simple animated screen captures
view a demo
here
REAPER
- Record directly to .GIF or .LCF.
- Move the screen capture frame while recording.
- Pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages.
- Global hotkey (shift+space) to toggle pausing while recording
- Adjustable maximum recording framerate, to allow throttling CPU usage.
- Basic title frame, with or without text.
- Record mouse button presses.
- Display elapsed time in the recording.
- For Windows: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 (might work with reduced functionality on older versions)
- For OSX: OS 10.4+ (10.6+ for full feature support), PPC or Intel
- A reasonably fast CPU
- A healthy amount of RAM (1GB+, especially when encoding to LCF)
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Download
LICEcap v1.26 for Windows
LICEcap v1.25 for OSX
- Windows 8.1 + high DPI fix, thanks to Betsegaw Tadele/https://github.com/betsegaw
- V1.26 Updated 12/28/15 with NSIS 2.5.0
- (otherwise identical to 1.25, no need for an OSX update)
Source code
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git clone http://www-dev.cockos.com/licecap/licecap.git
Official GitHub mirror:
Github.com/justinfrank…
Old versions
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LICEcap v1.25 for Windows (12/21/14) (220kb installer)
- OSX: improved window position detection
- OSX: 10.9+ signed .app file (if we remember)
- GIF: optimizations to update/palette generation logic, smaller results
- GIF: support writing .gifs with transparency per-frame, for smaller file sizes (limited old-IE compat)
- Added option to automatically stop after X seconds (X can be 0 for a static screenshot)
- Title configuration is stored across sessions
- Windows: use licecap.ini in same path as executable if it exists (portable mode) — (was in 1.23 but did not work)
- Fixed excess-newline-in-config-file bug
- Support for choosing number of loop iterations of GIF files
- Removed licecap_cli.exe from installer
- OSX: cursor support for 10.6+ (10.4 and 10.5 do not get actual cursor used)
- OSX: mouse click detection (may require “enable access for assistive devices” on some OS versions)
- OSX: fixed time text artifacts
- OSX: fixes support for 10.7+, improved performance on 10.6
- Allow user to set capture dimensions before recording
- Insert text frames (when paused) – via JeffOS, thanks JeffOS!
- OSX version: first alpha version doesn’t support proper cursors or mouse status or hotkeys, but somewhat usable
- Fixed LCF export for widths not multiples of 4
- Added hotkey for pause (shift+space)
- First release
LICEcap v1.25 for OSX (12/21/14) (700kb DMG)
LICEcap v1.24 for Windows (12/29/13) (300kb installer)
LICEcap v1.24 for OSX (12/29/13) (800kb DMG)
LICEcap v1.23 for Windows (4/28/13) (300kb installer)
LICEcap v1.23 for OSX (4/28/13) (800kb DMG)
LICEcap v1.22 for OSX (12/4/12) (800kb DMG)
LICEcap v1.21 for OSX (Note:
alpha version) (11/30/12) (800kb DMG)
LICEcap v1.2 for Windows (8/4/11) (432kb installer)
LICEcap v1.2 for OSX (Note:
alpha version) (8/4/11) (800kb DMG)
LICEcap v1.1 (6/9/10) (389kb installer)
LICEcap v1.0 (6/7/10) (389kb installer)
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