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Kap pricing
Kap publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the utilities tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Kap pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Kap plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kap | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Kap stops being free
Kap, Free
- Free and open source under the MIT licence
- MP4, WebM, GIF and device frame export
- Plugin system for extended workflows
No paid tier on record
Kap lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Kap feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Multi-format export
- Area, window or display capture
- Plugin system
- Basic trimming
- Menu bar operation
- Open source
People bring Kap in for a developer recording a demo gif for a readme or documentation page, a marketer capturing a quick product walkthrough clip without buying screen recording software, someone creating app store style device-framed screenshots for a listing, a user who only needs video capture and does not want to pay for a suite of annotation features they will not use. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Kap are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Utilities
Too few utilities tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kap (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Calsense | On request | quote | - | vs Kap |
| Find My | Free | Free, built into Apple hardware and iCloud | - | vs Kap |
| Google Lens | Free | Free, bundled into other Google apps | - | vs Kap |
| Hazel | $42/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs Kap |
| Karabiner-Elements | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Kap |
| Deluge | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Kap |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Kap badges page.
Before you pay for Kap
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Kap runs on mac, and is published by Wulkano of Open source community project. The full record is on the Kap review, and the rest of the category is under best utilities tools.
Kap pricing questions
- How much does Kap cost?
- Kap publishes a single tier, Kap, at Free.
- Does Kap have a free plan?
- Yes. The Kap tier costs nothing and covers free and open source under the mit licence, mp4, webm, gif and device frame export, plugin system for extended workflows.
- Which utilities tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 utilities tools listed alongside Kap have a free tier: Find My, Google Lens, Karabiner-Elements, Deluge.
- What am I actually paying for with Kap?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a developer recording a demo gif for a readme or documentation page, a marketer capturing a quick product walkthrough clip without buying screen recording software, someone creating app store style device-framed screenshots for a listing.
- Does Kap charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Kap prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Kap against before paying?
- The closest utilities tools in this directory are Calsense, Find My, Google Lens, Hazel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Kap covering price, platforms and features.