Discord.
Clean audio in edited clips, steadier switching between audio devices, and a copy of your setup kept before every update.
Fixed
- Edited clips no longer crackle or click, including at cuts and speed changes.
- Plugging in a headset or microphone during a recording now switches to it once it is ready, instead of sometimes staying on the old one.
Improved
- Acrux now keeps a copy of your settings and scenes on your computer each time it updates.
- The noise gate now explains that some headsets already process your mic, and what to try if your words sound cut off.
- The TikTok cover picker is hidden until TikTok finishes reviewing Acrux. TikTok picks the cover for now.
Game capture picks up every game Windows recognises, and ducking, meters and effects work on every app channel.
Fixed
- Game capture now picks up every game Windows recognises, not just some of them.
- Ducking now works on app channels, not only on Audio.
- Apps that play sound from more than one process now come through their own channel completely, instead of partly through Audio.
Improved
- App channels in the mixer now show their level after effects, so you can see ducking and EQ at work.
- Effects and their meters now work while the mixer is open, even when you are not recording or live, so you can set them up and hear the result.
- The virtual camera settings now explain mirroring in other apps, and the unlock TikTok LIVE Studio needs before it lets you pick a virtual camera.
Trim your clips and post them straight to YouTube and TikTok, capture any game without picking a window, put your chat on stream, and find everything in a new Settings page that shows what each choice costs. Everything under New is free for everyone.
From replay to YouTube and TikTok, without leaving Acrux
Save a moment with your clip hotkey, open it in the new Trim window, and cut the start, the end or the dead air in the middle. Then post it from your library straight to your YouTube channel, your TikTok inbox or your own Discord.
While you are live, uploads wait so your stream stays smooth. One card above the status bar shows every trim and upload with an honest time left, and you can cancel any of them.
New
- Settings is now a full page instead of a pop-up, with clear sections like Stream, Record and Sound. Changes save as you make them, so there is no Save button.
- Settings shows what your choices cost your PC and your internet, and previews the effect when you hover over an option.
- Settings keeps a history of your changes, so you can undo any of them. Press Ctrl+K to search every setting.
- A quick upload speed test, so Acrux picks a stream quality your internet can actually handle.
- Sign in with Google if you like, during setup or in Settings. Everything still works without an account.
- Back up your setup to your account and restore it on a new or reinstalled PC. You choose what to bring over.
- Game capture finds the game you're playing on its own, with no window to pick, and works with fullscreen games.
- Show your Twitch, Kick and YouTube chat on stream with the new Chat source, emotes included.
- Virtual camera. Acrux shows up as a vertical webcam in other apps, so you can bring your Acrux scenes into TikTok LIVE Studio.
- A 3-band equalizer for your mic, desktop audio and each app.
- The mixer warns you when an effect like the noise gate is cutting out your sound, and tells you which one.
- Trim your recordings: cut the start, the end or a boring bit in the middle, and mute or lower the sound.
- Post clips from your library straight to YouTube, TikTok or your Discord. While you're live, uploads wait so your stream stays smooth.
- A progress card shows every trim and upload, with the time left and a Cancel button.
- The replay buffer can now hold up to 10 minutes.
- Clip hotkeys with their own length: separate keys save the last 15 seconds, the last minute or the last 5 minutes.
- Screenshot hotkey. Saves a PNG of your canvas into your recordings folder.
- Bookmarks. Press a hotkey while recording to mark a moment, and find it again in your library.
- The replay buffer can pause itself while nothing is being captured.
- The recorder bar shows how much disk space is left for recordings.
- Insights opens on your channel: streams, hours live, average viewers and best peak.
- YouTube viewer counts now show while you're live.
- YouTube Super Chats, Super Stickers and memberships now trigger your alerts, just like Twitch and Kick.
- YouTube tells you when your stream is stuck on "Preparing stream", and you can now choose YouTube's latency.
- Remote control that speaks the same language as OBS, so many controllers and apps made for OBS can switch scenes, start and stop streaming or recording, mute and save clips. Turn it on in Settings.
