# ScreenRec

> ScreenRec is a free screen recorder and screenshot tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux that records with no time limit and no watermark, uploads automatically to private cloud storage, and returns an instant shareable link with viewer analytics; it is built on the StreamingVideoProvider business video platform and runs from a genuinely free tier with 2GB of storage up to $81.66 a month on Premium.

- Category: Async Video Messaging (https://saastracker.org/categories/video-messaging)
- Website: https://screenrec.com
- Starting price: $8.32 per month billed annually (Pro)
- Free plan: 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: The free plan is the trial and does not expire
- Founded: 2019, HQ: Distributed team across three countries, Ownership: Privately held; built and operated by StreamingVideoProvider
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/screenrec

## Overview

ScreenRec was launched in 2019 by StreamingVideoProvider, an established business video hosting company, as a free screen recorder built on top of its existing streaming infrastructure. That lineage explains most of what is unusual about the product. The hosting, the encryption, the private sharing model, and the analytics all come from a platform that was already doing enterprise video delivery, and the recorder is the free front end to it.

The headline claim is the one most competitors cannot match: recording length is unlimited on every plan including the free one, and there is no watermark anywhere. Loom limits free recordings to five minutes. Zight limits them to ninety seconds. Tella limits free exports to five minutes. ScreenRec limits the number of recordings per month on the free plan, at around 100, and the amount of storage, at 2GB, but not how long any single recording may be. For someone recording a 45 minute training session on no budget, that distinction is the entire buying decision.

What you give up is polish and modernity. There is no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, no AI layer of any kind, no captions pipeline worth relying on, and the interface is functional rather than designed. It also carries a personal-use restriction on the free tier, so a business genuinely using it commercially should be on Pro rather than quietly running the free plan.

Pricing is unusual in shape. Pro at $8.32 a month billed annually gets 50GB of storage, 100GB of bandwidth, 1080p, unlimited recordings and screenshots, a commercial use licence, and three licensed computers. Then there is a very large gap: Premium is $81.66 a month for 200GB of storage, 750GB of bandwidth, 4K, five seats, a dedicated account manager, and a 99.9 percent uptime SLA. That is a ten times price step, and it is priced as a hosting plan rather than as a per-seat productivity tool, which is exactly what its heritage implies.

## How it works

1. You install the desktop application on Windows, macOS, or Linux. Linux support alone puts ScreenRec in a very small group, and it matters to engineering teams that a Mac-only or Windows-only tool quietly excludes.

2. You press a shortcut and select an area, then record your screen with webcam and audio, or take a screenshot and annotate it. Recording runs for as long as you want on any plan.

3. The recording uploads automatically to private cloud storage as you finish, encrypted with 128-bit AES, and a shareable link is generated immediately rather than after an export step.

4. You paste the link wherever the conversation is happening. Recipients watch without needing an account, and sharing is private by default rather than a public URL that anyone who guesses it can open.

5. You check the analytics. Because the hosting comes from a business video platform, viewer analytics are more substantial than the view counter most free tools provide.

6. You manage the library within your storage and bandwidth allowance. Storage is the real meter, and older recordings need clearing or downloading as you approach the cap.

## Best for

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.

## Not the right fit for

- Anyone who needs a polished recording; there is no automatic zoom, no editing beyond the basics, and the output looks like exactly what it is, a raw screen capture.
- Teams that need transcription, captions, or translation; ScreenRec has no meaningful AI or accessibility layer, which rules it out where captions are a requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
- Sales teams doing video outreach; no personalized landing pages, no email thumbnails tied to a contact, no CRM integration, and no view alerts routed to a seller.
- Businesses running commercially on the free plan; the free tier is licensed for personal use only, and a company using it for customer-facing work should be on Pro.
- Teams of six or more who need more storage; the jump from Pro at $8.32 to Premium at $81.66 is a tenfold step with nothing in between, which makes scaling awkward.

## Features

### Recording

The core capability, and the one place ScreenRec beats far more expensive tools.

- **Unlimited recording length on every plan**: Including the free plan. No five minute cap, no ninety second cap, no upgrade prompt at the point where a training session gets interesting. This is the single reason to choose ScreenRec.
- **No watermark on any plan**: Free recordings are clean. Almost every competitor with a free tier brands the output, and that branding is usually what forces the upgrade.
- **Screen, webcam, and audio capture**: Record the display with an optional camera overlay, microphone, and system audio in the same pass.
- **Screenshot capture with annotation**: Take and mark up still captures alongside video, with a monthly allowance of around 50 screenshots on the free plan and unlimited on paid tiers.
- **Live stream recording**: Capture streaming content as well as application windows, which follows from the StreamingVideoProvider heritage.
- **Recording quality by tier**: 720p on Free, 1080p on Pro, and up to 4K on Premium. Quality is the resolution ladder rather than a length or watermark gate.

