# getopenscreen/openscreen

Record your screen, ship a demo. Free and open-source, GPU-accelerated, no watermarks, no subscriptions. Windows, macOS, Linux. Actively maintained.

Repository: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/getopenscreen-openscreen
Homepage: https://getopenscreen.com/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: electron, open-source, screen-capture, screen-recorder, cross-platform, ffmpeg, product-demo, rust, screen-recording, screen-studio, screencast, speech-to-text, typescript, video-editing, video-editor, wayland, wgpu, whisper
Last push: 2026-08-26T08:36:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 12
- inputs: {"age_days": 172, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 22}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1981, forks 127 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:59.668183+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, speech-recognition, gui, image-processing, llm-inference
- domain: media, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform, rust
- tags: 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

## Member repositories
- getopenscreen/openscreen (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:59.668183+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:57.882711+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:59.668183+00:00, sha 543d2c97bbdc)
  - homepage: https://getopenscreen.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:46.965167+00:00, sha 597eba2739af)
  - site_page: https://getopenscreen.com/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:46.968296+00:00, sha a56a1b59209e)
  - site_page: https://getopenscreen.com/docs/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:46.970300+00:00, sha 8c91254fa20d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.