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Screencast projects on GitHub

Screen capture tools for creating screencasts and GIFs.

As of , the most-starred Screencast projects on GitHub are free-programming-books (399.2K stars), scrcpy (152.3K stars) and Recordly (34.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Screencast repositories with 670.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Recordly, with +176 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+176

Recordly

webadderallorg/Recordly · ★ 34.1K

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.

+119

free-programming-books

EbookFoundation/free-programming-books · ★ 399.2K

It is a huge, community-maintained list of freely available programming books and other learning resources in many human languages; it started as a clone of a famous StackOverflow list and has grown to become one of GitHub's most popular repositories.

+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.

+23

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.

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9 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

    free-programming-books

    It is a huge, community-maintained list of freely available programming books and other learning resources in many human languages; it started as a clone of a famous StackOverflow list and has grown to become one of GitHub's most popular repositories.

    399.2K
  2. #2 · 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
  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.

    34.1K
  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

    vhs

    21.1Kcharmbracelet/vhs · Go

    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.

  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

    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).

  5. 8

    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.

  6. 9

    fluxcast

    444IlyaP358/fluxcast · Python

    FluxCast streams a Linux desktop to a smart TV, TV box, or projector using Wi-Fi Direct/Miracast (WFD), DLNA, or Google Cast.

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