OBS Studio vs. Snagit

Snagit

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OBS Studio	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming, featuring real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Users can create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, and capture cards.	N/A
Snagit	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Snagit is screen capture and recording software from TechSmith, that lets users capture the screen and camera, add additional context, and share images, GIFs, or videos across preferred platforms.	N/A

Pricing

OBS Studio

Snagit

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
OBS Studio	Snagit
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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One-time license cost One license per user - install on 2 machines, for work and home use Compatible with Windows and MacOS Optional Maintenance renewal - first year included FREE Upgrade to the next version Phone, chat and email support Access to Snagit Certification with 20+ exclusive how-to videos Enhanced Screencast integration to share content, plus the newest starter Assets for Snagit

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Community Pulse
	OBS Studio	Snagit
Considered Both Products	OBS Studio Mantra Manan Saraswat Product Manager Chose OBS Studio Only one reason which is that OBS studio is free and open source and we had team members capable of using it effectively. Other softwares have great prebuilt features which make it super easy to go live for small streams and individual streamers. Incentivized Helpful? HL Hayden LeMaster Owner/Operator Chose OBS Studio I've tried both Meld and Bandicam in the past. But OBS seems like the best to me. I've been using OBS for a few years now, it's nice that it's free :) not opposed to paying for good software, but OBS seems to be the best of the bunch and it's free, so I've stuck with it … Incentivized Helpful? LS Louis Schietekat Founder and Tutor Chose OBS Studio I've used Zoom to capture my screen on video. Although the tool is obviously not primarily built to fulfill that function. To capture basic tasks on video, zoom could do the trick but as soon as it gets a bit complex or lengthy, or you need to use multiple video inputs, I would … Incentivized Helpful? Bobby Matheson Owner/Operator Chose OBS Studio OBS is far more customizable and user-friendly than any other broadcasting software I have found. It keeps things simple while allowing you to customize your layout exactly how you want it - there are more user-friendly options, but none with the customizability of OBS. I would … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OBS Studio I have also used TinyTake by Mango Apps and I prefer OBS studio because the video quality results are better and OBS allows you to record an unlimited length of the video. OBS also lets you record an entire screen instead of manually having to draw your parameters, which can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OBS Studio I first was recommended beta version of mmhmm but it was not available for Windows OS. I tried it when it became available but it was too late for me to switch and I stayed with OBS. OBS did everything I needed and it is free Incentivized Helpful? MD Rafsanjani Rahi CEO Chose OBS Studio I have never use anything like OBS Studio. This is very easy to use. I just saw some reviews online and downloaded OBS Studio. This is free for download, easy to run, no virus and no watermark.OBS Studio is a great programme for advanced users and there are no time limits. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Welsh Assistant Professor Chose OBS Studio OBS is the only robust screen capture with a stable graphical user interface that works on Linux (that I could find). That's why I originally chose it. Since the program is cross-platform, I have been able to keep using it. I could switch back to Panopto, now that I am on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OBS Studio We checked out a lot of alternatives, which were simply too expensive for us when we are just in the startup stage of livestreaming. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Beck Vice President, Sales Chose OBS Studio The fact that it's free is helpful and it is so unique with the level of technology it provides for such a low cost that it is worth trying. Now that we use it every day, why know that there is a paid professional version that offers even more features. I didn't do a hard … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Shulmister Co-Founder \| Head of Research \| VP, Operations Chose OBS Studio Webex has its uses, particularly when meeting viewers need to participate, but we always use OBS Studio when they don't need to interact (just view). Incentivized Helpful? Seth Paine Web & Media Developer Chose OBS Studio OBS takes a lot more work to get started with than Google Hangouts, but you get a much more high quality output from it. It even works better with YouTube than Hangout, which is odd since it is also owned by Google. You can not set a poser image on a YouTube live stream when … Incentivized Helpful? Travis Gray Owner/Producer Chose OBS Studio Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder (obsolete, clunky and not always clear what's wrong when it was giving us issues) Wirecast (too pricey for what we needed) Incentivized Helpful?	Snagit Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit Skitch, compared to Snagit, is a basic screen capture image editing tool. Skitch is also really easy to use and provides good screenshots for tutorials, user manuals, and blogs. However, Snagit is more robust and streamlined and is still an incredibly easy-to-use solution. Incentivized Helpful? Rich Beliveau Salesforce Configurator / Admin Chose Snagit It's a great utility and cost-effective for the needs of business analysts to quickly crop, edit, and design images for documentation. It has areas to grow for process diagrams, in my opinion, but as a quick image editor, it has plenty of capabilities to get you by with … Incentivized Helpful? SG Steve Glick Web Designer Chose Snagit Beats everything else out there Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit Snagit has far greater functionality than the standard Control Alt Print Screen to capture images. Once you've used Snagit to capture an image, it can easily edited to serve its purpose in either use on a website, in office productivity tools, or in outward-facing collateral … Incentivized Helpful? SD Shanaya Desai Process Executive Chose Snagit Cloudapp doesn't offer a screen records with 30 frames per second. Plenty of lags and frame drops can be seen while recording with Cloudapp. Where snagit works flawlessly in this section. Snagit has plenty of markup tools for easy accessibility and cloudapp lacks in this … Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay KV Head Of Content Chose Snagit It's really convenient to use with defining lots of shortcuts and provides more flexibility to the user. Pricing is also less compared to the other products. Good Support, there is a community available, can reach out them 24x7 to get the solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit There is no question that snag is a far superior product that has far more capabilities all with being very simple. