iCord Screen Capture

iCord Screen Capture is an application that facilitates a quick and efficient method for recording your desktop activity to AVI files. It features several options that can be easily figured out.

The program's not wrapped in a setup package, which makes it portable. It means that you can save the downloaded files to a custom directory on the disk or to a USB flash drive, in order to easily run the app on any machine without previous installers. It doesn't modify Windows registry settings. However, it updates its configuration files to remember your settings.

Once launched, iCord Screen Capture creates an icon in the taskbar notifications area to provide you quick access to its recording options.

After pointing out the saving directory and name of the new AVI clip, it automatically starts recording desktop activity, including sound if you have a microphone.

By opening the tray icon's right-click menu, it's possible to pause, resume or stop the recording, as well as to select a region to capture instead of the full screen. Keyboard shortcuts are supported, so you can swiftly send commands while working with other software products.

It didn't hog system resources in our tests, since it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly. On the other hand, we've encountered stability and display issues on newer Windows versions.

For example, the tool asked for permission to optimize the resolution for video recordings. However, it opted for our lowest possible setting (800x600), indicated an error after we stopped the recording, and automatically crashed afterward.

Unfortunately, iCord Screen Capture hasn't been updated for a long time and remained in beta development stage. We cannot overlook the compatibility issues we've come across. Otherwise, it has a simple set of options for recording desktop videos with sound.