u/AppealRare3699 — reddlx

I built a Linux screen recorder with editable zooms and smooth cursor movement

Hey! I’m the developer of Screenix, a screen recorder for Linux, this video shows what you can make with its Studio mode.

It adds automatic zooms and smooth cursor movement, then you can adjust the zooms, trim the recording and change the background in the built-in editor. I’ve been building it for people recording tutorials and product demos on Linux.

It’s paid, closed-source software with a 7-day free trial: https://screenix.studio

Happy to answer questions about how it works!

u/AppealRare3699 — 12 days ago

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I'm 19 and I've been building a screen recorder for Ubuntu for 4 months, here's what shipping every day looks like

I started Screenix in late February because I needed to record dev tutorials on Ubuntu and everything either looked bad or took too long to set up

Four months later it does automatic smooth zoom effects that follow your cursor, cursor styling with click emphasis, blur highlight and mask zones, a Picture-In-Picture mode, speed controls, camera effects with transitions, background audio and AI transcription, a screenshot editor with crop and draw tools, and exports up to 4K at 120/60fps to MP4, WebM, or GIF

It works on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and most major distros with both X11 and Wayland, you can install it with one command or download a package

There is a 7-day free trial with full exports and no credit card required!

https://screenix.studio/

u/AppealRare3699 — 4 months ago

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I added a screenshot editor to my Linux screen recorder

Screenix already does screen recording with auto-zoom and cursor effects, but I kept finding myself taking screenshots and then opening another tool just to make them look decent before sharing

So I built a screenshot editor directly into the app, you get backgrounds, gradients or wallpapers, a floating screen effect with shadow and corner radius, zoom to highlight a specific region, and a redact tool to blur or pixelate sensitive info before sharing

Everything exports to your clipboard in one click

If you want to try it: screenix.studio

(PS: The screenshot feature is totally free for everyone)

u/AppealRare3699 — 5 months ago

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I ran a real 1080p60 benchmark comparing my Linux screen recorder to OBS on Ubuntu

OBS came out at 11.2% average CPU usage in this test while Screenix hit 120.8%, and that is the biggest number in the comparison so I figured I should lead with it rather than bury it

I recorded the same Linux workflow at 1920x1080 and 60fps with both tools on Ubuntu with an RTX 2060, then ran ffprobe on both output files and tracked CPU, RAM, GPU SM utilization, NVENC utilization, and VRAM across the recording

OBS won on CPU by a massive margin, though Screenix used significantly less VRAM (467mb vs 858mb) and barely touched the NVENC encoder (7.2% avg. vs 35.3% avg.), which was not what I expected going in

Both tools finished the 120-second recording at exactly 60fps with zero dropped frames, and the output bitrates were close enough that the quality difference is not really about the encoder at all

But OBS needs scenes, sources, and configuration before you record anything useful, whereas Screenix ships with a 120fps smooth cursor overlay, zoom effects, speed controls, trim, crop, blur and highlight zones, and shareable video links with BYO R2/S3 or self-hosted storage all built in from the start

For streaming or complex multi-source setups OBS is still the obvious choice, but I built Screenix for the other job people keep forcing OBS to do, which is polished tutorial recordings without spending an hour on scene setup first

Full numbers, ffprobe output, and a side-by-side video at https://screenix.studio/obs-alternative if you want to dig into the methodology!

screenix.studio

u/AppealRare3699 — 4 months ago

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What a smooth cursor does to a screen recording

I've been working on Screenix for a few months and the cursor in exports always felt slightly off, not laggy but just not as smooth as the actual mouse movement (like screen studio does it well)

so I rewrote the rendering pipeline and it's properly fluid now, what do you think?

u/AppealRare3699 — 5 months ago

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I've been building Screenix, a screen recorder for Linux with auto-zoom and cursor tracking (basically Screen Studio but native Linux)

Last week two Odoo users independently reached out, their team mostly uses Mac + Screen Studio, but two devs are on Linux and had nothing comparable, they asked for mask/blur/highlight zones to redact sensitive data in their recordings

so I shipped it within hours, they came back with more feedback: zoom options and speed controls and those already existed but weren't discoverable enough, so I fixed the UX and sent a demo

That turnaround is the best part of solo dev, someone tells you what they need and you ship it the same day

If you're on Linux and miss Screen Studio-level recordings, Screenix has a 7-day trial with full exports: https://screenix.studio

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests here!

u/AppealRare3699 — 6 months ago