### Platform coverage

The widest platform support in this category, and the reason mixed technical teams pick it.

- **Windows**: Supported back through several older Windows versions, which matters for teams with machines they cannot upgrade.
- **macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel**: Native builds for both architectures rather than an Intel binary running under translation.
- **Linux**: A genuine Linux build, which almost nothing else in this category offers. For an engineering organization with Linux workstations this is often the deciding factor.
- **Licensed computers rather than named seats**: Pro is licensed for three computers rather than one user account, which suits someone working across a laptop, a desktop, and a test machine.

### Sharing, privacy, and analytics

Where the business video platform underneath shows through.

- **Instant private link**: Recordings upload as you finish and produce a link immediately, with no export or manual upload step. Sharing is private rather than a public URL.
- **128-bit AES encryption**: Content is encrypted to prevent unauthorized download, which is a stronger posture than most free recorders bother with.
- **Viewer analytics**: Engagement data inherited from the StreamingVideoProvider platform, which is more substantial than the plain view counter typical of free tools.
- **No account required to view**: Recipients open the link and watch without signing up, so it works with customers and external partners.
- **Bandwidth allowances**: 2GB on Free, 100GB on Pro, 750GB on Premium. Bandwidth is metered separately from storage, which is unusual in this category and reflects the hosting heritage. A video that goes unexpectedly wide can consume it.
- **Storage allowances**: 2GB on Free, 50GB on Pro, 200GB on Premium. Storage is the meter that actually constrains use, since unlimited-length recordings fill space quickly.

### Plans, licensing, and support

Priced like a hosting product, not like a per-seat SaaS tool.

- **Free tier licensed for personal use**: The free plan is explicitly for personal use, with commercial use requiring Pro. Worth reading before standardizing a company on it.
- **Monthly recording count on Free**: Around 100 recordings and 50 screenshots per month on the free plan, with paid plans unlimited. The cap is on count, not on length.
- **Five seats on Premium**: Premium includes five user seats with centralized billing, which is where the product becomes a team purchase rather than an individual one.
- **99.9 percent uptime SLA on Premium**: A contractual availability commitment, which is unusual to find in a product whose free tier is this generous.
- **Dedicated account manager on Premium**: Named support contact at the top tier, alongside priority handling.
- **Email and chat support from Pro**: Free users get self-serve support only; paid plans get human channels.

## Use cases

- **Teacher recording full-length lessons**: Lessons run 40 to 60 minutes, there is no budget for software, and every free recorder caps recordings at five minutes or stamps a watermark across the output. Outcome: ScreenRec records the whole lesson at 720p with no watermark on the free plan, uploads it privately, and produces a link students can open without accounts. Storage is the only thing to manage.
- **Engineer on a Linux workstation**: The team standardized on a recording tool that only runs on macOS, so the two engineers on Linux have been sending screenshots and apologies for a year. Outcome: A genuine Linux build means everyone records with the same tool and shares the same link format, which is not achievable with most of this category.
- **Support team on a tight budget**: Explaining fixes in writing is slow, but the department cannot justify $15 a seat for a video tool across a dozen agents. Outcome: Pro at $8.32 a month per licence covering three computers, with unlimited recordings, 1080p, 50GB of storage, and commercial use rights, costs a fraction of a per-seat platform.
- **Consultant sending client walkthroughs**: Client recordings contain confidential material and a public unlisted URL is not an acceptable answer when the client asks how it is protected. Outcome: Private sharing with 128-bit AES encryption and viewer analytics gives a defensible answer, backed by an established business video hosting platform rather than a startup's blog post.

## Pricing

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 per month. Unlimited recording length with no watermark; 2GB cloud storage and 2GB bandwidth; Up to 720p; Around 100 recordings and 50 screenshots per month; One user, personal use only, self-serve support. The most genuinely usable free tier in this category, undermined only by the personal-use licence and the 2GB storage cap.
- **Pro**: $8.32 per month billed annually. 50GB cloud storage and 100GB bandwidth; Up to 1080p, unlimited length; Unlimited recordings and screenshots; Business use licence, three licensed computers; Email and chat support. The tier any business should be on. Three licensed computers rather than one named seat is unusually generous.
- **Premium**: $81.66 per month billed annually. 200GB cloud storage and 750GB bandwidth; Up to 4K, unlimited length; Five user seats with centralized billing; Priority support and a dedicated account manager; 99.9 percent uptime SLA. A tenfold price step from Pro with nothing in between, priced as a hosting plan rather than as five seats.

