Cursorful vs Screen Studio
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Cursorful
Screen recorder that adds zooms and pans automatically
Screen Studio
Mac screen recorder with automatic zooms and cursor smoothing
Where they differ
- Cursorful starts at $79 per seat, one-time payment. Screen Studio starts at $9 per month, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly).
- Cursorful has a free plan. Screen Studio does not.
- Only Cursorful lists a web app.
- Only Cursorful lists a Windows app.
- Only Cursorful lists a browser extension.
- Cursorful can be bought with a one-time purchase.
- Cursorful also covers noise cancellation.
At a glance
| Cursorful | Screen Studio | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $79 per seat, one-time payment | $9 per month, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | Cursorful Free: the Chrome extension with browser recording, automatic zooms, editing and unlimited 1080p exports, with no sign-up, watermark or time limit. Non-commercial use only. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Cursorful (Luca Dalli) | Timpler Adam Pietrasiak |
| Price read from | cursorful.com | screen.studio |
| Checked | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 4, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Cursorful
- Product demos recorded in the browser with zooms added for you
- People who want recordings rendered on their own device
- Buyers who prefer a one-time payment to a subscription
Screen Studio
- Product demos and launch videos recorded on a Mac
- Makers who want zooms and cursor polish without manual editing
- Developers showing iPhone or iPad apps inside device frames
Worth knowing
Cursorful
- The free plan is for non-commercial use, records only the browser and exports at up to 1080p; microphone, camera and 4K need Pro.
- The desktop apps need a Pro license to export, and the Mac app requires Apple silicon.
- Firefox is not supported, and in the extension automatic zooms work only while the browser is in focus.
- Cloud storage beyond the 10 GB included with Pro costs $0.02 per GB per month.
Screen Studio
- macOS only, requiring Ventura 13.1 or later. The vendor says there are no near-future plans for Windows.
- Subscription only: one-time licenses are no longer sold, though earlier purchases remain valid.
- Paying monthly costs $29 per month, more than three times the $9 per month yearly rate.
- The site does not mention a free trial, and the terms state that fees are non-refundable.
Key features
Cursorful
- Automatic zooms and pans
- A zoom is added when two or more clicks happen within 3 seconds and follows the cursor while clicking continues. Zooms can be added, removed and adjusted afterward.
- Segment timeline
- Zooms, speed changes, camera layouts and blur are segments on one timeline that can be trimmed, moved and stacked. Any segment can be sped up to 10x.
- Redrawn cursor in the desktop apps
- The desktop apps capture the pointer separately from the video, so it can be smoothed, resized and given sway, motion blur, a shadow and click animations.
- Captions and microphone denoising
- Captions are generated from the audio on the device and can be restyled. Denoising removes fan, hum and keyboard noise from narration, also on the device.
- Local rendering and aspect ratios
- Exports are rendered on the user's machine with hardware encoding, in ten aspect-ratio presets from ultrawide to portrait. 4K needs Pro.
- Shareable links
- A video can be exported to a streaming link that is public or private to an organization. Pro includes 10 GB of shared cloud storage.
Screen Studio
- Automatic zoom
- Zooms are added automatically as you record and can be edited, added by hand or turned off afterwards.
- Smooth cursor movement
- Cursor motion is smoothed and given motion blur and click effects, and the cursor can be hidden in chosen sections.
- iPhone and iPad recording
- Record an iPhone or iPad screen and present the footage inside a device mockup.
- Webcam layouts
- Camera footage can appear fullscreen, in a split screen, as an overlay or as a cutout.
- Captions and transcripts
- Generates a transcript of the recording and adds automatic captions.
- Export and shareable links
- Export MP4 at up to 4K and 60 fps or a GIF, or publish a shareable link at 1080p and 60 fps for videos up to 30 minutes.
Plans
Cursorful
Cursorful Free$0
Records the browser with automatic zoom and pan, zoom editing, backgrounds and unlimited exports rendered locally. For non-commercial use.
Cursorful Pro$79
per seat, one-time payment
Shown as $40 off a crossed-out $119. Adds the macOS and Windows desktop apps, commercial use, microphone and camera, 4K exports and 10 GB of cloud storage.
Screen Studio
Yearly$9
per month, billed yearly
All features: export up to 4K at 60 fps, shareable links, cloud transcript and project sharing.
Monthly$29
per month, billed monthly
The same features as the yearly plan, paid month to month.
Ways to pay less
Cursorful
- Lifetime license
Pro is a one-time payment of $79 per seat
Cursorful Pro is paid once, not as a subscription, and includes lifetime access to all current and future offline features.
- Other savings
Lower per-seat price from 3 seats
The seat selector on the pricing section drops the Pro price to $66 per seat for 3 or more seats, $59 for 5 or more and $54 for 10 or more.
Screen Studio
- Annual discount
Save 69% with yearly billing
Screen Studio lists the yearly plan at $9 per month, which it labels a 69% saving over the $29 monthly plan.
- Education
40% off for students and educators
Students and educators get 40% off by using an email address from an educational institution or sending proof of student status.