- Acrux now has a tray icon by the clock. Closing the window keeps Acrux running, even mid-stream, and you can change that in Settings.
- Acrux can start with Windows and wait in the tray, ready for your hotkeys. Turn it off in Settings.
- Right-click Acrux on the taskbar to go live, record, save a clip or switch scenes.
- A new title bar that matches the rest of the app. You can switch back to the Windows one in Settings.
- A short tour of the app when you first open it, and you can replay it from Settings.
- Collapse the side panels to give the preview more room.
- Guides on the vertical canvas show where TikTok and Twitch put their buttons and chat, so nothing important gets covered.
- Copy diagnostics gathers what support needs in one click. Nothing is sent unless you send it.
New in Pro
- Acrux Studio Pro, a new optional plan that adds the features below. Everything that was free stays free. Upgrade from the Account card in Settings, and the first 50 people pay 30% less for as long as they keep it.
- Twitch Dual Format: send your normal and vertical layouts in one Twitch stream, so phone viewers watch full screen. Works on NVIDIA graphics cards today.
- YouTube Dual Format: send your normal and vertical layouts to YouTube as one broadcast. Acrux sets up the second stream key for you.
- Set a different quality for each platform you stream to.
- More audio effects: an 8-band equalizer, compressor, de-esser, limiter, and ducking, which lowers your game or music while you talk.
- The virtual camera in landscape, for Zoom, Teams and Discord.
- 3D avatars. Your webcam drives a 3D character that follows your head and face.
- Clip from chat. Viewers type !clip and Acrux saves the moment from your replay buffer.
- Edit clips for Shorts and TikTok: turn them vertical, put your facecam above the gameplay, and add your chat and alerts as they happened, plus text, fades, zooms and speed changes.
- Join several clips into one.
- Post a clip to YouTube and as a vertical Short or TikTok in one go.
- Smaller recordings (HEVC), about half the file size at the same quality, on graphics cards that support it.
- Growth insights: when your viewers show up, a stream calendar, follower growth, which categories do best, whether your facecam helps, and more. Export it all to a spreadsheet.
Improved
- When your internet slows down, your stream adjusts its quality faster and recovers faster.
- When your PC is struggling, the stream drops cleanly from 60 to 30 frames per second, which Kick handles better.
- Empty parts of the canvas are now black instead of a checkerboard, which also saves bandwidth.
- On NVIDIA graphics cards, recordings and replays now use NVIDIA's own encoder, which copes better when your PC is busy. If your driver is too old for it, Acrux tells you once.
- Smoother scene switches, with no short freeze when a scene has a browser source or window capture.
- Browser sources use about 350 MB less memory.
- Acrux uses less CPU while minimized, in the tray, or behind Settings and Insights.
- Hotkeys can be any single key, like F8 or a number pad key. If another app already uses a hotkey, Settings tells you.
- Better handling of headsets and mics that get unplugged or moved to another USB port.
- Easier first-run setup. Connect Twitch, Kick and YouTube in one go.
- Stream or record at a higher resolution than your monitor, up to 4K where the platform allows.
- Bitrate has quick presets, and a value the platform won't accept is corrected for you, with the reason shown.
- Choosing vertical for a platform now turns on the vertical canvas for you.
- Fit to canvas enlarges a window capture until it touches the canvas edges.
- Mixer meters now show what your audience actually hears.
- Go Live shows which layout each platform gets, and stream errors tell you what to check.
- Acrux can now capture its own window, unless Hide Acrux from screen capture is on.
Fixed
- Kick and YouTube sign-ins could quietly expire. Acrux now renews them and tells you if you need to sign in again.
- A stream could drop to low quality for no reason right after going live.
- On a bad connection, your stream now keeps its sound and skips video frames instead.
- Going live showed hundreds of dropped frames even though nothing was lost.
- Settings and hotkeys could reset after a Store update or a crash.
- A change made right after starting Acrux could be lost.
- With your mic or desktop audio on System default, a headset plugged in after launch was ignored until a restart.
- Scene switches on busy PCs could drop frames from recordings and clips.
- Starting a recording with the replay buffer on could freeze the picture and cut off the start of the file.
