Lightweight game clips for Windows. F8 saves the last 60 seconds; one click shares it with a player right in Discord.
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The app follows the Windows language: English or Brazilian Portuguese. Strings live in translation files (
crates/app-ui/locales,crates/app-recorder/locales,server/src/i18n), so other languages can be added.
The best-known clipping apps do the job, but they bring a feed, ads, a mandatory account and a cost you can see in your FPS. Glint keeps only the good part: it records in the background without getting in the way, keeps the play when you press F8 and turns the clip into a link that plays inside Discord.
- Always-ready replay: the last 60 s (15–120 s) stay in memory; F8 saves in ~150 ms.
- Kill clips: F9 right after a kill saves a short clip around it (8 s before, 2 s after by default); pressing again within 6 s joins the next kill into the same clip (marked x2, x3...).
- Light: capture and encoding on the GPU (AMD AMF, NVIDIA NVENC, Intel QSV), HEVC 1080p60; the recorder uses ~1% CPU and stops by itself when the game closes.
- Finds the game by itself: any full-screen game using the GPU; always/never record lists.
- Game audio and microphone on separate tracks: toggle each one in the player and when sharing.
- Library and editor: grid by day, favorites, accent-insensitive search, trim handles with instant preview, full screen.
- Publish and copy link: exports just the trimmed part as H.264, uploads in parts (resumes if it drops), and the link opens with a player embedded in Discord. Who can see it: only me, anyone with the link, or public. Select several clips to queue them; uploads pause while a game is open.
- Export MP4: saves the trimmed part to disk without publishing anything.
- Optional watermark: off by default; when on, it is drawn only on exports and published copies, never on the original clip.
- Discord Rich Presence: your profile shows "Clipping VALORANT with Glint" (or "Clipping with Glint" between games) and the time, like Medal. On by default; turn it off in Settings. Works without a server or sign-in.
- Glass look that follows Windows light/dark and turns solid when transparency effects are off or on battery saver.
- Nothing inside the game: no injection, no memory reading, no overlay. Safe with anti-cheat such as Vanguard.
- Download the latest installer from GitHub Releases and run it (per-user install, no admin needed).
- The recorder starts in the tray and waits for a game. Click the tray icon, or open Glint, to see the library.
- Optional: Settings → System → Start with Windows. Updates are offered inside the app.
SmartScreen warning. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway. The source is here and releases are built by CI from tagged commits; signing is planned.
Glint works 100% locally with no account and no server: record, trim, export MP4.
To get a link that plays in Discord, you run your own small server on Cloudflare's free plan (a Worker with D1 and R2). There is no shared server; each person or group deploys their own and pastes its URL into Settings → Server (the Publish button shows "Connect server" until then). Login is Discord only; the first person to sign in on a new server becomes admin and everyone else needs an invite.
Step-by-step guide (Discord app, secrets, limits): docs/DEPLOY.md.
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Save the play | F8 (changeable in Settings) |
| Save a kill | F9 (changeable in Settings); press again within the combo window to extend the clip |
| Open the library | click the tray icon or open Glint |
| Trim | drag the handles on the timeline; the trim is saved |
| Next clip / play / full screen | ← → / Space / F |
| Publish | right panel → Publish and copy link → paste in Discord |
Will it get me banned in Valorant (Vanguard)? Glint records the window through Windows Graphics Capture, the same API the Xbox Game Bar uses. It never touches the game process. Tested with Vanguard on. No anti-cheat vendor has endorsed it, so use your own judgement.
How much FPS does it cost? In the synthetic test the average loss was ~1% recording the window. The encoder runs on a separate block of the GPU from the one that draws the game.
Where are my clips? In Videos\Glint (configurable). The disk limit deletes the oldest first;
favorites and published clips never.
Is a published clip public? By default it is "with the link": it only opens for people who have the address. You can switch to "only me" or "public" at any time, or delete it from the server.
Linux? System code is isolated so it can happen later; today it is Windows only.
Requirements: Windows 10/11, Rust (MSVC toolchain, 1.85+), Visual Studio Build Tools with C++, LLVM
(libclang for bindgen), and an LGPL shared FFmpeg build. The script below downloads a suitable FFmpeg
to .deps\, builds, tests and packs the app into dist\Glint:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File scripts\build-windows.ps1For day-to-day work see CONTRIBUTING.md; for how the pieces fit together, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Glint by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
Release builds ship FFmpeg as shared libraries under the LGPL; the license text is included in the package. Fonts (Inter, Geist Mono) are under the SIL OFL.