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OBS
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Records to many popular formats
You can record videos in formats such as mp4, flv, mkv, and more. You also have control over the bitrate used.
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Recording a window will not record the menu bar, popup menus or child dialogs
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Free and open source
No subscriptions or payments or licenses.
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Overkill for simple projects
Plus the interface is a bit intimidating.
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Available for Linux, Mac, Windows
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Needs tutorial to get started
Otherwise it's hard to find out how to record a screen or window.
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Live streams
Can be used to stream.
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Fast
From the website: "GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming."
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Extendable
OBS has an API allowing developers to create their own unique plugins, giving them and others complete control of their streaming experience.
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Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC and file output to MP4 or FLV
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Unlimited number of scenes and sources
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Video Formats:
MP4, FLV, MKV
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ShareX
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Cons
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Allows uploading to a vast number of different services
Designed as file uploader in the first place, ShareX supports overhelming amount of services for you to upload your files to and the list is expanding.
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Too complicated
This is extremely customizable, but extremely complex! If you want something simple and intuitive out of the box, stay away from ShareX.
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Free and open source
ShareX is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
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Privacy concern
Can upload screenshots to web without you realizing, unable to delete or reverse process.
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Customizable
You can choose what shortcut key to bind your command to, as well what host it uploads the file to.
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Scrolling window capture doesn't work always as expected
Sometimes might need to use another screen capture software to capture a scrolling page.
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Freezes screen when you capture
When you enter a capture mode, the screen content is preserved as it was when you started capturing by default. However there is a special "Light" mode where the screen does not freeze.
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The editor is rather simplistic
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Can capture video too
Apart from still images, ShareX allows the user to record unlimited video with all the options available for normal image capture.
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Capturing (screen, video, a window, etc.) with annotation + automation
Capturing (screen, video, a window, etc.) with annotation + automation makes for some powerful workflows. Annotation is key for research on any project size. Capturing screenshots, editing them ("annotating"), converting to a PNG, removing the background to make a transparent version, saving to google drive, creating large+med+sm sizes, uploading thumbnails, is an example of a workflow you could create. The list goes on... You'll find the same strength & depth in features for image handling also for text, videos, other files by type, and on and on..
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Has an editor
It has its own screen editing tool.
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It has a dead simple way for creating animated GIFs
It is great for creating software tutorials or highlighting new features in a sales function - nothing beats a well-placed animated GIF in an email.
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Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
C#
Video Formats:
GIF
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Camtasia
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Pros
5
Cons
2
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$200 price tag
If you're not recording your screen on a regular basis, one of the free options might be a better choice.
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Built-in Video Editor to Edit video after recording
Multiple media layers Cut, join, insert freeze frame, change volume Annotate with shapes and images
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Quite complex for novice users
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Can record audio
Record audio from the room (via microphone) or from your device. Add sound later if you want. Or not at all.
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Tutorial instruction is plentiful
There are hundreds of tutorial lessons among the TechSmith, YouTube, and Udemy sites. The presentations are clear and small enough to assimilate quickly and easily.
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Quick start with incremental ramp-up
Although the initial workspace screen may look daunting, with just a little instruction it's quite easy to navigate. More advanced features can be brought in as needed.
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Easy to learn and use
Show somebody something real quick or create a commercial grade production with a little practice.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
Video Formats:
MP4, MPEG, MOV, TREC
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Vokoscreen
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8
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Webcam support
An adjustable size window with your webcam feed can be positioned to your desired place on the screen.
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Does not automatically use webcam or microphone
You need to manually select your webcam and microphone each time unless you are using the default one.
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Fullscreen, window and area capture
You can choose to use the software to capture all of your workspace, a select area or a specific window.
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High quality video
Vokoscreen offers the high quality h264 and mpeg4 codecs for encoding and avi and mkv formats for storing the video.
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Easy to set up and use
Vokoscreen has an easy to understand tabbed interface.
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Can hide mouse cursor
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Multilingual
Vokoscreen's GUI has been translated in over 25 languages.
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Zoom-in/out shortcuts
You can choose to use magnification and set shortcut keys for zooming in and zooming out.
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Active development
Vokoscreen is always under development, the latest versions can be found here.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux
Technology:
C++, Qt
Video Formats:
mkv, avi, webm, mp4, mov, gif
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Snagit
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8
Cons
2
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Includes an image editor
Allows you to adjust the capture, add captions and symbols (arrows, boxes etc).
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Con
Pro version costs about $59.94
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Good markers for setting the capture area
Simple to choose between full-screen, window or a selected area.
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the inbuilt image editor is not user-friendly
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Can easily add annotations
The editor allows you to quickly and easily mark and annotate the screen capture.
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Can capture screen video
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Integrates with third party services
Google drive, Twitter, Facebook, email etc.
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Allows for delayed capture
Allows you to arrange the screen as you want it captured. Things like opening a popup menu, to have it part of the capture.
