Open Recorder

Open Recorder is a screen recorder with the sound of other apps, made by a single developer who goes by NoneBaiano on GitHub. Its README: “An open-source screen recorder for Android with internal audio and a modern interface. No ads, no trackers and no internet access.” It is very new: the first commit is from 20 September 2026, version 1.0.0 followed the next day, and F-Droid added it on 27 September. Parts of it come from Android’s own screen recorder in the system UI, and its recordings list from another open-source app, AsteriskNG.

It uses Android’s screen-capture permission, which Android asks you to confirm before every recording; on Android 14 and later you can choose to record a single app instead of the whole screen.

Settings and defaults

From the code of this version:

There is also an option to letterbox the video to 16:9, and a choice of four date formats for file names. Sound is saved as mono AAC at 196 kbps.

While recording

• A notification has Pause, Resume and Stop; after saving, it offers to watch, share or delete the video. If you swipe it away during a recording, it comes back.
• A Quick Settings tile starts and stops recording; on a locked phone, it asks you to unlock first.
• Rotating the phone doesn’t change the video’s size, which is fixed when recording starts.
• Recordings lists your videos, sorted by date, size or length, with bulk delete.

What goes online

Nothing. The app declares no internet permission and contains no analytics, crash reporting or update check; our scan found no trackers. The only links, to the project and its licences, open in your browser when you tap them. It also keeps its settings out of Android’s backups, and blocks other apps from recording its own sound.

About this file

• This is the developer’s own build of version 1.0.1, byte for byte the APK on the project’s GitHub release. F-Droid built the same source, confirmed it matched and distributes the developer-signed file. The project isn’t on Google Play or IzzyOnDroid.
• 1.0.2 is on GitHub, signed with the same key, so it can be installed over this copy. It removes the 60-minute and 5 GB limits and adds the lock-screen option. F-Droid reported on 2 October 2026 that it can’t reproduce that build, and the report had no answer by 13 October.
• The 2.7 MB file runs on Android 10 and later and declares 6 permissions: the microphone, which it asks for only when you choose a sound option, notifications, and the foreground service for screen capture and the microphone.
• Open Recorder is licensed under the GPL-3.0 only; the parts from Android’s system UI and the Miuix interface library are under the Apache-2.0. The About screen in this version still shows “1.0.0”.
• The screenshots are the project’s own, from 20 September 2026, before the first release. The settings screens in them show changed values, not the defaults above.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).