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Your next video call deserves the best.

Background blur, auto-framing, studio light and fun reactions — added to any app that uses your camera. Set it once and Zoom, Meet, Discord and OBS all get the upgrade.

Portrait Mode

Blurred room, sharp you

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Center Stage

Stay framed as you move

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Background

Swap your room for anything

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Studio Light

Soft, even lighting

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Get it on FlathubGitHub releases

Free & open source · Works with every app · No GPU required

Works with every app that uses your camera

ZoomOBS StudioGoogle MeetDiscordMicrosoft TeamsJitsiFirefoxChromiumWebRTC
Overview

One helper between your camera and everything else.

No extra window to keep open. OpenEffects works quietly in the background and hands every app a better version of your camera.

  1. 01

    Turn it on

    OpenEffects picks up your camera and starts working in the background.

  2. 02

    Pick your look

    Blur, framing, lighting and reactions — flip them on and off live.

  3. 03

    Join any call

    Every app sees the improved feed automatically. No setup per app.

  4. 04

    Stays private

    Everything runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

AppEveryday

A clean window with live toggles, camera settings and background images. Point, click, done.

BackgroundAlways on

Runs quietly with no window open, so your effects are ready the moment a call starts.

Command lineFor tinkerers

Drive every effect from a script or keybind. First-class, not an afterthought.

Features

Everything a modern camera does — without the closed-source camera app.

Portrait Mode

Background blur with feathered edges and temporal stability. No halo around your hair, no flicker between frames.

Center Stage

Face- and body-tracking crops and zooms to keep you — or your whole group — centered as you move around.

Background Replacement

Swap your room for a solid color or your own image. Whatever is behind you stays behind closed doors.

Studio Light

Face-aware tone mapping lifts and separates you from the background, like a softbox rendered in software.

Reactions

Off by default

Hand gestures trigger animated overlays — thumbs-up, heart, and more. Or fire them straight from the CLI.

Works Everywhere

Zoom, Meet, Discord, OBS and the rest all see the improved feed. Set it once and forget it.

Install

Get it from Flathub.

The Flatpak is the quickest path on any distro. Prefer native packages? Grab the .pkg, .rpm or .deb from the latest release and install them together.

Get it on FlathubDirect packagesCLI reference

AUR, COPR and a PPA are coming soon.

flatpak
flatpak install flathub in.co.funinkina.OpenEffects

Then drive it from anywhere

openeffectsctl
openeffectsctl portrait-blur --on --strength 70
openeffectsctl center-stage --zoom tight
openeffectsctl background ~/Pictures/office.jpg
openeffectsctl react thumbs-up
openeffectsctl toggle reactions

Your next call deserves a better camera.

Free and open source. Install once and every app on your desktop gets the upgrade.

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