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Can capture editable text
Just about any text on the screen can be editable text. I say "just about" because it's like OCR software in that unusual and extra fancy fonts or text against a low contrast background may be a challenge. But overall it works in most situations.
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Mobile app for easily moving screenshots from smartphone to Snagit's editor
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
Video Formats:
MP4, GIF
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Bandicam Screen Recorder
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3
Cons
2
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Recording time limitation
If you use a free version, you can only record 10 minutes per recording.
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Real-time Drawing while recording
You can simultaneously add arrows, boxes, numbers or highlights while recording.
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Free version has watermark
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Screen Recording + Game Recording + Webcam Recording
You can record not only your computer screen but also your gameplay and webcam.
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Webcam overlay while recording
You can simply add webcam video of yourself on the video that you are recording.
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Platforms:
Windows
Video Formats:
MP4, AVI
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Apowersoft Free Online Screen Recorder
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Start from a web page
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Free to use
The free version is easy to use.
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So easy to use.
If you have an internet connection, in two minutes your video will be done. Basic and essential features included.
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Annotations
Annotations and drawings can be added to the video.
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Platforms:
Windows, Android, Web
Video Formats:
MP4, WMV, AVI, FLV, MPEG, VOB, ASF, GIF
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PicPick
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Includes many other useful tools
Image editor, color picker, color palette, screen-ruler, etc.
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Free for personal use
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Many options to configure how the screenshot is done
There are many options to configure the way a screenshot is done: selection (whole screen, active window, rectangle, hand-drawn form) timeout (very useful when you like to show that pop-up or that mouse-over effect)
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Intuitive image editor
Screen captures can directly be opened in the included image editor, which provides many tools you need all the time on screenshots: drawing on it, cropping, blurring, color correction, etc.
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Has a portable version
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Platforms:
Windows
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ScreenToGif
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Open Source
https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/
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Only available for Windows
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Best for Animated GIFs
Create lightweight GIFs with excellent quality, also including tons of possibilities, like automatically reduce duplicated frames, progress bar, free drawing, transitions, etc.
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Available as portable bundle
No need to install.
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Very Easy to use
The interface is very intuitive, no need to read documentation or tutorials
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Good support
The author gives a good attentions for doubts and issues
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Very lightweight
Extremely fast to load (about 1 second)
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Screenpresso
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Cons
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Image editor
Built-in image editor to add arrows, balloons, numbered steps, etc..
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Branding
Branding in HD video capture of the free version.
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Video
Can create .mp4 videos.
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Works fine with 4k screens
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Portable version
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Platforms:
Windows
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Greenshot (for Windows)
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Pros
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Cons
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Scrolling window capture is only working in Internet Explorer
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Free and open source
Greenshot is licensed under GPL with source code available on BitBucket.
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This version only works on Windows, not Linux nor Mac
However, the same author now has a separate version of Greenshot for iOS, which is available (for a small fee) in the Mac App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenshot/id1103915944
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Freezes screen when you capture
When you enter a capture mode, the screen content is preserved as it was when you started capturing.
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Allows annotating, highlighting and obfuscating screenshots
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Can capture an entire webpage
Instead of just capturing the visible portion of the page, this tool can capture all of the page in one image by scrolling through the page, taking images at set points and then stitching the images together.
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Can be quickly invoked with the print screen button
Pressing the print screen button will allow you to select the captured area.
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Selecting custom rectangle is the default
Easy to use selection tool with a magnifier to select only the part of the screen that you need.
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Classic UI design makes it easy to use.
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Flameshot
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Cons
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Pin tool
Pin screenshots on screen so that you won't have to scroll up and down to find something in a long document all the time.
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No delay for area shot
It can not add a delay for an area shoot.
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Edit and copy on the fly
Write texts, draw rectangles, circles, and arrows on a screenshot and copy all on the fly or save the edited picture to disk. You can change colors, sizes and widths of all the elements the tool provides.
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Upload to Imgur
Take a screenshot and upload to Imgur with a click.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
License:
GPLv3
Tethered capture:
YES
Non-Distructive Editing:
YES
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Lightshot
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Cons
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Includes an image editor
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No blur function
Some screen capture tools offer the option to blur parts of the image to hide sensitive info. It would be great if Lightshot did the same.
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Clean interface
In spite of some drawbacks, the clean and easy to use interface is awesome.
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Cannot change the size of the text
There seems to be no way to make the text bigger or smaller when writing on the screen capture, which is a huge minus compared to MonoSnap.
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Available for macOS, Windows, or as a Chrome plugin
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No publicly available license
No publicly available license and inquiries to the developer were not responded to.
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Freezes the screen using print screen key
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Cannot change the image hosting service
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Chrome, Firefox
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Monosnap
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Easy drag and drop saving and uploading
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Annotation tools for both screenshots and during video recording
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Screenshots and Screencasts in the same app
Nice to have one less app running all the time.