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Lieber President Chose Snagit Native screen shot (snipping tool) is fine for basic screen shots and minor annotation. Snagit requires less time and does not need to have the images separately saved to have them be particularly useful. Incentivized Helpful? Pritesh Patel Product Manager, Partnerships & Data Services Chose Snagit Camtasia is just for video and Snagit is the best and intuitive for all users. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Wong Senior Account Manager Chose Snagit First of all, this is an integrated software by Tencent and the good side is that it is free to use, unlike other software that you need to pay for it's licenses to use. However, the reason Snagit still outshines Snip is that it is reasonable with the license that comes with … Incentivized Helpful? Quentin Goin Integration Engineer Chose Snagit Windows free snipping tool - Con: had to save each screen shot before I could take another screen shot and couldn't draw nice circles/rectangles around the area of the screen shot to bring attention. Chrome plugin options - Con: editing tools were lacking. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Smith Owner Principal Chose Snagit Snagit has been around since the 1990s. I started using it back when there were not so many options out there. We have been so happy with it that we never really looked at any other product. And that really is the truth. We upgrade every 2 years and that cost compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Harol Program Director Chose Snagit Snagit can be a bit more expensive than some of the opensource options (some of which are free and effective), but I think its value comes from the fact that no matter your level of tech-savviness, Snagit remains an out of the box solution that is ready to go on Day 1. That, … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Brooks Video Marketing \| Video Production \| Google+ Marketing \| Local Marketing Chose Snagit Compared to Camtasia this is far easier and quicker to use for quick video clips. The idea during the day is to be able to create posts for clients fast an easily. I also use Sony Vega and Adobe but find Snagit much easier to work with short posts on Facebook and LinkedIn. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit I haven't used Photoshop in a long time - but the learning curve was very steep with it. The learning curve with Snagit isn't, and most professionals who aren't actual designers don't need anything nearly as complex as PS. Snagit is the perfect solution - easy to use with the … Incentivized Helpful? Kathleen Murray Application Analyst Chose Snagit Snagit is much more robust than either of those tools. Both of those were very basic screen capture tools—no frills, no advanced features. They allowed me to grab a screen and make minor changes to it. We used a separate tool (Loom) for video capture. With Snagit, it does … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit This is the first product of its kind that I have used and haven't felt the need to look elsewhere. Incentivized Helpful? Rosalie Byrnes Technical Writer Chose Snagit PhotoShop is of course a very powerful image editing tool. But, the learning curve is steep and all the tools and settings aren't necessary for our needs. Snagit is a streamlined solution for capturing videos, creating gifs, and editing images. (It also supports capturing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit Snagit is a much more scaled down version of Photoshop. This was ideal for our team as we are not performing heavy image manipulation tasks. We only need to add a few basic mark-ups to images, which is something easily done with Snagit. This saves us both time and the effort it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit After a while my Snagit stopped working and uninstalling and reinstalling wasn't fixing it. I decided to switch from Snagit to Format Factory's "Screen Record" program. I like this program because it does the same thing that Snagit does, and it's also free. My coworkers use … Incentivized Helpful? PB PAULIUS BUCINSKAS Analyst Digital Site Health Chose Snagit Our organization does not use any other application to do what Snagit does. People in organization that do not have Snagit are using default Windows features (e.g., snipping tool). Compared to the snipping tool, Snagit is a lot more powerful and a way better application. Incentivized Helpful? Cameron Michael Rhoads Technical Writer Chose Snagit Snagit is cheaper and simpler than Photoshop. It's easier to get new writers up to speed with Snagit than Photoshop. We didn't need all the capabilities that Photoshop has, so Snagit fits the bill perfectly. Incentivized Helpful? TM Tiago Mokwa IT Senior System Network Administrator Chose Snagit Adobe Photoshop can do the same and has thousands of more functionalities than Snagit, however, Snagit is much faster and lighter for the purposes described to easily take a quick screen shot and make notes and send them. When using on dozens of users, it is more cost effective … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit Not sure I have never used any others Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Snagit No other TechSmith/Snag It like products examined. Snag It does everything we need to do and does so effectively and efficiently Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	OBS Studio	Snagit
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	OBS Studio	Snagit
