getopenscreen/openscreen
Record your screen, ship a demo. Free and open-source, GPU-accelerated, no watermarks, no subscriptions. Windows, macOS, Linux. Actively maintained. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
82/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 12
Flags: young
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 172
- days_rel: 9
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 22
Adoption not part of the score
1981 stars · 127 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
OpenScreen is a free, open-source desktop screen recorder and video editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux that turns raw captures into polished product demos. It uses native capture APIs and a GPU-accelerated Rust renderer, with on-device Whisper transcription and optional LLM-assisted chat editing.
Use cases
- record my screen to make a product demo video
- open-source alternative to Screen Studio
- record a window with system audio and webcam overlay
- add automatic zooms and cursor effects to a screencast
- generate captions from voiceover offline
- edit a recording by deleting words from the transcript
- export a demo as MP4 or animated GIF
- record a walkthrough for docs or a landing page
When to choose
- you want a free, no-watermark, no-subscription screen recorder with polished-demo editing
- you need offline recording, transcription, and export with no account
- you want native, GPU-accelerated capture and compositing on Windows, macOS, or Linux
- you prefer open-source (MIT) tooling for demo and walkthrough videos
When to avoid
- you need production-grade stability — the project is under active development with rough edges and breaking changes
- you need advanced professional NLE features beyond demo-style editing
- your hardware is older integrated graphics with known driver issues on Windows
- you require mobile or web-based recording
Facets
application · maturity active
video-processing speech-recognition gui image-processing llm-inference media desktop-applications developer-tools windows cross-platform rust screen-recorder video-editor screen-studio-alternative product-demo whisper-transcription offline-first gpu-compositing captions mit-license open-source video macos linux desktop electron gpu
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen · fetched 2026-08-28 · 543d2c97bbdc
- homepage: https://getopenscreen.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 597eba2739af
- site_page: https://getopenscreen.com/docs/intro · fetched 2026-08-29 · a56a1b59209e
- site_page: https://getopenscreen.com/docs/installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8c91254fa20d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| getopenscreen/openscreen | main | 82 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="getopenscreen/openscreen")
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