- Recordings could start with a small stutter.
- Replay clips could keep playing sound after the picture ended.
- Recordings showed no length in File Explorer and Windows Media Player.
- New recordings, especially big ones, could show without a thumbnail.
- A webcam that stopped working froze on its last picture and looked live. It now disappears until the camera comes back.
- A webcam on your vertical layout didn't show if your normal layout used a different webcam. Both now work at once.
- On the vertical canvas, right-click options like Show and Lock didn't work.
- Fit to canvas didn't work after Fill until you pressed Reset.
- The selection box around a webcam didn't match the picture.
- Selecting an audio source showed resize handles on the canvas.
- A strip of your desktop could appear beside the preview.
- Clicking an app's mute button while the Audio master mute was on could let its sound through.
- Going live with auto-record on no longer stops a recording you started yourself.
- Renaming a recording works properly: Escape cancels, and changing only the capital letters works.
- Insights missed YouTube chatters and miscounted gifted subs and bits.
- The moderator view could open on recordings instead of chat.
- Disconnecting Twitch now removes its stored sign-in completely.
- Updating from the Microsoft Store failed the first time. Acrux now closes itself so the update can finish.
- Microsoft Store version: a yellow border no longer shows around whatever you capture.
- Updated the framework Acrux is built on, which includes a security fix.
A whole view built for recording. Nothing about going live in your way, and your clips are yours.
Recorder view
Acrux now has a second face. Switch to Recorder view and everything about going live steps out of the way, leaving a workspace built for capturing.
A big Record button with Save Clip next to it. Your replay buffer telling you plainly that it is armed and how long it holds. Your recordings library as the centerpiece instead of a side panel. Three ready-made layouts to get you going in a click.
Switch back to Streamer view whenever you like, same app, nothing to reinstall.
No account to record, no watermark, no cloud, no feed.
New
- Recorder view, with its own layouts and its own hotkeys. The same key can do different things in each view.
- The audio mixer shows each channel as a signal path, so you can see what is happening to your sound and drag the order around.
- Your microphone now has a processing chain in the mixer. Voice isolation and the noise gate live there, in the order they actually run. This is the foundation for a full studio chain: an equalizer, a compressor and a de-esser are designed to sit in this same path, and when their processing is ready they will slot into the order you have already arranged. None of those three are in this release.
- Noise removal has a strength setting, from Low to Very high. Removing less noise keeps more of your voice, because the two go together, so if you sound muffled you can now turn it down instead of off.
- The noise gate gained a hysteresis control, which is how much quieter things have to get before it closes. It keeps the gate from flickering on and off when the room sits right on the line.
- Every processing block has a Reset that puts it back to the recommended setting for your microphone.
- Webcam sources can be mirrored, so what you see matches what your viewers see.
Improved
- Microphone settings live in one place. The gate and voice isolation moved to the mixer channel, and Settings keeps the device picker.
- The gate suggests a sensible starting point based on whether it is listening to your raw microphone or one that has already been cleaned up, because the right level is about 25 dB apart between the two.
- Arrow keys move through every menu and dropdown in the app.
- Chat arrives faster on YouTube.
- Per-app audio capture now excludes the app in the scene you are actually using, and the mixer shows real app names instead of internal ids.
Fixed
- Recordings made on a surround or non-stereo headset came out far too quiet. Acrux now folds those channels down itself instead of letting Windows do it, which was costing about 13 dB.
- Starting a second recording after stopping the first could fail until you restarted the app.
- The recording health warning no longer turns amber the moment you press record. It says it is warming up until there is something real to report.
- A channel that was working but quiet could be reported as a silent mix. The warning now waits for real silence.
- Choosing Windows Voice Clarity for your microphone could quietly do nothing at all. It now takes effect the moment you pick it.
- The encoder frame rate and bitrate shown while live were reading high. The numbers now match what your platform receives.
- Twitch could quietly sign itself out during a long session.
- Recording thumbnails that failed to appear now retry on their own, and library thumbnails are no longer cropped on wide cards.
- The preview no longer shows a stale corner after a canvas or layout change.
