Camtasia vs Screenity Comparison 2026
Camtasia pairs a recorder with a desktop editor built over two decades: callouts, zooms and cursor effects, for $179.88 a year, about $15 a month, billed annually with no free plan. Screenity began as a free open source Chrome extension and has become a paid hosted editor instead, now $10 a month or $120 a year, the same rate either way, after a seven-day trial. Screenity is one person's product, made and hosted in Europe, against Camtasia's twenty years at TechSmith. Its scene-based editing, re-recording one section without redoing the whole take, is the feature that stands out against Camtasia's file-based editor.
Screen recording and editing in one suite
A screen recorder and editor in the browser
At a glance
- Screenity starts cheaper, at $10.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Camtasia | Screenity | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $39 | From $10 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Annual only | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | 7 days |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
Camtasia
Screen recording and editing in one suite
Camtasia has been the default answer for recorded training and software walkthroughs for about two decades, and the reason is the editor rather than the recorder: callouts, zooms and cursor effects are built in rather than assembled by hand. TechSmith sells it by the year and bundles Snagit with it. There is still a perpetual licence for people who would rather buy a version and keep it.
Our note
Ignore the $39 tier unless you genuinely only want Snagit, because the editor that makes Camtasia worth buying is on the plan above. Against DaVinci Resolve, which is free, this earns its price on the demo-specific tooling and nothing else.
Only on this side
- Covers video editing
Screenity
A screen recorder and editor in the browser
Screenity began as a free open source Chrome extension for recording a tab and grew into a hosted editor around it, where a recording is built out of scenes you can re-record one at a time. Click zooms, captions and animated layouts are applied after the fact rather than performed live. It is made and hosted in Europe by one person, which is stated on the page and is the reason the feature list is narrow.
Why people weigh these two
- Screenity instead of Camtasia
- Screenity does recording and editing in the browser from $10, a light swap for Camtasia when the walkthrough does not need callouts and effects.
- Camtasia instead of Screenity
- Camtasia is a full manual timeline editor with a much wider feature list than Screenity's narrow, one-person-built tool.
Which one should you pick
Take Camtasia for a wider, more established toolset: callouts, zooms and cursor effects assembled over two decades of TechSmith building specifically for training and demos. The plan a step above Starter, $179.88 a year, about $15 a month, is the one with the actual editor, more than Screenity's flat $10 a month. There is no free plan, only a fourteen-day money-back guarantee, and everything is billed annually with no monthly option.
Take Screenity for scene-based editing: re-record one section of a take instead of starting over, then apply auto-zoom, transcription and captions afterward. At $10 a month, or $120 a year for the same rate, it undercuts Camtasia's annual math, though there is no free plan at all now, a change from its history as a free extension. It is one person's product, made and hosted in Europe, worth weighing against Camtasia's larger company if this is going into a team's workflow.
Common questions
- Is Screenity still a free Chrome extension?
- No. It began that way, but the page now lists one paid plan at $10 a month or $120 a year, after a seven-day trial, with no free tier. Camtasia has never been free either; it is billed annually with no monthly option.
- Which one is cheaper?
- Screenity, at $10 a month or $120 a year, the same rate either way. Camtasia's real plan works out to about $15 a month over a $179.88 annual bill.
- What does scene-based editing mean on Screenity?
- A recording is built from scenes that can be re-recorded one at a time, so a fluffed section gets fixed without redoing the whole take. Camtasia edits a finished recording instead, applying callouts, zooms and cursor effects as a separate pass afterward.
- Who makes each one?
- Camtasia comes from TechSmith, which has sold it for about two decades and bundles Snagit alongside it. Screenity is one person's product, made and hosted in Europe, worth weighing against Camtasia's larger company if reliability for a team matters.
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