Screencastify vs Screenity Comparison 2026
Screencastify records from a Chrome extension and adds what a classroom needs, questions inside the video, collected replies, assignments for a whole group, free for ten videos total before Starter at $7 a user a month billed annually. Screenity re-records one bad section without redoing the whole take through a scene model, and zooms automatically from clicks, for a flat $10 a month or $120 a year, with no free plan at all. Screencastify is built for teaching. Screenity is built for repeating the same explanation and having it look composed.
Screen recording built for classrooms
A screen recorder and editor in the browser
At a glance
- Screencastify starts cheaper, at $7.
- Only Screencastify has a free tier.
Side by side
Screencastify | Screenity | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $7 | 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 (they differ) | None | 7 days |
Screencastify
Screen recording built for classrooms
Screencastify records the screen from a Chrome extension and adds what a teacher needs and a marketer does not: questions inside the video, collected replies, and a way to ask thirty people to record something back. It works for a plain product demo too. The free plan stops at ten videos of thirty minutes each.
Our note
The ten-video free allowance is a lifetime cap rather than a monthly one, so the free plan is a trial with no clock on it. Anybody recording weekly should price Starter from the start.
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.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- Screenity instead of Screencastify
- Screenity edits in the browser after recording, without the classroom tools, embedded questions and collected replies, that Screencastify is built specifically for.
- Screencastify instead of Screenity
- Screencastify keeps a free tier and adds classroom-specific tools, embedded questions and collected replies, outside the scope of Screenity's one-person-built feature list.
Which one should you pick
Choose Screencastify if the recordings are meant to be answered rather than only watched: embedded questions, collected submissions and video assignments for a group are not in Screenity at all. The ten-video free allowance is a lifetime cap, not monthly, so treat it as a trial and price Starter at $7 a month billed annually from the start if recording weekly.
Choose Screenity if the same explanation gets recorded often and a bad section should not mean starting over: its scene-based editing re-records one part while the rest of the take stays intact, and clicks trigger an automatic zoom the way a much dearer editor would. It is a flat $10 a month or $120 a year with a seven-day trial and no free plan, built and hosted in Europe by one person, worth weighing against Screencastify's larger company behind it for a company workflow.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, Screencastify or Screenity?
- Screencastify's Starter tier, at $7 a user a month billed annually against Screenity's flat $10 a month. Screencastify's monthly-billed rate is $19, though, nearly three times its annual rate, the steepest such gap in this category, so the comparison depends heavily on which cadence is chosen.
- Can I re-record just one part of a video without starting over?
- Screenity is built around exactly that: a recording is made of scenes, and one can be redone without touching the rest. Screencastify's editing tools trim, crop and merge, but nothing in its feature list matches Screenity's scene-based re-recording.
- Which one is better for a classroom?
- Screencastify, clearly: questions embedded in the video, collected student replies and assignments for a group of thirty are built for teaching. Screenity has none of that; it is aimed at somebody recording the same kind of explanation repeatedly, not at collecting responses.
- Does Screenity have a free plan?
- No, not on its current pricing page, though it began as a free open source Chrome extension. Screencastify still offers a free plan, capped at ten videos total rather than per month, which functions more like an extended trial than an ongoing free tier.
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