Captura
Captura is a Windows software that allows you to record your screen or a region of you screen in high resolution with or without audio, keystrokes and mouse cursor.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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What is Captura?
Captura captures high resolution recordings of your computer screen (with a selection of encoding them in h.264, FFMpeg, or mp4) with or without your mouse cursor. It also supports capturing and recording specific regions or windows. On top of these features, it can capture mouse clicks, keystrokes, microphone audio, and features command line support.
Features
- Free: Captura is free. You don't need to spend a penny. It's supported by donations and users sharing the repository.
- Open-Source: Source-code for Captura is available on GitHub under the terms of the MIT license.
- The app is completely ad-free.
- Available in over 30 languages.
- System Tray: Captura can run unobtrusively and be minimized to the System Tray.
- Command-line Usage: Captura can be used from your terminal. Only for portable builds.
- Hotkeys: Take Screenshots and control recordings from the keyboard even when Captura is in System Tray using configurable hotkeys.
- Input/Output Audio Mixing: Captura can mix microphone input audio and speaker output audio.
- Clicks and Keystrokes: Mouse clicks and keystrokes can be displayed in recordings. Options are present for customization.
- Screen Region: Captura can capture specific regions using the region selector. It can also snap to application windows.
- Webcam: You can include a webcam view in your recordings. Perfect for making tutorials.
- Game Recording: DirectX fullscreen games can be recorded using Desktop Duplication API. Needs to be supported by the game and graphics card.
Features
- Free: Captura is free. You don't need to spend a penny. It's supported by donations and users sharing the repository.
- Open-Source: Source-code for Captura is available on GitHub under the terms of the MIT license.
- The app is completely ad-free.
- Available in over 30 languages.
- System Tray: Captura can run unobtrusively and be minimized to the System Tray.
- Command-line Usage: Captura can be used from your terminal. Only for portable builds.
- Hotkeys: Take Screenshots and control recordings from the keyboard even when Captura is in System Tray using configurable hotkeys.
- Input/Output Audio Mixing: Captura can mix microphone input audio and speaker output audio.
- Clicks and Keystrokes: Mouse clicks and keystrokes can be displayed in recordings. Options are present for customization.
- Screen Region: Captura can capture specific regions using the region selector. It can also snap to application windows.
- Webcam: You can include a webcam view in your recordings. Perfect for making tutorials.
- Game Recording: DirectX fullscreen games can be recorded using Desktop Duplication API. Needs to be supported by the game and graphics card.
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Discontinued
Captura is not being developped anymore, but the software can still be downloaded. See https://github.com/MathewSachin/Captura/issues/405#issuecomment-657065501
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Windows: .Net 4.6.2 is required
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- create-tutorials
- Screen Casting
- dual-monitor
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Captura
Summary
Our users have written 21 comments and reviews about Captura, and it has gotten 85 likes
- Developed by Mathew Sachin
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.8
- 123 alternatives listed
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View allCaptura was added to AlternativeTo by msori on Jun 12, 2017 and this page was last updated Sep 27, 2021.
Recent user activities on Captura
- sombrenote liked Capturaso21 days ago
- VasudeoSinha thinks OBS Studio is an alternative to Captura27 days ago
- olicool10 thinks OBS Studio is an alternative to Captura8 months ago
It's a great tool. Easy to set up, neat interface, I fell in love with it 10 seconds after I installed it.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Pros:
-Great video quality
-Free
-Dark theme
-Minimalistic design
etc
Cons:
-Over 50% CPU usage while recording
The 50% CPU, isn't that kind of normal for screen recorders, especially with higher framerate settings?
Reply written over 1 year ago
Meh, I downloaded the ffmpeg and even though I specified a folder, this consistently generates an exception processing error message.
There's definitely a solution in places like github, but other programs are recorded without problems.
Why should the user experience an exception handling error with the default setting?
That some clown(s) had the guts to SELL this free, open-source app on Windows Store is so damn sad. Now the developer has stopped maintaining the app ... This is (was?) the finest and most nifty little screen recorder out there. And now, it's unmaintained because some failed person decided to monetize it (even sent the developer request to tear down the source code on GitHub in exchange for $100 a month), which the original dev. declined of course. Apparently this whole ordeal disencouraged original dev. to continue further on Captura and here we are.
Source of information: https://github.com/MathewSachin/Captura/issues/405#issuecomment-657065501
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Recommended. Way simpler than OBS.
Thanks Mathew Sachin for Captura
Best screen recorder out there after the xbox game bar. Easy to use interface and works perfectly fine even in full screen mode. All recorders i downloaded so far were either trash or paid while captura over here is completely free and amazing!!