The free trial
Both Mac editions work fully for 3 days, with a "Made with DemoTake" watermark on exports, and DemoTake Web gives every account one free take. Here is when the trial starts, what the watermark looks like, what keeps working after it ends, and what the free take includes.
Try everything before you pay: record, edit, export and connect your agent, for 3 days. Nothing is charged, and the trial ends on its own. DemoTake Web works differently: every account gets one free take instead. See DemoTake Web: your free take.
When it starts
DemoTake Agent starts the trial the first time you open it. It checks in with DemoTake's server at launch, and about once a day while it isn't licensed, so reinstalling the app or clearing its local data doesn't restart the trial. The check-in sends only a salted hash of your Mac's hardware identifier; see Privacy and data.
DemoTake Studio starts the trial when you take the free 3-day Trial in-app purchase. Click Start Free 3-Day Trial in Settings › Plans, or when Studio asks. It is free, and no subscription starts when the trial ends. Until you start it, Studio can open and edit takes, but recording and exporting wait for the trial.
Keeping track
While the trial runs, the bottom of the sidebar shows Trial · 2 days left with an Upgrade button, tinted as a warning on the last day. Settings › Plans shows the same countdown with the end date: "Everything works until September 29, 2026. Exports include a “Made with DemoTake” watermark." Its Status section lists the status (Free trial), the days left, and what recording and exports can do right now. Agents can read the same with licence_status.
A few rules keep the countdown honest. Setting the Mac's clock back by more than a day ends the trial. Offline, the Mac's own clock decides. If DemoTake Agent finds its trial record wiped on a Mac that used DemoTake before, it asks you to connect to the internet once so it can confirm the trial.
The watermark
Exports made during the trial carry a prominent "Made with DemoTake" mark in the center of the frame, with demotake.my underneath, plus a small "Made with DemoTake" pill in the bottom-right corner.
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It is on every rendered export: MP4 videos, GIFs, screenshots, guide images and the Reviewer Pack video. The Reviewer Pack's manifest also says "Exported with a trial watermark." The Export sheet reminds you while the trial runs. Previews in the editor never carry it, so you can judge your edits as they will look once you're licensed.
Exports keep the watermark they were made with. After you activate a license, export again to get clean files.
When the trial ends
Recording and exporting need a license. Everything else keeps working, and nothing is deleted.
- Your library and every take
- Previews and editing
- Settings
- Exports you already made
- Start Recording
- Export and Quick Export
- Rendering from your agent over MCP
The sidebar then shows Trial ended with Activate. When you try to record or export, DemoTake shows the activation screen instead: "Your free trial has ended. Thanks for trying DemoTake. Activate a license to keep recording and exporting. Your takes and edits stay right where they are." Agents that call DemoTake over MCP get the same message.
To unlock the app, choose one:
- Enter a license key. Buy Local once and paste the key from your receipt email. See Local and subscriptions.
- Sign in with a subscription. Director, Team or Enterprise unlock both Mac editions and DemoTake Web. Sign in with your email in Settings › Account.
- Buy in the App Store (DemoTake Studio). Buy Once or Subscribe from Settings › Plans. See The Mac App Store edition.
Hosted DemoTake AI isn't part of the Mac trial. It comes with a subscription. During the trial, AI features work with your own AI provider key in Settings › AI.
DemoTake Web: your free take
Every signed-in DemoTake account without a subscription gets one free take in DemoTake Web. No card is needed, and it doesn't expire.
- Record a web app for up to 2 minutes
- Edit it with every tool
- Export it with the watermark
- Share it with a link for up to 30 days
- As many takes as your plan allows
- Exports without the watermark
- Import takes and sync with your Mac
- Collaborators and invite-only links
- Record. Record a web app in a cloud browser with the Web Recorder, for up to 2 minutes of recording in total. Retakes count toward the same 2 minutes.
- Edit. Every tool in the editor works: zooms, the presentation pointer, captions, redaction, footage review and the AI command bar, with a small allowance of hosted DemoTake AI.
- Export. Export it in your browser. Exports carry the same "Made with DemoTake" watermark as the Mac trial: the mark in the center of the frame and the small pill in the corner.
- Share. Share the export with a public link or a link with an access code, for up to 30 days.
The take stays yours afterwards: open it, edit it, export it and share it again whenever you like. It is one free take per account, for good, so deleting it doesn't give you another.
Recording a second take, importing takes, syncing with DemoTake for Mac, inviting collaborators and exporting without the watermark need a subscription. When you subscribe, the free take becomes a normal take, and new exports are clean.
The free take is separate from the Mac trial. It runs in DemoTake Web only.
The sample take
Want to look around before you record? Every signed-in account can open a sample take, labelled Sample, in the DemoTake Web editor and try every tool without recording anything. It doesn't use up your free take. Edits to the sample stay in your browser. Its exports download to your computer and carry the watermark unless you subscribe. They aren't uploaded, so they can't be shared with a link.