Bandicam
Bandicam is a Windows screen recorder that captures screen, gameplay, webcam and audio. It also handles trimming, AI transcription and background removal for tutorials, lessons and meeting recordings.
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Who it's for
Best for
Students and teachers recording lectures, tutorials and study notes
Gamers who record gameplay with face cam and voice commentary
Not for
- Creators who need flawless high frame-rate capture of fast games
Hobbyists who want watermark-free clips without buying a licence
Features
Screen, game and webcam capture
Records a specific window, a full game in DirectX, OpenGL or Vulkan, or a webcam alongside the screen, with game audio and voice captured together.
Smart Zoom and on-screen drawing
Smart Zoom zooms into parts of a recording, and pen strokes, arrows, shapes and text can be drawn on screen while recording to point out key steps.
AI transcription
Turns recording audio into text so subtitles, meeting notes and summaries can be produced from the footage without a separate transcription tool.
Scheduled and auto recording
Sets a start time in advance or starts and stops automatically at a chosen time or file size, so long sessions and meetings record unattended.
Audio-only recording and editing
Saves microphone and computer sound as MP3 or WAV, trims the waveform, and boosts speaker or microphone volume up to 200%.
What users say
Pros
- Records a full pixel-art drawing session with a customizable setup that works without fuss.
- Old purchased copies keep working years later, so the software can be owned instead of rented.
- Audio captures come out clean on a setup where the alternative recording program produced audible stutters.
Cons
- Cuts a 300fps demo down to about 2fps during capture, so the recorded footage is unusable.
- Crashes at the last second of a long recording session and the captured footage is lost.
- Some games crash the moment Bandicam hooks into the video output, so no gameplay gets captured.
- Free recordings carry a Bandicam watermark across the top until a paid licence is bought.
- Hardware h.264/HEVC capture through the GPU stopped working after a graphics driver update.
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Global Traffic Rank
Top 100k
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