Top 5 Free Screen Recorders to Record Your Screen Activities

Capture, edit and share any type of video

You probably sometimes spend hours explaining to someone, over the internet how to do something. Instead of typing at people, you can create screen recordings for them and shown them what you´re talking about. Especially if you have your own site and write tutorials, then it´s very useful to create video tutorials. For that you need ascreen recorder.I´ve tested a few free screen recorder and make a list of the best.


1. CamStudio

Cam Studio is easy to use, small size , pretty good screen quality and can record your screen session to .avi files or to .swf . For sure, the best free screen recorder, at least by my opinion.

Download CamStudio

File size: 1.20 MB
Supported: Win All

Here is a video tutorial how to configure the settings and use Camstudio to screen record video tutorials:




2. Wink

Wink offer a lot of options ( add image , audio,textbox…it´s something like windows movie maker that can record screen), but has few limitation; you can record the screen only to .swf, also is complicated to use

Download Wink

File size: 3272 kb
Supported: Win All


3. Jing

Jing is my favourite. Jing is simple application that can capture video and image. Unfortunately, record only to swf. files. Still it's an easy to use software and i recommend you to try it.

Download Jing

File size: 9.1 MB
Windows System Requirements:

• Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7


• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0


• Broadband recommended

4. Free Screen Recorder

Free Screen Recorder is another screen recording software that can be used to capture screen activities into a AVI video file. Free screen recorder records every moment including mouse cursor movements, typing etc.

You can also record voice from the microphone which makes it easier to add your own commentary while the video is being recorded.

Download Free Screen Recorder

File size: 591KB
Supported: Win All


5. Freez Screen Recorder

Freez Screen Recorder allows you to record videos and also pause them. Like all the other softwares you can record any region of the screen oractivities in a particular window in addition to recording all the activities of the full screen.

It also supports voice recording from the microphone, videotape or Internet.

Download Freez Screen Recorder

File size: 772KB
Supported: Windows 2003, XP, 2000, 98, Me, NT


* Camtasia Studio (Shareware)

Camtasia Studio is the complete professional solution for recording, editing and sharing high-quality screen video on the Web, CD-ROM and portable media players, including iPod.

Easily record your screen, PowerPoint, multiple audio tracks, and webcam video to create compelling training videos, screencasts, and presentations without ever leaving your desk. With the power of interactive Camtasia Studio videos, you can deliver high-quality content anytime, to even your most remote audience.

Download Camtasia Studio

This software is shareware (30-day trial), but you can search for a serial number and use it forever for free ;).... Check out this posts: How To Get Cracks and Serials to Any Program using Craagle or Top Sites to Find All the Serials You Need

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