| Price (entry paid tier) | $0 for 7 days, then $9.99/mo; or 24 hours free with no card | Non-Commercial $2.50/mo, billed yearly (personal use only) |
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| Lifetime license | $399 once, commercial use included, every platform | Non-commercial only, from $99.99 (Mac App Store app) |
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| 5-year cost of ownership (entry tier) | $399 once, on the lifetime plan; the monthly and annual plans cost more over five years | $150 on Non-Commercial ($30 a year, personal use only); $300 per user on Commercial ($60 a year) |
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| Commercial use | Yes, on every plan | Commercial plan: $5/mo on its site; $14.49/mo or $85.99/yr in the Mac App Store (the $5 is per user, billed yearly) |
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| Runs on | Mac (macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon), Windows 10 (1809 or later) or 11 (64-bit), Linux (64-bit), iPhone and iPad (iOS 17 or later), Android 8.0 or later, and the web | Mac (from the Mac App Store, macOS 14.6 or later), Windows, and a Chrome extension; no Linux app |
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| Mobile apps | Yes (iPhone, iPad, Android), with auto-import of your phone's screenshots | No |
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| Account needed | Yes (a Bravely Account) | No to capture; you log in for its cloud storage and short links |
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| Region / window / fullscreen capture | Yes | Yes |
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| Scroll capture | Yes (Mac, Windows; Linux on an X11 desktop) | Whole web page in its Chrome extension; none in its Mac and Windows apps |
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| Video recording | Yes — MP4 on Mac, Windows and Linux (X11), saved on your computer | Yes — 5 min on Free, unlimited on paid plans, uploads with a short link |
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| GIF recording | No | Yes |
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| Webcam in recordings | No | Yes |
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| Video trimming | No | Yes (Mac) |
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| Markup tools | Pen, highlighter, eraser, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, text, blur, crop, on every app (Linux: undo but no redo; a soft blur) | Pen, highlighter, text, arrows, shapes and blur, plus darkening around an area |
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| OCR | Yes (on-device, on every app) | No (its Windows app reads text only to flag sensitive data) |
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| Cloud library on the vendor's storage | 2 GB per account, screenshots only | 2 GB free; 10+ GB on paid plans |
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| Third-party storage destinations (Dropbox, Drive, S3, FTP, etc.) | No — uploads go to your PrintScreen.ly library | Yes: Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, S3, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and more |
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| Web dashboard for your screenshot library | Yes: your library in any browser, in the web app | Yes: sign in at monosnap.com to see your uploads in folders |
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| Cross-device clipboard | One way: Mac or Windows to the iPhone, iPad and Android apps | No |
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| Free tier | No (a 24-hour no-card trial, then a plan) | Yes, for personal and family use: 2 GB, 5-minute videos, 100 MB per file |
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| Trust + signing | Mac app signed and notarized; Windows installer signed by Bravely Studios LLC | Mac app from the Mac App Store; Windows installer signed by Monosnap, Inc. |
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