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LICEcap icon

LICEcap

 58 likes

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.

LICEcap screenshot 1

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
4.8 / 5 Avg rating (6)
58likes
5comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  GIF recording
  2.  Portable
  3.  GIF Making
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  8.  Record desktop activity

LICEcap News & Activities

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Recent activities

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    lumi2025 added LICEcap as alternative to Leawo Free Screen Recorder
    about 2 months ago
  • lopatoid liked LICEcap
    4 months ago
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    POX added LICEcap as alternative to PolyCapture
    8 months ago
  • eco1 liked LICEcap
    11 months ago
  • darriagada reviewed LICEcap  
    12 months ago

    I love this little app. It's free, lightweight and really easy to use.

  • darriagada liked LICEcap
    12 months ago
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LICEcap information

  • Developed by

    US flagCockos
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.8
  • Alternatives

    26 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about LICEcap, and it has gotten 58 likes

LICEcap was added to AlternativeTo by realnabarl on Dec 17, 2012 and this page was last updated Aug 25, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Kagerjay
Jan 18, 2018
1

works great, prefer it for making gifs over sharex

Diego
Jun 16, 2024
0

I love this little app. It's free, lightweight and really easy to use.

blkcrowe
Oct 16, 2020
0

Stumbled across LICEcap this morning looking for something to do exactly this. Application runs on top of everything else and allows you to size window to the area that you want to capture. Once you click record, it just grabs anything inside its border and saves it to an animated gif file. it comes as an installer, but if you open it with 7zip and grab the exe file, that is all you need to run it. This is definitely a keeper for my utility usb drive. I can't say that I have a regular use for this functionality, but it does one thing and it does it well. Excellent discovery!

zappazornpatton
Dec 17, 2019
0

Created by the Makers of the popular Reaper audio production software to easily show features and bugs. It is free for anyone to use to make video recordings of part or all of the screen for any reason to put in the GIF format

opertinicy
Aug 30, 2016
0

Exactly what I was looking for..great for making on-the-fly 'tutorials' to clients' questions.

What is LICEcap?

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.

Features and options:

Record directly to .GIF or .LCF. Move the screen capture frame while recording. Pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages. Global hotkey (shift+space) to toggle pausing while recording Adjustable maximum recording framerate, to allow throttling CPU usage. Basic title frame, with or without text. Record mouse button presses. Display elapsed time in the recording.