Berrycast vs ScreenRec
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
Both sides assessedBerrycast compared with ScreenRec
ScreenRec is free for unlimited-length watermark-free recording, runs on Linux as well as Windows and Mac, and costs $8.32 a month for Pro, but has no transcription, captions, or AI of any kind. Berrycast adds the entire language layer plus branding and analytics. Choose ScreenRec if budget or Linux support is the binding constraint; choose Berrycast if a searchable, summarized library is worth roughly the same money.
ScreenRec compared with Berrycast
Berrycast is a cleaner, more modern video-only tool at around $9.99 a user with AI transcription and summaries and Gmail and Outlook integration, but its free plan allows only ten videos a month. ScreenRec has no AI layer at all and a far more generous free tier plus Linux support. Take Berrycast if transcription matters; take ScreenRec if length limits and budget matter more.
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 ScreenRec if
Budget-constrained teams, educators, and support and engineering staff on Windows, macOS, or Linux who need to record long sessions and share them privately without paying, and who do not need editing, captions, or AI features.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Berrycast | ScreenRec |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Video | Video |
| Starting price | Reported between $4 and $9.99 per user per month depending on plan and source (free plan available) | $8.32 per month billed annually (Pro) (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 with paid tiers priced around storage and bandwidth rather than per seat, billed monthly or annually. Free is licensed for personal use only. |
| Free plan | Around 10 videos per month, including annotation and trimming, with Berrycast branding retained. | 2GB of cloud storage and 2GB of bandwidth, up to 720p with unlimited recording length and no watermark, around 100 recordings and 50 screenshots per month, one user, personal use only. |
| Free trial | 14 days of full features, extendable by a further 14 days, with no credit card required | The free plan is the trial and does not expire |
| 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. | Budget-constrained teams, educators, and support and engineering staff on Windows, macOS, or Linux who need to record long sessions and share them privately without paying, and who do not need editing, captions, or AI features. |
| 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. | Ten minutes. Download the application for Windows, macOS, or Linux, create an account for cloud upload and link sharing, grant screen recording permission, and record. There is no workspace configuration or integration setup because there is very little to configure. |
| 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. | Minimal. The product does a small number of things and does not hide them. The only operational habit to build is storage management, because unlimited-length recording plus a 2GB or 50GB cap means the library needs pruning on a schedule rather than when it fills. |
| Platforms | Windows desktop application, macOS desktop application, Browser extension, Web viewing pages, Mobile access to recordings | Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux |
| Compliance | No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed | No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed for the ScreenRec product |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
| Headquarters | Canada | Distributed team across three countries |
| Ownership | Privately held, no disclosed venture funding | Privately held; built and operated by StreamingVideoProvider |
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.
ScreenRec
Strengths
- Unlimited recording length on every plan including free, which almost no competitor offers and which alone decides the purchase for anyone recording long sessions.
- No watermark on any plan, including free, so output is usable externally from day one.
- Genuine Linux support alongside Windows and macOS, which makes it viable for engineering teams that most of this category quietly excludes.
- Pro at $8.32 a month covering three licensed computers with commercial rights and 50GB of storage is exceptional value.
Limitations
- No editing to speak of. No automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, no trimming beyond the basics, so what you record is what you send.
- No transcription, captions, or translation, which rules it out anywhere accessibility is a requirement rather than a preference.
- No AI features at all, which is either a virtue or a disqualification depending on what you need.
- The free plan is licensed for personal use only, so business use requires Pro and the free tier cannot honestly be a company's plan.
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.
ScreenRec
Freemium with paid tiers priced around storage and bandwidth rather than per seat, billed monthly or annually. Free is licensed for personal use only.
- Free Forever$0
- Pro$8.32
- Premium$81.66
On pure recording capability per dollar, ScreenRec is the best value in this category and it is not close: unlimited-length, watermark-free recording on a free plan, and $8.32 a month for 1080p across three computers with commercial rights and 50GB of hosting. What you are not buying is any of the modern layer, and that omission is total. There is no zoom, no editing, no captions, no AI, no polish. Judge it as a utility for getting long recordings out of your head and onto a private link, where it is excellent and cheap. Judge it as a video communication platform and it is a decade behind, because it is essentially a free front end to a hosting business.
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 profileScreenRec
Best ValueScreenRec is the answer to one specific question: how do I record something long, share it privately, and pay nothing or almost nothing. On that question it beats every other tool in this category, because unlimited-length watermark-free recording on a free plan is close to unique, Linux support is genuinely rare, and Pro at $8.32 a month across three computers with commercial rights and 50GB of hosting is exceptional. Everything else about it is a decade behind. There is no editing, no zoom, no captions, no transcription, no AI, and no custom branding, and the interface looks its age. Use it if budget or platform coverage is the binding constraint, if you record long training sessions, or if half your engineers are on Linux. Pay for Loom, Tella, or Zight instead if the video needs to look good, be searchable, or be seen by customers.
Read the full ScreenRec profileBerrycast profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; ScreenRec last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.