Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Camtasia

Product categories

Cloud Storage File Sharing File Uploads Heatmaps Image Annotation Live Streaming Open Source Screen Capture Screen Recording Screenshot Annotation Screenshots Video Recording

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Camtasia are OBS Studio, ShareX, and SimpleScreenRecorder. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

OBS Studio Landing Page
1

OBS Studio

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1061 social mentions
ShareX Landing Page
2

ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation #Image Annotation 271 social mentions
SimpleScreenRecorder Landing Page
3

SimpleScreenRecorder

SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshots #Screen Recording #Screenshot Annotation 1 social mentions
Greenshot Landing Page
4

Greenshot

Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 116 social mentions
Shutter Landing Page
5

Shutter

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 7 social mentions
ScreenToGif Landing Page
6

ScreenToGif

This tool allows you to record a selected area of your screen and save as a animated gif.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation
LICEcap Landing Page
7

LICEcap

A straightforward, high performance application that enables users to capture a portion of the desktop and save it to . GIF or . LCF, LICEcap is available for download as a GPL free software.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation
Lightscreen Landing Page
8

Lightscreen

Lightscreen is a lightweight screen shooting application for Windows and linux used to automate the...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 2 social mentions
Kap Landing Page
9

Kap

Kap is an open-source screen recorder built with web technology.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screen Recording #Screenshot Annotation #Video Maker 37 social mentions
rrweb Landing Page
10

rrweb

Open source JS library to record and replay the web
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Analytics #Screen Recording #Heatmaps
Filerobot Landing Page
11

Filerobot

A collaborative, scalable and performant Digital Asset Management software. Help your teams store, process, share and accelerate images, videos and static content on any web and mobile applications across the World.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
#Cloud Storage #Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation
Onenote Web Clipper Landing Page
12

Onenote Web Clipper

Quickly capture any webpage to OneNote where you can easily edit, annotate, or share it. Clip the full page, or clip only the article, recipe, or product information you really need.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation