diff --git a/bin/omarchy-capture-screenrecording b/bin/omarchy-capture-screenrecording
index 0c4c5494c95..61db59c1fed 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-capture-screenrecording
+++ b/bin/omarchy-capture-screenrecording
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ STOP_RECORDING="false"
 # both files back at the fixed names this comment describes.
 RUNTIME_DIR="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/omarchy}"
 RECORDING_FILE="$RUNTIME_DIR/omarchy-screenrecord-filename"
+GSR_SOCKET="$RUNTIME_DIR/omarchy-gsr.sock"
 REGION_FILE="$RUNTIME_DIR/omarchy-screenrecord-region"
 LOG_FILE=$([[ ${OMARCHY_SCREENRECORD_DEBUG:-false} == "true" ]] && echo "$RUNTIME_DIR/omarchy-screenrecord.log" || echo "/dev/null")
 
@@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ start_screenrecording() {
   [[ -n $audio_devices ]] && audio_args+=(-a "$audio_devices" -ac aac)
 
   echo "===== $(date '+%F %T') args: $* target: $target =====" >>"$LOG_FILE"
-  gpu-screen-recorder "${capture_args[@]}" -k auto -f 60 -fm cfr -fallback-cpu-encoding yes -o "$filename" "${audio_args[@]}" 2>>"$LOG_FILE" &
+  gpu-screen-recorder "${capture_args[@]}" -k auto -f 60 -fm cfr -fallback-cpu-encoding yes -ipc "$GSR_SOCKET" -o "$filename" "${audio_args[@]}" 2>>"$LOG_FILE" &
   local pid=$!
 
   while kill -0 $pid 2>/dev/null && [[ ! -f $filename ]]; do
@@ -217,22 +218,16 @@ start_screenrecording() {
 }
 
 stop_screenrecording() {
-  pkill -SIGINT -f "^gpu-screen-recorder" # SIGINT required to save video properly
-
-  # Wait a maximum of 5 seconds to finish before hard killing
-  local count=0
-  while pgrep -f "^gpu-screen-recorder" >/dev/null && ((count < 50)); do
-    sleep 0.1
-    count=$((count + 1))
-  done
+  # gsr-cli stop asks the instance on GSR_SOCKET to save and waits until it has.
+  local stopped=0
+  if gsr-cli -ipc "$GSR_SOCKET" stop >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    stopped=1
+  fi
 
   toggle_screenrecording_indicator
   cleanup_webcam
 
-  if pgrep -f "^gpu-screen-recorder" >/dev/null; then
-    pkill -9 -f "^gpu-screen-recorder"
-    omarchy-notification-send -u critical -t 5000 "Screen recording error" "Recording process had to be force-killed. Video may be corrupted."
-  else
+  if ((stopped)); then
     finalize_recording
     local filename=$(cat "$RECORDING_FILE" 2>/dev/null)
     echo "$filename"
@@ -252,9 +247,12 @@ stop_screenrecording() {
       sleep 2
       rm -f "$preview"
     ) &
-  fi
 
-  rm -f "$RECORDING_FILE"
+    rm -f "$RECORDING_FILE"
+  else
+    omarchy-notification-send -u critical -t 5000 "Screen recording error" "Could not stop the recording through gsr-cli."
+    return 1
+  fi
 }
 
 toggle_screenrecording_indicator() {
@@ -262,7 +260,7 @@ toggle_screenrecording_indicator() {
 }
 
