Loom vs Screenity Comparison 2026
Loom hands back a shareable link the instant a recording stops: free for short clips, then $18 a member a month for Business. Screenity records the same tab or window but edits after the fact in scenes, so a fluffed section gets re-recorded on its own rather than forcing a full retake, for a flat $10 a month or $120 a year after a seven-day trial. There is no free plan at all, run by one person in Europe rather than a company with a support team. Pick Loom to send something today for nothing; pick Screenity when the recording needs to look composed and you do not mind paying from day one.
At a glance
- Screenity starts cheaper, at $10.
- Only Loom has a free tier.
Side by side
Loom | Screenity | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $18 | From $10 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | 7 days |
| API |
Loom
Screen recordings that go out as a link
Loom records your screen and your face together and hands you a link the moment you stop, so the thing you would have written three paragraphs about arrives as a two minute video instead. Viewers can reply on a timestamp rather than describing where they got confused. Editing is trimming and little else, so a cut that needs more than that belongs somewhere else.
Our note
Loom is for the video nobody would otherwise have made. Buy it for correspondence rather than publishing, and check the free plan's length limit against the way you actually explain things before paying for anything.
Only on this side
- Covers video hosting
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 Loom
- Screenity at $10 records and edits in the browser itself, with nothing to install before a colleague can use it.
- Loom instead of Screenity
- Screenity's own advice is that Loom still wins when a recording needs to land in a client's inbox within ninety seconds, since Screenity is built around re-recording scenes rather than speed.
Which one should you pick
Pick Loom for anything that has to go out today for free: the Starter plan costs nothing, and a link is ready the second the recording stops. Business at $18 a member a month adds who-watched insights, but editing stays limited to trimming the ends off a take.
Pick Screenity when the output needs to look edited without opening a real editor: scenes let you re-record one section instead of the whole thing, and auto-zoom follows the cursor without keyframing it by hand. At $10 a month it undercuts Loom's paid tier, but there is no free plan, only a seven-day trial, and support is one person rather than a company.
Common questions
- Is Screenity cheaper than Loom?
- For a paid plan, yes. Screenity is a flat $10 a month or $120 a year, no seats, against Loom Business at $18 a member a month. Loom's Starter plan is free, though, and Screenity has no free tier at all, only a seven-day trial.
- Does Screenity have a free plan like Loom?
- No. Screenity dropped its history as a free open source extension for a single $10 a month plan with a seven-day trial. Loom's Starter plan stays free indefinitely, with limits on video length and how many recordings you keep.
- Which one edits a recording rather than just trimming it?
- Screenity does more: it builds a recording out of scenes you can re-record individually, and zooms in on clicks automatically. Loom's editing is trimming the front and back and joining takes, nothing past that.
- Who actually runs Screenity?
- One person, hosted in Europe, stated on the page rather than hidden. Loom is a company with a support team behind it, worth weighing if the recordings are going into a business workflow rather than a personal project.
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