Small graphics card, big determination. Your stream takes the hit, dusts itself off, and keeps streaming.
The show must go on
When a game pushes the graphics card to its limit, a stream used to collapse into a slideshow while every light stayed green.
Acrux now notices within seconds, keeps the stream alive with sound flowing even when the picture stalls, and shows a plain explanation of what is happening and how to fix it, with an all clear when things recover. The preview steps aside to protect the stream while it lasts.
Acrux itself also uses far less of the graphics card now, so it happens less in the first place.
Improved
- Acrux uses less video memory while live. Captures larger than your canvas are scaled down early, and the replay buffer no longer does duplicate work while you stream or record.
- Clips saved while streaming match your stream quality, and clips saved while recording match your recording quality.
Fixed
- Replay clips can be renamed or moved and the library recognizes them again, filed under Clips where they belong.
- The library refreshes itself the moment it finds moved or renamed files, instead of waiting for the panel to be reopened.
The bug squashing release. Acrux now notices when a platform ends your stream behind your back, brings it back with one click, and a pile of small wrongs got put right.
Dead air, dealt with
Platforms sometimes end a stream on their side while your software keeps sending, so viewers see offline while you see green lights.
Acrux now watches what Twitch, Kick and YouTube actually report. If a platform ends your broadcast mid stream, you get an alert within seconds and a Restore button that brings just that platform back without touching the others.
Acrux keeps you informed at every step, and if the connection heals on its own, the alert clears itself.
New
- Custom YouTube thumbnails without opening YouTube Studio. Pick an image in Settings, it applies to your broadcast right away, and the preview shows exactly what viewers will see. Acrux re-applies it whenever it creates a broadcast for you.
- First time streaming on YouTube? If live streaming is not enabled on your channel yet, Acrux now walks you through the three steps to switch it on instead of showing an error code.
Improved
- Going live to Kick right after ending a stream now rides out Kick’s short lockout instead of giving up. When going live fails on any platform, the message stays on screen and says what to do in plain words.
- The YouTube broadcast settings got a cleaner layout, and the stream destination rows in Settings now line up at one height.
- The recordings library keeps up when files are moved, deleted outside Acrux, or restored, and adopts them back with their details intact.
Fixed
- A captured window that closed or crashed froze on its last frame until you switched scenes. Acrux now notices, shows the change, and reconnects automatically when the window comes back, including a game you relaunch.
- The stream timer no longer resets to 0:00 if the window reloads mid stream.
- Viewer counts and live insights no longer lose their history after a reload mid stream, and chat activity counts messages per minute correctly.
- Title and category changes made between streams now land on your upcoming YouTube broadcast, not the one that just ended.
- Kick’s dashboard no longer warns about the keyframe interval.
- On Microsoft Store installs, Open logs now opens the folder that actually contains the logs.
Your recordings get a home: a library with thumbnails and instant previews, plus recordings that survive a crash.
The Recordings and Clips library
Every recording and replay clip now lives in a panel right inside Acrux. Browse with thumbnails, hover to preview a clip instantly, search by name, rename files, and delete to the Recycle Bin with a one click Undo. Your existing Acrux recordings are found and added automatically the first time you open it.
New
- The Recordings and Clips library, a new panel on the side rail with thumbnails, hover previews, search, rename and safe delete with Undo.
- Crash safe recordings. A crash or power cut mid recording no longer costs you the footage. Only the last moments can be lost, and the file is repaired automatically the next time Acrux starts, ready to play and scrub.
Improved
- Recording and replay notifications now open the library, so your file is one click away.
- The library updates live while it is open, including recordings still in progress.
- Notifications stay on screen while your mouse is over them.
- Recordings now carry Acrux Studio details in their file metadata, so editors and other tools can identify them.
Steadier streams on graphics cards with slower encoders, a recording only path through onboarding, and faster help when something goes wrong.
New
- A new onboarding choice for people who just want to record. Pick "I just want to record" and skip platform sign in entirely, no account needed.
- Faster help when something goes wrong: an Open logs button in Settings, and quick links to the Acrux Studio Discord in Settings and on the side rail.
