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Bandicam

Bandicam is a lightweight screen recorder software for Windows that can capture anything on your PC screen as a high-quality video.

  • Limited free plan
  • Windows

Overview

Bandicam is a screen capture program, available on Windows.

Features described on its official website and in its Winget manifest: hardware acceleration.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Bandicam is high-quality screen recording software for capturing your screen, gameplay, and webcam, with built-in editing and AI tools.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “This app also makes it possible to record a certain area on a PC screen, or capture a game that uses the DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan graphics technologies.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Bandicam offers free content, but also paid plans: only the free part is free, as detailed under “Plans and conditions”.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Plans and conditions

  • Free content: the free library can be used without paying, under the publisher’s licence.
  • Watermark depends on the plan chosen (see the official pricing page).

Strengths

  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Limited free plan

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