Earlier, screen recording used to be a tedious job. People had to either use complicated tools or pay lump-sum amounts of money to get their screen recorded. But thankfully, with invent of so many useful applications, the task of recording the screen has been significantly made easy.
Now you can also make professional-looking videos easily with this option. Before this, people used to either record videos from their computers via a phone camera. This resulted in significantly low-quality videos and audios.
Here we present to you top software to record screen and audio. This includes both paid and unpaid applications.
OBS Studio
OBS or Open Broadcast Software offers unlimited recording and streaming of high-quality videos with no limit of length. It is free software. In this software, you can choose the part of the screen you want to capture or select to record the entire screen. There is the option of customizable keys as well as audio mixtures to produce high-quality audio as well. This software's best quality is that it has live streaming capabilities that are usually absent in default recorders. It is supported for Linux, mac as well as windows.
Apowersoft Unlimited
This is software that provides screen recording features for Windows, IOs, Mac, and Android. The most impressive feature of this application is that it allows you to cast an Android device or iPhone on your PC screen. This allows you to simultaneously record PC audio, mobile device, microphone, and computer webcam. This allows you to record a custom screen or the whole screen, and you can annotate the recordings in real-time. This means you can add texts, callouts, etc., without actually having to pause the recording. This software costs around 59.95 dollars per year.
Screencast – O – Matic
It is an online screen recorder as well as a video editor. It supports both webcam and also screen recordings. The perk of this recorder is that it still lacks the feature of recording HD videos. But it has to feature recording videos in other standard definitions and quickly uploading them. It can be used for zooming, drawing, and adding video overlays. This software can record youtube videos as well without having to download a desktop application. This application has impressive features of editing the computer audio and syncing it with video footage. It has lots of features that are only accessible in the paid version. Charges for this paid version in 1.50 dollar per month. However, all the basic features are provided in the free version.
AceThinker
This software is a web-based laptop screen recorder. It has a very easy setup and is also very simple to use. This can be used to record specific parts of the screen or the whole screen. Real-time editing features allow the users to make amazing videos by simultaneously capturing audio from the mic and computer. It can save videos in any renowned format and upload them in google drive, dropbox, or youtube. All the basic features are available for free, but you can access additional features by opting for a pro version. The pro version charges 39.95 dollars. It is supported for both windows and mac.
ScreenFlow
This is a Mac screen recorder with audio features as well. It has a multitude of features that allows you to record your Mac screen at a retina resolution. It has impressive features to group videos and add background and audio to these recordings. There are lots of options for adding styles and filters that are surely going to impress you. There are also bundles of templates that will allow the users to insert text, placeholders, and other things. There is a Super Pak version of ScreenFlow, and those who subscribe to it get additional access to over 500,000 unique audio and images that can be used in their audios. This costs 129 dollars.
Screencastify
It is also a screen recording application, but it works via Google Chrome. This application will impress you with the features that it provides. It can be used to record the entire screen or tabs only. You can add microphone narration to create outstanding videos. There are lots of annotation tools available, and also the application automatically saves the videos in your google drive. It has the option to upload your video on youtube on save it in some common format like gif, mop3, pr mp4.
Bandicam
This is a robust screen recording application that allows screen recording and also captures games. It has the unique feature of compressing high-quality videos without ruining the video quality. Its screen recording feature is also is another notable feature and has a separate recording for HDTV, iPhone, APPLE TV, Playstation, Xbox, etc. Bandicam also allows users to capture screenshots. This software can be used to record everything from excel spreadsheets to browsers, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
