Opivv
RUNS ON UBUNTU, FEDORA, DEBIAN, MINT, POP!_OS

A screen recorder for Linux with nothing to compile

Opivv lives in your browser, so if Chrome or any Chromium browser runs on your distro, the recorder does too. No packages, no build flags, no ffmpeg incantations. Record a tab, a window, or your whole screen, then share a watch-in-browser link the second you stop.

  • Free forever
  • No credit card
  • Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave & other Chromium browsers
Opivv recording a web page: the recording toolbar, the camera bubble and the card that says the video is ready
In three steps

How it works

1

Add Opivv to Chrome

One click from the Chrome Web Store. Pin it so the record button sits in your toolbar.

2

Pick what to record

This tab, a window, your whole screen or just an area. Turn your camera and mic on or off.

3

Stop and share

The link is copied the second you stop. Paste it into Slack, email or a ticket.

No apt, no dnf, no build stepYou add Opivv from the Chrome Web Store inside your existing browser. There is no .deb or .rpm to chase, no AppImage to keep updated, no dependency to resolve, and no repo to add.
Tab, window, or full screenPick one browser tab, a single application window, or your entire desktop. The browser shows you a source picker, you click a thumbnail, and recording starts.
Wayland or X11, handled for youThe browser talks to your session, so on Wayland the desktop portal picker appears and on X11 the browser picker does. Either way you just click a source. No pipewire flags to set.
Webcam bubble and micAdd a camera bubble in the corner and record your microphone. Useful when a written issue report would take three paragraphs and a screenshot to explain.
A link, not a file to hostWhen you stop, the clip uploads and the share link is copied to your clipboard. Paste it into a pull request, an issue, Slack, or a mailing list. Viewers need no account and install nothing.
Free forever on every distroNo trial and no credit card. The free plan gives you 5-minute clips at 720p, 200 MB of storage, and unlimited share links. Same on Ubuntu as on anything else.

Free vs Pro on Linux

FreePro, $5 a month
Price$0, free forever$5/mo
Recording lengthUp to 5 minutesUp to 2 hours
Quality720p1080p plus source quality
Storage200 MB20 GB
Recordings kept30 daysForever, no expiry
Share-page badgeSmall 'Made with Opivv' badgeRemoved, fully unbranded
AI transcripts & summariesNot includedTranscripts, summaries, auto-titles
Viewer downloadsNot includedMP4, WebM, or GIF

Your recording is never watermarked into the video itself. On the free plan, the public share page and embeds carry a small 'Made with Opivv' badge on the player; Pro removes it. Team raises the recording limit to 4 hours and adds a shared team library.

Why a browser extension is a good fit on Linux

The usual Linux screen recorders are desktop applications you install and configure: a package to add, a codec choice to make, a capture backend to select, and often a config file or a long command to remember. That is fine if recording is part of your job. It is a lot of setup when you just want to show a colleague what a UI is doing.

Opivv takes the other route. It is a Chromium extension, so the thing that captures your screen is the browser you already trust with your screen sharing in calls. Chrome and Chromium ship for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS, and effectively every desktop distro, and the extension behaves identically on all of them. There is no distro-specific build, so there is no distro-specific breakage.

It also means updates arrive the way extension updates do, quietly and in the background, rather than waiting on a repo maintainer to package a new release for your version.

See the full recording workflow →

Wayland, X11, and the part you do not have to think about

Screen capture on Linux is genuinely different between X11 and Wayland, and native tools often expose that difference to you: a backend setting, a portal permission, a pipewire dependency, a bug report that starts with "which session type are you on?"

With Opivv, the browser handles it. When you start a recording, the browser asks your session for a screen source. On Wayland that surfaces as your desktop portal picker, on X11 as the browser picker. Both look like a small grid of tabs, windows, and screens. You click one and record. Nothing in Opivv asks you which display server you are running, because it does not need to know.

The one permission to expect is the usual one: your browser asks to capture your screen, and your camera and microphone if you use them. Approve it once and it remembers.

Frequently asked

Yes. Opivv is a Chromium browser extension, so it runs wherever Chrome or a Chromium browser runs, which includes Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, and other desktop distributions. You install it from the Chrome Web Store in your browser and record from the toolbar. There is nothing to compile and no package to install at the system level.

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Add Opivv to your browser, hit record, and share a link the moment you stop. Free forever for everyday clips.