



Webcamoid vs Cheese Comments
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.

- Webcamoid is Free and Open Source
The best free alternative to Cheese is Webcamoid, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cheese and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Cheese are GTK+ UVC Viewer, Kamoso, Debut and YouCam.




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.

Kamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera. Use it to take pictures and make videos to share.

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.




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.




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.

Take pictures or record video from webcam or browse an image from your device. Add fun effects, filters and layers. Share or save your creation.


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.




This would be the qt equivalent of cheese.