Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    10k

    Screego: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Screego is a simple tool to quickly share your screen to one or multiple people via web browser.

    TL;DR • Screego • as of August 2026

    Screego is an open-source communication project, with 10k GitHub stars and a health score of 49/100. It committed 15 times in the last twelve months across 5 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    10k
    GitHub stars
    49/100
    Health score
    15
    Commits (12 mo)
    5/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-01
    Days since last commit 16
    Commits, last 3 months 1
    Commits, last 12 months 15
    Months with activity 5 of 12
    Last release 2026-05-13
    Archived No
    Licence GPL-3.0
    Category Communication

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    GPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Screego means for your idea

    Crowded · 77/100
    Communication category →

    Screego is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.

    Screego: common questions

    Is Screego still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Screego recorded 15 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 5 of those months and 1 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-01. Last release: 2026-05-13. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Screego commercially?

    Screego is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Communication category?

    177 open-source implementations, 100 of them actively maintained, led by Mastodon at 50k stars. Saturation score 77/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

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