Looking for great alternatives to Screen ninja to create cool timelapses of your screen? Check out this great options!
Hustl
Hustl is a Mac app that allows you to create amazing timelapses with no post editing. Just adjust the frame you wanna record or limit it to an specific app or page and hit “record”!
Once you’re finished, you will be able to adjust the video speed and voilá! you will be able to export directly your timelapse video, ready to share.
These are the some of the features of its new version, Hustl 2.0:
- Capture only the active app: Set a specific app as a target and Hustl will prevent any other screens to be part of your time-lapse by automagically ignoring all other activity happening outside of your target app
- Ultra high-definition. 4K & 8K support: Hustl is adding support for the next generation of ultra high-definition video and can now export in up to 8K resolution. Enjoy the quality and the precision of every pixel on the screen.
- Pause your time-lapse. Resume anytime: Sometimes the task at hand is just too big to get it done in one sit, and sometimes you just need a break to catch up with emails and browse social media away from the camera’s eye. Hustl lets you pause and resume your recording at any time, as many times as you need.
- Fix the aspect ratio. Or go fullscreen: Go fullscreen in a single click, or get to adjust every capture area with pixel perfect precision and aided by the tool to lock the aspect ratio.
- Slow down. Or speed up. Select the final duration and control every detail: Adjust output video format and select export time, choose how long the time-lapse will be by changing the amount of frames per second (FPS) the output video will use. Learn more about how to choose the perfect speed for timelapses with the timelapse calculator.
Here you can see some real examples of users using Hustl:
QuickTime Player
QuickTime is built-in app inside the Mac that will allow you to record your screen. Nevertheless, QuickTime player is unable to speed up the video once recorded, so you will need an app to speed it up later. These are the steps to follow to record the screen:
- Open QuickTime player and press File>New Screen Recorder
- Hit “Record”
- Once you’re finished recording, press again the “Record” button. QuickTime will open automatically the recorded video so you can post edit, share or save it. From there, you can get the raw video and speed it up.
On top of that, to create a timelapse and speed the video up, we have a tutorial on how to make a speedpaint with QuickTime Player and another one where we teach you how to slow down a timelapse.
OBS
OBS is an open source program that allows to record your screen and make live streaming and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
This software is perfect for recording all your activity on the screen and then saving the raw video on the computer.
To create a timelapse from a screen recorder without features to speed the video up like OBS, check out our tutorial on how to make a speedpaint or this one, where we teach you how to slow down a timelapse.
Conclusion
In this post, we’ve shown you some great alternatives to Screen Ninja
We have presented three options to consider: Hustl, OBS and Quicktime Player.
If you were wondering different alternatives to Screen Ninja, we hope we’ve given you some ideas!