QuickCast

Designed to be lightweight, free and simple to use — everything you need to make a short concise screencast.

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Mac OS X

Designed to be lightweight, free and simple to use — everything you need to make a short concise screencast.

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The Best 48 QuickCast Alternatives

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Camtasia Studio

Produce videos for the web using the industry-leading H.264 format. No tweaks or technospeak, just sparkling HD-quality video with compact file sizes...every single time.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Interface Overlay Capture Video Animations Graphical component Support for HD videos Chroma Key / Green Screen
175 Like

CamStudio

Record your computer screen with audio input from Mic or Speakers. Also shows mouse clicks in addition to the regular cursor. Simple interface with ability to record in AVI or export as swf.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video
133 Like

Jing

Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to create basic visual elements and share them with others.

Free Mac OS X Windows

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Annotate screenshots Edit screenshots Share screenshots Capture Video Lossless Cropping Audio recording Record videos
70 Like

recordMyDesktop

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU / Linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Capture Video Record desktop activity Record videos
69 Like

SimpleScreenRecorder

SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It is easy to use, feature-rich, and has a Qt-based graphical user interface.

Free Open Source Linux

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Lightweight Google Chrome extension Capture Video Record videos Support for gestures
61 Like

ScreenFlow

Capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time.

Commercial Mac OS X

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Record desktop activity
54 Like

Wink

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc).

Free Windows Linux

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Multiple languages
46 Like

Kazam

Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.

Free Open Source Linux
38 Like

ActivePresenter

ActivePresenter is a solution for creating screencast videos, handouts, manuals, documentation, and interactive training presentations.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows

Tabbed interface Non linear editor Voiceover Lossless Compression
23 Like

Screencast-O-Matic

Free version Records up to 15 minutes, premium is $15/year. Easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast). you can upload it to screencast-o-matic.

Freemium Windows Web

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Record videos
21 Like

oCam

oCam is very simple and easy "Screen Recorder" and "Screen Capture".

Free Personal Windows
17 Like

Microsoft Expression Encoder

Expression Encoder imports and encodes video files, produces live webcasts, enhances media with watermarks and advertising, and publishes with Silverlight.

Free Windows
15 Like

FFsplit

A freeware application that lets users stream high quality content similar to XSplit Broadcaster and Flash Media Live Encoder. Currently, the application is in early stages of development.

Free Windows

Lightweight Capture Video Live Broadcasting
14 Like

VokoScreen

A small program to create screen videos including sound recording. Although this program is really small and inconspicious, it includes exceeding capabilities to generate training videos, installation videos, browser and Skype recordings.

Free Open Source Linux
13 Like

Snapz Pro X

Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be e-mailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want.

Commercial Mac OS X
10 Like

Captura

Captura captures high resolution screencasts (h264, FFMpeg mp4) with and without mouse cursor. It captures specific regions or windows. Furthermore it can capture mouse clicks or Keystrokes. It can record audio from microphone.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Capture Video Command Line support Command line interface Support for HD videos
9 Like

Icecream Screen Recorder

Icecream Screen recorder is a screen recorder that can both record screen and take screenshots. The program records video, system sounds and the microphone audio.

Freemium Windows

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Share screenshots Capture Video Record desktop activity Record videos
9 Like

Loom

Quick video-capture straight from the browser.

Free Personal Web Chrome

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video
8 Like

Ashampoo Snap

With the new Ashampoo Snap you can capture just everything on your screen! Ashampoo Snap enables you to create high-quality screenshots, videos and demos of your screen content. Edit, save and share your excellent results with others.

Commercial Windows Android

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Edit screenshots

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The Best 48 QuickCast Alternatives

Camtasia Studio

CamStudio

Jing

recordMyDesktop

SimpleScreenRecorder

ScreenFlow

Wink

Kazam

ActivePresenter

Screencast-O-Matic

oCam

Microsoft Expression Encoder

FFsplit

VokoScreen

Snapz Pro X

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Icecream Screen Recorder

Loom

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