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# OpenScreen

> Free, MIT-licensed desktop screen recorder and video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. It records a display or one window through each system's native capture API (ScreenCaptureKit, Windows Graphics Capture, PipeWire), edits the take on a timeline with automatic zooms, cursor styling and on-device Whisper captions, and exports MP4 (H.264) or GIF with no watermark and no account. It is the community-maintained continuation of the original OpenScreen project, which its creator archived after v1.5.0.

OpenScreen is not the same product as Open Screen at openscreen.io.

- Official site: https://getopenscreen.com/
- Source code, releases and issues: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen
- Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MXQ1HQJL5G5
- Original, archived repository: https://github.com/siddharthvaddem/openscreen
- Maintainer: Etienne Lescot (https://github.com/EtienneLescot)

## Get started

- [Download](https://getopenscreen.com/download/): installers for the current stable release on every platform
- [Introduction](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/intro/): what OpenScreen is, the documented version, project facts and official links
- [Installation](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/installation/): system requirements, per-platform steps and platform differences
- [Quick start](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/quick-start/): record, trim and export a first recording in six steps
- [FAQ](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/faq/): commercial use, watermarks, offline use, network access, installer signing

## Docs

- [Screen recording](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/recording/): window or full-screen capture, system audio, microphone, webcam, cursor modes and native capture per platform
- [Media library](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/media-library/): import videos, then trim, crop, split and reorder clips on one timeline
- [Editing and timeline](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/editing-timeline/): zoom, trim and speed regions, annotations, cursor styling, shortcuts
- [Captions and transcript](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/captions/): on-device Whisper transcription, burned-in captions, translation, editing by transcript
- [AI editing](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/ai-editing/): optional chat editing with an LLM key you supply, off by default
- [Export](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/export/): MP4 and GIF settings and encoders
- [CLI](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/cli/): record, caption and export from scripts, CI jobs and coding agents, with NDJSON output
- [Letting an agent make the whole video](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/ai-editing/#letting-an-agent-make-the-whole-video): `openscreen mcp` gives a coding agent the editing tools plus recording, export and still frames over stdio; the `openscreen-demo` skill (`npx skills add getopenscreen/openscreen --skill openscreen-demo`) teaches it the whole job, up to a video attached to a pull request for reviewers, or a post on X that it publishes only after the user's yes
- [How to make a product demo video](https://getopenscreen.com/docs/guides/product-demo-video/): a step-by-step guide from script to export

## Platforms and features

- [Screen recorder for Windows](https://getopenscreen.com/screen-recorder-windows/): Windows 10 and 11, Windows Graphics Capture, Microsoft Store
- [Screen recorder for Mac](https://getopenscreen.com/screen-recorder-mac/): macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon and Intel, ScreenCaptureKit
- [Screen recorder for Linux](https://getopenscreen.com/screen-recorder-linux/): PipeWire and the ScreenCast portal, so it records on Wayland
- [Auto zoom](https://getopenscreen.com/features/auto-zoom/): how automatic zooms are placed on the recorded clicks
- [Local captions](https://getopenscreen.com/features/captions/): Whisper transcription on your machine, and where other recorders differ

## Comparisons

- [Screen Studio alternative](https://getopenscreen.com/alternatives/screen-studio/)
- [Camtasia alternative](https://getopenscreen.com/alternatives/camtasia/)
- [Loom alternative](https://getopenscreen.com/alternatives/loom/)
- [OpenScreen vs Cap](https://getopenscreen.com/compare/openscreen-vs-cap/)
- [OpenScreen vs OBS Studio](https://getopenscreen.com/compare/openscreen-vs-obs/)

## Development journal

- [Picking up OpenScreen](https://getopenscreen.com/blog/2026/06/15/picking-up-openscreen/): how and why the project continued after the original was archived
- [An export benchmark built to be hard to fake](https://getopenscreen.com/blog/2026/09/09/an-export-benchmark-hard-to-fake/): an open, reproducible export benchmark and its caveats
- [All posts](https://getopenscreen.com/blog/): release notes with the reasoning attached