Recordly launches free AGPL screen recorder with auto-zoom on macOS, Windows, and Linux

• Recordly positions itself as a free open-source alternative to Screen Studio, and hasantoxr's thread says it hit 11,000-plus GitHub stars in about seven weeks.
• According to hasantoxr's feature list and the GitHub repo, the app combines recording, auto-zoom, cursor effects, styled backgrounds, webcam bubbles, timeline editing, and MP4/GIF export in one desktop tool.
• The repo README and hasantoxr's repo link post both frame it as cross-platform, with native capture helpers on macOS and Windows plus Linux support.
• Recordly keeps the workflow on-device, and hasantoxr's thread pairs that local-first pitch with an extension marketplace already documented in EXTENSIONS.md.
• The current evidence is still thin and mostly promotional: the main thread is the primary source in the tweet pool, while the latest GitHub releases page shows the app is shipping fixes quickly but still has webcam and audio sync issues in some cases.

You can browse the repo, grab builds from the homepage, and the extension system already has its own marketplace docs. One especially useful buried detail from the docs: Linux support is real, but the README says cursor hiding is not supported there yet, while the latest release notes still call out webcam and audio sync drift as an open issue.

Recordly's pitch is simple: capture and polish the same recording without sending it to a separate motion-design tool. The homepage markets auto-zoom, cursor smoothing, styled backgrounds, webcam bubbles, and drag-and-drop timeline edits as the default workflow, not add-ons.

The feature set broken out by hasantoxr's inventory and the README includes:

• auto-zoom around cursor activity
• cursor smoothing, click bounce, motion blur, and sway
• frames, wallpapers, gradients, blur, padding, and shadows
• webcam bubble overlays with zoom-reactive scaling
• trims, speed regions, annotations, crop edits, and extra audio regions
• MP4 and GIF export
• .recordly project files for reopening edits later

The official docs make the platform story more concrete than the tweet does. The README lists macOS 14+, Windows 10 build 19041+, and Linux on modern distros.

It also breaks out the capture stack by OS:

• macOS uses ScreenCaptureKit helpers
• Windows uses Windows Graphics Capture plus WASAPI audio
• Linux uses Electron capture APIs

The Linux footnote matters. In the README, cursor hiding is still marked unsupported on Linux, and the homepage separately notes that cursor smoothing is still in development there.

The extension system is already more than a placeholder. In EXTENSIONS.md, Recordly says extensions can draw into the render pipeline, react to playback and export events, register cursor effects, add settings panels, and ship packaged assets like frames, wallpapers, and cursor styles.

That same doc points to a live web marketplace at marketplace.recordly.dev/extensions, which matches hasantoxr's claim that community extensions are already part of the product surface.

The repo is young, but it is already moving fast. hasantoxr's thread dates the project to March 12, 2026, and the GitHub releases page shows a v1.2.0 release on April 28 followed by a v1.2.1 hotfix.

The release notes add two useful caveats missing from the tweet. v1.2.0 says it fixed packaging problems that had caused breakage, especially on Windows and Linux, and it also says webcam footage can still drift slightly out of sync with audio in some cases.