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OpenScreen Roadmap

The recorder you love, with an optional AI sidekick.

This page tracks what we are fixing, what comes next and what shipped recently. Last reviewed on 2026-09-25, at v1.13.0. Ideas and votes are welcome in #🗺️・roadmap on our Discord or in a GitHub issue.

🧭 North Star

Record → Edit → Export. OpenScreen is a polished screen recorder first. Most people record, trim and export, and never need more.

  • Stability first. Recording must work on macOS, Windows and Linux. Bugs from real users ship before new features.
  • Sleek UX stays. Every feature keeps the OpenScreen feel: few clicks, instant feedback, no clutter.
  • 100% free, forever. No paywall, no premium tier, no usage caps. Everything on this page ships under MIT.
  • Your data stays on your machine. Transcription, captions and webcam background removal run on-device. The speech model, about 260 MB, downloads once, the first time you open a clip with speech. Nothing reaches an LLM until you connect a provider with your own key, and requests then go straight from your machine to that provider.

🛠️ Stability queue

Open bugs, most severe first.

  • Windows: a recording can hang on stop and leave an empty file (#252). A fix shipped in v1.11.0; we are waiting for confirmation on the affected machines.
  • macOS: a long take can end up truncated while the timer keeps running (#621). Fixed in v1.12.0, awaiting confirmation.
  • Linux on niri (Wayland): nothing records even though screen sharing is granted (#324). Fixes in v1.12.0 and v1.13.0, awaiting confirmation.
  • Linux AppImage: PipeWire capture fails with "error alloc buffers" (#646).
  • Linux on GNOME with older AMD GPUs: some recordings come out with invalid H.264 (#615).
  • Windows: game recordings stutter on some machines (#510).
  • WinGet: versions since v1.12.0 have not reached WinGet (#757).

🚀 In the next release

Merged on main.

  • macOS: a first-run window for permissions (#735), and choosing what to record in Apple's system picker on macOS 15.2+ (#737).
  • Auto-zoom: suggestions placed on your recorded clicks (#706), and transitions paced by zoom depth (#765).
  • Transcription: silent stretches are skipped before transcribing (#639).

🚧 In progress

Open pull requests.

  • Editor redesign, in review as a stack of PRs starting at #767.
  • Auto-zoom controls: zoom level buttons (#694), and fewer unwanted zooms while dragging (#731, fixes #725). Fixed zoom levels and a way to turn auto-zoom off are requested in #683, #670 and #723.
  • macOS system audio through a Core Audio tap (#740).
  • Timeline: trim a clip by dragging its edge (#668), split at the playhead (#669).
  • Custom recordings folder (#650, requested in #727).

🗓️ Next up

Planned, no PR yet.

  • More 3D camera moves: a dolly, a camera that swings toward clicks, and motion blur while the camera moves.
  • AI agent: chat history that survives a restart, approving an agent turn before it applies, and undoing a whole turn in one step.
  • One-click cleanup: remove filler words, enhance the voice.
  • ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot sign-in, through the vendors' sanctioned routes: GitHub's Copilot SDK and codex app-server.
  • Transcription: more precise word timing and speaker labels (#626, #729, help wanted).
  • Linux: no screen-sharing prompt at every recording.
  • Performance: export benchmarks on discrete GPUs and Intel Quick Sync.

💡 Under consideration

Requested by users, not scheduled. PRs welcome.

  • Package managers: Homebrew (#732), AppImage delta updates and no libfuse2 dependency (#734, #736). Flathub is on hold (#341).
  • Live annotation while recording (#277).
  • iPhone and iPad as a recording source (#117).
  • Audio options: raw audio and higher quality (#677).
  • Floating webcam self-view while recording (#500).

✅ Shipped since the last review

v1.8.0 to v1.13.0. Full notes on the Releases page; everything that shipped earlier, including the AI editing layer, is in the docs.

