Screenity vs Snagit Comparison 2026
Screenity re-records one bad section of a screen recording without redoing the whole take, and zooms automatically from clicks, for a flat $10 a month or $120 a year with no free plan. Snagit is built around the screenshot rather than the video, scrolling captures, numbered callouts, templates, for $39 a year with no monthly option, about a third of Screenity's price, and it hands real video editing off to Camtasia rather than doing it itself. Screenity is a video tool built by one person in Europe. Snagit is a documentation tool built by a company that has sold it for decades.
At a glance
- Screenity starts cheaper, at $10.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Screenity | Snagit | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10 | From $39 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Annual only |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
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
The interesting thing here is the scene model, which turns a fluffed take into a two-minute fix instead of a re-record. It is one person's product, so weigh that against Loom's support if it is going into a company workflow.
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.
Why people weigh these two
- Snagit instead of Screenity
- Snagit grew from a screenshot tool into a much wider editor than Screenity's narrow, deliberately scoped feature list.
- Screenity instead of Snagit
- Screenity at $10 records and edits in the browser, nothing to install before somebody can use it.
Which one should you pick
Choose Screenity if the same explanation gets recorded often and a flubbed section should not mean starting over: the scene model and automatic click-zoom are not in Snagit at all. It is $10 a month or $120 a year after a seven-day trial, with no free plan, and it is one person's product, worth weighing against a company like TechSmith standing behind Snagit for a team workflow.
Choose Snagit if most of the output is screenshots, a scrolling page grab, numbered steps, an arrow at the button people keep missing, with short video as an occasional extra. At $39 a year, under a third of Screenity's annual rate, it deliberately stops short of real video editing, handing a clip that becomes a project off to Camtasia, sold separately.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, Screenity or Snagit?
- Snagit, by a wide margin: $39 a year against Screenity's $120 a year, which is the same $10-a-month rate either way it is billed. Snagit costs less than a third as much annually.
- Does Snagit re-record just one section of a take like Screenity does?
- No, nothing in its feature list works that way. Screenity's scene-based editing is built specifically to redo one part of a recording without starting over; Snagit records a straightforward clip and hands real editing off to Camtasia.
- Is either one good for taking a lot of screenshots?
- Snagit is built for exactly that: scrolling capture, numbered annotations and templates that turn several screenshots into one document. Screenity has no comparable screenshot tooling; it is a screen video recorder and editor only.
- Does Screenity have a free plan?
- No, there is no free plan on its current pricing page, only a seven-day trial. Snagit also has no free tier, charging $39 a year with no monthly option, though its price is far lower than Screenity's regardless.
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