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Recording projects on GitHub

Screen capture and terminal session recording tools.

As of , the most-starred Recording projects on GitHub are scrcpy (152.3K stars), vhs (21.1K stars) and BlackHole (19.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 15 Recording repositories with 309.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was soundcraft, with +106 stars in a day.

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+247Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+106

soundcraft

storytold/soundcraft · ★ 3.1K

SoundCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools built entirely in pure Rust — a full digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio.

+77

scrcpy

Genymobile/scrcpy · ★ 152.3K

scrcpy (pronounced 'screen copy') displays and controls your Android device from the computer: it mirrors video and audio over USB or TCP/IP and lets you drive the phone with your keyboard and mouse.

+16

escrcpy

viarotel-org/escrcpy · ★ 12.1K

Escrcpy is a desktop GUI application that lets you display and control an Android device from your computer, built on top of the scrcpy engine.

+11

vhs

charmbracelet/vhs · ★ 21.1K

VHS is a CLI tool that renders terminal recordings from plain-text scripts: you write a .tape file, feed it to VHS, and get a GIF for demoing CLI tools or integration testing.

The all-time top

15 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Genymobile/scrcpy

    scrcpy

    scrcpy (pronounced 'screen copy') displays and controls your Android device from the computer: it mirrors video and audio over USB or TCP/IP and lets you drive the phone with your keyboard and mouse.

    152.3K
  2. #2 · charmbracelet/vhs

    vhs

    VHS is a CLI tool that renders terminal recordings from plain-text scripts: you write a .tape file, feed it to VHS, and get a GIF for demoing CLI tools or integration testing.

    21.1K
  3. #3 · ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

    BlackHole

    A virtual audio loopback driver for macOS: it creates an audio device that lets one application pass its sound to another application with zero additional latency.

    19.9K
  1. 4

    BackgroundMusic

    19.3Kkyleneideck/BackgroundMusic · C++

    A free macOS audio utility that does three things: it automatically pauses your music when another audio source starts, gives every app its own volume slider, and lets you record your Mac's system audio.

  2. 5

    audacity

    18.8Kaudacity/audacity · C++

    Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for the desktop, running on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

  3. 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.

  4. 7

    nginx-rtmp-module

    14Karut/nginx-rtmp-module · C

    nginx-rtmp-module turns NGINX into a media streaming server, adding RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming plus RTMP video-on-demand playback of FLV/MP4 files.

  5. 8

    escrcpy

    12.1Kviarotel-org/escrcpy · JavaScript

    Escrcpy is a desktop GUI application that lets you display and control an Android device from your computer, built on top of the scrcpy engine.

  6. 9

    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).

  7. 10

    rr

    10.7Krr-debugger/rr · C++

    rr is a lightweight tool that records the execution of an application — entire trees of processes and threads — and lets you replay and debug that recording.

  8. 11

    textream

    4Kf/textream · Swift

    Textream is a free, open-source teleprompter app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that highlights your script in real time as you speak, shown in a Dynamic Island-style overlay, floating window, or fullscreen.

  9. 12

    quill

    3.9Khumanitas-labs/quill · Swift

    quill is a minimal, fully local macOS meeting recorder and transcriber. One menu-bar click records your mic and all system audio; when you stop, it transcribes both tracks on-device into a speaker-tagged transcript.

  10. 13

    soundcraft

    3.1Kstorytold/soundcraft · Rust

    SoundCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools built entirely in pure Rust — a full digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio.

  11. 14

    NeuralScreen

    1.1Kperseval-BLR/NeuralScreen · Python

    NeuralScreen applies NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural renderer to your entire Windows desktop in real time, so games, video and photos all get sharpened by the same network DLSS 5 games use, not just upscaled in one app.

  12. 15

    sdrmm

    327Newspicel/sdrmm · Rust

    SDR-- (repo sdrmm) is a software-defined radio application for listening to, decoding, and recording radio signals. You connect radios, channels, and displays together in Patch view, then pin your everyday controls to Rack view.

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