Berrycast vs Bubbles
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentBerrycast compared with Bubbles
Bubbles is built around the conversation after the recording, with threaded timestamped comments and meeting notes at a low entry price. Berrycast is built around the recording being findable and summarizable afterwards. Use Bubbles when the video starts a discussion among colleagues; use Berrycast when the video is a piece of documentation a client or a future teammate will need to search.
Choose Berrycast if
Small businesses, agencies, and support or professional services teams on Windows and Mac who need recorded explanations to be searchable and summarized, especially where recipients speak different languages, and who want a low-cost tool that lives next to their email and project management stack.
Choose Bubbles if
Distributed teams of three to thirty who want to replace recurring calls with threaded async video conversation, especially engineering, design, and product groups that also want their live meetings recorded and summarized under the same subscription.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Berrycast | Bubbles |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Video | Video |
| Starting price | Reported between $4 and $9.99 per user per month depending on plan and source (free plan available) | $0 (Basic), then $12 per member per month billed yearly (Pro Teams) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-user subscription with a capped free plan and a quoted enterprise tier. Published figures vary between sources and should be verified with the vendor. | Freemium per-member subscription with pricing that adjusts automatically based on team size, discounted for yearly billing. |
| Free plan | Around 10 videos per month, including annotation and trimming, with Berrycast branding retained. | Unlimited screen recordings up to 30 minutes each, five meeting recordings per week, AI summaries, a notetaker joining all meetings, and two channels, with recordings locking after two weeks. |
| Free trial | 14 days of full features, extendable by a further 14 days, with no credit card required | 14 days on Pro plans, alongside a permanent free Basic plan |
| Best for | Small businesses, agencies, and support or professional services teams on Windows and Mac who need recorded explanations to be searchable and summarized, especially where recipients speak different languages, and who want a low-cost tool that lives next to their email and project management stack. | Distributed teams of three to thirty who want to replace recurring calls with threaded async video conversation, especially engineering, design, and product groups that also want their live meetings recorded and summarized under the same subscription. |
| Setup time | Fifteen minutes. Install the Windows or Mac desktop recorder or the browser extension, sign in, grant screen recording permission, and record. Connecting Gmail or Outlook and setting up a custom URL on a paid plan adds a further half hour. | Fifteen minutes. Install the Chrome extension or desktop app, connect Google Calendar or Outlook if you want the notetaker, create a channel, and record. The free tier means the first month costs nothing and proves whether the habit forms. |
| Learning curve | Very low. The product does recording, transcription, trimming, annotation, and sharing, and does not attempt anything that requires learning. The only habit worth establishing is naming and foldering recordings early, because a searchable transcript helps only if the library has some structure around it. | Low mechanically, moderate culturally. Recording and replying are obvious. The change that has to be agreed explicitly is that a video reply is an acceptable answer, because if half the team responds by asking for a call the threading model never engages and you have bought an expensive recorder. |
| Platforms | Windows desktop application, macOS desktop application, Browser extension, Web viewing pages, Mobile access to recordings | Chrome extension, Desktop application, Web |
| Compliance | No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed | GDPR, Advanced security features available for enterprise customers on request |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Canada | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held, no disclosed venture funding | Venture-backed, private |
Strengths and limitations
Berrycast
Strengths
- Automatic transcription and AI summaries across 60 or more languages come standard rather than as a premium add-on, which makes a video library searchable and skippable.
- Native applications for both Windows and Mac plus a browser extension, so mixed teams can standardize on it where macOS-only tools cannot be used.
- Custom branding, custom URLs, and password protection at a low per-user price make client-facing sharing look professional.
- Gmail and Outlook integration puts recording where the message is being written rather than in a separate application.
Limitations
- Published pricing is genuinely unreliable, with third-party sources reporting five different figures for the paid tiers and the vendor page not surfacing them to automated readers.
- No polish features at all: no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, no visual framing.
- The free plan's ten videos a month is small, and it is a count limit rather than a length or storage limit, which penalizes exactly the frequent-use habit a video tool is meant to build.
- No published SOC 2 or ISO certification and very little disclosed corporate information, which a formal security review will notice.