  • 3D effects: a camera that follows the cursor, a modelled 3D cursor, tilt with click impact, depth of field, and 3D device frames (laptop, phone, browser, monitor).
  • Webcam background: remove, blur or replace it, on-device.
  • Audio lanes: imported music, and voice-over recorded on the timeline.
  • Transcript corrections: fix or delete words.
  • Auto-zoom after every recording, and a cursor that hides when idle.
  • Style presets saved as shareable files.
  • Auto-updates on all three platforms.
  • Crash-safe recordings, with recovery after a failed stop.
  • Headless CLI: record, export and info.
  • Teleprompter mode in Notes.
  • Faster exports: GPU export with VA-API hardware encoding on Linux, and a faster macOS pipeline.
  • Distribution: Microsoft Store, notarized macOS builds, a Fedora RPM, and no Visual C++ Redistributable needed on Windows.
  • Czech and German, for 15 UI languages.
  • Website at getopenscreen.com, in 8 languages, with docs, a blog and a CLI reference.

📬 How to influence this roadmap

  • Discord: post in #🗺️・roadmap. The fastest way to get a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on a feature.
  • GitHub: open an issue, or react with 👍 / 👎 on an existing one.
  • PRs: want to ship one of these? Open a PR and link the issue. We review fast and help with native-bridge and i18n questions.

Anything missing? Open an issue; we triage new issues within a week.

Changelog

  • 2026-06-24 — initial draft. Stability items pulled from open issues / PRs on getopenscreen/openscreen. AI section presented as opt-in / off by default. Whisper entry updated to reflect existing caption feature.
  • 2026-06-25 — added "Site & documentation" tier: Docusaurus + GitHub Pages. Cleaned smoke-test noise from the changelog (internal CI sync validation, not user-facing).
  • 2026-07-06 — added blur regions to the stability & quality tier. Confirmed upstream deprecated the feature in v1.5.0 without an explicit reason; the renderer code carried over to the fork, so the work is unblocking the export guard + adding coverage. Tracked via #76.
  • 2026-07-27 — reconciled the roadmap with the code. The AI Edition tier moved from "a direction, not a sprint plan" to shipped: on-device transcription, transcript-driven editing, captions as a derived layer with translation, the chat agent, and .openscreen projects are all in. Provider list corrected — ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot were removed in 1.8.0 and are now blocked on the vendors' sanctioned surfaces, and MiniMax was missing. New "Rendering & platform parity" tier: preview and MP4 export share one native D3D11 compositor, and porting it off Windows is now the biggest open item; #18 moved there since it's an encoder concern. Blur (#76) marked shipped — as an annotation type, not a region kind, so the old note pointing at src/lib/exporter/videoExporter.ts was doubly stale (that file was deleted with the web export pipeline). Copy/paste (#24) split: the shortcuts shipped, the right-click menu didn't. Docusaurus site marked shipped.
  • 2026-08-01 — the platform-parity tier was the stalest thing on this page: it still described the compositor as Direct3D 11 and listed MP4 export on macOS and Linux as unstarted, while v1.8.0-rc.5 was already publishing DMGs and Linux packages built on the Metal and WGSL backends. #18 (software encoder fallback) shipped with them, as an automatically-selected CPU backend rather than an encoder flag. Two real gaps replace them: Linux export is software-encoded, and every performance number on record still comes from one passive-iGPU laptop. Also corrected the framing that produced this drift — the tier was written as "porting it off Windows is the biggest open item", which stayed true in the text long after it stopped being true in the tree.
  • 2026-09-25: full review at v1.13.0, six releases after the last one. Reorganized by horizon, with a "last reviewed" line at the top. Closed out: #8, #19, #21 and #22 (fixed or merged), Linux hardware encode (VA-API since v1.11.0), the custom domain. Dropped the right-click timeline menu, which is not planned (#105). Corrected the AI promise: transcription has run automatically since v1.8.0 and downloads its model on first use, so "nothing downloads until you opt in" no longer held. Removed the roadmap label from the instructions: it never existed.