Screencastify vs Snagit Comparison 2026
Both cover screen recording. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
At a glance
- Screencastify starts cheaper, at $7.
- Only Screencastify has a free tier.
- Snagit bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
Screencastify | Snagit | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $7 | From $39 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | Annual only |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
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.
Snagit
The screenshot tool that grew an editor
Snagit is for the thousand small captures that are not worth opening a video editor for: a scrolling grab of a whole page, a numbered set of steps, an arrow pointing at the button somebody keeps missing. It records short video too, and hands off to Camtasia when a clip turns into a project. TechSmith has sold it for decades and it shows in the unglamorous places, like the templates that turn six screenshots into one document.
Our note
TechSmith has sold this for decades and it shows in the unglamorous parts, like the templates and the scrolling capture, which are the features you end up using daily. Buy Camtasia instead if the output is a finished video; buy Snagit if the output is a document with pictures in it.
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