A lightweight, performance-focused clipping and recording app built for speed, customization, and seamless sharing.
Klyppd is a clipping and screen recording tool that prioritizes low overhead, responsiveness, and user control, all while remaining simple to use.
Unlike many existing clipping tools, Klyppd is designed to stay out of the way: minimal performance impact during gameplay, fast access to your most recent moments, and a workflow that gets clips from capture to shareable link in seconds.
Klyppd uses gpu-screen-recorder as its recording backend, enabling efficient clipping with minimal performance impact.
- Save the last X seconds of gameplay or desktop activity
- Fullscreen or window-specific recording
- Instant replay-style clipping
- Standard screen recording support
- Smart filenames generated from the active app (
Sober_2026-05-22.mp4)
A built-in trimmer powered by FFmpeg lets you quickly cut clips without opening an external editor.
- Draggable in/out handles on a scrubbable timeline
- Save trim as a copy or overwrite the original
- Frame-accurate previews
Upload clips directly to your own Cloudflare R2 bucket. Klyppd generates a small HTML embed page alongside the video file with proper OpenGraph and Twitter Card meta tags, so links unfurl into rich Discord / Twitter previews automatically.
- Custom domains
- Temporary or permanent uploads
- Short, branded share links
- Auto-expiring temp clips via R2 lifecycle rules
https://clip.example.com/t/abc123 # temporary
https://clip.example.com/p/abc123 # permanentAdditional cloud providers are planned for future releases.
Klyppd is designed to be tweakable. You can configure:
- Themes via plain CSS (
~/.config/klyppd/theme.css) - Buffer duration, FPS, codec, container, audio source
- Hotkeys through your window manager
- Clip save location
More advanced customization options are planned over time.
Klyppd acts as a frontend for gpu-screen-recorder while layering on:
- A graphical interface
- Clip management with thumbnails and metadata
- Upload integration
- Trimming tools
- Custom workflows
Hotkey integrations communicate with the running app through a Unix socket under the user runtime directory ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/klyppd/klyppd.sock, with a temp fallback), so triggers always read live from the app's settings — no shell scripts to keep in sync.
sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.1 gpu-screen-recorder ffmpeg \
gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-libavsudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev gpu-screen-recorder ffmpeg \
gstreamer1.0-plugins-{base,good,bad} gstreamer1.0-libavYou also need a Rust toolchain (≥ 1.77) and Node.js (≥ 18) to build from source.
# Recommended — prebuilt binary, installs in seconds
yay -S klyppd-bin
# Or build from latest main (takes a few minutes)
yay -S klyppd-gitgit clone https://github.com/brookerslyn/klyppd
cd klyppd
npm install
npm run tauri build -- --bundles debThis produces a .deb at src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/klyppd_0.3.2_amd64.deb.
sudo dpkg -i src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/klyppd_0.3.2_amd64.deb
sudo apt -f install./src-tauri/target/release/klyppdnpm run tauri devInstall mold for ~50% faster linking:
sudo pacman -S mold # Arch
sudo apt install mold # Debian/UbuntuThe repo's src-tauri/.cargo/config.toml is preconfigured to use it.
Settings live in ~/.config/klyppd/settings.json and are configured through the Settings tab in-app:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Frame rate | Recording FPS |
| Codec | h264 / hevc / av1 |
| Container | mp4 / mkv / webm |
| Audio source | gpu-screen-recorder audio specifier |
| Clip directory | Where clips are saved locally |
| Buffer duration | Length of the replay buffer |
In Settings → Cloudflare R2, fill in:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Endpoint | https://<account_id>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com |
| Bucket | your bucket name |
| Access Key | from R2 → Manage API Tokens |
| Secret Key | from R2 → Manage API Tokens |
| Custom Domain | https://cdn.yourdomain.com |
| Temp expiry | matches your bucket's lifecycle rule on the t/ prefix |
Add a lifecycle rule on the t/ prefix in your bucket settings to auto-delete temporary clips.
Klyppd uses evdev (/dev/input/) for global hotkeys — they work on any compositor (Hyprland, GNOME, KDE, Sway, X11) without any window manager configuration.
Add your user to the input group (one-time, requires logout):
sudo usermod -aG input $USERThen configure hotkeys in Settings → Hotkeys inside the app. Any key combo works:
| Action | Default | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Save replay | Alt+R |
F9, Super+C, Ctrl+Shift+S |
| Toggle recording | Alt+Shift+R |
F10, Super+R |
| Toggle buffer | Alt+F8 |
F8, Super+B |
Hotkeys work even when a fullscreen game has focus.
If you prefer not to use the input group, you can bind through your compositor instead. These talk to the running app via the same Unix socket:
# hyprland.conf
bind = ALT, R, exec, klyppd --cmd save-replay
bind = ALT SHIFT, R, exec, klyppd --cmd toggle-recording
bind = ALT, F8, exec, klyppd --cmd toggle-buffer-- hyprland-lua
hl.bind("ALT + R", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("klyppd --cmd save-replay"))
hl.bind("ALT + SHIFT + R", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("klyppd --cmd toggle-recording"))
hl.bind("ALT + F8", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("klyppd --cmd toggle-buffer"))KDE / GNOME / other compositors: use any keybind manager that can run a shell command.
Drop a ~/.config/klyppd/theme.css file to override any of the CSS variables. The app also honors the theme_path setting if you want to point at another file:
:root {
--bg-deepest: #0b0f12;
--bg-base: #101418;
--bg-elev-1: #181c20;
--bg-elev-2: #1c2024;
--bg-elev-3: #272a2e;
--text: #e0e2e8;
--text-dim: #c2c7cf;
--text-muted: #8c9198;
--accent: #9accfa;
--border: #1c2024;
--border-strong: #36393e;
}Klyppd is under active development.
If you wish to help with the development of Klyppd you can contribute and help with the following:
- Additional cloud providers (S3, MinIO, custom HTTP)
- Better UI customization
- Improved clip management (tags, folders, filters)
- In-app hotkey configuration
- Cross-platform support
- Automatic updates
- Better onboarding / setup experience
- AUR + AppImage releases
Contributions are welcome. Whether you want to:
- Improve the UI
- Add features
- Fix bugs
- Package Klyppd for other distributions
- Improve documentation
…feel free to open a pull request or fork the project.
If Klyppd saved you a few clicks (or a few hundred), you can support the project here:
If you can't donate, starring the repository helps a ton too.