openscreen

Project Overview

OpenScreen is a free, open-source desktop app for recording your screen and turning the result into polished product demos and walkthroughs. It is a free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio, suitable for both personal and commercial use.

Project Status: This repository has been archived by the original author and is no longer maintained. A community-driven continuation has moved to getopenscreen/openscreen with the original author's approval.

Core Features

• Record a specific window or your whole screen
• Record microphone and system audio
• Webcam overlay with picture-in-picture, drag-to-position, mirroring, and shape options
• Auto or manual zooms with adjustable depth, duration, easing, and pixel-precise position; auto-zoom follows your cursor
• Custom cursor size, smoothing, and click effects, with cursor themes and post-recording path smoothing
• Automatic captions for voiceovers, generated on-device with no upload (works offline)
• Wallpapers, solid colors, gradients, or custom background images
• Motion blur
• Crop, trim, and per-segment speed control on the timeline
• Text, arrow, and image annotations with text animation presets
• Timeline snapping guides and audio waveform for easier trimming
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Export to MP4 or GIF in multiple aspect ratios and resolutions
• Languages supported: Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese

Target Audience

• Developers, creators, and marketers who need to share product demos on social media (X, Reddit, YouTube)
• Users looking for a free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio
• Users who need to create software walkthroughs, tutorials, or demo videos
• Users who want a tool that is free for both personal and commercial use

Quick Start

1. Download the installer for your platform from the GitHub Releases page
2. macOS (recommended): Install via Homebrew

   brew install --cask siddharthvaddem/openscreen/openscreen

   Update: brew upgrade --cask openscreen Uninstall: brew uninstall --cask openscreen (add --zap to also remove app data)
3. macOS manual install: Download the .dmg from Releases. If Gatekeeper blocks, run:

   xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Openscreen.app

4. Launch the app and start recording

Core Advantages

• Completely free for both personal and commercial use — no paid tiers, no premium features locked behind a paywall
• No subscriptions, no watermarks
• Open-source (MIT license)
• Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• On-device caption generation with no upload required, works offline

System Requirements

• OS: Windows, macOS, Linux

Notes

• This repository has been archived by the original author and is no longer maintained
• For the community-driven actively maintained version, visit: getopenscreen/openscreen
• This project started as a side project and is not production-grade — you may encounter bugs