 screenrecording_active() {
-  pgrep -f "^gpu-screen-recorder" >/dev/null
+  gsr-cli -ipc "$GSR_SOCKET" status >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
 finalize_recording() {
diff --git a/default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc b/default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc
index 36518d09c4b..184ada12425 100644
--- a/default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc
+++ b/default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
   "trigger.reminder": {"icon":"󰢌","label":"Reminder","aliases":["reminder"]},
   "trigger.capture": {"icon":"","label":"Capture","aliases":["capture","screenshot","screenrecord","screen-record","screenrecording"]},
   "trigger.capture.screenshot": {"icon":"","label":"Screenshot","action":"omarchy-capture-screenshot"},
-  "trigger.capture.screenrecord.stop": {"icon":"","label":"Stop Screenrecording","when":"pgrep -f '^gpu-screen-recorder'","action":"omarchy-capture-screenrecording --stop-recording"},
+  "trigger.capture.screenrecord.stop": {"icon":"","label":"Stop Screenrecording","when":"gsr-cli -ipc \"${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/omarchy}/omarchy-gsr.sock\" status","action":"omarchy-capture-screenrecording --stop-recording"},
   "trigger.capture.screenrecord": {"icon":"","label":"Screenrecord"},
   "trigger.capture.text": {"icon":"󰴑","label":"Text","action":"omarchy-capture-text"},
   "trigger.capture.qr": {"icon":"󰐲","label":"QR Code","action":"omarchy-capture-qr"},
diff --git a/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/ScreenRecording.qml b/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/ScreenRecording.qml
index 271e1c399c2..271b7316422 100644
--- a/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/ScreenRecording.qml
+++ b/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/ScreenRecording.qml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import QtQuick
+import Quickshell
 import Quickshell.Io
 import qs.Ui
 
@@ -15,7 +16,8 @@ BarIndicator {
 
   function refresh() {
     if (!root.bar || statusProc.running) return
-    statusProc.command = ["pgrep", "--quiet", "-f", "^gpu-screen-recorder"]
+    var runtimeDir = Quickshell.env("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR") || (Quickshell.env("XDG_STATE_HOME") || Quickshell.env("HOME") + "/.local/state") + "/omarchy"
+    statusProc.command = ["gsr-cli", "-ipc", runtimeDir + "/omarchy-gsr.sock", "status"]
     statusProc.running = true
   }
 
