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Online Screen Recorder.

Screen recording, with nothing to install.

→ RollFree, no account, and your video is never uploaded

How it works.

Record what is on your screen, with your camera in the corner.

  1. Step 1

    Pick what to record

    Your screen, your camera, or both at once.

  2. Step 2

    Record with the light on

    A countdown, then the record light and a running timecode.

  3. Step 3

    Stop and save the take

    It is ready to download, or to send to another tool.

In detail

A screen recorder that is a web page. No download, no extension, no account, no watermark, and no upload: the recording is written into this browser's own private storage as it happens and never goes to a server. Record a tab, a window, or the whole screen, with your camera in a bubble over it, with the microphone and the computer audio, at up to 1080p60. Pause and resume mid take, watch the size climb as it is written, and when you stop, send the file to the compressor, the trimmer, or the editor in one click.

What it gives you.

  • A tab, a window, or the whole screen

    The browser's own picker offers all three and shows you what you are about to share before anything records. A single tab is the cleanest capture: it follows the tab rather than the monitor, so notifications and other windows never land in the take.

  • Your camera over the screen, in the file

    The bubble every demo video has: your face in the corner of the screen recording itself, not a second file to line up afterwards. Round or a rounded square, three sizes, any of the four corners or dragged anywhere on the stage, mirrored or not, and hidden and shown again mid take without stopping. Chrome and Edge draw it, because they are the browsers that can keep drawing while the tab is in the background, which is exactly when a screen recording is running. Everywhere else the screen and the camera still record on their own.

  • The microphone and the computer audio, together

    Record your voice over what the machine is playing. Both sources are mixed into one track before the recorder ever sees them, which is the only way a browser will carry two of them in one file. Muting the microphone mid take is a fifteen millisecond fade rather than a stopped track, so the file has no gap and nothing drifts. Either source alone works too, and so does silence.

  • The camera at 720p or 1080p

    Pick the camera and the microphone by name, watch a live preview before you start, and record at 720p30, 1080p30, or 1080p60. A talking head for a tutorial or a quick piece to camera needs nothing else installed.

  • A seekable MP4, written as you go

    Where this browser can record H.264 and AAC, which Chromium can, the take comes out as an MP4 that plays and scrubs anywhere. Elsewhere it is a WebM and the page says so. Either way the chunks go to disk once a second rather than piling up in a tab, and the finished file is rewritten so it has a duration and an index instead of the header a recorder leaves behind.

  • Pause and resume

    Stop talking, sort out the thing you were about to demo, and pick the take back up. The timecode holds while you are paused and the paused span is not in the file, so there is no dead air to trim out afterwards.

  • One click into the next bench

    A screen recording is almost never finished when the recording stops: it is too big, too long, or the wrong shape. The take is already on this browser's disk, so the links under the result hand it to the compressor, trimmer, reframer, muter, levels, splitter, or editor without a download and a re-upload in between.

Straight answers.

Is there a free screen recorder that works without downloading software?

This is one, and the reason it can be is that recording is a thing browsers themselves do now. The page asks the browser to capture a surface you pick, hands the frames to the encoder already built into it, and writes the result to storage the browser reserves for this site. Nothing is installed because nothing needs to be, and nothing is uploaded because there is no server in the path, which is also why there is no queue, no file size limit imposed by a plan, and no watermark. Your camera over the screen is here too, drawn into the recording itself by Chrome and Edge, which are the browsers whose insertable media streams keep feeding a background worker while you are in another window; Firefox and Safari record the screen and the camera on their own instead. What you give up compared with an installed recorder is a whole screen's system audio on Linux and on macOS before 14.2, which the operating system does not let a browser have. Everything else, including long takes, is the same.

Why does the browser ask me what to share?

Because the page is not allowed to decide. Screen capture is one of the few things a browser will only do after you have picked the surface yourself, in a dialog the page cannot see, style, or preselect, and it has to be triggered by a real click rather than by script. That is the whole security model: a website that could start recording your screen on its own would be a keylogger with a camera. So the flow is fixed. You press record, the browser shows its own picker with a tab list, a window list, and your screens, you choose one, and only then does anything roll. While it is rolling the browser shows its own indicator and a stop sharing button, which also ends the take here, and the page says so when it happens.

How do I record the computer's own sound, and where does it work?

Turn computer audio on before you record, then tick the box the browser's own picker shows you, because the page cannot tick it for you. The box is called "also share tab audio" for a tab and "also share system audio" for a whole screen. A tab's sound works on every desktop platform. A whole screen's sound works on Windows and ChromeOS, and on macOS 14.2 and later, which recent Chrome versions capture through a system audio tap; older macOS and Linux have no route a browser is allowed to take. A shared window usually carries no sound at all. Rather than guess from your operating system and hide the option, this page always offers it and then tells you what actually came back: if the picker returns no audio track, the recorder says so in one line, names the surface you picked and the box you needed, and keeps rolling with the microphone. There is also a switch to keep the shared sound out of your own speakers while you record, which is what stops a laptop microphone recording the same audio twice.

How long can I record?

Three hours, and the real limit is disk rather than time. Nothing is held in memory: chunks are written into this browser's private storage once a second, so a long take costs space rather than stability, and the page works out how many minutes of room you have at the quality you picked and tells you before you start if it is under an hour. At 1080p30 the default eight megabits per second is about sixty megabytes a minute, so an hour is roughly three and a half gigabytes. Screen recordings of mostly static material compress far better than that in practice. The three hour cap exists because a take longer than that is a file nobody is going to edit in a browser tab, and the recorder stops cleanly and keeps everything it captured rather than losing the lot.

Where does the file go?

Into this browser, on this machine, and nowhere else. There is no upload step and no server involved: the recording is written to the Origin Private File System, which is private storage the browser hands to this site alone, and it stays there until you download it, hand it to another bench, or clear the site's data. Nobody at Cutroom can see it, because it never leaves your computer. That also means it is not a backup. Download the take once you are happy with it, and treat the copy in the browser as a working file rather than as the place the recording lives.

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