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Capture projects on GitHub

Screenshot and screen capture utilities.

As of October 20, 2026, the most-starred Capture projects on GitHub are ShareX (40.2K stars), flameshot (31.2K stars) and res-downloader (20.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 11 Capture repositories with 207.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was Magpie, with +47 stars in a day.

11Projects

207.5KStars in total

+140Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+47

Magpie

Blinue/Magpie · ★ 15.9K

Magpie is a lightweight window upscaler for Windows that lets you apply scaling algorithms and filters (like Anime4K or FSR) to any window, including games, to sharpen or upscale its image.

+46

ShareX

ShareX/ShareX · ★ 40.2K

A free, open-source screen capture, screen recording, file sharing and productivity app for Windows — it captures any area of your screen and uploads images, text and files to many destinations.

+23

res-downloader

putyy/res-downloader · ★ 20.7K

A free cross-platform desktop app that sniffs and downloads videos, audio, images, m3u8 streams and live streams from Chinese platforms like WeChat Video, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Kugou and QQ Music.

flameshot

flameshot-org/flameshot · ★ 31.2K

Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool: capture a screen region, annotate it in a built-in editor, then save it, copy it or share it online.

The all-time top

11 projects · by stars

#1 · ShareX/ShareX
ShareX
A free, open-source screen capture, screen recording, file sharing and productivity app for Windows — it captures any area of your screen and uploads images, text and files to many destinations.
40.2K
#2 · flameshot-org/flameshot
flameshot
Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool: capture a screen region, annotate it in a built-in editor, then save it, copy it or share it online.
31.2K
#3 · putyy/res-downloader
res-downloader
A free cross-platform desktop app that sniffs and downloads videos, audio, images, m3u8 streams and live streams from Chinese platforms like WeChat Video, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Kugou and QQ Music.
20.7K

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FlameGraph
19.8Kbrendangregg/FlameGraph · Perl
Brendan Gregg's FlameGraph: a set of Perl scripts that turn captured stack traces into interactive SVG flame graphs for visualizing profiled code.
5
Kap
19.4Kwulkano/Kap · TypeScript
Kap is a free, open-source screen recorder for macOS that lives in your menu bar — a desktop app built with web technology.
6
asciinema
17.9Kasciinema/asciinema · Rust
It's a command-line tool for recording and live-streaming terminal sessions. Instead of heavyweight video, it saves lightweight asciicast (.cast) files you can replay in a terminal, embed on a web page, or publish to asciinema.org.
7
terminalizer
16.2Kfaressoft/terminalizer · JavaScript
Terminalizer is a command-line tool that records your terminal session and turns it into an animated GIF image, or gives you a link to an online web player for sharing.
8
Magpie
15.9KBlinue/Magpie · HLSL
Magpie is a lightweight window upscaler for Windows that lets you apply scaling algorithms and filters (like Anime4K or FSR) to any window, including games, to sharpen or upscale its image.
9
pytube
13.2Kpytube/pytube · Python
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library and command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos — made for scripting downloads instead of grabbing them by hand.
10
Captura
10.9KMathewSachin/Captura · C#
Captura is a Windows desktop app for capturing your screen, audio, webcam, mouse clicks and keystrokes into screenshots or screencasts (Avi/Gif/Mp4).
11
vhs-decode
2.1Koyvindln/vhs-decode · Jupyter Notebook
VHS-Decode is software that decodes raw FM RF signals captured directly from videotape heads (VHS, SVHS, U-Matic, Betamax, Video8/Hi8, etc.) into usable video and audio, as part of the FM RF Archival method of media preservation. It is a fork of 'ld-decode', the laserdisc RF decoder.