# Berrycast

> Berrycast is a Canadian video screen recording and messaging tool for Windows and Mac that records unlimited HD video, generates AI transcripts and summaries in 60 or more languages, hosts recordings on branded pages with custom URLs and password protection, and integrates with Gmail, Outlook, and project management tools; it offers a free plan capped at around 10 videos a month with paid plans reported from roughly $4 to $10 per user per month.

- Category: Async Video Messaging (https://saastracker.org/categories/video-messaging)
- Website: https://www.berrycast.com
- Starting price: Reported between $4 and $9.99 per user per month depending on plan and source
- Free plan: Around 10 videos per month, including annotation and trimming, with Berrycast branding retained.
- Free trial: 14 days of full features, extendable by a further 14 days, with no credit card required
- Founded: 2019, HQ: Canada, Ownership: Privately held, no disclosed venture funding
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/berrycast

## Overview

Berrycast is the quiet option in this category. It has no venture funding story, no rebrand, no AI avatar roadmap, and very little marketing noise. What it has is a straightforward proposition: install a recorder on Windows or Mac, record what you need to explain, and get back a hosted video with a transcript, an AI summary, and a link you can paste into a ticket, an email, or a project management tool. It is Canadian, it has been running for years, and it reports over 100,000 daily users.

The differentiator against the cheaper capture tools is the language layer. Automatic transcripts and AI summaries across 60 or more languages come as standard rather than as a premium add-on, and the summary matters more than it sounds: a recipient who does not want to watch a nine minute walkthrough can read what it said. For a support or professional services team dealing with clients who may not share a first language, that is a more useful feature than automatic zoom.

The free plan is honest in shape but small: around ten videos a month, with annotation and trimming included. Paid plans remove the video cap and add custom branding, custom URLs, password protection, and viewing analytics. This is where a caveat is necessary. Berrycast's published pricing is inconsistent across third-party sources, with figures reported at $4, $9.99, $12, and $21 per user per month depending on where you look and which plan is being described, and the vendor's own site does not render its pricing table to automated readers. Verify the current numbers directly before budgeting.

Where Berrycast fits is internal async communication and client-facing explanation, not sales outreach and not polished video production. There is no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, and no AI avatar. There is also no per-prospect personalization, no email GIF thumbnail tied to a contact, and no CRM push. What you get is a recorder that produces a shareable, searchable, summarized video and does not make a fuss about it.

## How it works

1. You install the desktop recorder on Windows or Mac, or use the browser extension, and sign in. There is no workspace configuration beyond choosing where recordings live.

2. You record your screen, your webcam, or both, with voice-over and audio capture. Recording is unlimited in count on paid plans, with the free plan capped at around ten videos a month.

3. Berrycast transcribes the recording automatically and generates an AI summary, across a language set reported at 60 or more. The transcript makes the video searchable and the summary makes it skippable, which are the two things that stop recorded video piling up unwatched.

4. You trim and annotate in the browser rather than in a separate editor. This is deliberately basic: cut the fumbled opening, mark up the important part, and move on.

5. You share the link. Paid plans put it on a custom URL with your own branding, and password protection is available for anything that should not be forwarded freely. Recipients watch without an account and can leave comments.

6. You check who watched. Viewing analytics on paid plans tell you whether the person you sent it to actually opened it, which is the whole reason to send a link rather than an attachment.

## 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.

## Not the right fit for

- Sales teams doing systematic video outreach; there is no per-prospect personalization, no animated email thumbnail tied to a contact record, no CRM integration, and no view alerts routed to a seller.
- Anyone who needs polished output; there is no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, and no visual framing, so a Berrycast video looks like a screen recording because it is one.
- Teams that need dependable public pricing for a budget cycle; third-party sources report Berrycast's plans at wildly different figures and the vendor site does not surface them reliably.
- Buyers who want a large vendor with a public compliance posture; there is no published SOC 2 or ISO certification and very little disclosed about the company.
- Anyone running seriously on the free plan; roughly ten videos a month is a fortnight of normal use for a support agent.

## Features

### Recording

Plain, cross-platform, and unmetered on length.

- **Desktop recorder for Windows and Mac**: Native applications on both platforms, which is the practical requirement for a mixed team and rules out the macOS-only competitors immediately.
- **Browser extension recording**: Record from the browser for people who cannot or will not install a desktop application.
- **Screen and webcam capture**: Record the display, the camera, or both together, with voice-over and audio capture in the same pass.
- **Unlimited HD recordings on paid plans**: The video count cap applies to the free plan only, at around ten a month. Paid plans remove it, and recording length is not the gating mechanism.
- **Video upload**: Bring in existing footage rather than only recording new material, so an older video can be hosted, transcribed, and shared through the same pipeline.