Bubbles
Strengths
- Threaded video replies and on-screen anchored comments make async video a conversation rather than a broadcast, which is a structurally better model for replacing meetings than a link and an email.
- The most usable free tier in this category for real work: unlimited screen recordings at 30 minutes each plus five AI-notetaken meetings a week.
- Two products in one subscription, async video collaboration and meeting recording with transcripts and summaries, at $12 per member per month billed yearly.
- Channels give recordings a home, which is why Bubbles archives stay navigable while collections of Loom links generally do not.
Limitations
- Nothing here serves sales: no dynamic personalization, no per-prospect landing pages, no CRM writeback, no animated GIF thumbnails, and no view-based follow-up automation.
- Free recordings lock after two weeks, so the free tier is a working surface rather than an archive and the value of your library depends on paying.
- Embedding and distribution are much narrower than Loom's 400-plus tool coverage, which matters if your documentation lives in Confluence or Notion.
- The AI notetaker is a bot that joins the call, which some organizations and some clients will not accept, and on the free tier it joins every meeting by default.
Pricing compared
Berrycast
Per-user subscription with a capped free plan and a quoted enterprise tier. Published figures vary between sources and should be verified with the vendor.
- Free$0
- Personal$4
- Pro$9.99
- Team$21
- EnterpriseCustom
If the reported figures are accurate, Berrycast is one of the better-value tools here: unlimited recordings with automatic transcription, AI summaries across 60-plus languages, custom branding, custom URLs, password protection, and viewing analytics at around $10 a user is more capability per dollar than Loom Business, and considerably more than Zight at a similar price. The transcript and summary layer alone justifies the gap over a plain capture tool. The value judgement carries an asterisk, because pricing that cannot be confirmed from the vendor's own page is a risk in itself, and because you get none of the modern polish features that make a video pleasant to watch.
Bubbles
Freemium per-member subscription with pricing that adjusts automatically based on team size, discounted for yearly billing.
- Basic$0
- Pro Teams$12
- Pro Personal$18
Bubbles at $12 per member per month billed yearly is the cheapest capable team tier in this category and it bundles two products. You get unlimited async recording with threaded video replies plus unlimited AI-notetaken meetings with transcripts and summaries, for less than Loom Business at $15 which does only the first and less than most standalone meeting notetakers which do only the second. The free tier is genuinely usable, with unlimited screen recordings at 30 minutes and a notetaker on every meeting, constrained only by a two-week lock. The value case fails for exactly one reason: none of this helps you sell anything. Judged as internal team infrastructure it is the best price-to-capability ratio here; judged as a sales tool it scores zero because it is not one.
Editorial verdict on each
Berrycast
Berrycast is a sensible, unglamorous choice that does more than its price suggests. Automatic transcription and AI summaries across 60-plus languages turn a folder of recordings into something searchable and skimmable, custom branding and custom URLs make client-facing sharing look professional, and native Windows and Mac apps plus Gmail and Outlook integration mean it fits a mixed team's existing habits. The 14 day trial that extends to 28 is the right way to evaluate it. Two things should give you pause. Its published pricing genuinely cannot be pinned down from public sources, which is a bad sign for a tool you are asking a finance team to approve, and there is no polish layer at all, so the video itself will never look better than a plain screen recording. Buy it for internal async communication and client explanation where searchability matters more than production value. Look elsewhere entirely if the video is going in front of prospects.
Read the full Berrycast profileBubbles
Bubbles is the best value in async video for a team that talks to itself, and the threading is the reason. When the reply to a recording is another recording in the same channel, async video stops being a broadcast and starts actually replacing meetings, which is the thing every tool in this category claims and few structurally support. At $12 per member per month billed yearly you also get an AI notetaker with transcripts and summaries, which is a second product most teams would otherwise buy separately, and the free tier with unlimited 30-minute screen recordings is the most usable one here. Two caveats. Free recordings lock after two weeks, so the archive is not free, and the notetaker is a bot that shows up in your calls whether or not everyone is comfortable with that. And understand what you are not buying: Bubbles does nothing for sales, has no CRM writeback, and embeds in far fewer places than Loom. For a distributed team of three to thirty that wants fewer calls, it is the first thing to try.
Read the full Bubbles profileBerrycast profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Bubbles last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.