🖥️openscreen
Create stunning demos for free. Open-source, no subscriptions, no watermarks, and free for commercial use. An alternative to Screen Studio.
⭐ Very popular: 40k stars, gaining about 123 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- Directly challenges a demo-recording category dominated by polished but expensive subscription tools.
- Signals that developers no longer want to pay subscription rates for capabilities that open source can replicate.
- Reached its star count while still in beta and with a first-time open-source creator, pointing to real pent-up demand.
under the hood
- Built with Electron, React, TypeScript, Vite, PixiJS for rendering, and dnd-timeline for segment management.
- System audio capture uses Electron's desktopCapturer, needing macOS 13 or newer, or PipeWire on Linux.
- Available as pre-built installers for macOS, Windows, and a Linux AppImage, with a public roadmap.
our take from PR#31, 2026-04-08
star history
- PR#31 23k 2026-04-08
- now 40k + 17k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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Free, open-source screen recorder for polished product demos
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replaces
alternatives to Screen Studio →- Screen Studio closed source
- Loom closed source
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