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Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by alyssaxuu »

After trying out some of the most popular screen recorders for Chrome, I realized how lacking and limited many of them were. So I decided to create the most powerful screen recorder for Chrome, completely free and open source, with lots of features such as freedrawing, text, arrows, multiple cursor options, push to talk, custom countdowns, editing, and much more.

Let me know what you think! I have also created a Google Sheet where I compared my tool to 30+ of the most popular Chrome Extensions in the area in terms of features: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1juc1zWC2QBxYqlhpDZZU...

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by gingerlime »

alyssaxuu wrote: post #2

After trying out some of the most popular screen recorders for Chrome, I realized how lacking and limited many of them were. So I decided to create the most powerful screen recorder for Chrome, completely free and open source, with lots of features such as freedrawing, text, arrows, multiple cursor options, push to talk, custom countdowns, editing, and much more. Let me know what you think! I have also created a Goog…

looks very impressive! any plans for a non-chrome / standalone version?

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by alyssaxuu »

gingerlime wrote: post #3
alyssaxuu wrote: post #2

After trying out some of the most popular screen recorders for Chrome, I realized how lacking and limited many of them were. So I decided to create the most powerful screen recorder for Chrome, completely free and open source, with lots of features such as freedrawing, text, arrows, multiple cursor options, push to talk, custom countdowns, editing, and much more. Let me know what you think! I have also created a Goog…

looks very impressive! any plans for a non-chrome / standalone version?

Thanks! I don't have any plans personally - I have made it open source so anyone can make their own version, maybe even port it to Firefox (which AFAIK shouldn't be too hard). As per standalone, I feel like it would have to be entirely rewritten, so it would basically mean developing it from zero.

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by alyssaxuu »

ffpip wrote: post #5

Very useful.. Thanks for making this! Will be trying it out! It doesn't have any tracking or phoning home does it?

Thanks :) It absolutely does not, I didn't even set up a user system (unlike most other screen recorders) for that reason. For privacy purposes in any case the code is open source - I was thinking about adding a section in GitHub on how to self-host it (zipping the contents and dragging them over chrome://extensions in developer mode might work except for the "save to drive" functionality which is tied to a client ID for the app).

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by renewiltord »

Your extension is incredible! Absolute game changer. Would you mind allowing the toolbar to be completely hidden or positioned elsewhere? The current position hides UI elements that I want to show people and I can't click on anything. If I use show on hover it pops up in the middle of the interaction.
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