User manual

Momento is a set of PC gaming tools for Windows 11. The mymomento.gg website opens the Microsoft Store listing (Momentogg). Downloading is free; using the app requires a Momento account and a paid licence. Account creation, sign-in and purchase take place in the app. There is no Mac or Linux version.

1. 1.On mymomento.gg, choose Install Momento, then install or update the app through Microsoft Store and open it.
2. 2.In Momento, choose Create an account, enter your email and a password with 12 to 128 characters, then accept the terms. Confirm your address with the code received by email, directly in the app. If you already have an account, sign in with it.
3. 3.Choose Buy Momento: secure Polar payment opens in the app. Momento verifies your licence before unlocking the tools. If you already purchased with this account, your licence is restored without entering a key. Your clips, recordings, Instants and notebooks stay on this PC.

On first launch, a short multi-screen intro covers the essentials: welcome, the gestures (Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+F10, Ctrl+F8), your clips, your games and your preferences.

The top bar is your permanent dashboard.

• In the left sidebar: Home, Moments, Instants, Sequences and Notebook.
• Center-right: the capture capsule (shows the detected game and the capture state).
• Help (F1) and Settings are at the bottom of the left sidebar. Quit Momento and window controls are in the top bar.
• On the left edge: the Tools rail — two quick actions (Make a clip, Snipe) and the gamer tools: Crosshair Studio, Cursor, Sensitivity Converter, Reaction Trainer.

Capture arms as soon as Momento is open. Launch a game: Momento detects it and starts monitoring the match. The capsule at the top confirms which game is being tracked.

In-game, press Ctrl+F9 (the default shortcut) to keep the last few seconds. You can also click “Keep the moment” in the capture capsule at the top.

An anti-spam guard prevents double triggers: a quick double press only creates one clip. Capture must be active (a game detected) for Ctrl+F9 to work.

While a game is being captured, a rolling buffer keeps recent video in temporary files. Save a clip to keep the action that just happened.

The buffer is bounded and reuses its temporary storage. Only clips you save or automatic moments you enable are kept in your library.

Momento can save highlights on its own — detected via the game’s API (CS2, LoL) or by reading the on-screen killfeed (Valorant) — without you touching a key.

• CS2: triple kill, quadra kill, ACE, no-scope.
• League of Legends: triple kill, quadra kill, pentakill.
• Valorant: multikill (3+ kills in quick succession), detected by the analysis engine.

Available context depends on the events provided by each game. Momento does not automatically read text in images; start OCR or translation when you need it in an Instant.

1. 1.Go to Settings → Games & moments → Auto moments.
2. 2.Toggle “Enabled” / “Disabled” (enabled by default).

In the same tab, the “Analysis engine” (beta) is the brain that reads the killfeed and analyzes your clips in the background. It is off by default: turn it on to try Valorant auto-clips and game context, knowing it can still make mistakes. The change takes effect when the app restarts.

1. 1.Go to Settings → Video.
2. 2.In the “Manual clips: length” section: pick 30 sec, 1 min or 1:40.

The length of automatic clips (triple, ace, pentakill…) is set by the action and isn’t configurable.

A small sound confirms that a clip was kept. You choose which one.

1. 1.Go to Settings → Video, “Confirmation sound” section.
2. 2.Click a variant to hear it (Whoosh, Tap, Ping…) and select it.
3. 3.Or click “Import a sound… (wav, mp3, ogg)” to use your own.

Your clips appear in the Moments tab. On disk, they’re stored by default in Videos\Momento — the location is changeable in Settings → Storage.

To record a full match (up to several hours), with game events embedded, use REC mode.

1. 1.Press Ctrl+F10 to start recording; press Ctrl+F10 again to stop it.
2. 2.Or click the capture capsule at the top → “Recording” page → big “Start REC (Ctrl+F10)” button.

REC can only start if a game is being captured. When stopping, a “Finalizing…” step can take up to about thirty seconds on large files — that’s normal.

Sequences groups your long recordings by date, with the same library and tools as Moments. Double-click a card to open the player, then open the editor to create a Moment.

• Rename, keep as a favorite, add tags and choose a cover.
• Search, filter by game or tag and adjust card size.
• Select multiple sequences to keep, tag or delete them.

1. 1.Go to Settings → Recording.
2. 2.Choose the recordings folder (default Videos\Momento\Recordings — separate from the short-clips folder).
3. 3.Choose the quality: Light (12 Mbit/s), Balanced (25 Mbit/s) or Cinema (50 Mbit/s).

The quality applies to the next REC; a recording in progress keeps its initial quality.

Press Ctrl+F8 (by default) to capture the current game frame — or the full screen outside a game. The capture lands in the Instants tab.

1. 1.Press Win+Shift+S (by default, Momento replaces the Windows capture tool), or click the “Snipe” button in the Instants tab.
2. 2.The screen freezes. Pick a mode at the top: Rectangle, Circle, Freeform, or Text (OCR).
3. 3.Drag to select the area (a single click = full screen).

The area is copied to the clipboard AND saved to Instants. Esc, right-click or the cross cancel.

1. 1.On first launch, Momento enables “Replace the Windows capture tool”: Win+Shift+S opens Momento’s Snipe instead of the Windows tool.
2. 2.To go back to the Windows tool: Settings → Shortcuts, disable the option — Snipe then returns to Ctrl+Shift+S.

The Instants tab arranges your captures in a grid, by date.

• Thumbnail size: drag the zoom slider in the header, or zoom with Ctrl + wheel (pinch on a trackpad) right on the grid.
• Search (“Filter name or game…”) and game filter (appears when there are several games).
• Hover an image to copy it; click it to open the viewer (arrows, wheel, Esc).
• In the viewer: copy, translate, edit, rename, open in the explorer, delete.

In the viewer, click the brush icon (“Edit”) to open the full-screen editor.

• Tools: Selection (move/resize, Del erases), Hand (move the view), Pencil, Shapes (arrow, rectangle, ellipse), Text, Eyedropper (grabs the color of a pixel in the image), Blur, Crop, Magic wand (makes a flat background transparent).
• Color: quick palette, color wheel and hex code (#), with an eyedropper to sample a color from the screen. Thickness and text size (2 / 4 / 8 / 14). Rectangle and ellipse have an adjustable fill opacity to highlight an area.
• Wheel zoom + − / % / + buttons, graduated rulers, and an Undo (Ctrl+Z) / Redo (Ctrl+Y) history.

To save: “Copy” (clipboard), “Save copy” (creates a new Instant), or “Overwrite the original”.

1. 1.Open an Instant in the viewer.
2. 2.Click the “Translate the text” icon (Languages).
3. 3.Choose the OCR source language when needed, then the translation language. The local pack offers 17 OCR choices and 100 translation languages; automatic OCR tries only a subset.

Copy the original text or translation. Processing runs on your PC, on demand, without sending the image or text to a translation service. It works offline with the bundled language pack; results may contain errors. If the pack is missing, update or repair the installation.

The mini-editor opens from a clip or from a recording.

• From a clip: open it (Moments tab) then click “Edit”.
• From a Sequence: open the player, then click “Edit”.

It’s the same tool in both cases.

• Select a segment by clicking it, then set its speed (0.25× to 4×).
• The handles at both edges of the track trim the start and end.
• The filmstrip under the track shows the clip's actual frames: click or drag it to scrub.
• Grab the inside of the frame and drag it to move the selection without changing its length — handy to isolate the best moment.

The editor works on a single clip: you keep or remove parts. It doesn’t stitch several videos together and has no timeline zoom.

When the clip contains separate game, Windows and microphone tracks, adjust their volume, mute or solo independently and hear the result in the editor. The microphone is also available for clips with system audio and no game/Windows split.

The saved MP4 uses your selected audio mix, including the microphone if kept. Mute a track to remove it from the exported mix.

1. 1.Click “Save to Moments”.
2. 2.For a clip from the library, you’re asked whether to keep or delete the original.
3. 3.The edit (one MP4 file) appears in Moments.

There’s no quality/format choice or progress bar: on a long clip, the “Saving…” button may seem stuck for a moment — that’s normal.

1. 1.In the editor, keep a short passage (15 seconds max rendered) and click the “GIF” button.
2. 2.Pick a size — Small (320 px), Medium (480 px) or Large (640 px); a weight estimate is shown.
3. 3.The GIF appears in your Stills and is already copied: paste it straight (Ctrl+V) into Discord or a forum.

A GIF has no sound and loops forever. For an extract with sound, save the montage as a video instead (“Save to Moments”).

On a clip where kills were detected, the “KillCut” button (in the clip player) automatically creates an edit that keeps only the kills (about 3 seconds around each). The result is saved as a new moment, without touching the original.

