170 Like Camtasia Studio Good alternative? YES NO 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 Animations Chroma Key / Green Screen Graphical component Support for HD videos Interface Overlay Capture Screen / Take screenshots ... Capture Video Add a feature
157 Like Fraps Good alternative? YES NO 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... Freemium Windows Capture Video Record videos Sync Audio & Video FPS counter Game Benchmarking Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated.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.
173 Like CamStudio YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video Add a feature 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.
125 Like QuickTime Player Good alternative? YES NO Watch Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media clips. Whether it’s on the web or on your desktop, QuickTime Player brings your digital media brilliantly to... Freemium Mac Record videos Add a feature
20 Like oCam Good alternative? YES NO oCam is very simple and easy "Screen Recorder" and "Screen Capture". Free Personal Windows No features added Add a feature
59 Like ScreenFlow Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Mac Record desktop activity Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature
13 Like iSpring Free Cam Good alternative? YES NO iSpring Free Cam is free screen recording software for Windows that lets you easily capture all or part of your screen, record your voice & mouseclicks, then edit... Free Windows Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video Add a feature
6 Like Loom Good alternative? YES NO Quick video-capture straight from the browser. Free Personal Web Chrome Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video Add a feature
9 Like LoiLo Game Recorder Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Windows Record desktop activity Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video Record videos Add a feature Bundleware Loiloscope is automatically installed along with this but can be uninstalled afterwards with no harm done.
17 Like Microsoft Expression Encoder Alternative? YES NO Expression Encoder imports and encodes video files, produces live webcasts, enhances media with watermarks and advertising, and publishes with Silverlight. *... Free Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued Expression Encoder 4 Pro is no longer available for sale. The free version of Expression Encoder will continue to be available for download, but it will be no longer developed.
6 Like Taksi Good alternative? YES NO Taksi is a utility that allows you to take screenshots and record video clips of your favourite games and other 3D-graphics applications. Inspired by... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last stable version, 0.7.6, was released in June 2006, and last beta version, 0.7.7.9, in July 2010. They can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
3 Like Captura Good alternative? YES NO 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 Command line interface Command Line support Support for HD videos Capture Video Add a feature
10 Like UltraVNC Screen Recorder Alternative? YES NO There exist a lot of screen recorders, but all lack the speed for doing some full screen recording. The speed is just to low or cpu to high. Online compression can only... Free Open Source Windows Record desktop activity Add a feature
2 Like SMRecorder Good alternative? YES NO SMRecorder is an interesting application that allows you to capture video and audio. It's really useful to create video-tutorials or videochat sessions. Choose... Free Windows Record desktop activity Capture Video Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.3.2, released in June 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website.
2 Like Rylstim Screen Recorder Alternative? YES NO A light application for instant recording of events happening on the monitor and saving that to an AVI file at high quality. Rylstim Screen Recorder allows recording... Free Windows Record desktop activity Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature
