Kalmuri 4.2.7

Kalmuri is a small Windows capture tool that lives in your system tray and does nothing until you press a key.

Press it, and whatever you selected is saved straight to a folder, with no editor window opening first.

It is free, it has no paid tier, and there is a portable build that installs nothing at all.

What Kalmuri Actually Does

Four capture modes cover most of what people need: the full screen, one running program, a single control inside a window, or a region you drag out by hand.

Once you have drawn a region you can nudge it with the keyboard rather than redrawing it. Arrow keys move the selection a pixel at a time, Ctrl and arrows move it further, and Shift and arrows resize it.

That sounds like a small thing until you are capturing the same panel for the fifteenth time in a set of documentation.

A few extras sit in the right-click menu and are easy to miss:

• OCR - pull the text out of a capture as characters you can paste, which beats retyping an error message you cannot select.
• Pin on top - keep a capture floating above every other window while you copy from it.
• Colour picker - read the exact colour value of anything on screen.
• Upload and print - put a shareable link on your clipboard, or send a capture straight to a printer.

Formats and Video Recording

Screenshots save as PNG, JPG, BMP or GIF. Video records as MP4, from either the full screen or a region you choose, with options for audio on or off and the mouse cursor shown or hidden.

Screenshots need none of that and work the moment you run the program. FFmpeg only comes into it for video.

Setting It Up

There are two builds. The installer behaves normally, and the portable build extracts to any folder or USB stick, touches nothing in your registry, and is not cut down in any way.

Run it, look at the tray next to your clock, and right-click the Kalmuri bar to reach every menu including settings. Print Screen is the default hotkey.

If you want the longer version, with hotkey conflicts, save folders, OCR and what to do when a capture comes out blurry on a high-resolution monitor, the How to Use Kalmuri guide covers all of it. You can also see the interface on the screenshots page.

What Changed in 4.2.7

• Web browser capture is more stable on certain machine configurations.
• Fixed the capture area changing on its own during a screen recording.
• The recording indicator renders more sharply and moves more smoothly.
• OCR text saving is more reliable, with better handling of Korean and special characters.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

The tell is whether you open a second program straight after every capture. Kalmuri has no editor at all, so you cannot draw an arrow, blur a password or add a caption without moving the file somewhere else.

If you annotate every shot, ShareX is free, has a proper editor and uploads almost anywhere. Screenshot Captor is the pick for automatic effects and edge polish.

For animated GIFs, ScreenToGif records and edits frame by frame. If video is most of what you do rather than stills, Cap Screen Recorder is aimed at exactly that.

Scrolling capture of long pages is the one thing Kalmuri genuinely cannot manage on a modern system, and FastStone Capture handles it properly, though it is paid.

At the commercial end sit Snagit and the free TechSmith Capture.

The full screen capture category has the rest.

After You Capture

Recordings play anywhere, but VLC Media Player is the safe check if a file looks wrong. If a long recording is too large to send, HandBrake will shrink it without much visible loss.

Cannot install anything on the machine you are working on? You can record your screen with VLC instead, and our free online tools handle conversion in the browser.

Quick questions

Download Kalmuri 4.2.7 and see how it fits your workflow, or tell us how you got on if you have used it before.