### Transcription and AI

The reason to pick Berrycast over a plain capture tool.

- **Automatic transcription**: Every recording is transcribed automatically, which makes a video library searchable rather than a folder of opaque files with unhelpful names.
- **AI summaries**: A generated summary sits alongside the video, so a recipient can read what a nine minute walkthrough covered and decide whether to watch it. This is the feature that stops recorded video going unwatched.
- **60 or more languages**: Transcript and summary coverage spans a reported 60-plus languages, which matters for teams whose clients or colleagues do not share a first language.
- **Searchable video library**: Because everything is transcribed, finding the recording where someone explained a specific thing is a text search rather than an archaeology exercise.
- **Interactive guides from recordings**: Recordings can be turned into structured, shareable guides rather than only being a linear video.

### Sharing, branding, and access control

Enough to send something to a client without it looking like a hobby project.

- **Instant shareable link**: Recordings are hosted and linked immediately rather than exported and attached.
- **Custom branding**: Brand the viewing page on paid plans so a client sees your identity rather than a vendor's.
- **Custom URL**: Serve links from your own address, which is the difference between a professional share and a forwarded vendor URL.
- **Password protection**: Lock a recording behind a password on paid plans, for anything that should not survive being forwarded.
- **Private links**: Restricted sharing on the higher tiers rather than every link being open to anyone who receives it.
- **Commenting on shared videos**: Recipients can respond in context on the viewing page rather than starting a separate email thread.
- **No account needed to view**: Clients and colleagues open the link and watch without signing up, which is what makes it usable externally.

### Editing and organization

Deliberately shallow, and priced accordingly.

- **Trimming**: Cut the fumbled opening or the dead ending in the browser. Available even on the free plan.
- **Annotation**: Mark up the recording to point at what matters, also available on the free plan.
- **Shared folders**: Team-level organization on the higher tiers so recordings live somewhere structured rather than in personal accounts.
- **Role-based permissions**: Control who can see and manage what within a team workspace, available on the team tier.
- **Mentions and collaboration**: Tag colleagues on a recording so the right person sees it, rather than relying on a link pasted into a busy channel.

### Integrations and administration

Built to sit next to email and project management rather than to be its own destination.

- **Gmail integration**: Insert a recording into an email directly from the compose window rather than switching applications to fetch a link.
- **Microsoft Outlook integration**: The same workflow for Outlook users, including through the Microsoft marketplace listing.
- **Project management tool integration**: Recordings attach to project communication where the work is being tracked, which is the vendor's stated positioning and the most natural home for a recorded explanation.
- **Viewing analytics**: See whether a recording was opened and by whom on paid plans, which is the minimum useful measurement for a shared link.
- **SSO and provisioning on Enterprise**: Single sign-on, user provisioning, and dedicated account management are reserved for the quoted enterprise tier.
- **On-premises option on Enterprise**: The enterprise tier is reported to include self-hosted deployment and end-to-end encryption, which is unusual in this category and relevant to buyers who cannot use a hosted service.

## Use cases

- **Agency account manager updating a client**: The weekly status call takes 30 minutes, mostly to show four things on a screen, and half the time the client cannot make it anyway. Outcome: A ten minute recording with a transcript and an AI summary replaces the call. The client reads the summary, watches the two minutes that concern them, and the account manager sees whether they opened it.
- **Support team serving multilingual customers**: Written instructions are misread by customers working in their second language, and a video without captions is worse rather than better. Outcome: Automatic transcription across 60 or more languages gives every recording a readable text version alongside it, so the customer can follow in whichever form works for them.
- **Project manager documenting decisions**: Decisions get made in calls and then lost, and nobody writes them down because writing them down is the boring part. Outcome: Recordings attached to the project management tool carry AI summaries and searchable transcripts, so the decision is findable six months later by searching for the words that were said.
- **Small business owner on Windows**: Every recommended recording tool turns out to be macOS only or costs $15 a seat before it does anything useful. Outcome: Berrycast runs natively on Windows and Mac at a low per-user price with transcription, summaries, custom branding, and password protection included on the paid tier.

## Pricing

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 per user per month. Around 10 videos per month; Annotation and trimming included; Screen and webcam recording; Shareable hosted links; Berrycast branding retained. Ten videos a month is roughly a fortnight of normal use for a support agent. Useful for evaluating, not for operating.
- **Personal**: $4 per user per month, reported on annual billing. Unlimited videos; AI transcription; Custom branding; Desktop and extension recorders. The lowest reported paid figure. Confirm it exists under this name before planning around it.
- **Pro**: $9.99 per user per month. Unlimited recordings; Custom branding and custom URL; Password protection; Video upload; Viewing analytics. The most commonly cited paid tier and the one third-party directories describe most consistently.
- **Team**: $21 per user per month, reported on annual billing. Everything in the individual plans; Shared folders; Role-based permissions; Private links; Priority support.
- **Enterprise**: Custom contact sales. SSO and user provisioning; Advanced security and end-to-end encryption; Self-hosted deployment option; Dedicated account management and volume discounts.

