OpenScreen

Overview

Open-source screen recording app for creating beautiful product demos and walkthroughs. A free alternative to Screen Studio — no watermarks, no account, no paid tier, MIT licensed for personal and commercial use.

Repository: getopenscreen/openscreen · Docs: getopenscreen.com/docs

The project was created by Siddharth Vaddem at siddharthvaddem/openscreen. That repository was archived after v1.5.0 and receives no updates; development continues at getopenscreen/openscreen under the same name and licence (v1.13.0, September 2026). Install from the new repository.

OpenScreen captures your screen and applies post-processing effects (zoom, cursor styling, backgrounds, motion blur, captions) to produce polished demo videos. Since the continuation it also has a command-line interface, so a script or a coding agent can record, edit the project file and render without opening the editor.

Key Differentiators

Free forever — MIT license, no usage limits, no watermarks
Post-processing effects — automatic/manual zooms, motion blur, custom backgrounds, on-device captions
Cross-platform — macOS, Windows, Linux, with native capture on all three
Scriptable — record, export, captions, sources, pack, info subcommands with NDJSON output
Built with Electron — React + TypeScript UI, a native GPU compositor for preview and export