Nothing inside the Screenity extension is paywalled, including the length

Screenity scores 78, near the top of our Strong band, and freedom is what puts it there. GPL-3.0, no account, no watermark and a file that lands on your own disk means there is no quota anyone can switch off. Build the extension from source and it runs in local-only mode with no sign-in and no API calls at all, which is about as far from a metered free plan as this category goes.

Against the rest of the category the number sits behind OBS Studio at 87 and ShareX at 85, both of which are free forever with no paid product attached, and ahead of Cap at 68, whose free tier carries a five-minute cap. That ordering is the honest one: Screenity gives away more recording than Cap and less hosting than any of them.

Feature depth is judged on the local capture job here, not the async video job, and on that job the free extension is the deepest thing in this file.

The free extension has no usage ceiling to describe. There is no recording cap, no video count, no watermark and no account (as of July 2026). What it has instead is a missing final step, and depending on why you record, that is either irrelevant or the whole problem.

• No share links on free. You finish with a video file and you upload it somewhere yourself. Screenity Pro at $10 per month or $120 per year is what adds EU-hosted link sharing.
• Chrome only. There is no Firefox or Safari build, so if your browser is not Chrome this is not your tool.
• Free editing is trimming. Scene-based editing, click-triggered auto-zoom, transcription with word-by-word captions and animated layouts are all Pro features.
• Long recordings live in browser storage, which is more fragile than a desktop app writing straight to disk. For a two-hour session, OBS Studio is the safer choice.
• Being an extension has limits of its own. It cannot see everything a native recorder can, which shows up when you need something outside the browser.

Worth noting for anyone comparing tiers: Pro's cloud recordings cap at 1 hour each, so the paid product is the one with a length limit and the free one is not.

The split here is cleaner than most. Free is the extension. Paid is a separate hosted service. You are not buying back features that were taken away from the recorder, you are buying the layer that sits after it.

Screenity Pro is $10 per month or $120 per year, which is roughly 29% below monthly billing, and there is a 7-day trial. What it adds is scene-based editing, auto-zoom triggered by clicks, transcription with word-by-word captions, animated layouts and callouts, EU-hosted link sharing, and unlimited 1080p MP4 exports. The one people actually upgrade for is the link.

Judged against the category, $10 is half of Loom Business at $18 per user per month and slightly under Cap Pro at $12, for a narrower product in each case. Judged against the alternative, which is pairing the free extension with any file host you already pay for, it is a convenience purchase rather than a necessary one.

There is no middle rung and there does not need to be. The decision is binary: if handing someone a URL is the job, pay; if the file is fine, the free extension is complete and always will be, because the source is public and you can build it yourself.

Yes, and that sits a step above where a score of 78 usually lands. The reason for the departure: the score averages in a hosting job the free extension does not attempt, but for the job it does attempt, recording and marking up your screen, there is no cap, no watermark, no account and no expiry, which is our definition of genuinely free.

Who can live on it indefinitely: a support agent explaining a fix with arrows on the screen, a teacher recording a walkthrough for a class, a QA engineer filing bug reports, anyone recording something with customer data on screen who needs live blur. All of that is free forever and none of it is a trial.

Who cannot: anyone whose workflow ends with pasting a link into Slack. That is a $10 a month product, not a free one. Anyone in Firefox or Safari, because the extension is Chrome only.

If the link is the part you need, Kommodo's free plan hosts recordings at no cost, and free Screenity alternatives covers the rest. The whole ranked category is at best free video recording tools.