Screen recording and video editing
REQO
A browser-based screen recorder and video editor. Record, cut, subtitle, and export without installing anything.
- Our product
- 2025
REQO is our answer to a question we kept running into ourselves: why does making a short piece of video still require installing an editor, learning a timeline, and waiting for your laptop fans to stop screaming? REQO records your screen, edits on a real multi-track timeline, and renders somewhere else, all in a browser tab.
The problem
The challenge
Video tooling splits into two unsatisfying camps. Desktop editors are powerful but heavy: an install, a licence, a learning curve, and an export that pins your machine for ten minutes. Browser recorders are quick to start but almost always capped, watermarked, or built as a funnel toward an upgrade you did not plan for.
Anyone making a product demo, a bug report, a lesson, or a social clip is stuck choosing between the two. The technical reason is that browsers are a poor place to render video: encoding is slow, memory is tight, and a long timeline will happily crash a tab. Most web tools solve this by limiting what you can do rather than by moving the work somewhere better.
We wanted the whole job in one place, without the limits: capture, edit, caption, and export, at a quality you would be happy to publish.
What we did
The approach
The decisions that shaped the build, and why each one was made.
Capture in the browser
Screen, camera, and system audio recorded straight from a tab. No download, no installer, no admin permissions to chase.
A real timeline, not a trimmer
Multi-track editing with cut, trim, and rearrange, so a recording can become an actual edit rather than a slightly shorter recording.
Edit by editing the transcript
Every recording is transcribed automatically. Delete a sentence of text and the matching video goes with it. It is the fastest way we know to cut filler out of a talking-head take.
Captions and B-roll generated for you
Subtitles come out of the same transcript. B-roll can be generated from a text prompt when you need something on screen and do not have footage for it.
Every aspect ratio that matters
16:9, 9:16, 1:1, and 4:5 canvases, so the same source edit can go to YouTube, a landing page, and a vertical feed without three separate projects.
Rendering moved off the device
Exports run on GPU infrastructure rather than in the tab. Your machine stays responsive and the output quality does not depend on the laptop you happen to be using.
Workspaces with real permissions
Team workspaces with role-based access, so a project can be handed between an editor and a reviewer without sharing a login.
An API, not just a UI
REST endpoints for upload, project management, transcription, and rendering, so REQO can sit inside someone else's pipeline instead of being a destination.
What came out
The outcome
REQO is live with a free tier that does genuinely useful work, and a Pro tier that removes watermarking and raises export quality. Authentication runs through Google, so getting from landing page to first recording takes about fifteen seconds.
The part we are most pleased with is the transcript editing. It changes the shape of the job: instead of scrubbing a waveform hunting for the pause before a mistake, you read what you said and delete the bad sentence. People who have never opened an editor before can produce a clean cut on their first attempt.
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