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.
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Open Source Windows Camera Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Windows Camera is Cheese. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Windows Camera and eight of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Windows Camera are Webcamoid, Cosmic Camera, Kamoso and Megapixels.
Alternatives list
- 43 Cheese alternatives
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41 Cosmic Camera alternativesCOSMIC Camera is a modern, easy-to-use camera application designed for the COSMIC desktop. Whether you need to snap a quick photo or record a video, COSMIC Camera provides a clean and intuitive interface that stays out of your way.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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Megapixels is a GTK-based camera app using the Linux media request API. It includes a fully configurable post-processing pipeline and QR code scanner.
It's a standalone Python CLI and GUI (GTK, TK) and camera Viewer (SDL) to set the camera controls in Linux. It can set the V4L2 controls and it is extendable with the non standard controls. Currently it has a Logitech extension (LED mode, LED frequency, BRIO FoV, relative...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Java
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