The Moments tab gathers all your clips, grouped by date. Hover a card to play it, rename it, share it, change its thumbnail, add tags, delete it or open it in the explorer. The zoom slider in the top right (or Ctrl + wheel / pinch on the grid) makes cards bigger or fits more per row. In the player, previous and next follow the filtered library and preserve playback speed. Ambilight extends the colours around the player without changing the video file.

You can replace a Moment's or a Sequence's thumbnail with any Instant from your gallery (edited or not) — handy for a cover that reads better than a random frame pulled from the video.

1. 1.Hover the Moment (or Sequence) card and click the “Thumbnail” button (image icon) in the action bar.
2. 2.In the window that opens, pick the Instant to use as the cover.
3. 3.The page refreshes and the new thumbnail shows right away.

From a Moment or Sequence player, you can turn the shown frame into a new Instant (full-resolution, editable) — perfect to isolate a key moment, annotate it, or use it as a thumbnail.

1. 1.Open a Moment (or Sequence) and pause on the frame you want.
2. 2.Click “Grab frame” (camera icon) in the player bar.
3. 3.The image lands in your Instants, ready to edit or share.

Use the editor to keep part of a Sequence and save it as a new Moment.

1. 1.Open a Sequence, then click “Edit”.
2. 2.Adjust the start and end of the section to keep in the timeline.
3. 3.Save the montage to Moments, then choose whether to keep or delete the original sequence.
4. 4.The cut passage appears in the Moments tab.

The magnifier (or Ctrl+F) in the Moments header filters instantly. You can search by:

• Weapon (CS2) — e.g. ak47, m4a4.
• Map (CS2) — e.g. mirage, inferno.
• Champion (LoL) — e.g. yasuo. Hero (Dota 2).
• Role (LoL) — top, jungle, mid, adc, support.
• Multikill — double, triple, quadra, penta, ace, no-scope.

On supported games, your clips are named and tagged on their own — for example “Triple kill with the AK-47 on Mirage” (CS2) or “Quadra with Yasuo” (LoL).

Tags are your own coloured keywords. Create your own (“to review”, “smurf”, “funny fail”…) and stick them on your clips AND your Stills. One shared vocabulary across both galleries: a tag created on a clip is instantly reusable on a screenshot.

1. 1.Right-click a clip → “Tags…” (or the Tags button in a Still’s lightbox).
2. 2.Type a name: if it already exists, pick it from the list; otherwise Enter creates it (with an auto colour you can change).
3. 3.To filter, click a tag in the filter bar at the top of the gallery. Several tags = only the items carrying all of them.

• Shared vocabulary: the same tags show up on both Sequences and Stills.
• Manage: the “Manage” button in the filter bar lets you rename, recolour or delete a tag everywhere at once.
• Your tags are stored locally, next to your media — they survive a cache wipe.

The Notebook is your gamer notepad: builds, strategies, craft checklists, raid plans. Notebook tab — the list of your notes on the left, the editor on the right.

Everything saves automatically: there’s no “save” button. Create a note with “New note”.

• Bold (Ctrl+B), Italic (Ctrl+I), Title, Subtitle.
• Bullet lists, numbered lists, checkboxes (nestable).
• Text size (Small / Normal / Large / Huge), text color, neon highlighter.
• Links: clicking a link opens it in your browser (on a canvas: Ctrl+click).
• Collapsible sections: a title + a chevron to fold or unfold a block (dedicated toolbar button).

Paste an image (Ctrl+V) or drag and drop an image file into the editor. Then select the image to move it, resize it (corner handle) or align it left, center or right.

Alongside classic notes, “New whiteboard” creates a free canvas: place elements wherever you want, move and resize them — perfect for a raid plan, a comp or an annotated map.

• Double-click anywhere to drop text; drag to move.
• Add images, shapes, pen drawing — and even your Moments: clips play right on the canvas, just like YouTube or Twitch videos.
• Checklists with a progress counter (rows move together, checked = struck through).
• Collapsible sections: group an area under a title and fold it in one click — the state is remembered.

1. 1.In a note, click “Pin a Moment / an Instant”.
2. 2.Pick from the Instants tab (screenshots) or Moments (clips).
3. 3.A clickable card is inserted: it opens the clip or the image. Your notes and your moments are linked.

Assign a game to a note via the “Game” selector in the editor header. The list then filters by game (when several games are tagged).

You can send a full notebook — text, images, pinned Instants and Moments — to someone else via a simple link.

