Price terms as published
Each line is the vendor’s own wording, split from the price capture checked on 2026-09-16. Nothing here is rounded, converted or re-worded — the full sentences stay in the review below. Lines that carry only a price continue the plan named on the line above, in the vendor’s own order.
| # | Plan / term | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lifetime only: $49 early price (vendor says it rises to $79), one payment, updates included, up to 3 computers | 2026-09-16 |
| 2 | No subscription, no free tier, no free trial | 2026-09-16 |
One-liner: ScreenCursor is a Chrome extension that records your screen and hands back a finished video: every click, drag, and keystroke becomes a zoom placed automatically, and a built-in editor lets you retime or delete any of them before exporting MP4 up to 1080p. Everything runs locally — no account, no uploads. It sells a lifetime license at $49 (early price; the vendor’s own page says $79 next). Numbers checked against screencursor.com and Product Hunt on 2026-09-16.
Verified facts (checked 2026-09-16)
| Attribute | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Chrome extension screen recorder with automatic zoom effects — click/drag/keystroke → camera move, placed a beat before the action | Official screencursor.com |
| Price | $49 one-time (“Early pricing”, struck-through $79), updates included, one payment for good | Official screencursor.com pricing section |
| License scope | Up to 3 computers; slots releasable from the license page or Polar account | Official screencursor.com FAQ |
| Free trial | None. No watermarked tier either — you buy before you install; refunds go through Polar as merchant of record | Official screencursor.com FAQ + /refunds page link |
| Platforms | Any OS with Chrome: Windows, macOS, Linux. Needs hardware video encoding (most machines since ~2016) | Official screencursor.com FAQ |
| Recording scope | Whole screen including non-browser apps and desktop; tab/window capture too. Chrome’s un-hideable “sharing” bar is dodged with a 3-second start delay | Official screencursor.com FAQ |
| Output | MP4 at 720p or 1080p, saved straight to the Downloads folder | Official screencursor.com FAQ |
| Privacy | Recording, zoom computation, editing, and export all happen inside Chrome locally; no account; the only network call is a license check against Polar at most once every two weeks; works offline | Official screencursor.com FAQ + privacy policy page |
| Editor | Trim/cut/split, speed up, retime any zoom, adjust depth and motion style, delete unwanted zooms; backgrounds, browser frame with real page title, rounded corners, aspect-ratio presets | Official screencursor.com features section |
| Not included | Webcam overlay, motion blur, iPhone-over-USB recording (the vendor itself lists these as Screen Studio advantages) | Official screencursor.com comparison page |
| Store rating | “5.0 on the Chrome Web Store” — vendor’s own claim on its homepage; we could not independently pull the listing’s rating/user count this run | Official screencursor.com homepage (claim, not verified) |
| Community size | Product Hunt product page shows 12 followers; listed as similar to Screen Studio / Loom / Tella | Product Hunt ScreenCursor product page, checked 2026-09-16 |
| Payments | Polar (merchant of record) | Official screencursor.com checkout link (buy.polar.sh) |
Official-information entry: no recording was made with it for this page, so no score.
The angle that matters: it’s a Chrome-extension answer to a macOS-app problem
The category leader for “auto-zoom demo videos” is Screen Studio — PH Product of the Year, genuinely polished, and macOS-only on a subscription that the vendor’s comparison page (and our own check of screen.studio on 2026-09-16) puts at $20/month billed monthly or $9/month billed yearly (≈$108/yr), with the old lifetime license discontinued. For Windows and Linux users — the majority of the working world — Screen Studio has never been an option. ScreenCursor’s whole positioning is that gap: same one-click-becomes-a-zoom idea, lives in the browser, one $49 payment, works on three machines across OSes.
The second real differentiator is privacy shape. Local-only processing with a once-a-fortnight license ping is a credible pitch for people recording customer dashboards or NDA’d internal tools — where a cloud recorder is a non-starter and an offline editor is a chore.
Where to stay honest
- No free trial, and the vendor says so plainly. The FAQ on its own comparison page tells try-before-you-buy shoppers to use FocuSee’s trial instead. Buying means trusting the screenshots.
- $49 is a launch price with an expiry. “Going to $79” is the vendor’s claim; early pricing can also just… stay early pricing for months. Check the price the day you buy — this page’s numbers are from 2026-09-16.
- It’s new and small. 12 PH followers, no accumulated independent reviews we could find this run. The “5.0 on Chrome Web Store” badge is the vendor’s own homepage claim — with a product this fresh, a perfect rating can mean a handful of ratings. We did not verify the store listing directly; treat as unconfirmed.
- 1080p ceiling and no webcam. Fine for docs and demos; if your format is talking-head + screen, the missing webcam overlay is disqualifying.
- The competitor table on its own site quotes our verification date back at us — Screen Studio figures we re-checked match (Free tier + $9–$20/mo, macOS only), but ScreenSmooth’s and FocuSee’s numbers there are vendor-quoted and carry their own “checked 5 September 2026” stamp, not ours.
- Refund reality: Polar’s merchant policy applies, not a vendor money-back promise — read /refunds before paying.
Who it’s for
- Windows/Linux (or mixed-OS) folks making product demos or tutorials who want the Screen Studio look without learning a timeline editor
- Anyone under NDA or recording customer data where “nothing ever leaves this machine” is a compliance feature, not a nice-to-have
- One-off recorders: a person who ships a demo every few weeks and finds a yearly subscription a strange shape of bill
- Not for: webcam-first creators (no overlay), 4K pipelines (1080p cap), free-only users (no tier, no trial), or Mac perfectionists — Screen Studio is still the more polished product, and its own site admits it
- Price pressure from below: Lumiko launched 2026-09-21 in the same Chrome auto-zoom niche with a real free tier and a $9 launch lifetime — the head-to-head is Lumiko vs ScreenCursor
Sources
- https://screencursor.com (official homepage — $49/$79 pricing block, feature set, editor, FAQ incl. offline/privacy/license-3-computers/MP4-1080p — checked 2026-09-16)
- https://screencursor.com/screen-studio-alternative (vendor comparison page — Screen Studio “prices checked 5 September 2026”, no-trial admission, FocuSee/ScreenSmooth/OBS table — checked 2026-09-16; vendor-authored, used for claims it makes about itself and its own check-date only)
- https://screen.studio (official — live pricing block renders $20/month billed monthly / $9/month billed yearly, macOS Ventura 13.1+ — checked 2026-09-16; third-party cross-check of the competitor figures)
- https://www.producthunt.com/products/screencursor (third-party — product page, 12 followers, similar-product set — checked 2026-09-16)