Open Broadcaster Software

Full-featured screen recording and live streaming software for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading...

Free Open Source Windows Chrome Firefox

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...

Commercial Mac Windows

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...

Free Open Source Linux

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...

Free Open Source Windows

Bandicam Screen Recorder

Bandicam is a lightweight screen recorder for Windows that can capture anything on your PC screen. Also, it makes it possible to record a certain area on a PC screen, or...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

ActivePresenter

ActivePresenter is a solution for creating screencast videos, handouts, manuals, documentation, and interactive training presentations. With the full-featured editor...

Freemium Mac Windows

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...

Free Open Source Linux

Peek GIF Screen Recorder for Linux

Simple animated Gif screen recorder for Linux. Open-source. Provides an easy to install Ubuntu deb package.

Free Open Source Linux Ubuntu

Jing

Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to create basic visual elements and share them with others.

Free Mac Windows

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...

• 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

oCam

oCam is very simple and easy "Screen Recorder" and "Screen Capture".

Free Personal Windows

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...

• 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

Loom

Quick video-capture straight from the browser.

Free Personal Web Chrome

Action!

Action! allows streaming and real-time recording of Windows desktop in a superb HD video quality.

Commercial Windows