List Of Best Free Screencasting Softwares Compatible With All Platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Screencasting (recording the actions on the computer screen in a video format) today has become the need of the for many bloggers who prefer publishing video tutorials for their readers. Other then bloggers many Internet surfers at times want to record the webcam of their friends just to store in their collections or many times for some weird reasons. Some years back this wasn’t that easy but slowly many free screencasting softwares have come up which can be used to record video of your computer screen. Most of these are compatible with either windows, linux, or mac. For those users who do not want to switch between different functionalities of different softwares here we have two screencasting programs (one online and one offline) that you can use to record the video of your computer screen. Let us have a quick look at them.

NOTE: The first two are online screencasting programs.

Online screencasting programs might not have various features that downloadable softwares have but these have few advantages which increase their importance by many folds. Firstly, users do not need to download any software and install it in their computers and secondly the recorded video is uploaded to any video uploading website on the fly without eating up users bandwidth. The second advantage applies on those who have limited download/upload limits in their internet connections or those who have slow internet connections.

ScreenToaster is one of the best online screencasting program that permits you to either record full screen video or just a custom selection. You can also add subtitles to the video and can upload them on various video websites like YouTube. You can also record your voice narration to these videos but only after you are done with video recording. So what are you waiting for? Just start screencasting.

One can add overlay test like in YouTube video and choose from pre-defined sizes for their screencasts while using Screencast-o-Matic. Few problems are that videos aren’t rendered in flash (so users need Java) and it won’t let you record a video of any custom size. On the other hand it has an awesome feature under which you can export the screencast as a QuickTime movie so as to upload it on some video website like YouTube.

Note: The one below is Offline (needs to be downloaded) free screencasting software for Windows and Mac.

Jing was launched as a free screencasting software in the year 2007 and since then it has come a long way. As of now a Pro version of Jing is also available for those who want some advanced features. The free version is compatible with Windows and Mac. One can record a screencast and upload it to web, local computer, FTP, or clipboard. It also generates a unique URL from where the video can be downloaded. It is simple to use and generates SWF format of screencasts which is the exact format for a screencast.

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