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# Fraps Review

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On this page

-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   User Reviews
    

## Overview

Fraps

3.9

[(12)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/fraps-profile/reviews/)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

### About Fraps

Fraps is a universal Windows application that allows businesses and individuals to take screenshots and capture videos in real-time. Key features include screen capture history, user management, benchmarking and multiple image format support.

Teams using Fraps can perform custom benchmarks, measure frame rate between two points and save the statistics into the disk, which can be used for future review and reference. Users can gain visibility into the number of frames per second (FPS) in the corner of the screen. The platform automatically names and timestamps an image after it has been captured. Additionally, it offers various functionality for video files such as movie cursor hide, stereoscopic 3D and RGB capture.

General settings of Fraps include minimized start, always on top view, display status on LCD, minimize to system tray only and more. The system is compatible with games that use OpenGL and DirectX technology.

## Fraps User Interface

## Popular Fraps Alternatives

Main Product

Fraps

3.9

[(12)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/fraps-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.75Ease of use
-   3.67Value for money
-   4.20Customer support
-   3.58Functionality

Pricing

Available upon request

Alternative Product

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4.5

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.38Ease of use
-   4.44Value for money
-   4.24Customer support
-   4.39Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $4.00 per month

Alternative Product

[Snagit](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/snagit-profile/)

4.7

[(501)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/snagit-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.68Ease of use
-   4.58Value for money
-   4.43Customer support
-   4.62Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $39.00 per year

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[OBS Studio](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/)

4.7

[(1075)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.13Ease of use
-   4.82Value for money
-   4.16Customer support
-   4.59Functionality

Pricing

Available upon request

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.59Ease of use
-   4.52Value for money
-   4.36Customer support
-   4.54Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $14.99 per month

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4.7

[(24185)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/remote-support/slack-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.61Ease of use
-   4.55Value for money
-   4.43Customer support
-   4.56Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $8.75 per month

## Fraps Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

## Fraps Features

-   Popular features found in Screen Recording
    
    Annotations
    
    Audio Capture
    
    File Sharing
    
    Multi-Screen Recording
    
    Video Editing
    
    YouTube Uploading
    
-   More features of Fraps
    
    Data Import/Export
    
    Document Storage
    
    Image Editing
    
    Screen Capture
    
    Screen Recording
    
    User Management
    
    Video Streaming
    
    Video Support
    

## Fraps User Reviews

## Fraps customer ratings

- Overall rating: 3.9/5
- Total reviews: 12

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 2 reviews (17%)
- 4 stars: 7 reviews (58%)
- 3 stars: 3 reviews (25%)
- 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.8/5
- Value for money: 3.7/5
- Customer support: 4.2/5
- Functionality: 3.6/5

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### A basic free software that every gamer needs

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Reinaldo M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Fraps helped me a lot in monitoring my computer's frames per second performance in many games. Also, I recorded some gameplay to share with my friends, and it really does the job.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The software has a fairly intuitive interface. Also, their preferences are highly customizable

#### Cons

Fraps is a pretty basic app. That is why there is not much that can be criticized for a program that just monitors the number of frames of your programs and records your screen. However, the interface is getting old, and it's a bit outdated.

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### Fraps for easy record.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Yusuf T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Program Development
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I love how simple Fraps is, just one click and your done. Quality of videos great, audio is great too.

#### Cons

First of all Fraps,takes up too much space on your computer. There is nothing special options,has fewer features than its competitors.

#### Reasons for switching to Fraps

Because Bandicam have webcam options.

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### Records well but performs poorly

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Askin A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: December 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

While I was preparing a video for Youtube, I was taking my screen recording with this program.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

It had a strong community when I was using it. This made it easy to use.

#### Cons

The size of the saved files is incredibly large. When you record while playing games, it makes the computer very tiring. For this reason, both the game and the video are badly affected.

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### Fraps is quick

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Emirhan S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Music
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

It is very easy and fast to record and edit in Fraps.

#### Cons

It does not have enough hardware, the features it contains are limited. but let's not forget that it offers free and faster usage.

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### Great video maker

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Derek R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Music
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Love this a lot. I play video games and this works great for that. Worth getting.

#### Cons

Dose slow down PC a little but still works great.

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### It's Ok

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Michael C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Fraps was ok for some basic screen capturing needs but it is about time it had a major update or revamp.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 2/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

I'd say that the thing that Fraps has going for it is that it's super easy to use, super easy to install and it's a relatively lightweight software.

#### Cons

Now when it comes to the cons. It's not that it's bad, it's just not good in comparison to what the new and free software are doing. Not to mention the dreaded watermark. Anyone who had to screen capture something knows what I'm talking about. It's time Fraps revamped or updated into something more modern and with more features.

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### One of most popular game recorders!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Good app, perfect fps, perfect settings, just disk space...

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

High fps, metric overlay, easy to setup, simple interface.

#### Cons

When saving a video, it is using too much disk space.

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### Fraps Is A Great Tool For Recording

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Derek V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

While not perfect as nothing is, for what I wanted I got what I asked for.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I liked how easy it is to get started. It is very effective at recording gaming content and doesn't require you to be tech savvy.

#### Cons

It could lag in recording at times and the file size could be a big large.

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### Pretty simple tool for FPS counting

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Hakob A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, Fraps is a good light-weight app, easy to install and use. Hopefully, the developers can improve it over the time.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

The main advantage of Fraps is that it's very simple to deploy, configure and use. If your task is to only count FPS used software and games, it can be very useful.

#### Cons

However, when it comes to other functionalities of Fraps, it is very mediocre. I definitely wouldn't recommend using it for screen recordings: first, it will consume a lot of memory from your precious hard drive capacity, second, the videos come somewhat laggy (at least based on my personal experience).

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### Great software for recording

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Ibrahim S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for free trial
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Great video and audio quality. Small and simple design. Benchmarking feature is a plus too.

#### Cons

Recorded videos take too much space on your storage.

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