Tellscreen vs Screenity (October 2026)
Checked and updated
Screenity is a free, open-source Chrome extension (GPL-3.0) that records your screen and camera to your own computer with no limits. Sharing a link needs Screenity Pro, $10 a month, which also adds an editor and English captions and caps recordings at 1 hour. Tellscreen records in the web page, and every recording becomes a free link with a transcript, AI summary and chapters.
Tellscreen is ours. Screenity's facts come from screenity.io and its GitHub repository, checked on 14 October 2026.
Side by side
| Tellscreen | Screenity extension (free) | Screenity Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | $10 a month or $120 a year |
| How you record | In the web page | Chrome extension | Extension or the built-in web recorder |
| Where the video goes | A share link on Tellscreen | Your computer: MP4, GIF, WebM or Google Drive | A share link, hosted in Europe |
| Share link | Yes | No | Yes |
| Longest recording | 4 hours | No limit | 1 hour |
| Transcript and captions | Yes | No | Yes, English |
| AI title, summary, chapters | Yes | No | Not listed |
| Editor | Trim only | Not verified | Scenes, auto-zoom, layouts, overlays |
| Comments and reactions | Yes | No | Not listed |
| Licence | Hosted service | GPL-3.0 | Hosted service |
Where Screenity is the better choice
- The video never needs to leave your machine. The extension saves files locally and works with no account. Self-hosted, it runs entirely in local-only mode.
- You want an editor with zooms and layouts. Screenity Pro has scenes, auto-zoom, layouts and overlays.
- Your data must stay in the EU. Screenity says Pro videos, renders and transcripts stay on European servers.
Where Tellscreen is the better choice
- The link is the point. On Tellscreen the link is on your clipboard the moment you stop, free. On Screenity a link needs Pro.
- Longer recordings. Tellscreen records up to 4 hours; Screenity Pro caps each recording at 1 hour.
- Summaries and chapters. Tellscreen writes them for every video, and each key point links to the moment it was said.
- People can reply on the video. Timestamped comments, emoji reactions and a list of who watched how far.
- AI agents can read the link. See how to let an AI watch a screen recording.
Sources
- Screenity features, Pro price and limits: https://screenity.io
- Licence and local-only self-hosting: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity