2025: Dropbox kills Capture, its screen-recording app
March 2025
Dropbox discontinued Dropbox Capture — its screen-recording and screenshot tool — on 24 March 2025, removing the app and the ability to create new recordings.
What happened
On 24 March 2025 Dropbox ended support for Dropbox Capture, the screen-recording, screenshot, and screen-GIF tool it had built to compete with apps like Loom. After that date users could no longer open the Capture desktop app or use Capture in the browser, and could not create new screenshots, GIFs, or screen/audio/video recordings. Existing content the user owned remained accessible inside a 'Capture' folder in Dropbox.
Capture is one of several products Dropbox sunset in 2025 — alongside Dropbox Passwords and Dropbox Vault — as the company narrowed focus onto its core sync product and its AI bet, Dropbox Dash. Dropbox framed the shutdown as sharpening focus on 'the best collaboration tools… within our core Dropbox product.'
For the users who had adopted Capture into their workflow, the result was another Dropbox tool taken away, requiring them to find and learn a replacement and migrate their library — the familiar cost of building habits around a Dropbox satellite product.
Impact
Capture's shutdown reinforces a core Dropbox-Watchdog theme: Dropbox repeatedly launches, promotes, then retires adjacent products, training users not to depend on anything beyond core sync. Coming in the same year as the Passwords and Vault shutdowns, it deepened the 'Dropbox keeps killing its own apps' reputation among power users.