Billing notes:

- The published Pro figure of $8.32 a month reflects annual billing; month-to-month pricing is higher.
- The free plan is licensed for personal use only. A business using it for customer-facing or commercial work should be on Pro, and the difference is a licensing question rather than a feature one.
- Bandwidth is metered separately from storage, which is unusual here and inherited from the hosting platform underneath. A recording that unexpectedly reaches a large audience consumes bandwidth as well as space.
- There is nothing between Pro at $8.32 and Premium at $81.66, so a team that outgrows 50GB of storage or needs 4K faces a very large step rather than a gradual one.
- Free plan caps are on recording count, around 100 a month, and on storage, not on recording length. This is the opposite of how nearly every competitor gates its free tier.
- When storage fills, older recordings must be downloaded or deleted. Plan a retention habit early rather than discovering the cap mid-project, and export anything important before downgrading.

Value assessment: 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.

## 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.
- Private sharing with 128-bit AES encryption and a defensible security answer, inherited from an established business video hosting platform.
- Viewer analytics are more substantial than the plain counters typical of free recorders, again because of the platform underneath.
- Instant link generation with no export step, so the workflow is genuinely as fast as the modern tools.
- Long operating history since 2019 with a large claimed user base, backed by a hosting business rather than by venture funding that needs a return.

## 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.
- Storage on the free plan is only 2GB, which unlimited-length recordings consume quickly, and bandwidth is capped at 2GB as well.
- The gap between Pro at $8.32 and Premium at $81.66 is a tenfold step with no intermediate tier.
- The interface and output are functional rather than designed; next to Screen Studio or Tella the product looks dated.
- Company information is thin. The vendor publishes little about corporate structure, funding, or headcount, which a procurement review will notice.

## Comparisons

- **ScreenRec vs Zight**: Zight is faster in daily use, with better annotation, screenshots and GIFs as first-class modes, custom domains, and a broad integration list at around $9.95 a seat, but its free tier is capped at 25 captures and 90 second recordings. ScreenRec records for as long as you like even on free and runs on Linux. Choose Zight if the daily habit is capture-annotate-paste; choose ScreenRec if you need long recordings, Linux support, or a genuinely free plan.
- **ScreenRec vs 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.
- **ScreenRec vs Vmaker**: Vmaker adds AI clipping, avatars, and subtitles from $18 a month but caps screen recording at one minute on Free and thirty minutes on Starter. ScreenRec records without limit on every plan and does none of the AI work. Pick Vmaker if turning long recordings into clips is the job; pick ScreenRec if simply making the long recording without hitting a wall is the job.
- **ScreenRec vs Loom**: Loom is a far better product on every dimension except the ones that matter to a budget: it caps free recordings at five minutes and costs meaningfully more per seat. ScreenRec has no editing, no captions, and a dated interface, but records unlimited length free and runs on Linux. Most teams should pay for Loom; teams that genuinely cannot should use ScreenRec without embarrassment.

## Implementation

- Setup time: 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: 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.
- Onboarding: Entirely self-serve on Free and Pro. Premium adds a dedicated account manager. Documentation lives on the vendor site alongside the StreamingVideoProvider support material.
- Migration: There is no importer for another tool's library. Coming from a capped free tier elsewhere, the migration is simply installing this and recording. Leaving is the usual hosted-video problem: every link you shared is served by ScreenRec and dies with the account, so download anything that matters first. Because there is no proprietary project format, downloaded recordings are ordinary video files that work anywhere.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux
- API: No prominent public API for the recorder itself. The underlying StreamingVideoProvider platform is a business video hosting service with its own capabilities, which is a separate product with separate pricing.
- Compliance: No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed for the ScreenRec product
- Data residency: Not published as a customer-selectable option; recordings are hosted on the StreamingVideoProvider infrastructure.
- SSO: Not offered on the published plans.
- Security notes: Recordings are shared privately rather than as public URLs and are encrypted with 128-bit AES to prevent unauthorized download, which is a stronger default than most free recorders provide. What is missing is the formal apparatus: no published certification, no trust center, and limited public information about the corporate entity, all of which a security reviewer at a larger buyer will ask about and none of which is answered on the marketing site.

## Support

- Channels: Self-serve support on Free, Email and chat support from Pro, Priority support and a dedicated account manager on Premium
- Documentation: Documentation and knowledge base at screenrec.com, supported by the StreamingVideoProvider help material.
- Community: Large but diffuse user base, with community knowledge concentrated in download sites and third-party reviews rather than an official forum.

