Recordly

Recordly is the open source take on Screen Studio. Record your screen, get auto-zooms on your cursor, polish the timeline, drop in a webcam overlay, and export to MP4 or GIF. The output looks like product marketing video, not a raw screencap.

Built with Electron and TypeScript, with native capture under the hood: ScreenCaptureKit on macOS and Windows Graphics Capture on Windows. That matters because the lazy alternative is browser-style screen APIs that drop frames and look amateur. Recordly hits the OS-native path instead. AGPL 3.0 licensed, with prebuilt releases for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus an AUR package for Arch.

Solo devs making demo videos, tutorial creators, and small teams shipping product walkthroughs get the biggest win here. The commercial alternative (Screen Studio) is $89 one-time. Recordly is free, and the editor covers most of what you'd actually use.

The catch: AGPL is the strong copyleft license. Fine if you're recording for your own product, but if you fork the source or integrate Recordly into a commercial product you ship, the AGPL terms apply to your code too. For end-user video recording, this is a non-issue. For embedding the engine in a paid app, talk to a lawyer first.