Recordly

Open-source screen recorder and editor for polished product demos, walkthroughs, tutorials, and social clips. Records screen or window, then provides a timeline editor with auto-zoom, cursor effects, webcam overlays, styled backgrounds, and MP4/GIF export. All effects are 2D pan-and-zoom with motion blur — not 3D perspective transforms.

Fork of OpenScreen (siddharthvaddem/openscreen, 10.6K stars, MIT). Recordly adds: webcam zoom-reactive scaling, .recordly project persistence, auto-captions (Whisper), enhanced cursor effects (sway, click bounce, loop mode), native capture backends. AGPL 3.0.

When to Use

• Recording polished screen demos for PRs, docs, or social media
• Post-processing raw screen recordings with auto-zoom, cursor smoothing, and styled frames
• Creating product walkthrough videos with webcam overlay
• Polishing recordings captured via compound-engineering:feature-video

When not to use: For raw screen capture without polish (use macOS screenshot, OBS, or QuickTime). For headless/batch video processing (use ffmpeg). For device frame mockups with phone/laptop bezels (use Rotato or Shots.so). For audio mixing or voiceover (use a dedicated audio editor).

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