sway VS obs-studio

Compare sway vs obs-studio and see what are their differences.

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)

obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording (by obsproject)
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sway obs-studio
613 2360
13,672 54,874
2.3% 2.0%
9.2 9.8
4 days ago 7 days ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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sway

Posts with mentions or reviews of sway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

obs-studio

Posts with mentions or reviews of obs-studio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sway and obs-studio you can also consider the following projects:

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

obsninja - VDO.Ninja is a powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.

wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

obs-StreamFX - StreamFX is a plugin for OBS® Studio which adds many new effects, filters, sources, transitions and encoders! Be it 3D Transform, Blur, complex Masking, or even custom shaders, you'll find it all here.

ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: