OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio

Smart choice using PixiJS for the rendering pipeline — WebGL gives you hardware-accelerated compositing for the zoom/pan effects without needing to shell out to ffmpeg for every preview frame. The auto-zoom feature alone makes this worth it for anyone doing quick product demos where you'd otherwise spend 20 minutes keyframing in a full NLE. Would love to see cursor click highlighting land at some point, that's the one Screen Studio feature I actually miss.

Looks awesome! Super excited to try it. What are pros / cons over Cap? https://cap.so/ - also open source https://github.com/CapSoftware/cap

Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money?

The recent video I did for Cling for example (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) I’ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the right amount of motion and highlighting. I did it in a few minutes of editing in the ScreenStudio UI.

I’m not saying it’s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that’s what matters. It would have taken me days to do the same with DaVinci Resolve because of my inexperience with complex editors.

A $30/month subscription is indeed too much, but I see it as a one time payment for that month when I release something, then I pause the subscription. I need it rarely, very few videos need zooming and motion.

Anyway I love to see alternatives like OpenScreen! What I would miss the most would be presets, not sure if it’s already there, but it’s a nice quality of life feature to have a consistent look to the motion effects between videos.

I made this with OpenScreen: https://x.com/derekdfulton/status/2015804409205125151

Thought it came out pretty good

Does this have any advantages over OBS Studio?

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..

I've been using this for the past month or so and have had nothing but positive experience. It's easy to use and works well. I wish the zoom was a slider instead of preset options, that way I could get finer control. Easily one of the best apps I found recently along with Handy.computer.

Nice project. I thought of building exactly this.

Since it's much easier to port source code to other languages now, I'd love to see more projects like written in Swift, or C#.

Also checkout https://screenix.studio/ if you're on Linux

I just tried Open Screen but it didn't work on my machine (Cachy OS) - it didn't detect the screen or my microphone. Hopefully it gets better

Curious how this compares to Recordly (https://recordly.dev)

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.

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)?

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

Great project - but screen studio is actually pretty awesome!

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

That's pretty cool!

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

Genuinely impressed with this! Thank you!

Nifty app!

Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.

Suggest you add preferences dropdown to floating bar, and ability to highlight parts of an area for record, ability to set the default save location or change it at will. Also noted that though I closed the app via the customary way, and removed the AppImage, the apps ICON remained present in GNOME's notification area.

Will keep an eye on its progress since OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates :)

Now we need an open source self hostable Loom.

"OpenScreen is your free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio (sort of)."

If you rip something off, at least have the decency to not compare your product to it. I mean, why is it good to have zero revenue and at the same time killing revenue for something else, that existed for a long time?

What's wrong with people, why are they biting their own hand? FOSS is a trojan horse and look, how many borderline idiotic manchildren kill their livelihood and offer their arz on a platter and at the same time killing revenue streams for others. And for what? So someone could expropriate it in an instant???

I mean what on earth is wrong with people???

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.

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Thanks for sharing! I'll give it a go and send back my feedback.