1. 1.Open the note, then click the “Share” icon at the top right of the editor.
2. 2.Momento prepares the notebook (uploading the images and clips to the cloud), then copies the link (mymomento.gg/carnet/…) to your clipboard.
3. 3.Paste this link wherever you want: Discord, a private message, etc.

When someone shares a notebook with you, you add it to your own notebooks in one of these two ways:

1. 1.The simplest: on the link page (mymomento.gg/carnet/…), click “Open in Momento” — the app opens on the Notebook and imports it on its own.
2. 2.Otherwise, in Momento: Notebook tab → “Import a notebook”, paste the link, then “Import”.

Sharing uploads a clip only when you request it and copies a public, unlisted link. Anyone with the link can watch in a browser without installing Momento or signing in.

1. 1.Hover or open the clip, then click “Share”: a window opens to pick, with checkboxes, the info shown around the clip (weapon, champion, KDA, map…). You can also “Mute out-of-game sounds” to keep only the game audio (mutes Discord, music, notifications).
2. 2.The link (mymomento.gg/c/…) is copied to your clipboard.
3. 3.Paste it into Discord, X, Facebook or any chat.

Game recognition and capture compatibility depend on the game, display mode and PC. CS2, LoL, TFT, Dota 2 and Valorant are in the product scope; this does not mean every configuration has been tested.

1. 1.Go to Settings → My games: every known game is captured automatically there. Turn off the ones you don't want recorded in one click.
2. 2.Your game isn't listed? Add it via “Scan open games” or its process name (e.g. VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe).

Open a clip: the panel on the right tells the story of the match around the moment. On CS2, LoL and Dota 2, the info comes from the game’s API and follows playback (score, KDA, teams…). Detected kills show up as markers on the timeline — click one to jump to the right moment.

• Valorant: no API — Momento reads the on-screen killfeed afterwards. Kills, weapons, multikills and your agent are shown, prefixed with “≈” when the reading is approximate.
• Available context depends on the events provided by each game. Momento does not automatically read text in images; start OCR or translation when you need it in an Instant.
• On Valorant, the name is detected on its own when the Riot client is open — the field only serves to force a value.

Crosshair Studio lets you design a crosshair and display it as a separate overlay in compatible games. Open it from the Tools sidebar; availability depends on the game and display mode.

1. 1.Browse and preview a model, adjust its shape, size, outline and colours, then apply it. Your saved profiles remain available.
2. 2.Turn on “Show in game”: the crosshair appears as soon as a game comes to the foreground.
3. 3.Import or export CS2, supported primary Valorant or Momento codes. Game formats cannot represent every shape; Momento codes preserve the complete design. Assign separate profiles to your games.

• Preview on a game background: import your own screenshots as a test backdrop.
• Per-game profiles: each game can have its own crosshair, applied automatically when it comes to the foreground.

Replace your Windows mouse cursor with a custom one. Open it from the Tools rail on the left (cursor icon).

1. 1.Browse and preview the built-in models, import an image or cursor file, or use your Crosshair Studio design.
2. 2.Try the size and mode in the preview before changing the Windows cursor.
3. 3.Click Apply to use the selected cursor.

• Everywhere mode applies the cursor on the Windows desktop as well.
• Game mode arms automatic use when a recognised game is active, without imposing a permanent desktop cursor.

The custom cursor shows on the desktop, in menus, and in games that use the cursor (inventories, ARPGs, strategy, windowed…). Full-screen aim shooters hide the cursor — there, your reticle takes over.

Keep the exact same aim from one game to the next: the converter computes the equivalent sensitivity, at the same 360° distance. Open it from the Tools rail.

1. 1.Pick the source game, your sensitivity and your DPI.
2. 2.Pick the target game (and a target DPI if you’re changing it).
3. 3.The equivalent sensitivity is shown — copy it in one click.

A mini-game to measure your reflexes: click (or press Space) as soon as the screen turns green — too early and it’s a miss. You see your last time, your average over 5 tries and your record, which stays saved.

A small, discreet HUD shows your FPS and CPU / GPU / RAM usage in game. It’s disabled by default.

1. 1.Go to Settings → Appearance, Performance HUD section.
2. 2.Turn on the switch: the HUD appears when a known game is in the foreground, and disappears on the desktop.
3. 3.FPS measurement depends on the optional Intel PresentMon service and its Windows access. Granting access alone does not install or verify the service. If FPS is unavailable, the HUD may show no value.

