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The self-hosted Bandicam alternative

Bandicam is a Windows desktop application for screen and game capture that records desktop activity, gameplay and webcam input, producing compressed video files and screenshots. It is a locally installed commercial recorder (not a cloud/SaaS platform).

Alternatives to Bandicam

Web app to generate GIFs from Plex media and subtitles with integrated Plex login; built on .NET 6 and provided as a Docker Compose service.

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What replacing Bandicam actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. Licences in this list: LGPL-2.1. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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