## Company

- Founded: 2019
- Founders: Deyan, founder and CEO
- Headquarters: Distributed team across three countries
- Ownership: Privately held; built and operated by StreamingVideoProvider
- Employees: Small distributed team covering design, development, content, customer service, and operations
- Funding: No venture funding disclosed. The product is funded by the parent business video hosting platform.

Timeline:

- 2019: StreamingVideoProvider launches ScreenRec as a free screen recorder with instant cloud sharing built on its existing business video platform.
- 2021: Expands platform coverage across Windows, macOS, and Linux, with the Linux build becoming a distinguishing feature in a category that largely ignores it.
- 2023: Adds Apple Silicon native support and continues shipping incremental releases on the desktop application.
- 2025: Ships version 5.0.13 in July, reporting roughly 600,000 active users across more than 1,470 companies in 95 countries.
- 2026: Operates a three tier structure: a free plan with unlimited-length watermark-free recording, Pro at $8.32 a month, and Premium at $81.66 with 4K and an uptime SLA.

## Integrations

Instant private link sharing into any chat, email, or ticketing tool, StreamingVideoProvider hosting platform, Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop capture, Standard video file download for use in any downstream tool, Screenshot capture and annotation alongside video

## FAQ

### What is ScreenRec?

ScreenRec is a free screen recorder and screenshot tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It records with no time limit and no watermark, uploads automatically to private encrypted cloud storage, and returns an instant shareable link with viewer analytics. It is built and operated by StreamingVideoProvider, a business video hosting company.

### Is ScreenRec really free and what are the limits?

Yes, genuinely free, and the limits are unusual. Recording length is unlimited and there is no watermark, which is the opposite of how nearly every competitor gates a free plan. What is capped is 2GB of storage, 2GB of bandwidth, 720p quality, around 100 recordings and 50 screenshots a month, one user, and a personal-use licence. A business doing commercial work should be on Pro.

### How much do the paid plans cost?

Pro is $8.32 a month billed annually with 50GB of storage, 100GB of bandwidth, 1080p, unlimited recordings and screenshots, a commercial use licence, three licensed computers, and email and chat support. Premium is $81.66 a month with 200GB of storage, 750GB of bandwidth, 4K, five seats, a dedicated account manager, and a 99.9 percent uptime SLA. There is nothing in between.

### Does ScreenRec run on Linux?

Yes, and it is one of very few tools in this category that does. Windows, macOS on both Apple Silicon and Intel, and Linux are all supported. For an engineering organization with Linux workstations, this is often the whole reason to pick ScreenRec over a better-designed competitor that simply cannot be installed.

### What happens when my storage fills up or I downgrade?

Storage is the meter that actually constrains use, because unlimited-length recordings fill 2GB or even 50GB faster than people expect. When it fills you download or delete older recordings. If you downgrade, export anything you want to keep first, because hosted links stop working when the account changes, and downloaded files are ordinary videos that keep working anywhere.

### Does ScreenRec do transcription or captions?

No. There is no transcription, no captions pipeline, no translation, and no AI features of any kind. If accessibility requirements mean captions are mandatory, ScreenRec cannot meet them and you should look at Tella, Loom, or Descript instead. This is the clearest limitation of the product and the vendor does not pretend otherwise.

### Can I edit a ScreenRec recording?

Barely. There is no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, and no real editor. What you record is essentially what you send, so recording carefully matters more here than with tools that let you fix things afterwards. If a polished result is the goal, record in ScreenRec only if you plan to edit elsewhere.

### Can I send a ScreenRec video in an email?

You send a link. No major email client plays video inline, so a recipient sees the link and clicks through to a hosted player, where they can watch without an account. ScreenRec offers no custom domain or vendor branding removal, so the viewing page carries ScreenRec's context rather than yours, which is fine internally and less impressive in front of a customer.

### What analytics does ScreenRec provide?

Viewer analytics inherited from the StreamingVideoProvider platform, which are more substantial than the plain view counter most free tools offer. They tell you about engagement with a recording. They do not reach a CRM, do not generate view alerts to a seller, and are not built for campaign reporting, so they inform rather than integrate.

### Who is behind ScreenRec and is it a safe choice?

ScreenRec was launched in 2019 by StreamingVideoProvider, a business video hosting platform, and is run by a small distributed team across three countries led by a founder identified publicly as Deyan. It reports roughly 600,000 active users across more than 1,470 companies in 95 countries. There is no venture funding, which means no pressure to change the free tier, but also little public corporate information and no published SOC 2 or ISO certification, which will stall a formal security review.

## Editorial verdict

ScreenRec 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.

## SaaSTracker awards

- Best Value (Async Video Messaging, Summer 2026): "Unlimited recording length on a free plan, which almost nobody else in the category offers."

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