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Screen-recorder projects on GitHub

Recording the screen into videos and GIFs.

As of , the most-starred Screen-recorder projects on GitHub are ShareX (40.2K stars), openscreen (39.9K stars) and Recordly (34.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 11 Screen-recorder repositories with 221.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was Recordly, with +125 stars in a day.

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221.8KStars in total
+259Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+125

Recordly

webadderallorg/Recordly · ★ 34.5K

Recordly is an open-source desktop app for recording and editing screen captures with motion-driven presentation tools built in — auto-zooms, cursor polish, and styled frames — made for walkthroughs, demos, and product videos.

+35

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.

+34

Cap

CapSoftware/Cap · ★ 23.4K

An open source Loom alternative: it records your screen, camera and microphone and turns takes into shareable links or exported videos — for demos, bug reports, tutorials and async standups.

+28

snow-apps

mg-chao/snow-apps · ★ 6K

This repository hosts the source code for two desktop apps: Snow Shot, a screenshot and OCR tool with screen recording, and Snow Image Viewer, a separate image-viewing app bundled in the same repo.

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11 projects · by stars

  1. #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. #2 · siddharthvaddem/openscreen

    openscreen

    OpenScreen is a free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio for making polished screen-recording demos and walkthroughs, with no subscriptions or watermarks.

    39.9K
  3. #3 · webadderallorg/Recordly

    Recordly

    Recordly is an open-source desktop app for recording and editing screen captures with motion-driven presentation tools built in — auto-zooms, cursor polish, and styled frames — made for walkthroughs, demos, and product videos.

    34.5K
  1. 4

    Cap

    23.4KCapSoftware/Cap · Rust

    An open source Loom alternative: it records your screen, camera and microphone and turns takes into shareable links or exported videos — for demos, bug reports, tutorials and async standups.

  2. 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.

  3. 6

    screenity

    18.8Kalyssaxuu/screenity · JavaScript

    A free, privacy-friendly screen recorder and annotation tool for Chrome: record your screen or camera, annotate and edit the video, and export it — with no time limits and no sign-up.

  4. 7

    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.

  5. 8

    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).

  6. 9

    peek

    10.5Kphw/peek · Vala

    Peek is a simple screen recorder for Linux with an easy to use interface: you place its window over a screen area, press Record, and get an animated GIF. It can also record directly to WebM.

  7. 10

    snow-apps

    6Kmg-chao/snow-apps · C++

    This repository hosts the source code for two desktop apps: Snow Shot, a screenshot and OCR tool with screen recording, and Snow Image Viewer, a separate image-viewing app bundled in the same repo.

  8. 11

    caplo

    212icloudza/caplo · Swift

    Caplo is a native macOS screen recording and video editing tool. As soon as you stop recording it drops you straight into its own editor to polish camera zoom, cursor, canvas and subtitles before you export the final clip.

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