Open-source screen capture and file sharing tool with recording, editing, and annotation features. Supports 4K, dark mode, theming, offline use, and offers a lightweight, ad-free experience without tracking user data.




The best open source alternative to ScreenToGif is ShareX. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to ScreenToGif and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to ScreenToGif are OpenScreen, Kooha, LICEcap and Kap.
Open-source screen capture and file sharing tool with recording, editing, and annotation features. Supports 4K, dark mode, theming, offline use, and offers a lightweight, ad-free experience without tracking user data.




Open-source, no-cost screen recorder with no watermarks, supporting entire screen or app capture, manual zoom, smooth pan, custom backgrounds, cropping, motion blur, and direct use in browser for product demos, tutorials, and commercial purposes.




Capture your screen in an intuitive and straightforward way without distractions.


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.


Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports.




The definitive screen capture utility for macOS, designed with simplicity and efficiency in mind.

Peek is a simple screen recorder that allows you to record your screen as gif or mp4, capture a screenshot as jpg, and annotate your recordings with drawing, text, arrows, and highlights.




The most advanced screen capture tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ShareX reimagined with modern UI technologies, built from the ground up for cross-platform performance.



It's a tool for creating animated GIFs from a screen recording. Client-side only, no data is uploaded. Modern browser required.

The main purpose of ScreentoGIF is to record animated images and ShareX is to record videos.