LICEcap

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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.

Windows: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 (might work with reduced functionality on older versions)

OSX: macOS 10.6-10.15 (old versions 1.28 and earlier available for 10.4 and PPC)

Linux: apparently works with WINE

A reasonably fast CPU

A healthy amount of RAM (1GB+, especially when encoding to LCF)

macOS: fixed macOS 10.15+ save dialog default extension issue

macOS: notarized for macOS 10.15+

macOS: drop 32-bit support

new icon (thanks White_Tie!)

LCF: fix crash when error opening output file

gif: use WDL_FileWrite to write to disk rather than fopen()/_wfopen(), lock files while writing

git clone https://www-dev.cockos.com/licecap/licecap.git



Official GitHub mirror: github.com/justinfrankel/licecap

submissions@cockos.com

* Note: inspiration for the image near the top comes from the wonderful ollie

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below).LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.LICEcap is easy to use: view a demo (output is here ).In addition to .GIF, LICEcap supports its own native lossless .LCF file format, which allows for higher compression ratios than .GIF, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping. If you record to .LCF, you can play back the .LCF files within REAPER (and/or use it to convert to .gif or another video format).LICEcap is GPL free software, each download package includes the source.Features and options:Requirements:Discuss LICEcap in the Cockos Forums LICEcap v1.30 for macOS (Apr 4 2020) (540kb DMG) LICEcap v1.28 for Windows (December 2 2017) (230kb installer)Send GPL patches to