Billing notes:

- This is the most important billing note in this dossier: Berrycast's published pricing is inconsistent across third-party sources, with paid tiers reported at $4, $5, $9.99, $12, and $21 per user per month depending on where you look. The vendor's own pricing page does not render reliably to automated readers. Confirm the current structure directly with Berrycast before committing a budget.
- The free plan's constraint is a monthly video count of around ten rather than a length or storage limit, so recording long sessions is fine but recording often is not.
- A 14 day full-feature free trial is offered with no credit card, and it can be extended by a further 14 days, which is a longer and friendlier evaluation window than most competitors provide.
- Custom branding, custom URLs, password protection, and viewing analytics are the paid-tier features; the free plan is a functional recorder without any of the presentation or measurement layer.
- Enterprise is the only route to SSO, provisioning, and the reported self-hosted deployment option.
- Hosted links stop working when a subscription ends, so anything embedded in a client-facing document or a project ticket should be downloaded before you leave.

Value assessment: 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.

## 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.
- A 14 day full-feature trial that can be extended by another 14 days, with no card required, is one of the most generous evaluation windows in the category.
- The enterprise tier reportedly includes self-hosted deployment and end-to-end encryption, which is rare here and matters for buyers who cannot use hosted video.
- Positioned around project management rather than around video, which is the right framing for a tool whose output belongs in a ticket rather than in a library.
- Long-running and quietly stable, reporting over 100,000 daily users without a rebrand, pivot, or funding drama.

## 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.
- Nothing for sales outreach: no per-prospect pages, no email thumbnails tied to a contact, no CRM push, no view alerts to a seller.
- Analytics are viewing data rather than completion curves or drop-off analysis, so they answer whether a video was opened, not how it performed.
- The integration list is short relative to Loom or Zight, covering email and project tools rather than a broad ecosystem.
- Marketing and documentation are thin, so evaluating it means using the trial rather than reading about it, which is a real cost when you are shortlisting quickly.

## Comparisons

- **Berrycast vs 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.
- **Berrycast vs 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.
- **Berrycast vs Weet**: Weet is aimed at training video, with interactive annotations, quizzes and learning paths on Enterprise, AI avatars, and subtitles in 100-plus languages at $24 per creator per month. Berrycast is a general recorder with transcription at roughly half the price and none of the learning apparatus. Pick Weet if people are supposed to complete training and you need to know they did; pick Berrycast if the videos are explanations rather than courses.
- **Berrycast vs Loom**: Loom is the better-known product with a stronger recorder, a much larger integration ecosystem, and more mature library management, at a higher per-seat price and with free recordings capped at five minutes. Berrycast is cheaper, adds AI summaries as standard, and offers a reported self-hosted enterprise option Loom does not. Most teams will default to Loom; teams that care about multilingual transcripts, branding on a budget, or self-hosting should look at Berrycast first.
- **Berrycast vs 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.

## Implementation

- 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.
- 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.
- Onboarding: Fully self-serve on the free and individual paid tiers, with a 14 day full-feature trial that can be extended a further 14 days without a card. Enterprise involves a sales conversation for SSO, provisioning, and the self-hosted option.
- Migration: Existing videos can be uploaded rather than re-recorded, so bringing a library across is practical and each uploaded video picks up a transcript and summary. Leaving has the usual hosted-video problem: every link already pasted into a client email or a project ticket points at Berrycast and dies with the subscription. Because the transcripts and summaries are the reason to use it, exporting those alongside the video files is worth planning deliberately rather than assuming they travel.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Windows desktop application, macOS desktop application, Browser extension, Web viewing pages, Mobile access to recordings
- API: A screen recorder SDK is marketed by the vendor for embedding recording capability into other products, which is unusual in this category. Confirm current availability and terms with Berrycast directly.
- Compliance: No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed
- Data residency: Not published as a customer-selectable option on the self-serve tiers. The Enterprise tier is reported to offer a self-hosted deployment option, which is the strongest residency answer available here.
- SSO: SSO and user provisioning on the quoted Enterprise plan only.
- Security notes: Password protection and private links are the access controls available on paid self-serve plans, with end-to-end encryption and self-hosted deployment reported on Enterprise. There is no published certification, trust center, or vulnerability disclosure programme, and the company discloses relatively little publicly, which is the main obstacle for a buyer with a formal security review.

