Screen Recorder
Record a tab, a window, or your whole screen with optional sound, then save it as a video file on your own device.
1. Start a recording
Your browser will ask which tab, window, or screen you want to share. Nothing is recorded until you choose.
Ready. Nothing is recorded until you choose what to share.
Recording 00:00
2. Recording
What you share will be previewed here.
Screen recording needs a secure HTTPS address, and the browser may record a black frame where a video or a protected page was playing. Stop the recording before closing this tab, or the file will be lost.
Recording well
Record a single tab
Sharing one tab rather than your whole screen keeps your notifications, messages, and anything else private out of the video.
Stop sharing with the browser control
Chrome and Edge put a “Stop sharing” bar at the top of the screen. Using it finishes the recording properly and saves the file.
Some content cannot be recorded
Streaming video, DRM content, and some banking pages are blocked by the browser on purpose. That protection cannot be switched off from a web page.
Share one tab, not the whole screen
When you start a recording the browser asks what to share. Choose a single tab unless you genuinely need more, because a screen recording captures everything that passes across the display — other windows, a second monitor, message notifications, and whatever you open while recording. If you share a whole screen, pause whenever something private comes into view.
Sound is a separate decision
Tick Record sound as well and the browser asks a second question about audio. Declining is not an error: the recording simply continues without sound. Declining is the better choice if you are recording a demonstration and your microphone or your music would be captured instead of the page.
Use the browser’s Stop sharing control
Chrome and Edge show a bar at the top of the screen while a tab is being recorded. Using that control finishes the recording properly and writes the file. Closing this tab first, or navigating away from it, loses the recording: the video is assembled in the page, and a page that is gone cannot hand it over.
Some content cannot be recorded
Streaming video, DRM-protected media and certain banking and payment pages are blocked by the browser on purpose, and usually appear as a black frame or a silent gap. That protection is built into the browser and cannot be switched off from a web page. It is the same reason those pages cannot be screenshotted either.
Getting a usable recording
- Close or minimise anything you would rather not appear, before you press record rather than after.
- Scroll slowly and pause on each step. Viewers need time to read a frame, and a recording that moves too fast cannot be followed.
- Keep the browser window at a size where the text is legible when the video is played back at full width.
- Talk before you act, not after, so the narration and the action stay together.
- Stop the recording as soon as you are finished, and confirm the file has downloaded before closing the tab.
Where the file goes
The recording is assembled in the page and handed to your browser as a download. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored here, so if you close the tab before the download completes, the recording is lost and cannot be recovered. The microphone, if you allow it, is captured into the same file and discarded with it when you clear or close the page.