diff --git a/test/shell.d/screenrecording-ipc-test.sh b/test/shell.d/screenrecording-ipc-test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..695e30c1816
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/shell.d/screenrecording-ipc-test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
+
+recording="$ROOT/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/ScreenRecording.qml"
+capture="$ROOT/bin/omarchy-capture-screenrecording"
+menu="$ROOT/default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc"
+socket='${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/omarchy}/omarchy-gsr.sock'
+
+grep -Fq 'GSR_SOCKET="$RUNTIME_DIR/omarchy-gsr.sock"' "$capture" ||
+  fail "capture helper uses the shared Omarchy gsr socket"
+grep -Eq '^ *gpu-screen-recorder .*-ipc "\$GSR_SOCKET"' "$capture" ||
+  fail "gpu-screen-recorder is launched with -ipc on the shared socket"
+grep -Fq 'gsr-cli -ipc "$GSR_SOCKET" status' "$capture" ||
+  fail "capture helper gates on gsr-cli status for the shared socket"
+grep -Fq 'gsr-cli -ipc "$GSR_SOCKET" stop' "$capture" ||
+  fail "capture helper stops via gsr-cli on the shared socket"
+if grep -q 'RECORDING_PID_FILE' "$capture"; then
+  fail "stop does not keep a pid file beside gsr-cli"
+fi
+if grep -E 'kill[[:space:]]+(-s[[:space:]]+)?(SIGINT|-INT|-9|-KILL)' "$capture" >/dev/null; then
+  fail "stop does not kill the recorder; gsr-cli stop is enough"
+fi
+
+grep -Fq 'Quickshell.env("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")' "$recording" ||
+  fail "indicator builds the gsr socket from XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
+grep -qx 'import Quickshell' "$recording" ||
+  fail "indicator imports Quickshell, which Quickshell.env needs"
+grep -Fq '"gsr-cli", "-ipc"' "$recording" ||
+  fail "indicator status uses gsr-cli -ipc"
+grep -Fq '"status"' "$recording" ||
+  fail "indicator status asks gsr-cli for status"
+grep -Fq '/omarchy-gsr.sock' "$recording" ||
+  fail "indicator uses the shared Omarchy gsr socket"
+
+grep -Fq "gsr-cli -ipc \\\"$socket\\\" status" "$menu" ||
+  fail "the capture menu uses gsr-cli status on the shared socket"
+
+for file in "$capture" "$recording" "$menu"; do
+  if grep -E 'pidof[[:space:]"]+-q[[:space:]"]+gpu-screen-recorder|pgrep[[:space:]"-]+-f[[:space:]"]+\^?gpu-screen-recorder' "$file" >/dev/null; then
+    fail "screen-recording gate does not use pidof or pgrep -f for gpu-screen-recorder" "$file"
+  fi
+done
+
+if grep -E 'pkill[[:space:]].*-f[[:space:]"]+\^?gpu-screen-recorder' "$capture" >/dev/null; then
+  fail "stop does not pkill -f gpu-screen-recorder"
+fi
+if grep -E 'pgrep[[:space:]].*-f[[:space:]"]+\^?gpu-screen-recorder' "$capture" >/dev/null; then
+  fail "stop does not pgrep -f gpu-screen-recorder"
+fi
+
+pass "screen recording start/status/stop talk to the Omarchy gsr socket"
+
+# Run the stop path. A stub that exits 0 for the notification must not hide a
+# failed gsr-cli stop, and a successful stop must still print and forget the file.
+stub_bin=$(mktemp -d)
+runtime=$(mktemp -d)
+videos=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$stub_bin" "$runtime" "$videos"' EXIT
+
+cat >"$stub_bin/gsr-cli" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >>"${GSR_LOG:?}"
+if [[ $1 == -ipc && $3 == status ]]; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+if [[ $1 == -ipc && $3 == stop ]]; then
+  exit "${GSR_STOP_STATUS:-0}"
+fi
+exit 1
+SH
+cat >"$stub_bin/omarchy-notification-send" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >>"${NOTE_LOG:?}"
+exit 0
+SH
+cat >"$stub_bin/omarchy-shell" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+exit 0
+SH
+cat >"$stub_bin/ffprobe" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+exit 1
+SH
+cat >"$stub_bin/ffmpeg" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+exit 1
+SH
+cat >"$stub_bin/pkill" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >>"${PKILL_LOG:?}"
+exit 0
+SH
+chmod +x "$stub_bin"/*
+
+export PATH="$stub_bin:$PATH"
+export GSR_LOG="$videos/gsr.log"
+export NOTE_LOG="$videos/note.log"
+export PKILL_LOG="$videos/pkill.log"
+export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="$runtime"
+export OMARCHY_SCREENRECORD_DIR="$videos"
+
+clip="$videos/clip.mp4"
+printf 'not a video\n' >"$clip"
+printf '%s\n' "$clip" >"$runtime/omarchy-screenrecord-filename"
+
+set +e
+GSR_STOP_STATUS=1 "$capture" --stop-recording >/dev/null 2>&1
+failed_status=$?
+set -e
+[[ $failed_status -ne 0 ]] ||
+  fail "a failed gsr-cli stop does not exit successfully" "status $failed_status"
+[[ -f $runtime/omarchy-screenrecord-filename ]] ||
+  fail "a failed gsr-cli stop keeps the recording filename"
+grep -Fq 'Could not stop the recording through gsr-cli.' "$NOTE_LOG" ||
+  fail "a failed gsr-cli stop reports the error" "$(cat "$NOTE_LOG")"
+pass "a failed gsr-cli stop exits non-zero and keeps the filename"
+
+: >"$GSR_LOG"
+: >"$NOTE_LOG"
+printf '%s\n' "$clip" >"$runtime/omarchy-screenrecord-filename"
+saved=$("$capture" --stop-recording)
+[[ $saved == "$clip" ]] ||
+  fail "a successful stop prints the saved recording" "$saved"
+[[ ! -e $runtime/omarchy-screenrecord-filename ]] ||
+  fail "a successful stop removes the recording filename"
+grep -Fqx -- "-ipc $runtime/omarchy-gsr.sock stop" "$GSR_LOG" ||
+  fail "a successful stop calls gsr-cli stop on the Omarchy gsr socket" "$(cat "$GSR_LOG")"
+pass "a successful gsr-cli stop prints the recording and clears its filename"
+
+grep -Fq -- '-f WebcamOverlay' "$videos/pkill.log" ||
+  fail "stop cleanup does not call the stubbed pkill" "$(cat "$videos/pkill.log" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+pass "stop cleanup calls the stubbed pkill instead of a live WebcamOverlay"