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openscreen

by getopenscreen

OpenScreen is a free desktop app for recording your screen and turning the footage into polished demo videos, with automatic zooms, captions, backgrounds and annotations. It is for making product demos and walkthroughs without watermarks or subscriptions.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

View on GitHubProject website

Stars
5.1k +66 a day
Licence
MIT
Runs on
Your computer
Setup
Easy
Language
TypeScript
Age
230 days

What you can do with it

  • Record a window or full screen with microphone, system audio and a webcam overlay
  • Add automatic cursor-following zooms, captions, annotations and styled backgrounds, then export to MP4 or GIF
  • Ask an AI agent or the command line to record and edit a demo video for a software change

Could replace

  • Screen Studio

Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.

Make money with it

A freelancer could offer paid demo and tutorial video production for software start-ups, using the app to edit and export quickly.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Produce product demos, onboarding videos and help-page walkthroughs without paying for a screen recording subscription
  • Record polished launch videos for social media and landing pages in-house instead of hiring an editor

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

Download the installer from GitHub Releases (a .dmg on macOS, the Microsoft Store on Windows) and grant the screen recording permissions.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • Under active development, with possible breaking changes to the project format and command line
  • The AI editing assistant needs your own paid API key from a third-party provider
  • Original repository was archived and the project continued under new maintainers
  • Linux capture features depend on PipeWire and xdg-desktop-portal

Who's talking about it

Checked 30 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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