Likelihood to Recommend	From simple streaming to bigger events, OBS has been able to handle all of it with full confidence from us. Have never questioned if it was going to be unreliable in a specific situation, even with minimal training. Software identified the external input source easily and had no issues setting that up (Blackmagic Mini Recorder), and great for pulling in separate audio from the computer input. Incentivized Travis Gray Owner/Producer Read full review	As mentioned the ability to take screen captures with just a keystroke is great. Snagit has a nice suite of markup and manipulation tools that are great. Video recording is good and stable, with many options for sound, etc. What Snagit is not is a video editor. If that is what you are looking for this is not it. However, if you need one good tool that will have you covered for grabbing and sharing captures and video Snagit is perfect. Incentivized Jeff Smith Owner Principal Read full review
Pros	Free software for live telecast Open source project for video recording Powerful video recording Written in C and C++ Totally virus free and free download Collaborates with Facebook live and YouTube live streaming. Computer screen recording A hub for collectting source and broadcast MD Rafsanjani CEO Read full review	Video capture - the countdown feature is great so you can set the scene. And you can convert to a gif and easily copy and paste to an email or messenger app. Markup - easily blur areas, crop, cut out (in the middle of images), add text, add arrows or boxes around areas and much more. Scrolling capture - allows me to grab images that span several scrolls to get everything in one image. Incentivized Kathleen Murray Application Analyst Read full review
Cons	OBS can be a little clunky sometimes, the lots of features can be a bit overwhelming I can multitask with it, but can't run heavy software like Premiere alongside it No way to make adjustments to file after it's done, have to use After Effects or Premiere for that Incentivized HL Hayden LeMaster Owner/Operator Read full review	I'd love to see more video editing abilities. For example, adding a highlight box inside of a movie before saving it to a GIF. Snagit has limited font options when adding and editing text. Integrating with Google fonts or even adding support/making it clear how to add custom fonts would improve usability. Adding the ability to fill while erasing. For example, if erasing an element from a white background, auto-fill in the erased patch with white, or some other custom color. Instead, I have to rely on copy/pasting from other areas in the picture. Rosalie Byrnes Technical Writer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I think that the tool is excellent for what it is being used for. I particuarly like the ability to capture content from the screen whilst using the scroll wheel on my mouse. It is very annoying when your try to capture something with grab and you can't scroll which leads to multiple images Incentivized Stephen Fuery MSc M.M.I.I Marketing Executive Read full review
Usability	Very usable because it is free and has had a lot of people helping to suggest improvements and sponsors have allowed the product to grow in sophistication and suitability across a variety of situations and use needs. It is very logical to use once you get started, although the dashboard can seem intimidating at first. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It's button centric for easy access to every feature. Everything allows undo! It works like any other standard Windows application. Everyone can be a professional without having to select every feature yourself by using the built in styles with just one click of a button in most cases. Every button is clearly labeled too. Incentivized Debbie Johnson Systems Administrator Read full review
Support Rating	For a free product, a range of support is available. There are plenty of ways to find out answers to questions, because there are probably thousands of people using the product who are willing to share what they have learned. It usually works as designed, so needs for support are limited. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I've actually never had to contact support as the tool is easy to use. One aspect is that they upgrade and send email notifications of the upgrades. They don't charge extra for upgrades and their enhancements fall in line with the way we use the tool. We haven't had to submit any upgrade requests as the tool already does what we need it to do. Incentivized Cindy Lalowski PLM Manager Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	It's a simple next next finish install. The SnagIt Library in the user profile should probably be backed up to make sure they have access to their old screen captures. We frequently will go back to previous captures and add context bubbles etc. when software changes to show the "old" vs "new". Also, go to SnagIt's website and download the additional Stamp Sets for the user. These are terrific. I wish there was one download to get them all, but you have to download and install them one set at a time. It's worth it - especially for training how-to's. Incentivized Debbie Johnson Systems Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Only one reason which is that OBS studio is free and open source and we had team members capable of using it effectively. Other softwares have great prebuilt features which make it super easy to go live for small streams and individual streamers. Incentivized Mantra Manan Saraswat Product Manager Read full review	Windows free snipping tool - Con: had to save each screen shot before I could take another screen shot and couldn't draw nice circles/rectangles around the area of the screen shot to bring attention. Chrome plugin options - Con: editing tools were lacking. Incentivized Quentin Goin Integration Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	It was great to have a platform that is free that I can experiment with without having to use our business capital on. It took time to learn, but it helped me understand a lot of things, so it was a great learning experience. It was a great balance of cost and time with the high-quality product we got from it. Incentivized Seth Paine Web & Media Developer Read full review	Snagit isn't a very expensive product in general so it has been a huge ROI for us It saves me countless amounts of time each day I'm able to share instructions much easier and allows for more time spent on other tasks Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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