Screen recorder
Screen recorder: Capture a screen, window, or tab with optional webcam and audio, then download the recording locally.
Webcam overlay
Show your camera in a corner of the recording
⚡ Screen capture works best in Chrome or Edge on desktop. Mobile browsers have limited support.
🔊 To capture system audio, check the "Share audio" option in the browser's screen-sharing dialog.
How to Use Screen recorder
Set Up Your Recording Preferences
Choose your audio source (microphone, system audio, or both) and optionally enable the webcam overlay with your preferred corner position. No account or sign-up needed.
Choose Your Screen and Count Down
Click "Start Recording". Your browser immediately shows the screen picker—select your desktop, window, or tab. A 3-second countdown then gives you time to switch to the target window before recording begins.
Stop, Preview, and Download
Click "Finish recording" when done. A preview player appears instantly so you can review the result. Hit download and the MP4 file is saved directly to your device—no upload, no waiting.
Screen Recording Features
Record Screen, Window, or Tab
Choose to record your entire desktop, a specific application window, or just a single browser tab. Full flexibility every time—no complicated setup required.
Webcam Picture-in-Picture
Overlay your webcam feed in any corner of the recording. Add a personal touch to presentations, tutorials, and demos with a rounded, professional-looking camera bubble.
Flexible Audio Mixing
Record only your microphone, only system audio, both mixed together, or no audio at all. The Web Audio API handles multi-track mixing seamlessly in real time.
Pause and Resume Freely
Pause at any point to compose your thoughts, rearrange a window, or take a break—then continue the same recording without creating a new file.
Instant Local Download
When you finish, your recording is packaged as an MP4 or WebM file and saved directly to your device in seconds. No rendering queues, no cloud upload, no wait.
100% Private Local Processing
Canvas compositing, audio mixing, and MediaRecorder encoding all run entirely in your browser tab. Your screen content never touches our servers—ever.
How this screen recorder works in the browser
This screen recorder runs in the tab. Chrome or Edge on desktop is the happy path. You pick a display, window, or tab, mix mic and system audio if the browser allows it, optionally pin a webcam bubble, then download an MP4. Nothing is uploaded. The screen recorder is the panel above. Stay on this URL until the file is on disk.
What this screen recorder is for
A screen recorder is for walkthroughs, bug reports, lectures, and async demos you would otherwise explain in twelve screenshots. This screen recorder is not OBS, not a cloud meeting bot, and not a timeline editor. It captures what the browser is allowed to share, composites the camera locally, and packages a file. Searchers who type screen recorder want that capture tonight, not a course in broadcasting. Pixwit keeps the screen recorder on this page so the landing and the tool are the same URL.
How to run a clean take with this screen recorder
Allow screen share when the picker opens. Choose the smallest surface that still shows the bug or the lesson: a window beats a whole desktop full of Slack. Enable the webcam only if a face helps; support tickets rarely need a bubble. Pick mic, system, both, or none. System audio needs the extra checkbox in Chrome’s dialog — this screen recorder cannot grab internal sound if you skip that box. Use the countdown to switch to the target window. Pause if you need to rearrange. Finish, preview, download. Then start a new session. Do not treat a 30-minute auto-stop as a failure; it is a RAM guard. Stitch clips in a merger if the story is longer.
When to use this screen recorder — and when to skip it
Use this screen recorder for a private local file: unreleased UI, customer data on a staging site, a payroll spreadsheet you must not send to a SaaS recorder. Skip it on mobile Safari when getDisplayMedia is missing. Skip it when you need scenes, lower thirds, and a stream key — that is OBS. Skip it when the output must be a GIF under 8 MB; record here, then open the GIF maker. Stay on this screen recorder when the brief is “capture this screen now.” Leave for the compressor when the MP4 is too big for Discord. Leave for the trimmer when the first forty seconds are you looking for the window.
Audio, camera, and privacy in this screen recorder
Microphone permission is separate from screen permission. If the mic is blocked, the screen recorder still writes picture. Camera denial drops the overlay and continues. That is intentional. Do not share a screen that shows other people’s messages, passwords, or medical charts. Local processing means Pixwit never sees the frames; it does not mean the file is safe after you email it. The screen recorder does not watermark the download. You are still responsible for what you publish. Firefox may omit system audio. Safari support is thinner. If colleagues must record on mixed machines, send this Chrome-first screen recorder URL and a one-line note about the share-audio checkbox.
Quality checks before you send the MP4
Watch the first five seconds: did you start on the right window? Watch a click: is the cursor visible? Listen with headphones: is the mic in a cup or is system audio a hiss? If the file is huge, run the video compressor next; this screen recorder is a capture tool, not an encoder suite. If the take includes a password field, recapture. If the webcam bubble covers the button you were explaining, move the corner and record again. Keep a folder named by ticket ID. This screen recorder does not upload a library. Closing the tab without downloading deletes the blob. Treat download as save.
This screen recorder versus desktop software
OBS wins at scenes, plugins, and live restreams. Camtasia wins at built-in editing courses. This screen recorder wins at zero install, no account for the capture itself, and no cloud copy of the pixels. IT teams send this URL because it does not require admin rights. Teachers send it because a Chromebook can record a tab. Developers send it because the staging site never leaves the laptop. If you outgrow this screen recorder, export the MP4 and open a real NLE. Until then, one click, one file, this page.
Common questions
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Record again with this screen recorder
The screen recorder is the panel above. Stay on this URL, pick a screen, download the MP4 here.