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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MyCam Alternatives
MyCam is described as 'Record videos and take pictures with your webcam, open image or video files and apply photo filters and video effects' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MyCam for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Flathub, Web-based and Mac apps. The best MyCam alternative is Cheese, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MyCam are Webcamoid, Debut, GTK+ UVC Viewer and Yawcam.
Alternatives list
- 42 Cheese alternatives
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133 Debut alternativesDebut is a screen capture and video recording software that records videos from your screen, webcam or other video devices.
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22 GTK+ UVC Viewer alternativesguvcview is a video viewer and capture software for the linux UVC driver. It is based in luvcview (http://mxhaard.free.fr), but all controls are done with GTK, allowing for a more user friendly GUI.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
67 Yawcam alternativesYawcam stands for Yet Another Webcam software & that's exactly what it is. More precisely Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in Java. The main ideas for Yawcam are to keep it simple and easy to use, but to include all the usual features.
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COSMIC Camera is a modern, easy-to-use camera application designed for the COSMIC desktop. Whether you need to snap a quick photo or record a video, COSMIC Camera provides a clean and intuitive interface that stays out of your way.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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36 Kamoso alternativesKamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera. Use it to take pictures and make videos to share.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
13 Windows Camera alternativesThe Camera app is faster and simpler than ever. Just point and shoot to take great pictures automatically on any PC or tablet running Windows 10.
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10 iGlasses alternativesEnhance and adjust your webcam's video settings from within any app, including Skype, iChat, FaceTime and even web chat.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
6 QtCAM alternativesQtCAM is free open source linux camera application provide an easier user interface for both capturing and viewing video. It would also work with any V4L2 compatible device.
45 AMcap alternativesAMCap is a small yet fully functional video capture and preview application compatible with Microsoft DirectShow (formerly ActiveMovie, hence the name). It is based on the sample AMCap source code from the Microsoft DirectX 9...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
It's a standalone Python CLI and GUI (GTK, TK) and camera Viewer (SDL) to set the camera controls in Linux. It can set the V4L2 controls and it is extendable with the non standard controls. Currently it has a Logitech extension (LED mode, LED frequency, BRIO FoV, relative...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
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