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Free
It costs nothing.
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Able to upload directly after recording or capturing
Very convenient especially when doing stuff like writing documentation or blog where you can just paste the hotlink directly.
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SnapDraw
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Pros
2
Cons
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Annotations
Lot's of choice in annotations, balloons and auto numbering.
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Interface
The user interface is a bit convoluted, and takes a while to get used to.
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Projects
Can save projects so you can edit the objects like text, arrows and shapes later.
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ScreenTake
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Cloud
Allows upload to cloud, a shareable link is created.
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No timer
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Animated gifs
Allows capturing animated gifs.
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Rectangles only
Only rectangular screen capture possible at the moment.
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Annotations
Allows annotations.
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Irfanview
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Pros
10
Cons
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Some editing tools included (cropping, color correcting, etc...)
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GIF viewing is buggy
GIF viewing has longstanding problems like flickering, incorrect framerate or artifacts, and it is very unlikely that it will be ever fixed.
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Lots of plugins available
Plugins can be found here.
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Irfanview Thumbnail Viewer crashes on accessing AVI files
For some reason, the Irfanview Thumbnail Viewer crashes when it tries to access any .AVI movie file.
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Batch processing
Even exif information can be batch processed.
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No transparency support
The alpha is converted to the selected background color upon opening a picture. When saving the picture again, you can select a color which is converted to alpha again.
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Recognizes virtually any image format
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Missing some utilities
Like browsing files utility.
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You can just scroll with your mouse to explore images
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Preferences are hard to find
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Ultra fast
If you press and hold the right-arrow button (for displaying the next image), you can watch images pass by as if they are a video, it's that fast. No stuttering, it loads images as fast as your hard drive can keep up.
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Windows only
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Lightweight
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UI is far from ideal
Sometimes the interface is confusing.
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Can use 8bf (Photoshop) filters
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Easy updates
Very easy to update the program and its associated plugins.
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Irfanview Thumbnail Viewer is a convenient way to view all image files easily
Irfanview Thumbnail Viewer is a great way to view thumbnails of all image files, including thumbnails of WMF files which Windows cannot natively display.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Spectacle
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Cons
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Free and open source
Spectacle is licensed under MIT with source code available on GitHub.
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Not maintained
The software is free, but no longer seems to be maintained.
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Simple hotkeys
Spectacle offers easy-to-remember preset hotkeys.
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Impossible to add new functions
While keyboard shortcuts can be changed for the available actions, there is no way to add custom actions which in turn limits the functionality of the app.
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Mouseless
All windows in Spectacle can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts, so no mouse is needed. This makes for a fast way to control windows.
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Limited window sizing capabilities
You can use 1/2 of the screen vertically and horizontally (divide into 4 parts). You can also use the screen in thirds too, but only the left and right third: you can't use the 1/3 in the center. There is no way to do a more granular distribution.
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Great UX
Spectacle is easy to use and configure. It's plug and play.
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Breaks on macOS High Sierra / Chrome or Firefox
Doesn't support side by side windows.
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Low footprint
Spectacle only uses up 18-19 MB of RAM, which means there is not much overhead by using this app.
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Doesn't work with any Adobe products
There are some apps like Adobe Reader that do not work with Spectacle. Basically, any app with a heavily customized UI that breaks OS X accessibility will not work correctly under Spectacle.
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Multi-monitor support
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7+ years of use
Using it for 7 years
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QuickTime
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5
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Video player can interfere with other software
Leaving QuickTime's video player running in background doesn't play well with certain software, especially games and full-screen software.
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Recording and editing is possible
Unlike other video players, QuickTime offers recording and editing opportunity. To unlock this features QuickTime Pro 7 is required, which is a fee-based software (29.99$). Program features include possibility to record video and audio directly from microphone, FireWire camcorder and iSight camera. Speaking of video editing, cutting, deleting, resizing, flipping, or rotating a movie is possible.
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Some common video file formats are not supported
QuickTime does not have native support for some common formats such as DivX, .wmv, and .mkvs.
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Easy to use streaming features
QuickTime video player has "Zero-configuration streaming" - video player automatically determines best connection speed. Plus, it can automatically reconnect, if the connection was lost. Step by step video file stream or broadcast guide can be found in the source.
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Can't play .srt subtitle files
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Screen recording is a easy
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Crashes after OS X update
Sometimes after an OS X update, if the video player wasn’t updated for a long time, QuickTime can crash for no reason
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Elegant look and comfortable interface
QuickTime is developed by Apple, which is known for its plain, but gorgeous and user-friendly design. QuickTime is included in the list of default programs on macOS systems, so it is a good free option for beginners and users who love style and comfort.
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Posh smell
Look up Posh and see if you think a software movie player should be POSH. What a hoot.
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