PagewingThe best screen recorder extensions for Chrome
For quick recordings shared by link, Loom and Pagewing are the two to compare: Loom if your team already works in Loom or you want desktop and phone apps, Pagewing if you also pay for a PDF editor, a screenshot tool or short links and would rather have one subscription, with a 15-minute free cap instead of Loom's 5. Tella is the pick when the finished video matters more than speed: it edits clips, backgrounds and zooms. Scribe suits anyone whose viewers would rather read steps than watch. Screencastify is the classroom standard, and Awesome Screenshot pairs recording with screenshots for a low price.
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Loom
Best for: teams already on a shared Loom workspace, and anyone who records from a phone or desktop app too
The screen recorder most teams already know: record a tab, window or screen with a camera bubble, and the video is in Loom's cloud with a link, comments, transcripts and AI summaries.
- Price
- Free Starter plan; Business $18 a user a month, billed monthly; Business + AI $24; annual billing saves up to 17%
- Free plan
- 25 videos, 5 minutes each, up to 720p
- Runs on
- Chrome extension, desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and iOS and Android apps
- Instant share links with view counts, comments and reactions
- Transcripts, AI titles and summaries
- Stitch clips and record from any device on Business
- The free plan stops at 5 minutes and 25 videos
- Recordings live in Loom's cloud; downloads come with the paid plans
- Click highlights and drawing need the desktop app
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Pagewing
Best for: people who want Loom-style share links and already pay for two or three other browser tools
A side panel recorder that records a tab, a window, your screen or your camera with your microphone, and with a share link uploads while you record so the link is on your clipboard when you stop. The same subscription covers a PDF editor, screenshots, short links and more.
- Price
- Free plan; Premium and Pro cover every Pagewing tool in one subscription
- Free plan
- Recordings up to 15 minutes, saved to your computer as MP4 or WebM, with no cap on how many
- Runs on
- Chrome extension plus the Pagewing web app for your library
- Share links with a password, an expiry date and comments on the timeline, ready the moment you stop
- Click highlights, spotlight, drawing and blur while recording, with push to talk
- Captions, a searchable transcript and, on Pro, AI summaries, chapters and your logo on the share page
- Chrome only, with no desktop or mobile app
- Share links, longer recordings and trim and cut edits need Premium
- No stitching of clips, and a young product next to the others here
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Tella
Best for: course makers, founders and marketers who publish polished demos
A recorder built around the finished video: record your screen and camera in clips, then edit the layout, backgrounds, zooms and transcript, and cut silences and filler words.
- Price
- Pro $13 a user a month and Premium $19, both billed annually; the page shows no monthly-billed price
- Free plan
- A 7-day trial; no free plan is listed
- Runs on
- Web app with a Chrome extension
- Edits clips, layouts, backgrounds and zoom effects after recording
- Removes silence and filler words from the transcript
- Recordings up to 6 hours, combined into longer videos
- No free plan, only a trial
- Billed annually; the pricing page shows no monthly-billed price
- More steps than a one-click recorder for a quick walkthrough
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Scribe
Best for: how-to documentation and onboarding, where readers want steps rather than a video
Not a video recorder in the usual sense: Scribe watches you click through a task and writes a step-by-step guide with screenshots, which you can also share as a video.
- Price
- Free Basic plan; Pro Personal $35 a seat a month billed monthly ($25 billed yearly); Pro Team $17 a seat a month billed monthly, 5 seats minimum
- Free plan
- Unlimited guides from web apps, shared by link or embed
- Runs on
- Chrome and Edge extensions, with desktop capture on the Pro plans
- Turns a recording into written steps automatically
- Guides are easy to edit, share and embed
- Generous free plan for web apps
- Produces guides, not narrated video
- Desktop app capture needs Pro
- Pro Personal is the priciest seat on this list
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Screencastify
Best for: teachers and students on school Chromebooks
A long-running Chrome recorder popular in schools: record a tab, your desktop or your camera, trim the result, and share to Google Drive or by link.
- Price
- Free plan; Starter $19 a month billed monthly ($7 billed yearly); Pro $25 a month billed monthly ($10 billed yearly)
- Free plan
- 10 videos, up to 30 minutes each, with a watermark
- Runs on
- Chrome extension and web app
- Simple recorder that works on Chromebooks
- Built-in editing and Google Drive sharing
- Education plans for schools
- The free plan caps you at 10 videos and adds a watermark
- The monthly-billed price is high next to the yearly one
- Fewer sharing and analytics features than Loom
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Awesome Screenshot
Best for: people who want one cheap extension for screenshots and the occasional recording
A screenshot extension that also records your tab, desktop or camera, with annotation during recording and basic cutting afterwards, saved locally or to its cloud with a share link.
- Price
- Free plan; Professional $8 a month billed monthly ($6 billed annually); Basic $6 a month for unlimited screenshots only
- Free plan
- 20 cloud recordings at up to 720p, or unlimited local recordings of up to 5 minutes, plus 100 cloud screenshots
- Runs on
- Chrome extension and web app
- Screenshots and recording in one extension
- Up to 4K recordings and 6 hours each on Professional
- Sends to Slack, Jira, Trello and Asana
- Local recordings on the free plan stop at 5 minutes
- No transcripts or AI summaries listed
- Editing is basic next to Tella or Loom
Prices and features as read on each app's own site in October 2026, billed monthly in US dollars unless said otherwise. They change: check there before you decide.
Pagewing against each screen recorder
Every feature in a table, where the other app does more, and what your whole stack costs.
Questions
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Which screen recorder for Chrome is free?
Loom, Pagewing, Scribe, Screencastify and Awesome Screenshot all have free plans; Tella has only a trial. The free plans differ in length caps: Loom stops at 5 minutes a video, Pagewing at 15, Screencastify at 30 with a watermark, and Awesome Screenshot's local recordings at 5. Loom and Screencastify also cap how many videos you keep (25 and 10); Pagewing doesn't.
Can I record my screen in Chrome without uploading anything?
Yes. Pagewing's Save to computer option writes the MP4 or WebM straight to your Downloads folder and nothing leaves your computer, and Awesome Screenshot can save recordings locally too. Loom, Tella, Scribe and Screencastify store recordings in their clouds, with downloads on some plans.
Which one records with my camera and microphone?
All but Scribe record your microphone, and Loom, Pagewing, Tella, Screencastify and Awesome Screenshot can show your camera as a bubble over the screen or record it on its own. Scribe records clicks for a guide, not a camera.
Which recorder gives me a share link the fastest?
Loom and Pagewing both upload while you record, so the link is ready when you press stop. Pagewing copies it to your clipboard and lets you add a password or an expiry date; Loom's links come with its workspace features.
Do these recorders transcribe and summarize videos?
Loom includes transcripts and AI summaries on its Business + AI plan, Pagewing includes captions and a transcript on every shared recording and AI summaries, chapters and action items on Pro, and Tella edits from the transcript. Screencastify and Awesome Screenshot don't list transcripts on their pricing pages.
Is Pagewing free?
Yes. Every tool works on the free plan, with a few limits. Premium removes the limits and adds features like share links, PDF signatures and cloud storage, for every tool at once. Pro adds Office conversions, bookmark cleanups and AI summaries and branding for recordings on top. You only add a card if you decide to upgrade.
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