{"slug": "screen-studio", "name": "Screen Studio", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 2.322, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-12", "latest": "2026-04-29", "why": "Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money?", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money?", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://screen.studio", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Screen Studio", "ScreenStudio"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 767150960, "item_id": 47946935, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946935", "by": "emvideo", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I spend a lot of time in Screen Studio (I make videos for software companies)", "excerpt": "This is interesting, but I've got questions. I spend a lot of time in Screen Studio (I make videos for software companies) and this looks similar, but for time lapses specifically. I can see the use case for digital artists. But the talking head demos are confusing because I'm assuming you can't hear what the spokesperson is saying (otherwise they'd sound like a chipmunk) - so what's the point of having them on scree", "context": "makes videos for software companies", "use_case": "screen recording videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Lapser Studio \u2013 Beautiful timelapse screen recordings effortlessly"}, {"id": 762365952, "item_id": 47647872, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647872", "by": "canxerian", "date": "2026-04-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ScreenStudio is reliable and produces the best results for my use case", "excerpt": "I used ScreenStudio for a year. Then, when my annual subscription was up for renewal I tried https://cap.so/ and https://screensage.pro/ After experiencing many bugs and UX oddities with both of those, I went back to ScreenStudio. ScreenStudio is reliable and produces the best results for my use case (educational content and client updates)", "context": "", "use_case": "educational content and client updates", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}, {"id": 762328864, "item_id": 47645554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645554", "by": "alin23", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money?", "excerpt": "Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money? The recent video I did for Cling for example (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) I\u2019ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the right amount of motion and highlighting. I did it in a few minutes of editing in the ScreenStudio UI. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that\u2019s what", "context": "", "use_case": "screen recording demo videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 751925313, "item_id": 46995332, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995332", "by": "lenvl", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I know that ScreenStudio started with one time purchase pricing model, but then they got greedy and changed that.", "excerpt": "I'd like to share a tool I built and explain why I decided to do this in the first place. I have been using ScreenStudio to record cool demo videos for some time already, buying and cancelling my subscription, forgetting to cancel sometimes for months. Then I just got enough. I mean, I love it, but my god, why do I need a subscription for something I download once? Even though I'm building tools with monthly subscrip", "context": "", "use_case": "recording demo videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN:  ScreenStudio Alternative with one-time purchase"}]}], "who": [{"by": "emvideo", "context": "makes videos for software companies", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946935", "date": "2026-04-29"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["screen recording videos", "recording product demos", "screen recording", "educational content and client updates", "screen recording demo videos", "recording demo videos"], "compared": [{"slug": "openscreen", "name": "OpenScreen", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595695", "title": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946318", "title": "Show HN: Lapser Studio \u2013 Beautiful timelapse screen recordings effortlessly", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891384", "title": "Show HN: Cua Driver \u2013 background multi-cursor via macOS SkyLight.framework", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995331", "title": "Show HN:  ScreenStudio Alternative with one-time purchase", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 767150960, "item_id": 47946935, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946935", "by": "emvideo", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I spend a lot of time in Screen Studio (I make videos for software companies)", "excerpt": "This is interesting, but I've got questions. I spend a lot of time in Screen Studio (I make videos for software companies) and this looks similar, but for time lapses specifically. I can see the use case for digital artists. But the talking head demos are confusing because I'm assuming you can't hear what the spokesperson is saying (otherwise they'd sound like a chipmunk) - so what's the point of having them on scree", "context": "makes videos for software companies", "use_case": "screen recording videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Lapser Studio \u2013 Beautiful timelapse screen recordings effortlessly"}, {"id": 766262513, "item_id": 47891407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891407", "by": "frabonacci", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We canceled our Screen Studio subscription", "excerpt": "Hi HN, Francesco from Cua here. I hacked this together over a weekend after getting curious about whether macOS could support real background computer-use outside a single vendor's agent product. The first thing we are using it for is recording product demos. We used to use Screen Studio; now we ask Claude Code + cua-driver to drive the app while cua-driver recording start captures the trajectory, screenshots, action", "context": "", "use_case": "recording product demos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Cua Driver \u2013 background multi-cursor via macOS SkyLight.framework"}, {"id": 762391393, "item_id": 47649462, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649462", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-04-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "killing revenue for something else, that existed for a long time?", "excerpt": "\"OpenScreen is your free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio (sort of).\" If you rip something off, at least have the decency to not compare your product to it. I mean, why is it good to have zero revenue and at the same time killing revenue for something else, that existed for a long time? What's wrong with people, why are they biting their own hand? FOSS is a trojan horse and look, how many borderline idiotic ", "context": "", "use_case": "screen recording", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}, {"id": 762365952, "item_id": 47647872, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647872", "by": "canxerian", "date": "2026-04-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ScreenStudio is reliable and produces the best results for my use case", "excerpt": "I used ScreenStudio for a year. Then, when my annual subscription was up for renewal I tried https://cap.so/ and https://screensage.pro/ After experiencing many bugs and UX oddities with both of those, I went back to ScreenStudio. 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