SayScreen
Comparison

SayScreen vs Screen Studio

One polishes a recording you make. The other makes the recording, and the narration, from a brief.

The other tool

Screen Studio

Screen Studio is a Mac app you record with. You press record, do the thing, talk into your mic if you want, and it turns that take into a polished video: smooth cursor, automatic zooms on your clicks, a rounded window on a nice background, 4K export. It is very good at that. It does not write anything or speak anything; the voice is yours or there is none.

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SayScreen

SayScreen is a web app you brief. You give it a page address and a sentence, it reads the page, writes the narration, shows you the script, then records the walkthrough with an AI voice, a moving pointer, camera moves and captions. You never record, speak or edit. The finished look is deliberately close to a Screen Studio export.

Feature by feature

Side by side

  • What you do
    Screen Studio

    Record your screen and, optionally, your voice. Adjust zooms and trim in the editor.

    SayScreen

    Write a sentence. Read and approve the script.

  • Narration
    Screen Studio

    Your own microphone, with noise removal and voice normalisation. No AI voice.

    SayScreen

    An AI voice reads a script the app wrote from the page. You approve the script first. Six languages.

  • Captions
    Screen Studio

    Transcript generated on your machine.

    SayScreen

    Word-timed captions burned into the video.

  • The look
    Screen Studio

    Smooth cursor, automatic zooms on your actions, backgrounds, insets and shadows. All adjustable.

    SayScreen

    Rounded window on a wallpaper, eased pointer, click ripple, zooms that follow the narration. Set automatically.

  • Camera
    Screen Studio

    Webcam overlay, and iPhone or iPad recording over USB.

    SayScreen

    No webcam. The screen only.

  • Output
    Screen Studio

    mp4 up to 4K at 60 fps, GIF, presets for web and social, shareable links.

    SayScreen

    1080p mp4 at 60 fps, landscape or portrait. No watermark. Download it and host it anywhere.

  • Platform
    Screen Studio

    macOS only, Ventura 13.1 or later. No Windows version.

    SayScreen

    Any browser. Nothing to install; the free Chrome extension only for pages behind a login.

  • Price
    Screen Studio

    $20 a month, or $9 a month billed yearly. No free plan.

    SayScreen

    Free, with a built-in writer and voice. Your own Claude and ElevenLabs keys for the best voices, about 17 cents a minute of video.

Screen Studio details from screen.studio, read on 2026-09-12. Prices are in US dollars and may have changed since.

Pick Screen Studio when

  • You want your own face or voice in the video.
  • The thing you are showing is not a web page: a native Mac app, a terminal, an iPhone app.
  • You want fine control over every zoom and cut.

Pick SayScreen when

  • You do not want to record, speak or edit at all.
  • You are on Windows, Linux or a locked-down machine.
  • You need many short walkthroughs of web pages and they go stale often.
  • You want narration in a language you do not speak.
Example

What SayScreen makes

From the brief “Spin up a new project in Northwind and connect it to an API key.” Nothing was edited afterwards. Read what the voice says.

FAQ

Questions

Is SayScreen a Screen Studio alternative?

For narrated walkthroughs of web pages, yes. For recording yourself using any app on a Mac, no; Screen Studio is the better tool and SayScreen does not record your desktop at all.

Does SayScreen run on Windows?

Yes. It is a web app, so it runs in any browser on any system.

Can I use both?

Some people do: SayScreen for the help-centre walkthroughs that change every release, Screen Studio for the launch video with their own voice on it.

Where do these facts come from?

Screen Studio's own site, read on the date shown at the bottom of the table. If something has changed, tell us and we will fix it.

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