Best Open Source Screen Recording in 2026
Open source tools for recording your screen, creating screencasts, and sharing video walkthroughs.
The most popular pick this year is OBS Studio with 72,308 GitHub stars, but all 7 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.
7 open source screen recording — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.
Camtasia
Openscreen
Free, open-source screen recorder for creating beautiful product demos — an alternative to Screen Studio.
Screen Studio
Cap
Open source Loom alternative for beautiful, shareable screen recordings.
Loom
Recordly
Open source screen recorder and editor with auto-zoom, webcam overlays, and cursor animations.
Screen Studio
Captura
Windows screen recorder that captures screen, audio, cursor, mouse clicks, and keystrokes.
Camtasia
vokoscreenNG
Powerful Linux and Windows screencast creator with multi-source audio, webcam, magnifier, and countdown.
Camtasia
Snapify
Open source screen recording sharing platform — a self-hostable Loom alternative.
LoomHow we rank these tools
Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.
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