Improved
- Much steadier streams on graphics cards with slower video encoders, common on older AMD models. Acrux now notices when the encoder itself is the bottleneck and settles on a frame rate it can hold instead of repeatedly probing for more.
- Notification dots on the side panel clear automatically when your stream or recording ends.
- Tooltips now point precisely at what you are hovering, and buttons near the screen edge show their tooltip beside them instead of squeezed into a corner.
Fixed
- The chat history database now reclaims deleted space correctly. If Settings showed reclaimable space that Optimize could not clear, it heals itself on first launch and Optimize reports what it actually freed.
- Assorted copy and polish fixes across Settings and chat.
YouTube becomes a full platform with sign in, chat and moderation, AutoMod held messages appear right in chat, and streams now ride out real network outages.
YouTube, the whole thing
Sign in with Google and YouTube works the way Twitch and Kick already do.
Your stream key arrives on its own, your title, category, tags, description, privacy and audience setting live inside Acrux, and your YouTube chat joins the combined panel with full moderation. Moderators can add a YouTube channel too, watch the stream and run its chat.
One window, three platforms, live to all of them at once.
New
- Sign in to YouTube with Google. Stream keys fetch automatically and you can pick between your keys in Settings.
- YouTube title, category and tags sit next to Twitch and Kick in the stream info panel. Description, privacy and audience settings live in Settings.
- YouTube chat in the combined panel. Read and reply alongside Twitch and Kick, with moderation built in: delete messages, timeout and ban.
- A moderator view for YouTube. Add a channel you moderate, watch the stream and run its chat from Acrux.
- Twitch messages held by AutoMod now appear in your chat with Allow and Deny buttons, so the review queue no longer needs a browser tab.
- Links posted in chat open with a confirmation that shows the full destination, and Acrux warns about suspicious links before anything loads on stream.
Improved
- Chats connect themselves. Acrux joins the chat of every platform you are live on and clears them when the stream ends. In the moderator view, chat follows the channel you are watching.
- Category pickers open with a browsable list. YouTube shows its full list, Twitch and Kick lead with what is popular right now, and typing searches the whole catalog from the first letter.
- A dropped connection now gets up to three minutes of reconnect attempts instead of under one, and the stream returns at full quality the moment your connection is back.
- Stream stats show dropped frames and reconnects separately, each with a plain explanation.
Fixed
- On a fresh install the stream info panel now fills in your title and category right after you sign in, instead of after a restart.
- A stream that could not reconnect no longer leaves the app showing live over a dead broadcast.
A vertical canvas for phone screens, TikTok as a stream destination, a tags editor for Twitch and Kick, and smarter YouTube bitrate.
A vertical canvas, built for phone screens
Acrux now has a second canvas built for phone screens. Lay out a portrait version of your stream next to the widescreen one, then choose which canvas each destination gets.
Stream widescreen to one platform while another platform gets the portrait version, all in the same session, or run a vertical only stream when that is all you need.
Recordings and clips can follow either canvas.
New
- A vertical 9:16 canvas alongside the widescreen one, with its own layout in every scene.
- An Outputs section in Settings that routes each stream destination, your recordings, and your clips to the canvas you choose.
- TikTok is now a stream destination. Paste your stream server URL and key from the TikTok LIVE dashboard and go live there, in portrait if you want. TikTok grants stream key access to accounts with 1,000 or more followers.
- A tags editor for Twitch and Kick in the stream info panel. Write your tags once and apply them to both platforms.
Improved
- YouTube streams now stay within the bitrate YouTube recommends for your resolution and frame rate, so the stream health warning about a too high bitrate is gone and no upload is wasted.
- Auto bitrate is smarter about what your connection can carry and opens each stream at full rate when your connection was never the limit.
- The preview area is tidier. The resize hint sits in its own strip above the preview and the canvas sits flush under the top bar.
Fixed
- Settings no longer discards a stream key that arrives while the panel is open.
Copy a source into any scene, duplicate a whole scene, and see inside Acrux when a new version is out.
