Looking for a screen recorder with no watermark? Read this first.

You searched "screen recorder no watermark," so here's the answer most pages bury: yes, our free tier has a watermark too. Free exports carry a small corner badge. We could have written a page pretending otherwise and surprised you at the export dialog — that's the standard move in this category, and it's why so many recorder reviews are angry. Instead, here's exactly what's free, exactly what the watermark costs to remove, and what the "free, no watermark" promises elsewhere usually trade away.

What free actually includes here

We gate output polish, never the craft. On the free tier you get unlimited recordings of any length, the full editor, and every effect — spring zooms, click ripples, wallpaper frames, the webcam bubble, aspect reframing, trim/split/speed. No account, no trial countdown, no feature that stops working after 7 days. Free exports are capped at 1080p and 5 minutes per export, with the badge in the corner. That's the whole catch, in one sentence, above the fold.

The full gates table

This is the same table the app shows at export time — no surprises mid-edit.

Removing the watermark — along with the resolution and length caps — is $9/month, $69/year, or $119 once (lifetime, early-bird for the first 500 licenses, then $179, then $199 at v2 — the ladder is published in advance). The lifetime license covers every v1.x update and comes with a written pledge: we will never move existing customers to subscriptions. Details on the pricing page.

About those "free, no watermark" results

Some tools genuinely export without a watermark on free plans — the trade-off lives elsewhere, in their own published terms. Loom's free plan doesn't watermark, but it caps you at 25 videos lifetime, 5 minutes each, at 720p, with no downloads — your video lives on their servers. Cursorful's free tier is licensed for non-commercial use and caps exports at 1080p/30. Screentell — the tool closest to our architecture — watermarks free exports and caps them at 3 minutes, which is honest too. The pattern to watch for is the recorder that advertises "free, no watermark" and reveals the real limit after you've recorded. Whatever you choose, find the gates table before you hit record. Ours is above; it's also in the export dialog, unchanged.

Why the watermark is baked into the pixels

The badge is composited during the render, in the same WebGL2 pass as your zooms and frame — it is not a DOM overlay you can hide with an ad-blocker. We mention this because people ask, and because the honest route costs less than the time spent looking for tricks: $69 a year, or $119 once and it's gone forever. Every dollar of that buys the thing the watermark advertises — an editor where all the craft was free to begin with.