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An open-source screen recorder and editor for creating polished demo videos, walkthroughs, and product videos with auto-zooms, cursor polish, webcam overlays, and timeline editing.

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Project Overview

Recordly is an open-source screen recorder and editor for walkthroughs, demos, and product videos. It features motion-driven presentation tools built in, handling zooms, cursor polish, and styled backgrounds in one free workflow.

Key Features

  • Recording: Record an entire display or a single app window, capture microphone and system audio, use native capture backends
  • Auto-zooms and cursor polish: Automatically emphasize activity with zoom suggestions, smooth cursor movement, and motion effects
  • Styled frames: Place final composition inside a styled frame with wallpapers, colors, gradients, blur, padding, and shadows
  • Dynamic webcam bubble overlays: Add webcam footage as an overlay bubble with presets, mirroring, shadow, roundness, and zoom-reactive scaling
  • Timeline editing: Drag-and-drop timeline tools for zooms, trims, speed regions, annotations, and crop-aware edits
  • Extensions & Marketplace: Community-driven extension system with extensions available from the Recordly Marketplace
  • Cursor controls: Show/hide cursor overlay, adjust size, smoothing, motion blur, click bounce, sway, and loop mode
  • Project files: Save and reopen .recordly project files with editor state preserved

Target Audience

  • Content creators who need to create product demos and tutorial videos
  • Developers, product managers, and marketers who want high-quality demo videos quickly

Quick Start

  1. Download from recordly.dev or GitHub Releases
  2. Install and launch Recordly
  3. Choose recording mode (full display or app window)
  4. The editor opens automatically after recording
  5. Use auto-zooms, timeline editing, and other features to polish the video
  6. Export the final video

Core Advantages

  • Open-source, free, and community-driven
  • Built-in motion presentation tools without extra design work
  • Cross-platform support for macOS 14.0+, Windows 10 Build 19041+, and Linux
  • Rich editing features and extension marketplace

System Requirements

  • OS: macOS 14.0+, Windows 10 Build 19041+, modern Linux distributions

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