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Screenity
Privacy-friendly screen recorder with unlimited recording and annotation
Free Chrome extension for unlimited screen recording, annotation, and editing. Record your screen, camera, or audio with AI backgrounds, drawing tools, and a built-in editor—all offline and private.
Overview
Powerful Screen Recording for Everyone
Screenity is a privacy-first Chrome extension that enables unlimited screen recording without sign-ups, subscriptions, or data collection. Designed for educators, product teams, and content creators, it captures tabs, desktop windows, applications, or camera feeds while offering professional annotation and editing capabilities.
Rich Feature Set
Record with microphone or system audio, annotate in real-time with drawing tools, text, arrows, and shapes, and enhance recordings with AI-powered camera backgrounds or blur effects. The integrated editor lets you trim, crop, add or remove audio tracks, and export to MP4, GIF, or WebM formats. Highlight clicks, enable spotlight mode, zoom smoothly during recording, and blur sensitive content to maintain privacy.
Self-Hosted and Offline
All processing happens locally in your browser using FFmpeg WASM and TensorFlow. Videos never leave your device unless you explicitly save to Google Drive. Self-hosting is straightforward—download the build, load it as an unpacked extension, and start recording. The project is open source under GPLv3, built with React, Fabric.js, and Radix Primitives, ensuring transparency and community-driven development.
Highlights
Unlimited recording of tabs, desktop, applications, or camera with no time limits
Real-time annotation with drawing, text, arrows, shapes, and AI-powered backgrounds
Built-in editor for trimming, cropping, audio management, and multi-format export
Complete privacy: all processing happens offline, no data collection or sign-in required
Pros
- No recording limits, watermarks, or subscription fees
- Comprehensive annotation and editing tools built-in
- Full privacy with local processing and offline capability
- Self-hostable with straightforward setup for Chrome
Considerations
- Chrome extension only, not available for Firefox or Safari
- Requires developer mode for self-hosting outside Chrome Web Store
- Google Drive integration needs custom OAuth setup for self-hosted instances
- Resource-intensive processing due to in-browser FFmpeg and TensorFlow
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Fit guide
Great for
- Educators creating tutorials and instructional videos with annotations
- Product teams recording demos, bug reports, and user feedback
- Privacy-conscious users requiring offline, local-only video processing
- Organizations needing self-hosted screen recording without third-party services
Not ideal when
- Users requiring native desktop apps or cross-browser support
- Teams needing cloud-based collaboration or automatic video hosting
- Low-spec machines that may struggle with in-browser video encoding
- Workflows requiring advanced post-production features beyond basic editing
How teams use it
Product Demo Creation
Record polished product walkthroughs with annotations, cursor highlights, and AI backgrounds, then export directly to MP4 for marketing materials.
Educational Tutorial Production
Capture lectures or software training with real-time drawing, text overlays, and zoom effects, keeping all content private and offline.
Bug Reporting and Feedback
Record specific application issues with annotations highlighting problem areas, blur sensitive data, and share via Google Drive link.
Self-Hosted Corporate Recording
Deploy Screenity internally for teams requiring screen capture without external services, maintaining full control over video data and infrastructure.
Tech snapshot
JavaScript80%
SCSS10%
CSS7%
TypeScript2%
HTML1%
Frequently asked questions
Does Screenity have recording time limits?
No, Screenity allows unlimited recording duration with no restrictions on the number of videos you create.
Is my video data sent to any servers?
No, all recording and processing happens locally in your browser. Videos remain on your device unless you explicitly save them to Google Drive.
Can I use Screenity offline?
Yes, Screenity works completely offline. Once installed, you can record, annotate, and edit without an internet connection.
What video formats does Screenity support?
Screenity can export recordings as MP4, WebM, or GIF files, with options to save directly to Google Drive for sharing.
How do I self-host Screenity?
Download the latest Build.zip from the releases page, enable developer mode in Chrome at chrome://extensions/, and load the unpacked folder.
Project at a glance
Active- Stars
- 17,821
- Watchers
- 17,821
- Forks
- 1,430
LicenseGPL-3.0
Repo age5 years old
Last commit7 days ago
Self-hostingSupported
Primary languageJavaScript
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