Kooha review

Kooha is the screen recorder to install when you want to stop thinking about settings. It is a small GTK4 app written in Rust with a minimal interface: open it, pick a monitor or a region, choose whether to capture the microphone, desktop audio or both, and click record. Output comes as WebM, MP4, GIF or Matroska, and the few settings that matter, such as save location, pointer visibility, frame rate and a start delay, are easy to find. It is built around Wayland screencasting through the desktop portal, which makes it a good fit for current Ubuntu and Fedora GNOME sessions. The Flathub package is only 1 MiB and is available for x86_64 and aarch64. The limits are deliberate: there is no webcam overlay, no scenes and no streaming, hardware-accelerated encoding is still experimental, and if your distribution's screencast portal is missing or broken, the developer's own README lists that as the usual reason it does not work.

Who it is for

GNOME and Wayland users who want to press record and get an MP4, WebM or GIF without configuring anything.

Price

Free and open source; no paid plan.

Kooha is free and will always be for everyone to use.
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 10, 2026.

Key features

• Records the microphone, desktop audio, or both at the same time
• WebM, MP4, GIF and Matroska output
• Records a whole monitor or a portion of the screen
• Configurable save location, pointer visibility, frame rate and delay
• Experimental hardware-accelerated encoding

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: A minimal interface where you click record without a settings tour
• Strength: Built for Wayland, with the developer's troubleshooting pointing to xdg-desktop-portal support
• Strength: Available on Flathub for x86_64 and aarch64
• Weakness: No webcam overlay or scene layouts
• Weakness: Hardware-accelerated encoding is experimental and off by default
• Weakness: Depends on your distribution's screencast portal support, which the project says may not work everywhere

Key facts

• Latest Flathub version: 2.3.2
• Formats: WebM, MP4, GIF, Matroska
• Flathub downloads: 8,062 per month
• License: GPL-3.0

Where it ranks

Kooha is No. 5 in our Best Screen Recorders for Linux verdict.