## Support

- Channels: Email support, In-app support, Priority support on the team tier, Dedicated account management on Enterprise
- Documentation: Documentation and a blog at berrycast.com covering recording, sharing, and integrations. Coverage is thinner than the larger vendors in this category.
- Community: No large public community; evaluation is best done through the extended free trial rather than through published material.

## Company

- Founded: 2019
- Headquarters: Canada
- Ownership: Privately held, no disclosed venture funding
- Employees: Not disclosed; a small independent team
- Funding: No funding rounds publicly disclosed.

Timeline:

- 2019: Berrycast launches as a video screen recorder for Windows and Mac aimed at replacing written project communication with recorded explanation.
- 2021: Adds hosted sharing with custom branding, custom URLs, and password protection, moving from a recorder toward a client-facing communication tool.
- 2023: Introduces automatic transcription across a wide language set, making recordings searchable rather than opaque.
- 2024: Adds AI summaries alongside transcripts, positioning around project management tools where recorded explanations belong next to the work.
- 2025: Lists in the Microsoft marketplace and deepens Gmail and Outlook integration, with a reported enterprise tier offering SSO and self-hosted deployment.
- 2026: Operates a free plan capped at roughly ten videos a month with paid tiers reported between $4 and $21 per user per month and over 100,000 reported daily users.

## Integrations

Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft marketplace listing, Project management tools, Browser extension recording, Screen recorder SDK for embedding recording into other products, Direct link sharing into any chat, email, or ticketing tool

## FAQ

### What is Berrycast?

Berrycast is a Canadian video screen recording and messaging tool for Windows and Mac. It records screen and webcam, transcribes and summarizes recordings automatically across 60 or more languages, hosts them on branded pages with custom URLs and password protection, and integrates with Gmail, Outlook, and project management tools.

### How much does Berrycast cost?

This is harder to answer than it should be. The free plan allows around ten videos a month. Paid tiers are reported by third-party sources at $4, $5, $9.99, $12, and $21 per user per month depending on the source and plan named, and the vendor's own pricing page does not render reliably to automated readers. Take $9.99 as the most commonly cited individual paid figure and confirm the current structure directly before budgeting.

### What does the free plan actually allow?

Around ten videos per month, with annotation and trimming included and Berrycast branding retained. The limit is a count rather than a length or storage cap, which is unusual: you can record for an hour, but only ten times a month. For a support agent that is roughly a fortnight of normal use, so treat it as evaluation rather than as an operating plan.

### Is there a free trial?

Yes, and it is one of the more generous ones in this category: 14 days of the full feature set with no credit card required, extendable by a further 14 days. Given how thin the published documentation is, the trial is genuinely the right way to evaluate Berrycast rather than trying to research it first.

### How good is the transcription and how many languages does it cover?

Transcripts and AI summaries are generated automatically across a reported 60 or more languages, and they are the main reason to choose Berrycast over a cheaper capture tool. The transcript makes a library searchable and the summary lets a recipient decide whether to watch. As with all automatic transcription, accuracy depends heavily on audio quality and accent, so treat it as a strong aid rather than a legal record.

### Can I remove Berrycast branding and use my own domain?

Yes, on paid plans. Custom branding and a custom URL are both available, which is what makes a link sent to a client look like it came from your business rather than from a vendor you happen to use. Password protection and private links are also paid features and are the practical controls over who can open a recording once it has been forwarded.

### Can I put a Berrycast video in an email?

You send a link, and the Gmail and Outlook integrations let you insert it without leaving the compose window. No major email client plays video inline, so what your recipient sees is a preview or thumbnail and a click through to the hosted page. With custom branding and a custom URL on a paid plan, that page carries your identity, which is the closest anyone in this category gets to video in email.

### Does Berrycast work for sales outreach?

No. There is no per-prospect personalization, no animated email thumbnail tied to a contact record, no CRM integration, and no view alerts routed to a seller. Its analytics tell you a video was viewed, not how a campaign performed. Sales teams should look at Sendspark, Vidyard, or Dubb. Berrycast is for internal async communication and client-facing explanation.

### What happens to my recordings if I cancel?

Hosted links stop working when the subscription ends, which matters because Berrycast's positioning encourages you to paste those links into project tickets and client emails where they will sit for years. Download the video files before you leave, and think about the transcripts and summaries too, since those are the part you were actually paying for and they do not travel automatically.

### Is Berrycast suitable for a company with a security review?

Only at the enterprise level, and even then you will be asking questions rather than reading answers. There is no published SOC 2 or ISO certification, no trust center, and little disclosed corporate information. The enterprise tier is reported to include SSO, user provisioning, end-to-end encryption, and a self-hosted deployment option, which is a genuinely strong answer for buyers who cannot use hosted video, but it requires a sales conversation to verify.

## Editorial verdict

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.

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