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Free Chrome Screen Recorder

Record your screen and camera, and download an MP4. Quick to install, easy to use, and free.

Add to Chrome It's free

Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chromebook.

The recorder's menu open on a web page, with Full screen, Window and Current tab, the camera and microphone switched on, and the camera bubble in the corner

Why use Mastershot’s screen recorder

  • Start in a few clicks

    Click its button in the toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+R.

  • Your screen, a window, or a tab

    Record everything you see, one window, or a single tab.

  • Your camera in a bubble

    Drag it anywhere, and make it small, medium, or large.

  • Pause or restart

    Fix a mistake without starting over.

  • An MP4, not a WebM

    It plays in any player and uploads anywhere.

  • No account, watermark, or time limit

    And your recordings stay on your computer.

Record your screen and camera

Record your whole screen, one window, or a single tab, with your camera in a bubble. Drag the bubble anywhere and make it small, medium, or large. Turn on your mic and your computer’s sound, and switch either one without stopping.

A recording in progress: the controls on the left, the camera and microphone panel open, and the camera bubble over the page

Made a mistake? Pause or restart

A 3-2-1 countdown gives you a moment to get ready. While you record, pause, restart, or delete from the controls in the corner, or with a keyboard shortcut. The controls follow you from tab to tab, and you can hide them in Settings.

The 3-2-1 countdown over a web page, with the recording controls and the camera bubble in the corner

Download an MP4

When you stop, your recording opens, ready to play. It’s an MP4, so it plays in any player and uploads to YouTube, Slack, or Google Drive without converting it first. Recordings stay in Chrome on your computer until you download or delete them.

The recordings page: a recording playing, its length, size and file name, and buttons to delete, edit or download the MP4

Trim and crop it right away

Cut the start and the end, crop, rotate, flip, resize, or mute your recording on the recordings page. The edit is saved as a copy, so the original is still there.

The editor on the recordings page, with a recording on a timeline and Trim, Crop, Rotate, Flip, Resize and Sound below it

Questions

Add the Mastershot extension to Chrome. Click its button in the toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+R. Choose Full screen, Window, or Current tab, and turn your camera and mic on or off. Click Start recording, and after a 3-2-1 countdown your recording begins. When you're done, click stop, and your recording opens, ready to download as an MP4.

Turn on your mic to record your voice, and turn on Computer sound to record what your computer plays. To record one tab with its sound, choose Current tab.

Yes. Your camera shows in a bubble on the screen and is part of the video. You can turn it off.

Yes. Recording needs no account, and has no watermark and no time limit. Mastershot Pro, $7 a month, also keeps your recordings in your Mastershot account, so you can watch them on any computer.

MP4 (H.264 video and AAC sound). It plays everywhere and uploads to YouTube, Slack, Google Drive, and the rest.

In Chrome on your computer, until you download or delete them. Removing the extension deletes them, so download the ones you want to keep. If you sign in to the extension with Mastershot Pro, each recording is also saved to your account as you record.

Edit your recording in Studio

To cut the pauses out of a recording and add subtitles in one go, open it in Mastershot Studio, the free video editor.

Download the Mastershot Chrome extension

Start recording in seconds. It’s free.

Add to Chrome It's free