vokoscreenNG

vokoscreenNG is an open source screencast creator for Linux and Windows built on Qt 6 and GStreamer. It records the entire screen, a chosen area or a single window — window capture is Linux-only — and can mix audio from several sources at once, so system sound and a microphone can land in the same file.

A built-in webcam overlay makes recordings more personal, and the presentation tools are what set it apart from a bare screen grabber: a magnifier, countdown and timer, Showclick to highlight mouse clicks, a halo effect and a system tray control. On Linux it works under both X11 and Wayland, the latter through PipeWire, gstreamer-plugin-pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal with a KDE, GNOME or GTK portal backend. Output formats come from GStreamer: MKV or MP4 containers with openh264/x264 video and Vorbis, Opus, FLAC or MP3 audio.

Distribution is handled by the distros themselves — Debian/Ubuntu (vokoscreen-ng), Fedora, openSUSE, Arch and NixOS — while Windows users download an installer from the project site; the author deliberately ships no universal installer because each platform packages software differently. The interface is translated on Transifex and only languages that reach 100% are bundled. The current release is 4.11.0, published in October 2026.

For anyone on Linux who needs a straightforward recorder, vokoscreenNG replaces Camtasia, which has no native Linux build at all, and it does so under GPL-2.0 with no account, watermark or recording time limit. It deliberately stops at capture — cutting, annotations and finished tutorials are left to a separate editor.