OpenScreen is a lightweight screen recording application designed to help users create clean product demos and guided walkthroughs. It focuses on essential features, offering a simple and accessible alternative for capturing and presenting on-screen activity without unnecessary complexity.

The software is free to use for both personal and commercial purposes, with an open-source model that allows users to modify and distribute it as needed.

Features

  • Record your whole screen or specific apps
  • Add automatic zooms or manual zooms (customizable depth levels)
  • Customize the duration and position of zooms however you please
  • Record microphone audio and system audio capture
  • Trim segments of the video timeline
  • Add annotations (text, arrows, images)
  • Crop video recordings to hide parts
  • Export in multiple aspect ratios (1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, 4:3)
  • Choose between wallpapers, solid colors, gradients or your own picture for your background
  • Customize border radius and video padding
  • Motion blur and exponential easing for smoother pan and zoom effects
  • Customize speed at different segments
  • Save edits as projects (persisted)
  • Import custom Google Fonts for annotation texts
  • Configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Multiple export resolution options

What's New

Some fixes, more bugs, more features

Changelog

  • undo-redo changes
  • localization - chinese, english and spanish
  • fix path resolution issues on Windows
  • fix audio desync and speed issue
  • restart recording
  • improved transitions and motion blur
  • e2e testing ci check
  • webcam support in vertical and pip mode.
  • support for transparent backgrounds (choose native aspect ratio and 0 padding)