{"slug": "openscreen", "name": "OpenScreen", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 3, "warners": 1, "score": 0.262, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2026-04-04", "latest": "2026-04-05", "why": "Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["OpenScreen"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 762314784, "item_id": 47644674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644674", "by": "SilentM68", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.", "excerpt": "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. Will keep an eye on its progress since OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates :)", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "screen recording", "switched_from": "OBS", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 762391392, "item_id": 47649462, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649462", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-04-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you rip something off, at least have the decency to not compare your product to it.", "excerpt": "\"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 ", "context": "", "use_case": "screen recording", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}]}], "who": [{"by": "SilentM68", "context": "Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644674", "date": "2026-04-04"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["screen recording"], "compared": [{"slug": "obs-studio", "name": "OBS Studio", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "screen-studio", "name": "Screen Studio", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595695", "title": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio", "mentions": 3}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 762391392, "item_id": 47649462, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649462", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-04-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you rip something off, at least have the decency to not compare your product to it.", "excerpt": "\"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 ", "context": "", "use_case": "screen recording", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}, {"id": 762328865, "item_id": 47645554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645554", "by": "alin23", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Anyway I love to see alternatives like OpenScreen!", "excerpt": "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\u2019ve 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\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that\u2019s what", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}, {"id": 762314784, "item_id": 47644674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644674", "by": "SilentM68", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.", "excerpt": "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. Will keep an eye on its progress since OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates :)", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "screen recording", "switched_from": "OBS", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}]}