Copy sources between scenes and duplicate scenes
Set a source up once and reuse it anywhere. Copy any source and paste it into another scene, or duplicate a whole scene in one step to branch a variation instead of building it again from scratch. Right-click a scene or source to reach the new copy, paste, and duplicate actions.
New
- Copy a source and paste it into another scene. A layout you set up once, the capture, the webcam, the overlays and their placement, can be reused across scenes instead of rebuilt each time.
- Duplicate a whole scene in one step, so you can branch a variation from a scene you already have.
- Any scene can now end your stream. Switch to your chosen scene while live and Acrux offers to stop after a short countdown so your outro plays out. You are no longer limited to the built-in Stream Ended scene, and it keeps working after you rename or move that scene.
- Acrux now tells you inside the app when a new version is available, with a one-click way to open the update.
Now runs on Intel graphics, NVIDIA output holds a broadcast steady bitrate, and the Insights window is clearer.
Now works on Intel graphics
Streaming and recording now run on Intel Quick Sync machines, where the encoder could previously fail to start. If your PC leans on Intel graphics instead of a dedicated NVIDIA or AMD card, you get the same smooth capture everyone else already had.
Improved
- NVIDIA streaming now drives your card directly for an even, full bitrate that platforms grade as broadcast quality.
- Auto bitrate opens where your last stream settled, so you begin each session at a rate you already know holds up.
- Twitch and Kick sign-ins stay steadier across long sessions.
- The Insights window is clearer. Every graph for what you are doing shows from the start and fills in as data arrives, stream time and recording time are listed separately, and the readouts match across all charts.
Fixed
- Saving a clip or replay while live no longer causes a brief stall in your stream.
- Connecting one chat no longer drops the other. Twitch and Kick now stay in the feed together.
- Panel resize handles no longer drift into the sign-in banner.
The creator update. Hotkeys, source cropping and rotation, and a stream that platforms grade as rock solid.
Global hotkeys with sound cues
Bind keys for muting your mic, switching scenes, and saving a clip, and they work even while you are deep in a game. Each action answers with its own soft chime, a wood block for mute, a singing bowl for scene changes, a gong for clips, so you always know it landed without alt-tabbing.
New
- Crop any visual source right on the preview, including browser overlays, images, and VTuber Spout feeds. Drag the white guides to trim, drag them back out to restore, and cancel with Esc.
- Rotate sources freely and round their corners with draggable dots. Snapping holds at the compass points so straightening up is effortless.
- Steady upload rate keeps your stream at its full bitrate even during calm or static moments. Stream health pages now read Acrux as rock steady from the first second, with an excellent configuration grade throughout.
- Pick an exact custom stream bitrate when Auto is not what you want. Acrux shows the allowed range and warns you when a platform caps it lower.
Improved
- Scenes that use the same browser overlay now share one browser behind the curtain. Switching scenes no longer reloads your overlays, alert widgets keep their connection, and memory use drops when overlays repeat across scenes.
- Source properties now lead with what the source is. The address, file, colour, or camera sits right under the name.
- Switching scenes while editing a source now returns you to the source list instead of silently retargeting the editor.
Fixed
- Opening a browser source's properties no longer reloads the page.
- The bitrate no longer dips in the opening seconds of a stream.
The performance update. Gameplay freezes are gone and recordings hold full framerate.
Major performance gains under heavy gameplay
We found and fixed the root cause of recordings and streams freezing for seconds at a time while a demanding game runs. On the same machine and the same game, the worst interruption went from over 5 seconds to under a third of a second.
Recordings also hold your full framerate now, where a busy system could quietly step a 60 fps recording down to 30 that your PC handled fine.
And Acrux asks Windows for higher graphics priority, so a game maxing out your GPU barely touches your stream.
Fixed
- When your Twitch sign-in expires mid session, Acrux now refreshes it silently. If it truly cannot, a banner explains that chat and alerts are paused and takes you straight to the reconnect button. A live stream keeps running either way.
- Starting Acrux with your chosen audio output device unplugged no longer breaks the replay buffer. Acrux switches to the default device and tells you once, instead of failing with cryptic errors.
