Cheese is described as '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' and is a very popular screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cheese for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Web-based apps. The best Cheese alternative is Webcamoid, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cheese are GTK+ UVC Viewer, Debut, YouCam and Kamoso.
It has no framerate drop glitches as cheese does. Also the image it produces is more bright and sharp in my opinion.
It doesn't appear to have photo booth type capabilities.
guvcview 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.
Cheese stopped working with the latest version of Debian. I like guvcview because it works with my webcam, and it's lightweight - webcamoid required more than 50 other packages to be installed, guvcview only 4.
Debut is a screen capture and video recording software that records videos from your screen, webcam or other video devices.
It doesn't appear to have photo booth type capabilities.
Create engaging webcam videos with real-time AR makeup, over 200 effects, background blur, live streaming to major platforms, face tracking, face login security, capture and screen recording, filters, overlays, stickers, photo modes, brightness controls, and a media library.
Take photo snapshots and video clips with your Mac using Photo Booth. Send them to your friends, use one as an iChat icon, add them to your Address Book, or organize and edit them in iPhoto. The real fun starts when you use the effects and backdrops in Photo Booth.
It's commercial, but it's already included into Mac OS X! So free to use!
Yawcam 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.
The 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.
Enhance and adjust your webcam's video settings from within any app, including Skype, iChat, FaceTime and even web chat.
In cheese the FPS is not displayed whereas qtcam display that, Also the image control settings have only 4 settings and qtcam have 10+, colorspace switching is also not possible in cheese
It supports different resolutions, different white balance modes and switching between different camera devices.
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This would be the qt equivalent of cheese.