Open Settings with the gear icon. Categories cover capture (video, audio, shortcuts and REC), storage, games and automatic moments, appearance and system diagnostics. Account and purchase access are available from the account panel.

• Video quality: Light (12 Mbit/s), Balanced (25 Mbit/s, default) or Cinematic.
• Manual clips: length (30 sec / 1 min / 1:40).
• Confirmation sound: pick a cue + import your own.

• Audio source: “All Windows” (game + Discord + music) or “Game only”.
• Microphone: separate track (optional) + device choice.
• Confirmation sound: the variant played when a clip is kept.

Each shortcut is changed via the “Change” button. There you’ll also find “Replace the Windows capture tool” (on by default — when off, Snipe returns to Ctrl+Shift+S) and its “Apply now” button.

• Recordings folder (separate from the clips folder).
• REC quality: Light / Balanced / Cinema.

• Local disk space: what Momento occupies, broken down by game, thumbnails, buffer, recordings and trash.
• Trash: deleted clips stay recoverable for 7 days.
• Automatic cleanup of old unkept clips (disabled by default).
• Clips folder (default Videos\Momento).

• App language: 10 languages (French, English, Spanish, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian).
• Choose a style and its colour palette, preview it in the interactive workshop, then apply it. Styles change more than the accent: typography, surfaces and controls can vary. Momento Signature adds the charcoal and gold look; ION offers several palettes.
• “Game colors”: the interface takes on the colors of the detected game (disabled by default).
• Game data language (champions, items, news) — independent of the app language.
• In-game performance HUD: the FPS / CPU / GPU / RAM overlay (disabled by default — see the manual’s Tools section).
• “Replay the intro”.

• Momento does not change Microsoft Defender settings. Keep your antivirus enabled.
• Icon cache: the space it takes up, and a button to clear it.
• Open the logs folder or create a diagnostic dump to investigate a problem. Licensed installations also send automatic technical reports: software and hardware context, capture health, usage counters and incidents. These reports are linked to your account.

Momento uses Windows Graphics Capture targeted at the game window. It does not inject into the game or read its memory.

Compatibility depends on the tested game and configuration. Using Windows capture APIs is not a guarantee of acceptance by every anti-cheat or competition.

Your gameplay, Instants and notebooks remain local unless you explicitly share them. Account, licence and automatic technical reports use online services; “local files” does not mean the app never connects.

Sharing uploads the selected clip or notebook to create an unlisted link; clip links expire after 30 days. Automatic diagnostics do not send video, images, audio, notebook text or raw logs. Read the site privacy policy for the data and retention details.

Capture uses GPU encoding when supported. Its effect on performance depends on the hardware, game and recording settings.

If capture disrupts your game, try a lighter quality setting and compare with capture disabled on the same PC. No universal FPS gain or cost is guaranteed.

For an installation from Microsoft Store, check Library → Get updates in Microsoft Store. Store manages delivery; the download on mymomento.gg opens the same listing. Older EXE installations have a separate update path, so include the installation channel when asking for help.

The window’s ✕ doesn’t close the app: it hides it in the notification area (the rolling buffer keeps running in the background). That’s intentional — Momento stays ready to clip.

1. 1.To really quit: click the “Quit Momento” button (power icon) in the top bar, then confirm.
2. 2.Or right-click the notification-area icon → “Quit Momento”.

Quitting stops the ongoing capture and closes Momento completely.

• Check that a game is actually detected (the capture capsule at the top shows it).
• The default shortcut is already Ctrl+F9 (safe in-game). If nothing triggers, check that a game is detected, or change the key in Settings → Shortcuts.
• If the clip is empty or black, try setting the game to “Borderless windowed” mode.

1. 1.Go to Settings → My games.
2. 2.Click “Scan open games”, or add the executable manually (the process name is visible in Task Manager → Details).

Changes take effect at the next start of a capture session.

• Keep some disk space: a REC stops on its own under 2 GB free.
• Manage the trash and automatic cleanup in Settings → Storage.
• Momento does not change Microsoft Defender settings. Keep your antivirus enabled.
• In case of a bug: Settings → System → “Open the logs folder” or “Create a debug dump” to share.

Found a bug or have an idea? Send it without leaving the app: your message goes straight to the team.

1. 1.At the bottom of the window, next to “patch notes”, click “bug / idea”.
2. 2.Pick Bug or Suggestion, write a title and a few details.
3. 3.Click Send — that’s it.

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