Berrycast vs Zight
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 Zight
Zight is faster for the daily habit, with screenshots and GIFs as first-class modes, better annotation, custom domains, and a broad integration list at around $9.95 a seat, but no meaningful transcription. Berrycast is video-only and gives you transcripts and AI summaries in 60-plus languages at a similar price. Take Zight if most of what you send is a screenshot; take Berrycast if what you send is a video someone needs to search or skim later.
Zight compared with Berrycast
Berrycast is a simpler, cheaper video-only tool at around $9.99 a user with AI transcription and summaries, a free tier of ten videos a month, and Gmail and Outlook integration. Zight is broader, covering screenshots and GIFs as well as video, with a stronger integration list and iOS support. Take Berrycast if you only send videos and want transcription included; take Zight if most of what you send is a screenshot or a GIF.
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 Zight if
Support, engineering, design, and product teams whose async communication is mostly screenshots and short GIFs with occasional video, and who value a sub-five-second capture-to-link workflow over production quality.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Berrycast | Zight |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Video | Video |
| Starting price | Reported between $4 and $9.99 per user per month depending on plan and source (free plan available) | Approximately $9.95 per user per month billed annually (Pro), or around $12 billed monthly (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. | Per-user subscription with a capped free tier, billed monthly or annually, plus a quoted Enterprise plan. |
| Free plan | Around 10 videos per month, including annotation and trimming, with Berrycast branding retained. | Roughly 25 total captures, recordings capped at 90 seconds, 720p quality, one user, and Zight branding on shared links. |
| Free trial | 14 days of full features, extendable by a further 14 days, with no credit card required | The free plan serves as the trial; no separate fixed-length paid trial is published |
| 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. | Support, engineering, design, and product teams whose async communication is mostly screenshots and short GIFs with occasional video, and who value a sub-five-second capture-to-link workflow over production quality. |
| 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. Install the desktop app or Chrome extension, sign in, grant screen recording permission, and set the keyboard shortcut you will actually remember. Custom domain configuration on paid plans adds a DNS record. |
| 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. | Essentially none. The product is one keyboard shortcut and an annotation toolbar. The only habit worth building deliberately is using the blur tool consistently, because a fast capture flow makes it very easy to share a screen with customer data on it. |
| Platforms | Windows desktop application, macOS desktop application, Browser extension, Web viewing pages, Mobile access to recordings | macOS, Windows, iOS, Chrome extension, Web |
| Compliance | No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed | SOC 2 Type II on Enterprise, HIPAA support on Enterprise, GDPR |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Canada | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held, no disclosed venture funding | Venture-backed |
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.
Zight
Strengths
- The capture-to-clipboard-link interaction is still the fastest in the category and is the reason the product has survived fifteen years and a rebrand.
- Three capture modes in one tool: screenshot, GIF, and video, which matches how people actually communicate rather than forcing everything into video.
- GIF capture is a first-class feature, and GIF is the only format that renders inline in issue trackers, chat, and documentation.
- Annotation with blur is built into the capture flow, so redacting sensitive information takes two seconds instead of a detour through another tool.
Limitations
- The free tier is capped at roughly 25 total captures and 90 second recordings, which makes it an expiring trial rather than a plan.
- The video recorder is functional rather than good: no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, and no polish features.
- Transcription and captions are not a core strength, so accessibility and searchability of video content are weak next to Tella, Descript, or Loom.
- Very small team, publicly estimated in the single digits, supporting a product with fifteen years of accumulated surface area.
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.
Zight
Per-user subscription with a capped free tier, billed monthly or annually, plus a quoted Enterprise plan.
- Free$0
- Pro$9.95
- TeamAround $8 to $11
- EnterpriseCustom
At roughly $10 a seat, Zight is priced fairly against Loom Business and below most polished video recorders, and for a team whose async communication is mostly screenshots and GIFs it delivers more value per dollar than any video-first tool would, because it matches the actual shape of the work. The caveat is that you are paying for speed and breadth of capture, not for video quality. If you compare it feature-for-feature against Tella or Loom on video, it loses. If you compare it on how many times a day someone will actually use it, it wins comfortably.
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 profileZight
Zight earns its place by matching how people actually communicate visually, which is mostly screenshots and short GIFs with the occasional video, rather than by being the best video recorder. The capture-to-clipboard-link interaction remains the fastest in this category after fifteen years, annotation with blur is built into the flow where it belongs, and it runs everywhere including Windows and iOS. At around $10 a seat that is good value for a support, engineering, or design team. Go in with three things clear. The free tier is a 25 capture trial, not a plan. The video recorder is plain, with no zoom, no transcript editing, and no captions worth relying on. And every link you share is hosted by a company with a single-digit headcount, so those links, which are the entire product, depend on a subscription you keep paying. Buy it for speed and breadth of capture, and buy something else if what you need is video that customers will watch.
Read the full Zight profileBerrycast profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Zight last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.