Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports. With Peek, you simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press "Record". Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM or MP4 if you prefer. Peek is not a general purpose screencast app with extended features but rather focuses on the single task of creating small, silent screencasts of an area of the screen for creating GIF animations or silent WebM or MP4 videos. Peek runs on X11 or inside a GNOME Shell Wayland session using XWayland. Support for more Wayland desktops might be added in the future.

Features

  • Peek allows you to record in both WebM and MP4 format
  • Create short screencasts of a screen area
  • Peek AppImage packages are available on the release page
  • Peek can be installed on all distributions supporting Flatpak from Flathub
  • Simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press "Record"
  • Peek runs on X11 or inside a GNOME Shell Wayland session using XWayland

Project Samples

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Categories

Capture, Screen Recorders

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Operating Systems

Linux, Windows

Programming Language

Vala

Related Categories

Vala Capture Software, Vala Screen Recorders

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2021-07-28
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