Screenity: The Best Free Screen Recorder and Annotation Tool

Screenity: The Best Free Screen Recorder and Annotation Tool

Screenity is a powerful, privacy-friendly screen recorder and annotation tool designed to help you create better videos for work, education, tutorials, and more. Whether you’re making product demos, presentations, or sharing feedback with your team, Screenity has you covered — all for free and with no sign-in required.

Key Features

• Make unlimited recordings of your browser tab, desktop, a specific area, any application, or your webcam.
• Record audio from your microphone or internal system, with features like push-to-talk.
• Annotate your screen in real-time with drawings, text, arrows, shapes, and more.
• Use AI-powered camera background effects or apply blur for enhanced presentation.
• Zoom smoothly into parts of your screen to emphasize important sections.
• Blur out sensitive content to maintain privacy in your recordings.
• Edit your recordings with a built-in editor to trim, crop, cut, or add audio.
• Highlight mouse clicks and cursor, or use spotlight mode to guide attention.
• Set alarms to automatically stop recording after a specific time.
• Export videos as MP4, GIF, or WebM — or save directly to Google Drive with a shareable link.
• Customize UI visibility, set countdown timers, and move the recording toolbar.
• Privacy-first: Only you can see your videos. No data is collected. You can even use it offline.
• No usage limits: Create as many videos as you want, for as long as you need.

How to Self-Host Screenity

If you prefer not to use the Chrome Web Store version, you can run Screenity locally with just a few steps:

1. Download the latest Build.zip from the Screenity releases page.
2. Open your browser and go to chrome://extensions/, then enable Developer Mode.
3. Unzip the downloaded file. Drag and drop the extracted folder into the Chrome Extensions page or use the “Load unpacked” button to locate the folder manually.
4. You’re all set! Screenity is now ready to use locally. You can follow additional instructions in the GitHub repo to enable Google Drive integration.

Get Screenity on GitHub

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