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title: "Screen Recorder Online: Record Your Screen Free | ToolSugar"
description: "Record your screen, a window or a browser tab right in your browser, with an optional microphone, then download the video. Nothing is uploaded. Free to use."
canonical: https://toolsugar.com/tools/screen-recorder
image: https://toolsugar.com/og.png
---

# Record your screen in the browser

Screen Recorder captures your screen, a window or a browser tab and saves it as a video file. You can add your microphone, pause, and stop at any time. The video is built inside your tab and never uploaded. It needs a desktop browser: phones usually cannot record the screen from a web page.

Runs on your device

## How it works

1. Switch on Record my microphone too if you want to add your voice.
2. Press Start recording and choose a screen, window or tab in the browser prompt.
3. Use Pause and Resume as needed, and watch the timer. Press Stop when you are done.
4. Check the preview, then press Download to save the video.

## Key facts

- **Captures**: A whole screen, one window or one browser tab, your choice
- **Sound**: Your microphone if you switch it on. Tab or system audio only when you tick the share audio box in the browser prompt, and not together with the microphone
- **Format**: MP4. Chrome, Edge and Safari record it directly, and other browsers convert after you stop
- **Works on**: Desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Most phones cannot
- **Your video**: Built inside this tab and never uploaded

## Common uses

- Record a quick walkthrough of a bug to send to a teammate.
- Capture a tutorial with your voice over the top.
- Save a short demo of a web page or app.
- Keep a copy of a presentation as you give it.

## Questions

### How do I record my screen in the browser?

Press Start recording, pick a screen, window or tab when the browser asks, and press Stop when you are finished. Then preview the video and press Download. No extension or app is needed.

### Can I record my screen on a phone?

Usually not. Phone browsers mostly do not allow a web page to capture the screen, and the tool says so when it cannot start. Use the screen recording built into your phone instead.

### Does it record sound from my computer?

Only if you tick the share audio box in the browser prompt, and that option depends on your browser and on what you share. Switching on the microphone records your voice instead of that audio, not mixed with it.

### What happens if I stop sharing from the browser bar?

The recording ends cleanly and everything captured so far is kept, so you can still preview and download it.

### Is my recording uploaded?

No. The video is assembled in your browser tab from the screen capture and goes nowhere until you download it.

[Read the Screen Recorder guide](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-record-your-screen)

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- [Voice Recorder](https://toolsugar.com/tools/voice-recorder)
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