Recordly: Open-Source Screen Recorder and Video Editor

Still recording your tutorial, then opening three other apps to cut and polish it? Recordly is one app that does both. It is an open-source screen recorder and video editor built for tutorials, demos, and product walkthroughs.

The edit happens in the same place as the recording, so you are not exporting a raw clip just to trim it somewhere else.

What Happened

Recordly is an open-source screen recorder and video editor aimed at tutorials, demos, and product walkthroughs. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Here is what it ships with:

• Automatic zooms that follow your cursor activity.
• Smooth cursor movement and click effects.
• Webcam bubble overlays.
• Timeline editing, plus speeding up and slowing down any section.
• Text, images, and annotations.
• Frames, backgrounds, blur, shadows, and rounded corners.
• Export to MP4 and GIF.
• ".recordly" project files, so a recording stays editable.
• Community extensions and a marketplace.

Why It Matters

That is normally two jobs and two apps: a screen recorder, then a separate video editor. Recordly folds them together, so a raw screen recording can go straight to a polished demo video without the round trip between programs.

Being open source under AGPL-3.0 means you can read the code and run it on all three desktop platforms. The post does not link a download page, so where you get the build is not stated here.