To control Screenity more conveniently, you can use keyboard shortcuts.

How to view your shortcuts in Chrome

You can see and customize all your available shortcuts by pasting chrome://extensions/shortcuts into your address bar and visiting the page.

Default shortcuts

Screenity comes with default shortcuts for the most common recording actions:

• Activate the extension

  Opens the Screenity popup, so you don’t need to click the extension icon every time.

• Cancel recording

  Dismiss a recording without clicking on the toolbar.

  Default: Alt + Shift + X (Windows / Linux) or Option + Shift + X (macOS).

• Pause / Resume recording

  Pause and resume a recording in progress.

  Default: Alt + Shift + M or Option + Shift + M.

• Start recording

  Starts a new recording with the last settings you used.

  Default: Alt + Shift + G or Option + Shift + G.

  You can also see which shortcut is set next to the recording button in the popup.

Additional shortcuts (optional)

Screenity also supports extra shortcuts that are not set by default. You can assign them yourself in chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

• Stop recording
• Toggle drawing mode
• Toggle cursor options
• Toggle blur mode
• Toggle hide UI (hide/show the toolbar while recording)

Once a toolbar mode is open (for example, the drawing tools), each tool is mapped to the number keys (0–9), so you can switch tools quickly while recording without needing to click on the toolbar.

You can also combine cursor modes (such as cursor highlight and click effects) by holding Shift while selecting them.

Note: If you selected the Camera tab in the popup beforehand, and have no camera available, Screenity won’t be able to start recording automatically. You might also have to select what you want to record in a modal.

How to set or edit your shortcuts in Chrome

To set a shortcut, simply click on the pencil icon, and press the keys you’d like to use.

You can also switch whether a shortcut will work from anywhere, or from Chrome only.

Additional shortcuts

On top of the shortcuts defined by your browser, Screenity also has other shortcuts depending on your context.

• Push to talk. If activated in the popup, holding Alt+Shift+U or Option+Shift+U in Mac will enable the microphone.
• Zoom to cursor. If set, holding Alt+Shift+E or Option+Shift+E in Mac will smoothly zoom the page towards your cursor.
• Undo. While in drawing mode, you can press Control+Z or Command+Z in Mac to undo an action.
• Redo. While in drawing mode, you can press Control+Shift+Z or Command+Shift+Z in Mac to undo an action.

Note: Currently, the additional shortcuts can’t be edited. Note that they might also conflict with other shortcuts set by websites. We will be adding options in the future to make it easier to use these shortcuts.