OpenScreen

Name: OpenScreen
Rating: 4.7 (3 reviews)

58 likes

Open-source, no-cost screen recorder with no watermarks, supporting entire screen or app capture, manual zoom, smooth pan, custom backgrounds, cropping, motion blur, and direct use in browser for product demos, tutorials, and commercial purposes.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Screen Recorder

Platforms

Mac
Windows
Linux

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Features

Properties

Privacy focused

Features

No Tracking
No registration required
Ad-free
Works Offline
Dark Mode
Screen Recording
Motion Blur
Crop video

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Privately-Built added OpenScreen as alternative to Scrollify
3 days ago
Mustafa-6478 added OpenScreen as alternative to VidShrink
5 days ago
wilbertkramer added OpenScreen as alternative to Giflane
22 days ago
Robin_P liked OpenScreen
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Marian-Nae added OpenScreen as alternative to Simple Screen Recorder by NaeTech
about 1 month ago
Port5000 liked OpenScreen
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Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

Netkuszkusz

★★★★★

Nov 28, 2025

EditedDec 15, 2025

Updated: Looks promising, and now it has new (but still basic) functions. I’m really curious to see where it goes, and once new features start rolling in, I’ll happily bump up the rating 1 star once again.

Novmikvis

★★★★★

Jul 29, 2026

EditedJul 29, 2026

Excellent UI/UX with almost feature parity to macOS's Screen Studio. Another active fork with slightly different UI at https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen

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MTBBK

★★★★★

Mar 19, 2026

I think it have same developer team with https://recordly.dev/ and both of them are pretty usefull and very similar interface both the software and their websites.

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What is OpenScreen?

OpenScreen is your free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio (sort of).

If you don't want to pay $29/month for Screen Studio but want a much simpler version that does what most people seem to need, making beautiful product demos and walkthroughs, here's a free-to-use app for you. OpenScreen does not offer all Screen Studio features, but covers the basics well!

Screen Studio is an awesome product and this is definitely not a 1:1 clone. OpenScreen is a much simpler take, just the basics for folks who want control and don't want to pay. If you need all the fancy features, your best bet is to support Screen Studio (they really do a great job, haha). But if you just want something free (no gotchas) and open, this project does the job!

OpenScreen is 100% free for personal and commercial use. Use it, modify it, distribute it.

Core features:

Record your whole screen or specific apps
Add manual zooms (customizable depth levels)
Customize the duration and position of zooms however you please
Crop video recordings to hide parts
Choose between wallpapers, solid colors, gradients or your own picture for your background
Motion blur and exponential easing for smoother pan and zoom effects

Note: this repository was archived after v1.5.0. Development continues in a community-maintained continuation at https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen (website: https://getopenscreen.com), which carries on under the OpenScreen name with the original author's approval and remains MIT licensed.