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)

