getOpenScreen
OpenScreen is a free, open-source screen recorder and video editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It turns a raw screen capture into a polished demo locally, with no account, watermark, subscription, or required network service.
At a Glance
- Developers and software teams
- Product and marketing teams creating demos
- Documentation and developer-relations teams
- Educators and trainers
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OpenScreen
Open Source Screen Recorder Editor
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Latest News
OpenScreen v2.2.2 released with current macOS, Windows, and Linux packages
Off-Menu video editing: OpenScreen 2.1 adds agent-written GPU shader effects and end-to-end MCP editing
Making of v2: a demo is never ugly — an audit-driven redesign of defaults, framing, export, audio, 3D camera, and interface
OpenScreen published a public export benchmark designed to compare screen-recording editors on the same clip, edit, and machine
Products & Services
Cross-platform desktop application for recording a window or display, capturing microphone/system audio and webcam, editing on a timeline, compositing effects, and exporting MP4 or GIF.
Headless command-line interface for recording, editing .openscreen project JSON, and rendering MP4/GIF for scripts, CI, and AI coding agents, with NDJSON output.
MCP tooling lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other compatible agents record, edit, caption, annotate, set formats, export, inspect frames, and add demos to pull requests.
Agent-facing low-level video-effects layer: an agent writes a bounded WGSL GPU shader, OpenScreen compiles it and places it on the editable timeline, using the same renderer for preview and export.
Market Position
OpenScreen positions itself as the open-source, free, local alternative in the polished screen-recorder/demo-editor category associated with Screen Studio. Compared with commercial tools such as Screen Studio and Camtasia it emphasizes MIT licensing, no subscription, no watermark, and local processing; compared with Loom it does not provide hosted sharing, cloud storage, team workspaces, or comments; compared with OBS Studio it focuses on edited demos rather than live streaming. Its newer differentiation is a native shared preview/export renderer, optional agent editing through MCP, and Off-Menu agent-written shader effects.
Leadership
Founders
Siddharth Vaddem
Creator of the original OpenScreen project and its original GitHub repository; he archived that repository after v1.5.0 and approved the community continuation under the same name and MIT license.
Etienne Lescot
Maintainer and lead developer of the getopenscreen continuation. His public profile describes him as an AI architect and fractional CTO with 15+ years in SaaS, IoT, product platforms, and cloud infrastructure; his biography says he worked in freelance graphic design, web/mobile development, was CTO at Leni, and co-founded two companies as CTO.
Executive Team
Etienne Lescot
Maintainer and lead developer
AI architect and fractional CTO; leads the native capture helpers, Rust compositor, AI editing tools, and releases. Public biography cites freelance design, web/mobile development, CTO experience at Leni, and two CTO co-foundings.
Founding Story
OpenScreen began as Siddharth Vaddem's side project and a free alternative to Screen Studio for making polished product demos. After the original repository was archived following v1.5.0, Etienne Lescot picked up the project on June 15, 2026 with the original author's approval, moved development to the getopenscreen organization, and committed to keeping it free forever, MIT-licensed, cross-platform, and community-driven.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Free and open-source MIT-licensed software; no paid tier, premium feature, account, watermark, usage cap, or subscription. The app runs locally. Optional cloud costs arise only when users connect their own AI provider for chat editing or caption translation.
Pricing Tiers
Free for personal and commercial use; no account, paid tier, or premium feature.
Target Markets
- Developers and software teams
- Product and marketing teams creating demos
- Documentation and developer-relations teams
- Educators and trainers
- Open-source projects and maintainers
- Individual creators who want a local Screen Studio-style workflow
- Product demos and launch videos
- Software documentation, tutorials, and README/PR videos
- Developer workflows where an AI agent records and attaches a demo to a pull request
- Marketing and social clips in wide, square, or vertical formats
- Educational and training recordings
- Local privacy-sensitive screen recording and captioning