--- title: Cockos Reviews meta\_title: 'Cockos Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cockos works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 13 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Cockos Reviews & Product Details LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF * * * Seller [Cockos](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cockos) Discussions [Cockos Community](https://www.g2.com/products/cockos/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Snagit](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snagit") Snagit 4.7/5(5,994) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snagit/reviews) [ ![Loom](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Loom") Loom 4.7/5(2,413) ](https://www.g2.com/products/atlassian-loom/reviews) [ ![Camtasia](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Camtasia") Camtasia 4.6/5(1,764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/camtasia/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/cockos/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 13 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Brett C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brett C.") BC Brett C. Boss Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/3/2024 "Cockos Reaper a DAW worth the effort" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cockos? It has so many functions and possibilities, anything to do with audio can be done with Cockos Reaper. I love how everything is customizable and it has a huge and active community that shares tips and downloadable assets to make Reaper even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? It is a huge learning curve and to find some of the functions can be like looking for a needle in a haystack! Luckily for us, there are some great folks that do YouTube tutorials on everything you could ever imagine doing with the software. Easy to understand and follow tutorials too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? Cockos Reaper is my go-to Digital Audio Workstation. It does all my creative production and arrangement, editing, mixing and mastering. It is a solid product that is sturdy and reliable, plus it is very affordable compared to it's competitors in the niche of DAWs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jennifer M. K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jennifer M. K.") JK Jennifer M. K. Customer Success Team Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/28/2019 "Gets the job done" 4/5 What do you like best about Cockos? I was introduced to LICEcap by a friend and it’s simple to use once you figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? Its design is outdated and the process can be a bit clunky/unintuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? I use LICEcap often to provide visuals to my customers. It helps them understand how to do things within the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") CM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/25/2019 "A great free tool for turning your screen into gifs" 5/5 What do you like best about Cockos? That you can reposition the screen capture area to any size, and set a timer to start recording Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? It can be a bit fiddly at times, and sometimes crashes on windows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cockos: There's no other tool like it for turning your screen into gifs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? Capturing on screen interactions into gif form to be used in PowerPoint presentations and industry talks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Julian S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Julian S.") JS Julian S. Software Programmer Internet Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/18/2018 "LICEcap- "Best software for screen recording"" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cockos? LICEcap is the quickest software to record and save screen directly to animated GIFs. The best feature of the software is that we can move the screen capture frame while recording. The pause and restart recording is also very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? LICEcap is a perfect software for modern pc and Mac but while using in the older version of Windows it's not working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cockos: LICEcap is the quickest software that enables to record the screen to gifs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? By using LICEcap we can record any part off the screen into gifs which helps to make short vedio lessons and funvedio. The recording made with LICEcap helps in telling someone how to work on any program without any sound or recording problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite RM rory m. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/1/2018 "Great screen cap to gif" 4/5 What do you like best about Cockos? Every other screen capture software I have used saves the output as a FLV file, which is terrible in today's world. With LICEcap you get a nice GIF which can be uploaded to ClickUp, Gitlab, Slack with the utmost ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? The interface is a little antiquated. The latest version still needs to be optimized for MacOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cockos: Give it a try! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? Taking screen caps of websites for bug reports, and being able to drag them directly into the ticket for the developer to watch a live demo in GIF of the problem is amazing, both for me and the developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite CP Carlos P. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/30/2018 "Licecap is the perfect tool to save captures from your computer to gif" 5/5 What do you like best about Cockos? Working as a quality assurance engineer, I used this tool to capture bugs evidence and attach them to the problem description. It is particularly useful with short time evidence. The application allows you to select the frame rate of the gif and playing with that you can have a very small size, perfect to be attached and send. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? For me, it loses utility when I need to make long recordings, since the nature of the gif, when you reproduce it the course of the video can't be stopped, advanced or delayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cockos: It's a very good tool, easy and symple to use. If you need to record a .gif this is the perfect tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? Capture software bug evidence for reports. It's an easy way to record the evidence and the size is very small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Pedro C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pedro C.") PC Pedro C. VP Global Sales Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/20/2018 "As simple as possible" 4/5 What do you like best about Cockos? The software is light, agile, and lean. It opens in a sec and I've never crossed by a bug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? It would be nice if the archives were automatically updated into the cloud, generating a link to be shared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? We use licecap for onboarding, for lead generation, for lead nutrition - basically it's used to show the product for those who don't use it yet and also for those who are using and have a question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tricia T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tricia T.") TT Tricia T. Customer Support Specialist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/1/2018 "Easiest GIF making" 5/5 What do you like best about Cockos? I had never used LICEcap until a few weeks ago and it's amazing! I love being able to show clients how to use our software in a step by step visual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? I dislike that I cannot pull it up over a full screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? It is much easier for our clients across the world to understand how to fix their problems, rather than rely on a common language. Software can be complicated. Language barriers can be complicated. Step by step visuals are easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jacob W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jacob W.") JW Jacob W. Director, Customer Engagement Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/27/2018 "Licecap -- Quick and Convenient for Gif Captures" 4/5 What do you like best about Cockos? It's extremely easy to size the window and record the screen for helpful Gifs. Interface is immensely simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? Not a lot of ability to edit the gif, and the frame rate is also not great if you need high quality backgrounds (e.g. recording animations on a phone for a client demo, you may have some pixel-y parts of the gif) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cockos: LICEcap is free and can definitely give your team access to the wonderful spectrum of gif applications -- gifs make life way easier, so I strongly recommend LICEcap! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? We use licecap to create gifs for streamlining our support team's interactions, providing clients with gifs for how our platform might function with their branding. It saves a ton of time from back and forths, and it makes our team more effective! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Neeraj H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Neeraj H.") NH Neeraj H. Senior Product Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/13/2017 "Easy to use for capturing animated screenshots and gifs" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cockos? This is a very easy to use software. It just takes minutes to set up. The output files can be embedded on websites and provide users a rich experience. You can capture different parts of your screen & even insert text too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cockos? It would be nice if we could do some basic edits to files (reduce the length of the clip) but that feature does not exist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cockos: Definitely a powerful tool that can enrich your product documentation as well as explain software bugs to your dev teams visually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cockos solving and how is that benefiting you? - I use this to generate animated demonstrations of features by embedding the gif in our product documentation. - I have also used this to capture software bugs for my developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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