Screenity review

A Chrome extension you can draw on mid-recording

Screenity is a GPL-3.0 Chrome extension that records your screen, a single tab, an app window, or just your camera. It asks for no account and imposes no time limit, because the recording is written to your own machine instead of someone's servers.

What separates it from every other free recorder is what you can do mid-take. You can draw on the screen while recording, drop arrows, shapes and text, blur a region live so a customer's email address never reaches the file, and spotlight the cursor with visible click ripples. For teaching and bug reports, that is the difference between a video someone has to squint at and one they can follow.

Anyone who has to point at the screen while talking

• Teachers, support agents, and anyone explaining an interface step by step
• Bug reports and QA, where drawing on the problem beats describing it
• Recording anything with sensitive data on screen, thanks to live blur
• People who want zero accounts and zero uploads

Everything in the extension is free; the link is the priced part

The extension is free forever and unlimited, as of July 2026: unlimited recordings of any length, all the annotation tools, live blur, cursor spotlight, system and microphone audio, an auto-stop timer, and instant mode. Nothing in the extension itself is paywalled.

The one thing free does not do is sharing. Screenity Pro, a separate hosted service, costs $10 per month or $120 per year (about 29% less annually) and adds scene-based editing, auto-zoom on clicks, transcription with word-by-word captions, animated layouts, EU-hosted share links, and unlimited 1080p MP4 exports, with recordings capped at 1 hour. There is a 7-day trial.

Chrome only, and a limit that is really a missing step

• No free share links, so the free workflow ends with a file you have to send somewhere yourself
• Chrome only. No Firefox or Safari build
• Long recordings live in browser storage, which is more fragile than a desktop app writing to disk
• The free editor is basic trimming, not the multi-scene editing Pro adds
• Being an extension, it cannot capture things Chrome cannot see as cleanly as a native app can

Our call on Screenity, and when the $10 is worth it

If your recordings are demos, walkthroughs, and bug reports, and you want to mark things up while you talk, Screenity gives you more for free than anything else here. Its honest limitation is that it stops one step short of Loom's actual value: you get the video, not the link. Pair it with any file host and it costs nothing, or pay $10 a month for Pro if the link is the part you actually needed.