On the recordRead 11 Oct 202625 facts
Unisic
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Free and open source · GNU GPL v3
Read 11 Oct 2026 · unisic.app
On the record
- Capture
- It captures full screens, regions, and active windows, and supports annotation on the selection overlay before capture.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Capture and annotation
- It supports full-screen, region, and window capture, with annotations drawn on the frozen selection overlay before capture.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Compositor support
- The maker documents capture paths for KDE Plasma, portal-based desktops such as GNOME, and wlroots compositors such as niri.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- The site lists Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, Nix, and AppImage installation options.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Distribution options
- The maker documents installation through distro repositories, Nix, direct downloads, or building from source.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Editor
- Its post-capture editor includes tools such as highlight, pixelate, smart eraser, magnifier, callout, measure, numbered steps, and crop.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- PNG, JPG, WebPunisic.app · read 20 Sep 2026
- History
- Captures appear in a thumbnail history where users can star favorites, pin previews, or drag thumbnails into another app.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Instant replay
- Instant replay buffers the last 30 seconds, and recordings can be trimmed from the notification card.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- License
- Unisic is free software under GNU GPL v3, including commercial use, with distributed derivatives required to release source under GPL v3.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Measurement tools
- Yesunisic.app · read 20 Sep 2026
- OCR
- It can copy OCR text from a screen region, select words in the editor to copy, highlight, or redact, and decode QR codes.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- OCR and codes
- OCR can copy text from a region or individual words, and QR or barcodes can be decoded to their payload.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says Unisic has no telemetry, crash reporting, analytics, or accounts; its own network requests check GitHub for newer releases, and uploads occur only when triggered by the user.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Unisic is an open-source screenshot tool and screen recorder for Linux, built for Wayland.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Recording
- It records a region, full screen, or window as GIF or MP4/WebM video, with optional system and microphone audio and instant replay.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
- Redaction tools
- Yesunisic.app · read 20 Sep 2026
- Requirements
- It requires a Wayland session with xdg-desktop-portal; recording also requires PipeWire and ffmpeg.unisic.app · read 11 Oct 2026
