Effects SDK

The client-side approach makes the integration story especially interesting because performance becomes part of the product experience, not just an infrastructure detail. Beyond the quality presets and per-effect controls, do you expose any runtime signal that helps an app decide when to reduce effect complexity or disable a feature on weaker devices? That kind of graceful degradation seems important for products with a wide range of hardware.

Congrats! Since everything runs client-side, curious what battery/CPU looks like on mobile once you stack a few effects together, like blur and noise suppression running at the same time.

How does the client-side processing hold up on lower-end mobile devices, especially for real-time effects like background blur and noise suppression together?

The fully client-side, nothing-hits-your-servers approach is what makes this appealing for a small team — no per-minute processing bill to worry about. As an indie dev building an audio-first app: can I pull in just the real-time noise suppression module on its own without the whole video pipeline, and roughly how much cold-start load does the WASM add on first use? Clean launch.

How does performance hold up on lower-end mobile devices when running something like background blur plus noise suppression at the same time, and is there any fallback when the GPU isn't capable?

Running everything client-side is a big plus. Privacy matters more than ever, so it's great to see features like background blur and noise suppression without sending data to external servers. I'd be interested to know how it performs on lower-end devices.

Since Effects SDK runs entirely client-side, how does performance hold up on lower-end devices when you stack multiple effects together, like background blur plus noise suppression at the same time?

Real-time is the word that makes or breaks this for me. I cut a lot of screen-recorded product demos, and the effects I care about (blur, denoise, auto-captions) are cheap to run after the fact but brutal live. What's the latency budget on the audio side before it drifts out of sync with the video? That's usually where "real-time" quietly becomes "near-time."

Client-side and on-device is exactly why I'd reach for this over a server-side pipeline — for a privacy-sensitive app it means the video frames never leave the browser. On the plumbing: what's the added bundle weight, and does the segmentation model require WebGPU or is there a WASM/CPU fallback for users on older machines? Trying to gauge how gracefully background blur degrades on a low-end laptop before wiring it into an existing WebRTC stack.

Looks like a useful SDK for adding creative effects quickly. How simple is the setup for developers and does it work smoothly with existing apps?

@maxim_troshin Have you had anyone choose a simpler solution instead of this and why?

@anton_tushmintsev How do you decide when adding another effect is actually worth it?

@maxim_troshin Was there ever a point where you felt the SDK was becoming too feature heavy?

@maxim_troshin Do most developers actually use all these effects or just a handful?

@maxim_troshin Which feature has delivered the biggest impact for your users so far?

me enjoyed seeing so many effects in one SDK. Could developers enable only selected features to reduce app size? That would make integration more flexible.

@maxim_troshin Love that everything runs client side. Huge win for privacy and latency.

qq. can devs adjust the threshold levels for features like background blur intensity or noise suppression aggressiveness via the API? by the way congrats👏 for launching @maxim_troshin

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

I’m Max, founder of Effects SDK.

Most users now expect every video app to look and sound as polished as Zoom or Google Meet. But building real-time video and audio processing in-house is hard — segmentation, rendering, browser quirks, native platforms, audio processing, performance, and edge cases add up quickly.

That’s why we built Effects SDK.

It helps developers add AI video effects and real-time audio noise suppression directly into their own apps — background blur, virtual backgrounds, smart framing, lighting correction, beautification, overlays, avatars, and clean audio.

Everything runs client-side on the user’s device, and the SDK works with existing video stacks like WebRTC, LiveKit, Twilio, Agora, Zoom Web SDK, or your own pipeline.

We’re also offering 3 months of free access for Product Hunt makers building real-time video or audio products.

Would love your feedback, questions, and ideas 🙌