Free Online Screen Recorder

Yes. There's no sign-up, no trial period, no watermark, no maximum recording length, and no upload step. The recorder runs entirely in your browser via the built-in MediaRecorder API, and the output file is a clean MP4 or WebM that you can use commercially or personally without attribution. We cover hosting through small ads on the surrounding site, not by limiting the tool.

No. The screen recorder is a single web page. Visit the URL, click Start recording, grant browser permissions, and you're rolling. There's nothing to install, no Chrome extension, no desktop app. You can use it from a guest computer without admin rights.

No. The page contains no upload code, no backend endpoint, and no third-party SDK that would touch your media. Capture happens via the browser's built-in MediaRecorder, and chunks are written either directly to a file on your disk (via the File System Access API on Chrome/Edge) or to your browser's local IndexedDB storage. You can verify zero network traffic in DevTools → Network — recording produces no outgoing requests.

It overlaps with Loom's free tier on the most-requested features (screen + webcam picture-in-picture, mic audio, instant playback) without the sign-up, the 5-minute cap, or the cloud-hosted file you have to share via link. It does not aim to replace OBS for advanced production work — there are no scenes, transitions, plugins, or live-streaming. The sweet spot is fast, private tutorial and bug-report recordings you intend to download and share yourself.

There's no fixed time limit. The chunked-writing architecture keeps memory usage flat regardless of length, so recordings of several hours are practical. The practical limit is your disk space (for stream-to-disk mode) or your browser's IndexedDB quota (typically several GB on desktop browsers, less on mobile).

The recorder picks the best codec your browser supports. On Safari and recent Chromium you'll get MP4 (H.264 + AAC), which imports natively into iMovie, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, and just about every other editor. On Firefox and older Chromium you'll get WebM (VP9 + Opus); Premiere and Final Cut don't import WebM directly, but DaVinci Resolve does, and you can convert WebM to MP4 in a few seconds with the free HandBrake or FFmpeg.

On Chrome and Edge, yes — when you pick 'a Chrome tab' as the screen-capture source, the tab's audio is included automatically. When you pick 'your entire screen', you'll see a 'Share audio' checkbox on Windows; tick it to include system audio. Firefox and Safari do not yet expose system audio through getDisplayMedia, so on those browsers only mic audio is recorded.

Every chunk is mirrored to IndexedDB while you record. When you reopen the tool, a recovery banner appears at the top listing any unfinished recordings. Click Recover to assemble the chunks and download the partial file. Worst case you lose the last two seconds (the latest chunk that hadn't flushed yet).

Browsers deliberately require explicit, per-session consent for screen capture because of how invasive it can be — there's no way to remember the choice across visits. That's a security policy, not a tool limitation. The camera and microphone permissions, by contrast, can be remembered for the site after the first grant.

Camera + Mic recording works on most modern mobile browsers. Screen capture (getDisplayMedia) is not supported on mobile Safari or mobile Firefox, and only partially on mobile Chrome — so the Screen and Screen + Camera modes are typically only available on desktop.

Yes — Chromebooks ship with Chrome, which is the best-supported browser for this tool. You get stream-to-disk via the File System Access API, MP4 output, full screen / window / tab capture with audio on supported sources, and full webcam overlay support. No extension needed.