Free Online Screen Recorder

Yes. You can record your screen online in the browser without paying, installing software, or creating an account.

No. Screen Recording App runs entirely in your browser tab. There is no software to install, no browser extension or plugin to add, and no risky .exe download.

No. Unlike most other screen recorders, Screen Recording App works entirely in your browser tab with no extension or plugin required. Just open the website, click Start Recording, and choose what to capture. Nothing is added to your browser, and no extra permissions beyond the standard screen sharing prompt are needed.

Yes. Screen Recording App is a Progressive Web App (PWA). In Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera you will see an install button in the address bar; on Safari for Mac use File → Add to Dock. Once installed, the recorder runs in its own window without browser UI, launches from your dock or Start menu, and loads instantly. Recordings still save locally to your device, exactly the same as in the browser.

Yes, once you have visited the site at least once. A service worker caches the recorder so it loads and runs without an internet connection. Useful for recording on a flight, in a meeting room with patchy Wi-Fi, or anywhere else with no network. Live transcription is the one exception, since it relies on a browser-provided speech service that needs the network.

No. Recording, saving, and any format work happen locally on your device in the browser. Your video is not processed on our servers.

Browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera use the word "Share" in their screen picker because they are asking permission to show the selected screen, window, or tab to this page. In Screen Recording App, that does not mean your recording is uploaded, published, or shared with other people. Your recording is created locally in your browser and stays on your device unless you choose to download or move the file yourself.

Yes, in Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera). Make sure the audio-sharing switch is turned on in the browser's screen-sharing window when you start recording. Firefox does not currently expose internal audio capture through the browser. If you need internal audio, use one of the Chromium browsers listed above.

Yes. The app saves the recording in smaller pieces while you record, which is safer than relying on one large in-memory recording. Very large recordings can still take a moment to save. Everything happens on your device, never on a server.

Yes. Choose MP4 or WebM before you record. MP4 downloads directly in modern Chromium browsers; other browsers save the recording and process it on your device. Never on a server.

Yes. After recording, click "Save as GIF" to convert your recording into an animated GIF. The conversion happens on your device. GIF works best for short clips; longer recordings produce large files.

Yes. After recording, the trim controls let you set a start and end position in the recorded video. Only the trimmed section is exported. Trim works for both MP4 and WebM downloads, so you do not need a separate video editor for the usual chore of cutting the warm-up at the start and the awkward pause at the end.

Yes. After recording, the replay panel below the recorder includes playback-speed buttons for 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, and 2x. Useful for reviewing a long meeting or lecture quickly, or for slowing down to scrub a specific moment before setting trim points.

It works in modern desktop browsers that support screen capture. Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera are the most feature-complete (direct MP4 download and internal audio are both supported). Firefox desktop also works, with one limitation: Firefox does not currently support internal audio capture, so only the microphone can be recorded alongside the screen. Mobile browsers cannot record the screen from a website. On Android, install our free Android app; on iPhone and iPad, use Apple's built-in Screen Recording control in Control Centre.

Snipping Tool is great for one-off screenshots and short muted clips on Windows. Screen Recording App adds internal audio, microphone capture, a webcam overlay, timestamps during recording, inline screenshots, MP4 or WebM export, trim before saving, crash recovery, and works on Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS too. See the full Snipping Tool comparison for a side-by-side feature table.

The "Highlight cursor in preview" option draws a soft red circle around your pointer in the recording. Browsers do not let websites track your real cursor position outside the page itself, so the highlight only appears in the recording while your pointer is over the live preview area on screenrecording.app. If you record a different tab, window, or app, your real cursor is still captured normally; the red circle is not added there. To use the highlight, leave the screenrecording.app tab visible and move your pointer over the live preview while you talk through your screen.

Yes. Press Alt+D or click the pen icon in the live preview to start drawing. You get a pen, an eraser, six colours, four stroke sizes, and four opacity levels (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%). Annotations are burned into the recorded video as you draw, so they appear in the final file without needing a separate subtitle or overlay layer. When the preview is in fullscreen, the drawing toolbar is draggable so you can move it to whichever corner is out of the way.

Yes. The Pause button (or Alt+P) pauses the recording in place; click it again to resume. Useful for cutting silence, taking a break, or skipping past a moment you do not want in the file. The whole recording stays in one continuous video, no separate clips to stitch together afterwards.

Yes. Press the Screenshot button at any point during recording and the current frame is saved as a JPEG without interrupting the video. Screenshots collect in a gallery below the recorder. You can download them individually or as a ZIP. Handy for tutorials where you also need static reference images, and for bug reports where a single still is faster than scrubbing through video.

Yes. Press the Timestamp button to mark the current moment, with an optional short note. Timestamps appear in a list below the recorder while you record and download as a CSV file afterwards. After recording, clicking any timestamp jumps the recorded video to that moment. Useful for lecture chapter markers, meeting follow-ups, and noting bugs as they happen.

Yes. Screen recording and screen mirroring run independently in your browser, so you can do both at once. Start your recording here, then open screenmirroring.app/sender to share your screen to another device - a second computer, a phone, a TV, even someone remote. You can mirror the same screen you're recording or a different one. Great for live presentations, teaching, or team demos where you want a local recording and a live audience at the same time.

Yes. Once recording starts, click the Floating controls button to open a small floating window with Pause, Stop, and Mute buttons. In Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera it opens as an always-on-top window using the Picture-in-Picture API, so it stays visible above whatever app or browser tab you switch to. In other browsers, it falls back to a regular popup window. The floating window shows the live recording time and lets you control the recording without switching back to the recorder tab. Close the window or click Stop to end the recording.

Yes. Press Alt+R to start or stop recording, Alt+P to pause or resume, Alt+M to mute or unmute your microphone, and Alt+D to toggle the drawing tool. Hover over the buttons to see the shortcut for each one.

Yes. Live transcription uses your browser's built-in speech recognition. In Chrome and Edge, the audio stream is sent to Google's servers to produce the text. Your screen recording still stays entirely on your device - only the live audio is processed externally for the transcript. A confirmation prompt explains this before the feature is enabled. If you prefer not to use it, leave the toggle off and nothing is sent anywhere.

Sixteen languages plus auto-detect: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), and Arabic. The language picker sits next to the Transcribe checkbox in the recorder settings. Auto-detect picks up the language from your browser settings and works well for most users.

Yes. Once live transcription is on, tick "Add subtitles" to render the spoken text directly onto the recorded video frame. The subtitles are part of the video file, so they show up in any player without a separate subtitle file. Subtitle size has three settings (1x, 1.5x, 2x) and you can choose how many lines to keep visible at once (1, 2, 3, or 4).

No built-in time limit is added by the app. Practical limits still depend on your browser, your device, and available local resources.