Photo Booth Alternatives and Similar Software

Apple's webcam app Photo Booth makes memories fun with live filters and the ability to replace backgrounds. Similar tools are commonplace now but being bundled with Macs makes this one an easy choice.

Free and open-source alternatives are abundant. Easily narrow down searches by relevant features like webcam effects and video capture. Probably the most relevant feature in Photo Booth's case would be ease of use.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 5/11/2019 10:00:00 PM

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Alternatives to Photo Booth for all platforms with any license

Webcamoid

Webcamoid is a full web camera suite. You can take photos and record videos with funny effects. Features - Take pictures and record videos with the webcam. - Manages multiple webcams. - Written in C++/Qt. - Custom controls for each webcam. - Add funny effects to the webcam. - +60 effects available. - Translated to many languages. - Use custom network and local files as capture devices. - Capture from desktop. - Many recording formats.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Chroma Key / Green Screen Image Correction IP camera No installation required ... Screen recording Virtual Webcam Multiple languages Photo effects Portable Screenshot Tools Special effects Capture Video Record videos Virtual camera output Webcam Effects Webcam recording Add a feature

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Cheese

Cheese 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. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Custom Backgrounds Photobooth Screenshot Tools Capture Video ... Webcam Effects Webcam recording Add a feature

96 Like
GTK+ UVC Viewer

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. This project aims at providing a simple GTK interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device.

Free Open Source Linux
Capture Video Webcam recording Add a feature

25 Like
Kamoso

Kamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera.

Free Open Source Linux
Webcam recording Add a feature

4 Like
wxCam

wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers, so it should work on a very large number of devices.

Free Open Source Linux
Motion detection Record videos Webcam recording Add a feature

4 Like
CamStar

CamStar is a Photo Booth of your mobile camera, featuring 45 Live Effects and counting! FEATURES 1. LIVE FX camera 2. Capture Videos using Live FX 3. Ability to use photos from your album/photo library 4. Self Timer ( 3 & 5 seconds ) 5. Easy setting : ON & OFF autosave to your phone album 6. Easy sharing with email and social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr 7. Simple gallery containing all photos taken by Camstar , so you can use and share it anytime! 8.

Freemium iPhone iPad
Photo effects Add a feature

1 Like
Chatzy

Chatzy is a free private chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.

Free Web
No installation No registration required Add a feature

5 Like
Camorama

Camorama is a small utility to view and save images from a webcam or any other Video4Linux device. It can apply a number of image filters and make remote captures.

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

2 Like
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Cameroid

Just like Photo Booth - exept is online. Have fun with your webcam. Apply text and funny effects. Take crazy (or not) snaps with your webcam straight from your browser.

Free Web
Photo effects Webcam Effects Add a feature

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Sparkbooth

Sparkbooth is a social media enabled photo booth. Sparkbooth simulates a classic photo booth with the ability to upload photos to Twitter photo sharing services, or Facebook.

Commercial Mac Windows
Events Photobooth Add a feature

2 Like