Sideo

Sideo is a straightforward and lightweight Windows tool for screen activity recording purposes. It allows users to effortlessly capture their screen activities both in video form and with the help of screenshots.

It can be deployed on basically any computer very easily thanks to a typical installer yet, despite its somewhat unassuming looks, provides a lot of configuration options. Once launched, users are greeted by a compact grey-themed GUI with 4 main sections as follows: Current Session, Previous Sessions, Settings, and Logs.

Users are also provided with a series of extra controls on the upper part of the main window. For instance, they can create new recording sessions, save the current one, preview the latest recorded session, as well as start, pause, and end the recording process. Users can take quick screenshots and readily access the Windows Display settings.

Even though getting to grips with the app’s workings should not be much of a challenge, the application provides a lot more than most might think. A quick glance over the app’s Settings section should be enough to convince anyone that this is, indeed, an application designed with user experience in mind.

Users can choose from a plethora of recording options which include the ability to select the desired hotkey for capturing feedback, the delay between screen captures, the default playback time for the captured feedback, and the maximum characters for the said feedback. What’s more, users can also configure the app to stop recording after a defined period of time, and suspend the recording activities after a specific idle time.

Another noteworthy section is the Watermark settings menu that allows users to load custom watermarks, select its position, as well as how much padding should be applied to the said watermarks. There are also a few recording modes (captured feedback and background, only capture feedback, or only background).

One of the main advantages of the app is the fact that it provides users with the ability to choose from a wide range of formats for both screenshots (png, gif, jpg, and tif) and videos (avi, gif, mov, mp4). The app allows them to also create and configure email templates (used when sending screenshots). Other noteworthy configuration sections include General window settings, Startup settings, and Privacy settings.

To conclude, Sideo might not be the most eye-pleasing tool of this type out there, but there’s no denying that it brings a lot to the table. It has a lot of things going for it, especially considering just how many configuration options it brings forth, but the thing that really makes this app shine is how well it manages to combine the previously mentioned configuration options with simple user accessibility.