Demo Builder Alternatives and Similar Software

Camtasia Studio

Produce videos for the web using the industry-leading H.264 format. No tweaks or technospeak, just sparkling HD-quality video with compact file sizes...every single time. Two existing production presets (blog and web) and three new presets (YouTube, HD display, and Screencast.com) take advantage of the new format. Create eye-catching training, presentation and demo videos…the easy way. Camtasia screen recording software is streamlined, intuitive and makes you look like a pro.

Commercial Mac Windows

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PicPick

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.......

Free Personal Windows PortableApps.com

170 Like

SimpleScreenRecorder

SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It is easy to use, feature-rich, and has a Qt-based graphical user interface. It can record the entire screen or part of it, or record OpenGL applications directly. The recording can be paused and resumed at any time. Many different file formats and codecs are supported, and easy to add more. Created 2012-13 and currently maintained code: https://github .

Free Open Source Linux

76 Like

FastStone Capture

FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture and screen recording tool that allows for capturing and annotating anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. Other notable features include an eyedropper color selection, a resizeable on-screen ruler, a magnify glass tool, and pixel-exact cropping via arrow keys. Until version 5.

Commercial Windows

168 Like

Fraps

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as: Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen.

• Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.5.99, released on February 26th, 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Freemium Windows

161 Like

Lightscreen

Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences. Now, in the new version, you can upload all your screenshots automatically onto Imgur. A capture's thumbnail is a rather good feature of this utility.

Free Open Source Windows Linux PortableApps.com

62 Like

Captura

Captura captures high resolution screencasts (h264, FFMpeg mp4) with and without mouse cursor. It captures specific regions or windows. Furthermore it can capture mouse clicks or Keystrokes. It can record audio from microphone. Supports command-line.

Free Open Source Windows

28 Like

Kazam

Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format. Optionally you can record sound from any sound input device that is supported and visible by PulseAudio.

Free Open Source Linux

49 Like

CamStudio

Record your computer screen with audio input from Mic or Speakers. Also shows mouse clicks in addition to the regular cursor. Simple interface with ability to record in AVI or export as swf.

• Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 2.7 r316, released in May 2015, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
• Warning As described on VirusTotal comment (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1ddb733efb11769a05cc735d555e9a4df92c4cdf29fa47ea3864e57e67dcf884/analysis/1411383540/): if you download CamStudio from SourceForge.net, the VirusTotal results are 0/53. After installing this SF version, it immediately says that there is an update available. When the link is clicked, it takes you to camstudio.org, which has a zip file that, scanned with VirusTotal, gives you 15/53 result. So do NOT download and install the "update": it's a malware. Installer as of 09/22/2014.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

176 Like

ActivePresenter

ActivePresenter is a solution for creating screencast videos, handouts, manuals, documentation, and interactive training presentations. With the full-featured editor, ActivePresenter allows you to edit audio/video, tweak the look and feel of content, and define the branched scenarios easily and effectively.

Freemium Mac Windows

45 Like

Jing

Jing takes a picture or video of the users computer screen and uploads it to the Web or save locally to your computer. An URL is automatically created and can be shared with others to view or access the uploaded file. You can use the image tools to add text, highlight existing text, or add an arrow or a rectangle to annotate your capture. With Jing you can take captures quicker than with similar applications.

Free Mac Windows

132 Like

oCam

oCam is a video recording program that can record video to be played on the monitor via your PC. It can record effectively many internet video including online game using a variety of formats by unlimited length advantages. Additionally, You can use GIF recording function and WEB-CAM recording function in this solution.

Free Personal Windows

22 Like

recordMyDesktop

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU / Linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.3.8.1, released in December 2008, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

70 Like

Loom

Quick video-capture straight from the browser.

Free Personal Web Chrome

11 Like

Screencast-O-Matic

Free version Records up to 15 minutes, premium is $15/year. Easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast). you can upload it to screencast-o-matic.com hosting all from your browser with no install, or you can choose to simply upload to youtube.

Freemium Windows Web

25 Like

FlashBack

Free software which lets you record your screen, add a PIP webcam and select multiple options to export your video to. It will first store a lossless proprietary file which you can review frame by frame and then easily experiment with the output options to select best suited. One click upload to site like youtube if desired. Record your screen, sound and webcam Share movies with one-click upload to Youtube and other video sharing sites Save movies as Flash or AVI files

Freemium Windows

29 Like

ScreenFlow

Capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

63 Like

Wink

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.

• Discontinued No longer updated. Last version, version 2.0 build 1060, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows Linux

55 Like

Debut

Debut is a video capture and screen video recording software. Record videos from your screen webcam, or other video devices. Capture your entire desktop or a selected portion and save the recorded videos as avi, flv, wmv or other video file formats. Email video recordings automatically when recordings has stopped or send via FTP.

Freemium Mac Windows

41 Like

Screencast Capture Lite

Screencast Capture Lite is a tool to continuously capture the desktop screen, storing this information in video files. The application supports recording from the primary screen, from a chosen window or from a fixed region. It encodes videos using H624 in an almost lossless setting, achieving the right balance between quality and final video size.

Free Open Source Windows Accord.NET Framework

17 Like

LoiLo Game Recorder

LoiLo Game Recorder is a completely free, fast, simple and very effective videogame recorder. It can use either a Windows GUI hook to capture desktop windows, or an OpenGL/DirectX hook to capture most games. Recording is as simple as choosing your game from the list of running applications, alt-tabbing to your game and pressing the Record hotkey. Optionally, you can have it display your framerate using an in-game overlay for performance testing, with or without recording.

• Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.1.0.1, released in 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
• Bundleware Loiloscope is automatically installed along with this but can be uninstalled afterwards with no harm done.

Free Windows

10 Like

VokoScreen

A small program to create screen videos including sound recording. Although this program is really small and inconspicious, it includes exceeding capabilities to generate training videos, installation videos, browser and Skype recordings.

Free Open Source Linux

16 Like

iSpring Free Cam

iSpring Free Cam is fast and easy screen recording software for Windows. Select all or part of your screen, or a specific application to capture. Record your microphone, system audio, or both; highlight your mouse cursor, and add simulated mouse click effects. After you're done recording, edit your screencast with the built-in audio/video editor. Save your screencast as a video file, or publish directly to your YouTube channel in just one click. 100% Free!

Free Windows

14 Like

Icecream Screen Recorder

Icecream Screen recorder is a screen recorder that can both record screen and take screenshots. The program records video, system sounds and the microphone audio.

Freemium Windows

9 Like

Krut

Krut is a screencast tool that is written in Java and well suited for making video tutorials (instructional videos) on most platforms. Krut records movie files, including sound, of selected parts of your screen. The files use the quicktime mov format. The program has an intuitive and compact user interface. In addition to a movie file, the program also records separate files for audio (wav) and video (mov), which easily allows encoding to any movie format using an external encoding program.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

12 Like