Screen Recorder
Record your screen, a window or a tab with your mic, then download it. Nothing uploaded, no time limit. 100% free, no signup. Everything runs in your browser.
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I built this after the third time a five minute cap cut off a walkthrough I was recording for a client. Every browser screen recorder I tried either stopped early, stamped a logo in the corner, or quietly uploaded the recording to a server somewhere so it could hand me back a share link I had not asked for. This one does none of that. You pick a screen, a window or a single browser tab, the browser captures it and encodes it on your own machine, and when you press stop you get a file. It never leaves the tab until you download it.
That matters more for screen recordings than for most files, because a screen recording is a window into whatever was open at the time: a customer list, an inbox, a dashboard with real numbers on it. You can add your microphone for narration, capture the audio from a tab so a demo keeps its sound, pause when the phone rings, and pick 720p when the file needs to go in an email. If you then need a three second loop of one moment for a bug report, the video to GIF converter takes the file you just made.
How to use
- Choose a quality. 1080p is the default and 720p makes a file roughly half the size, which is the right call for anything that will be emailed.
- Tick the microphone box if you want to talk over the recording, and the system audio box if the thing you are recording makes sound you want to keep.
- Press Start recording. The browser opens its own picker asking whether to share your whole screen, one window or one tab.
- In Chrome or Edge, tick the share audio box in that picker if you want tab or system sound, then confirm.
- Do the thing. The timer and the running file size update as you go, and Pause holds the recording without ending it.
- Press Stop and save, or use the browser's own Stop sharing button, which does the same thing.
- Play it back in the preview, then download. The file is named with the date and time so a folder of them stays sorted.
Why use our screen recorder?
Nothing is uploaded, and that is not a setting. The capture and the encoding both happen inside the tab using the browser's own Screen Capture API, so there is no server in the loop that could keep a copy. You can start a recording, turn off your wifi, and it keeps going. For a walkthrough of an admin panel or a support session showing someone's account, that is the difference between a tool you can use at work and one you cannot.
No time limit and no watermark. The popular hosted recorders cap free recordings at five or ten minutes and put their name on the video, because the cap is what sells the upgrade. Here the only limit is the memory on your machine, and I say plainly what that means: about 35 MB per minute at 1080p, so a two hour session is several gigabytes sitting in the tab until you save it. Record in sections if you are going long.
Microphone and tab audio, mixed properly. A common failure in browser recorders is that when you ask for both your mic and the tab's sound, you silently get only one, because the recording API takes the first audio track it sees and ignores the rest. This tool mixes the two into a single track first, so a demo keeps both the narration and the sound of the thing being demonstrated.
A real file in a real format. Chrome and Safari write MP4, which plays on a phone, in Slack, in PowerPoint and in every video editor without conversion. Firefox writes WebM, which plays in browsers and VLC. The tool tells you which one you are getting before you start rather than after, and if you need a still frame or a thumbnail from the result, the image compressor will bring a screenshot down to email size.
Honest about what a browser cannot do. Phone browsers do not offer screen capture to websites at all, so on a phone this page says so instead of showing a button that does nothing. System audio on a Mac is limited to a single tab by the operating system, and Firefox cannot capture system audio anywhere. Those are platform rules, and I would rather state them than let you find out from a silent recording.
Who is this tool for?
Bug reports that get fixed. A thirty second recording of the exact clicks that produce a problem replaces three paragraphs of description and the reply asking what browser you were using. Record the tab, narrate what you expected, stop, attach. If the bug is in a screenshot rather than a sequence, the pixelate tool blurs the account details out of it before it goes anywhere.
Walkthroughs for clients and new hires. How to log the expense, where the report lives, which button not to press. Recording it once at 720p produces a file small enough to sit in a shared folder, and nobody has to book a call to be shown the same thing a fourth time.
Demos of something that is not public yet. An unreleased feature, a prototype, a dashboard with real revenue on it. Hosted recorders upload the video to make the share link work, which means the thing you were careful not to publish is now on someone else's server. Recording locally and sending the file yourself keeps the decision about who sees it with you.
Lectures, meetings and anything you will want later. A tab playing a webinar, a video call in a browser, a training session. Capture the tab with its audio, and you have your own copy in a format you control, rather than a recording that lives inside a platform and disappears when the subscription does. Several files from one day can go into one archive with the zip tool.
Frequently asked questions
No. The browser captures the screen and encodes the video on your own machine, and the file exists only inside this tab until you press download. There is no account, no share link and no server holding a copy. If you close the tab before downloading, the recording is gone, which is the honest flip side of nothing being stored anywhere.
Usually because the share-audio box in the browser's picker was not ticked. Chrome and Edge only capture tab or system audio when you tick it, and on a Mac they can only capture a single tab's audio, not the whole system. Firefox cannot capture system audio at all. The microphone is separate and is asked for on its own, so narration still works in every desktop browser.
No limit is imposed by the tool. The practical limit is your computer's memory, because the recording is held in the tab until it is saved. At 1080p that is roughly 35 MB a minute, so an hour is about 2 GB. For anything long, stop and download every twenty or thirty minutes and start a fresh recording.
It depends on the browser, and the tool tells you before you start. Chrome, Edge and Safari can write MP4, which plays almost everywhere. Firefox writes WebM, which plays in browsers and in VLC but is not accepted by every video editor. If you need MP4 and are in Firefox, recording in Chrome is the simplest fix.
Not with a website. Phone browsers do not offer screen capture to web pages, so the page will tell you so rather than show a button that fails. Both iOS and Android have a screen recorder built into the operating system, reachable from the control centre or quick settings, and that is the right tool on a phone.
Yes. Pause holds the recording without ending it, and the timer stops while paused, so the length you see is the length of the finished file. Resume picks up where you left off. The browser's own Stop sharing button ends the recording the same way the Stop button here does, and the file is kept either way.
Pick 720p before you start, which roughly halves the size against 1080p and is sharp enough for any walkthrough where the text is readable. Recording a single window or tab instead of the whole screen also helps, since fewer pixels change. If you only need a few seconds of the result as a loop, the video to GIF converter will cut a clip out of it.