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Prisc

Simple but powerful cross platform screenshot, screen recording, and file upload tool.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and macOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Prisc is a screen capture program, available on Windows and macOS. Other documented uses: video editing.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: text recognition (OCR) and multitrack editing.

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
  • “Prisc is free, open source screen capture, OCR, draw on screen and video editing for Windows and macOS.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Prisc is free, open source screen capture, OCR, draw on screen and video editing for Windows and macOS.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Prisc is free, open source screen capture, OCR, draw on screen and video editing for Windows and macOS.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Pixel-perfect screenshots, scrolling capture, a color picker and a real multi-track video editor.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Prisc 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
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub priscapp/Prisc (GPL-3.0-only)

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