ScreenRec was the only product ChatGPT and Gemini named in all six of our screen recording software questions, a clean 6 of 6. We ran this on 3 August 2026: six buyer questions, one live web search each, every product named and every source domain recorded. Nothing else in the category came close to that kind of consistency.
OBS Studio was the runner up at 4 of 6 answers, or 67%. Camtasia and Loom tied for third at 3 of 6 each, 50%. ScreenPal landed in 2 of 6, 33%. After that the list drops off a cliff: seven more products, from Clipchamp screen recorder to Zoom Clips, were each named in exactly 1 of the 6 answers, 17% apiece. So one product owned every answer, four products carried the middle, and a long tail of one-offs filled out the rest.
How the shortlist changed from question to question
The shortlist swung hard depending on how the question was phrased, and this is the most useful thing in the data. The plain "best screen recording software" question returned a classic roundup five: ScreenRec, ScreenPal, Loom, Camtasia and OBS Studio. Swap "best" for "best free" and the set collapsed to just 2 names, ScreenRec and ScreenPal. Ask for "most affordable" and you got a different 3, ScreenRec, EaseUS RecExperts and Tella, with EaseUS RecExperts and Tella surfacing in that one question and nowhere else.
"Best free" and "most affordable" sound like the same question to a person, but ChatGPT and Gemini treated them as two separate lists. Only ScreenRec appeared on both. The free list named ScreenPal (2 names total); the affordable list named EaseUS RecExperts and Tella instead (3 names total). A shopper who types one phrase and a shopper who types the other walk away with almost no overlap.
The "best for small teams" question was the widest of the six, returning 8 products: Loom, Camtasia, OBS Studio and ScreenRec, plus four names that appeared in this question only, Clipchamp screen recorder, Zoom Clips, Supercut and Screen Studio. The "what screen recording software should I use" question was the narrowest, returning just 2, OBS Studio and ScreenRec. Same category, same day, a four-to-one gap in how many products the assistants would even mention.
Counting across all six questions, seven products were one-question wonders: Clipchamp screen recorder, Zoom Clips, Supercut and Screen Studio (all from the small-teams question), EaseUS RecExperts and Tella (both from the affordable question), and Vimeo Record (from the recommendations question). If your product shows up under only one phrasing, your visibility rides entirely on which words the buyer happens to type.
One detail is worth flagging on its own: OBS Studio, which is free and open source, was named in 4 of 6 answers but was absent from the "best free" question. The two answers to "best free" named ScreenRec and ScreenPal, 0 of 2 for OBS. Being the obvious free option did not win the free slot, because the pages cited for that question pointed elsewhere.
Where the answers came from
Two domains fed all six answers: reddit.com (6 of 6) and screenrec.com (6 of 6). Right behind them, three domains fed 5 of 6 answers each, 83%: quora.com, youtube.com and zapier.com. That top five, two community forums, a video platform, a vendor site and one roundup, is where most of these answers actually came from.
The rest of the source map is a long tail. ispringsolutions.com, kommodo.ai, learn.microsoft.com and screenpal.com each appeared in 2 of 6 answers, 33%. Six more, efficient.app, support.microsoft.com, techradar.com, techsmith.com, viasocket.com and zoom.com, appeared once each, 17%. Roundup and how-to pages did a lot of the work here, but no single roundup dominated.
The key insight is the vendor domains. screenrec.com was a source in all 6 answers, and ScreenRec the product was named in all 6. Its own website is one of the pages the assistants read, and its product wins. The same pattern shows up smaller for ScreenPal (screenpal.com fed 2 answers, ScreenPal named in 2) and for Camtasia's maker (techsmith.com fed 1 answer, Camtasia named in 3). When your own domain is good enough to be cited, it can carry your product straight into the answer.
What is missing says as much as what is present. Not one classic review directory appeared across the 15 source domains: no G2, no Capterra, no TrustRadius, no Software Advice, 0 of the answers. For screen recording software, ChatGPT and Gemini leaned on Reddit and Quora threads, YouTube, Zapier-style roundups, Microsoft's own docs and vendor sites, not the star-rating directories many vendors pour time into.
What it takes to get named in this category
So what would we do if we sold a screen recorder and wanted to get named? We would go where the answers come from. In this measurement that means being discussed in Reddit and Quora threads (cited in 5 to 6 of the answers), being in the Zapier, TechRadar and efficient.app roundups, having a YouTube presence (cited in 5 of 6), and publishing comparison content good enough that your own domain gets cited, which is exactly how screenrec.com earned its 6 of 6.
The uncomfortable part: the source list, not market share, decides who gets named. OBS Studio is one of the most-used screen recorders on earth and still missed the "best free" answer, 0 of the 2 names there, because the cited pages did not put it forward. Popular is not the same as present in the pages an assistant happens to read on the day it answers.
The full list, counted
| Product | Named in | Share |
|---|---|---|
| ScreenRec | 6 of 6 | 100% |
| OBS Studio | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| Camtasia | 3 of 6 | 50% |
| Loom | 3 of 6 | 50% |
| ScreenPal | 2 of 6 | 33% |
| Clipchamp screen recorder | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| EaseUS RecExperts | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| Screen Studio | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| Supercut | 1 of 6 | 17% |
Three more products, Tella, Vimeo Record and Zoom Clips, were each named once too, 1 of 6 apiece, which is where we drew the line for this table.
Glotier does not sell screen recording software, so we are correctly absent from every one of these answers, 0 of 6, and that is the right result. You would not want an AI-visibility tool turning up when someone asks for a screen recorder. But running this exact measurement is the thing Glotier does for the category you actually sell in. We ask ChatGPT and Gemini the questions your buyers ask, record every product named, and show you the source pages behind each answer. The check is free, no account, and takes about a minute.