OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio

Posted by jskopek 6 days ago

OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio(github.com)

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om252345 1 day ago|

For non AI era, putting efforts to make software like Screen Studio and charge $30 per month might have made sense. But with AI, burning credits for Open source will become a trend. Hail oss..

Nevin1901 2 days ago||

Thank you so much for making this. Screen studio was unbelievably expensive for what it was

fodkodrasz 2 days ago||

I see that this is for MacOS. Isn't there a stock feature for screen recording, like on the iPhone, or on Windows (snipping tool can do screen recordings since Windows 10 or 11)?

deadlocked 23 hours ago||

Shift+Cmd+5 brings up the built-in screen capture tool, which includes options for recording the screen (or a window, or a section of the screen).

OpenScreen and its ilk seem to have more features for post-capture editing though.

stared 2 days ago|||

On Windows, I used to use https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

Now, I see the last build is from 2022.

addandsubtract 2 days ago||

There is, using QuickTime. The repo just fails to mention the benefits of this by assuming everyone knows what Screen Studio is and does.

JCharante 2 days ago||

to be fair if you don't know about screen studio why are you looking at an oss alternative?

bigfishrunning 1 day ago|||

I don't know about screen studio, but if I were looking for a way to edit screen recordings I wouldn't be searching for an "open source alternative", I would be searching for "open source software"

Defining your project as an open source alternative to another program is a mistake I think

addandsubtract 1 day ago|||

Fuck me for being interested in projects posted on HN, I guess.

steveharing1 2 days ago||

This is really useful when it comes to recording product demo videos as well as UI is so clean and minimal that it feels like modern open source.

dhruv3006 2 days ago||

Great project - but screen studio is actually pretty awesome!

__mharrison__ 2 days ago||

I'd rather have the metadata from click and typing events and use that to create a davinci project...

tuzemec 2 days ago||

That's pretty cool!

Btw, it seems that "How trimming works" screen has some missing translations.

marktolson 2 days ago||

Genuinely impressed with this! Thank you!

colesantiago 2 days ago||

Thanks to open source and AI, we don't need every software to be a subscription or an enshittified SaaS.

Screen Studio at $29/mo is unusually and extremely expensive for a video recorder app, and not counting the fact that it is proprietary, which means they can change pricing at any time.

Thanks for building this.

danpasca 2 days ago|

Yep. I've had ChatGPT build many simple python scripts or browser extensions that I can use for free instead of paying for subscriptions that shouldn't be subscriptions in the first place.

youniverse 2 days ago|

Now we need an open source self hostable Loom.

crummy 2 days ago|

Haven’t tried it, but here is one: https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify

DougMerritt 2 days ago||

1. It says it is $8/month, which is not mentioned on the github page, so I had been thinking it was free in addition to being AGPL-3.0; it links to https://snapify.it/ which is where I see the fee.

2. It says "for everyone" but looks like it might be Linux-specific, and it doesn't say anything about which OSes are supported.

josephcsible 2 days ago||

IIUC, the fee is just to use their instance, and hosting your own instance is actually free. Also, it looks like the client side of it runs in a browser, so it will support pretty much any OS.

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