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Cheese

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Googles 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx.

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  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Flathub
  • GNOME
  • Flatpak
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Webcam recording
  2.  Capture Video
  3.  Photobooth
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  Annotate Screenshot
  10.  Webcam Effects
  11.  Custom Backgrounds

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What is Cheese?

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Googles 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others. After a success of the Summer of Code, the development continued and we still are looking for people with nice ideas and patches ;)