Screen Recorder

No. The screen, the sound and the microphone go straight from your browser into a recorder that runs on this page, and cutting and converting happen on your device too. Nothing is sent to a server, and there is no account or watermark. Your usage history, if you keep one, stores only settings such as format, resolution, frame rate and whether sound was on, never the recordings, thumbnails or file names.

Desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. Phones and tablets do not let web pages capture the screen, so on Android, iPhone and iPad the page explains this instead; use the phone's own screen recorder and then Video to GIF. Chrome and Edge are the most complete: they can share tab and system sound, keep recording a region while this tab is in the background, and save MP4 and cut WebM files quickly. On macOS, allow your browser under System Settings, Privacy and Security, Screen Recording the first time.

Sound comes from the browser's sharing dialog, and what it can offer depends on the browser and the system. Chrome and Edge can share a browser tab's sound on every desktop system, and the whole computer's sound when you share an entire screen on Windows and ChromeOS, and on macOS 14.2 or later with Chrome 141 or newer. A single app window has no sound of its own there. Firefox and Safari do not share any sound, so only the microphone can be recorded. Make sure the audio switch in the dialog is on; the page tells you when no sound arrived and shows a level meter for each source. If the microphone picks up your speakers, use headphones.

WebM is what the browser records (VP9 or VP8 video, Opus sound). An uncut WebM is saved without re-encoding, with its length written into the file so players can show it and seek, which browser recordings normally lack. MP4 (H.264 with AAC sound) plays in more places such as PowerPoint, iPhones and older editors; it is encoded on your device and takes a little while. GIF plays everywhere but has no sound and only 256 colours, so keep it short and narrow. Animated WebP keeps full colour and is much smaller than GIF. Repeated pictures, common in screen recordings, are merged into longer frames in GIF and WebP.

In WebM recordings the edges snap to the frames that were actually recorded, the arrow keys step one recorded frame, and the saved part starts and ends on those frames. Sound is cut to the same moment, to the sample. MP4 recordings from browsers that cannot record WebM are stepped at the chosen frame rate instead.

Yes. Choose Region, pick a shape or draw freely on the live preview. Only that rectangle is recorded and saved at the region's size or the resolution you chose. In Chrome and Edge the region keeps recording while this tab is hidden behind the window you are recording; in Firefox and Safari keep this tab visible, or record the whole window instead. You can drag the region while recording to follow the action.

There is no limit from the tool, only from your device: the recording is kept in the browser's memory until you save it, up to about 40 MB per minute at 1080p and Standard quality, and much less when little moves; the settings show the figure for your choices. For long sessions use 720p or a lower frame rate, and set Stop automatically after so a forgotten recording ends by itself. GIF and WebP are limited to 5 minutes because they are animations, not videos. Takes are lost when you close the tab, so save them first; the page asks before you leave with unsaved takes.

Pause and resume as often as you like; the paused time is left out of the file and the timer. If you click the browser's own Stop sharing button, or the shared window closes, the recording stops and the take is kept. The countdown can be cancelled before it reaches zero.