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Blue Recorder

A simple screen recorder for Linux desktop. Supports Wayland & Xorg.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Blue Recorder is a screen capture program, available on Linux.

File formats mentioned: GIF, MP4, MKV, WEBM and AVI.

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
  • “A simple screen recorder for Linux desktop.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Blue Recorder is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. Built using Rust, GTK+ 4 and ffmpeg. It supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces with support for Wayland display server on GNOME session. The following formats are currently supported: mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, gif and nut (And only WebM for Wayland's GNOME session). You can stop the recording process easily by right-clicking the icon and choosing "Stop Record". Or middle-clicking the recording icon in the notifications area (but doesn't work on all interfaces). You can choose the audio input source you want from the list. You can also set the default values you want by simply changing them in the interface, and the program will save them for you for the next time you open it. Based on GREEN RECORDER but rewritten in RUST

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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