Improved
- Frame numbers are honest now. Skipped frames that are invisible in your file show as a calm percentage instead of a scary count, and session notes only call out problems you could actually see.
- The Save Clip button and the Insights share button now guide you to the right setting when the feature they need is turned off, instead of doing nothing.
Important fixes for dual GPU laptops and ultrawide monitors.
Fixed
- Laptops with two graphics chips (a power saving one plus a gaming one) no longer show an invisible preview or fail to record and stream. Acrux now runs its whole pipeline on the chip that drives your display, which also keeps your game framerate untouched while capturing.
- Streams, recordings and clips keep the exact shape of your screen on ultrawide and other non 16:9 monitors. They were horizontally squashed before.
See how every stream and recording went, while it happens and after.
Insights: your streams and recordings, explained
Every stream and recording now becomes a session you can open later: viewer graphs, chat activity, bitrate, framerate, and system load on one timeline. And when frames drop, Acrux tells you in plain words whether your processor, graphics card, or connection was the cause.
New
- A Live Insights side panel shows the last 30 minutes at a glance while you are live or recording: viewers, drops, framerate, disk space, and system load.
- A Stream Events panel collects follows, subs, gifts, cheers, and raids the moment they happen, with platform colours and unread dots on the new side rail.
- Recordings get insights too. Record without streaming and the session still shows framerate, dropped frames, and system load, so you can check a capture the same way you check a stream.
- Share a session recap straight to your Discord server with one click, or copy it anywhere. Set your webhook once in Settings.
- Sources now snap to the center of the canvas, with guide lines that stay visible while you hold a source on them.
Improved
- Reloading the interface during a recording no longer loses track of it. The timer, panel, and insights pick right back up.
- The Settings window now shows your app version, handy when reporting an issue.
VTuber avatars come to Acrux, with no green screen.
VTuber avatars, straight into your scenes
The new Spout source brings your avatar from VTube Studio, VSeeFace, or any Spout2 app right into Acrux, with a transparent background and no chroma key. Frames go from your graphics card to Acrux and never touch the processor, so it costs almost nothing.
Improved
- The starter Game and Game + Cam scenes now come with your main display already selected, so your screen shows in the preview the moment you open Acrux.
- The app window and taskbar now show the full name, Acrux Studio.
- The add-source menu is wider, always fits on screen, and its source icons are colour coded.
Fixed
- The Clip button in the moderator view now tells you it needs a viewer sign-in, instead of failing quietly.
Clips, Twitch clips, and watching the moderator view as yourself.
New
- Save the last moments of your scene as a clip with one button or a hotkey, even when you are not recording or streaming. A rolling buffer keeps the moment ready with almost no performance cost.
- From the moderator view, create a Twitch clip of your own stream or a channel you moderate, without leaving Acrux. The Twitch clip editor opens right in the app so you can trim and title before it publishes.
- Sign in once to run the moderator view player as your own account, so subscriber ad-free playback and sub-only streams work.
Improved
- Settings has a new section rail that jumps you straight to any area as you scroll, plus a dedicated Clips section.
Chat and moderator-view fixes.
Fixed
- Kick chat and viewer counts now work for usernames with special characters like underscores.
- Fixed the Twitch stream not loading in the moderator view on Store installs.
A higher browser source limit and a taskbar icon fix.
Improved
- You can now add up to 12 browser sources per scene, up from 4, with a clear message when you reach the limit.
Fixed
- The taskbar icon no longer appears inside a blue box on some installs.
Acrux Studio launches on the Microsoft Store. The first public release for Windows.
New
- Multistream to Twitch and Kick at the same time, with adaptive bitrate and automatic reconnect when your connection gets shaky.
- A native Windows capture and encode engine that keeps CPU and GPU use low, with no browser engine inside.
- Scenes and sources: screen capture, game and window capture, webcam, browser sources, images, text, and alerts.
- A per-app audio mixer with independent faders, plus microphone voice isolation.
- Twitch and Kick chat merged in one window, with moderation tools and a dedicated moderator view.
- Local MP4 recording, including while you are live.
- Edit stream titles and categories for every platform from one place.