Screen recording & video

What is the best screen recorder for Mac? CleanShot X is the pick for screenshots and quick recordings, Kite for polished product demos, and Cap, Tella and Supercut for recording video messages to share with a team.

CleanShot X is a Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings with annotation, scrolling capture, OCR, a video editor and cloud sharing. It scores 4.9 on Product Hunt from 55 reviews and 4.9 on G2 from 7. Kite turns recordings into demo videos with auto zoom, 3D mockups, animated text and AI voiceovers, and has a Product Hunt score of 5.0 from 5 reviews. Tella records and edits on Mac, Windows and Chrome, with AI editing, hosting and viewer analytics, and scores 4.8 on the Chrome Web Store from 67 ratings and 4.8 on Product Hunt from 38.

Loom alternatives: which is cheapest? Cap is the cheapest team option, at $8.16 a month per user on annual billing, with Tella Pro at $13 and Supercut Pro at $15.

Cap compares its Pro plan with Loom's $18 Business plan, and includes unlimited cloud storage plus AI titles, summaries, chapters and transcripts. It is open source and can be self-hosted. Tella costs $26 a month per user, or $13 billed yearly, with clips up to 6 hours, and it imports Loom libraries through its free Tella Transfer app. Supercut costs $18 a seat a month, or $15 billed yearly, with Auto-Edit, chapters and summaries included, and teams switching from Loom get Supercut Pro free until their Loom term ends. Viewers are free on both Tella and Supercut, so only the people who record need a seat.

Supercut is a UK-registered company that stores data in Ireland, which may suit UK buyers. Cap's Windows version and Tella's Windows app are both described as beta.

Which screen recorder is free? Cap and Kite have free plans, and Medal is free for game clips; CleanShot X, Tella and Supercut have none.

The free options and their limits: - Cap: free for personal use, with 4K export and share links up to five minutes - Kite: every major feature with unlimited exports, but each export carries a watermark - Medal: game clipping, editing and sharing with ads, uploads up to 20 minutes at 1080p and 60fps - Tella: a 7-day trial without a card, then no recording or exporting without paying - Supercut: a 14-day trial from your first recording, with no card needed - CleanShot X: no trial, but a 30-day money-back guarantee

What is the best app for recording game clips on PC? Medal is built for it: it records PC games in the background and saves highlights with a hotkey, and it works with Nvidia, AMD and Intel graphics.

Medal scores 4.8 on Google Play from 24,100 ratings, 4.7 on the UK App Store from 3,151 and 3.6 on Trustpilot from 293, where reviewers report missing clips and overlay crashes. It records game, microphone and Discord audio on separate tracks. The UK App Store lists Premium, there called Medal Gold, at £7.99 a month or £76.99 a year, which removes ads and allows unlimited upload length at up to 4K and 144fps. It runs on Windows with phone apps, and has no Mac version.

How do you pay less for screen recording software? A one-off licence avoids a subscription altogether: CleanShot X Basic costs $35 once and Cap's desktop licence costs $58 once.

CleanShot X Basic keeps working after its first year, with optional updates at $19 a year, and every Mac feature is in both plans; Pro, at $10 a month on yearly billing, only adds unlimited cloud storage and team features. Cap's $29 yearly or $58 lifetime licence covers commercial local recording.

Yearly billing helps on subscriptions. Tella halves its price, Kite saves 30% or more, taking Pro from $59 to $40 a month, and Cap Pro saves 32%. Students get 30% off Cap and CleanShot X, and Tella gives educators and students six months of Pro free, then 50% off, with 50% off for registered charities, UK charities included.