Omareel 0.1.0

Omareel is a screen recorder and editor for Omarchy. It records the screen without the system cursor, records pointer and keyboard activity separately, and renders a smooth synthetic cursor, click effects, automatic cursor-following zooms, padded and rounded framing on Omarchy wallpapers or gradients, and an optional camera bubble. Projects are non-destructive .omareel bundles that export to MP4 or GIF.

Highlights

• One Record button with a smart gesture: drag an area, click a window, or click the desktop for the whole screen. omareel record toggles recording from a keybind.
• Native screen capture through the compositor's copy-capture protocol with NVENC encoding; sustained 4K60 with a first frame about 50 ms after the command.
• A bundled Hyprland plugin keeps the recording bar and camera self-view visible on screen but out of the captured video, with no portal picker. The plugin is bound to the exact Hyprland commit it was built against and falls back to moving the overlays off the recorded screen when it cannot load.
• Camera self-view floats from the moment the webcam is enabled, is draggable, and is adopted by the recording without reopening the device. Camera video is encoded through a dedicated NVENC pipe with clean constant-rate timestamps.
• Editor: spring-driven cursor and zoom motion, click rings, keystroke overlay, clip trimming and splitting with bracket-style handles, rubber-band zoom selection, wallpaper and gradient backgrounds, camera shapes and shadows, aspect presets, and hardware-accelerated export.
• Styled to the Omarchy shell design system: monospace type, square corners from Hyprland's rounding, and live accent colours.

Install

omarchy-pkg-add omareel

Prebuilt x86_64 and aarch64 Arch packages and plain tarballs are attached below; install a package with sudo pacman -U omareel-0.1.0-1-<arch>.pkg.tar.zst. Clicks and keys require membership in the input group.

Known limits

• Captions, background music, device mockups, and noise reduction are not implemented yet.
• The Omarchy bar's REC indicator does not light for native recordings; stop with the bar, omareel record, or your keybind.
• Under heavy system load, dropped screen frames currently shorten the video timeline instead of being repeated.