From your browser, on any computer
- Open Screen Recorder.
- Choose whether to record sound and your microphone, then click Start recording.
- Pick the whole screen, one window or a browser tab. To include a tab's sound, choose the tab and keep its audio option on.
- Click Stop and download the video. There is no watermark or time limit.
Windows 11
Open the Snipping Tool, switch to the video camera icon, choose an area and click Start. Press Win + Shift + R to start it directly in recent versions. For games, Win + G opens the Game Bar, which records the active window.
macOS
Press Shift + Command + 5 and choose Record Entire Screen or Record Selected Portion. Under Options you can add your microphone. macOS does not record the sound of other apps with this tool.
iPhone and Android
- iPhone: open Control Center and tap Screen Recording. If it is not there, add it: in iOS 18 and later, tap + in Control Center; in earlier versions, go to Settings → Control Center. Long-press it to turn the microphone on.
- Android: open Quick Settings and tap Screen record. The name and options vary by phone maker.
After recording
Cut the start and end with Trim Video, make it small enough to send with Compress Video, or turn a short part into a GIF.
Common problems
- A video player shows as a black box. Streaming services protect their videos from screen recording, so the player area comes out black. That is deliberate and not a fault in the recorder.
- No sound from apps on a Mac. macOS's own recorder captures only the microphone. Record a browser tab with its sound from the browser, or install a virtual audio device to capture system sound.
- The recording is choppy. Recording a large screen at full resolution takes a lot of work. Close other programs, record one window instead of the whole screen, or lower the screen resolution.
- Notifications appear in the video. Turn on Do Not Disturb or Focus before you start.
- An editor will not open the file. Browser recordings are often saved as WebM. Convert the file to MP4 for editors and phones that do not read WebM.
Before you record
- Close tabs and windows with private information, and hide the bookmarks bar.
- Make the text larger, with Ctrl and + or Command and +, so it is readable once the video is compressed.
- Do a ten-second test to check the sound level before recording the real thing.