How to record your computer screen for free, with no watermark, nothing to install and your camera in the corner

By Marcelo Amantino · published October 21, 2026 · 3 min read · who we are

You need to show someone how to do something on the computer, and explaining by message does not work. You look for a screen recorder and find programs to install, trial versions with a watermark or a time limit. There is a simpler way: the browser itself knows how to record the screen. This guide shows how to use that feature, what it does well and where it falls short.

What you can record

With WebFaz Screen Recorder you choose between the whole screen, a window or a browser tab, set the quality and frames per second, and download the video as WebM or MP4. There is no watermark, no sign-up, and WebFaz imposes no time limit (the real limit is your device’s memory and storage). The video is built on your computer and is not sent to any server.

Step by step

Open Screen Recorder on your computer and choose the sources: screen, microphone, system sound and camera.
Click to record and authorize sharing in the browser window. Without your permission, nothing is recorded.
Use the floating bar (timer, pause and stop) or the shortcuts: F9 pauses and resumes, F10 stops and saves.
When you finish, download the video or send it to editing.

Your camera in the corner of the screen

For classes, presentations and tutorials, seeing the face of the person explaining creates presence and trust. The recorder can include the webcam image in a bubble in the corner of the video while it records the screen. It is a feature that usually lives in paid programs and here it runs in the browser.

How to record the computer’s sound

This is the point that causes the most headaches in any browser-based recorder. System sound is only captured in compatible browsers and systems and, in practice, it usually works when you share a tab and tick the option to share audio. The microphone is a separate source that you turn on or off. Do a test of about 10 seconds before recording anything long.

After recording: trim, caption and make it yours

Recorded it and messed up the start? Instead of redoing it, send the video to WebFaz video editor and customize: trim what is left over, add text, captions (including automatically generated ones, reviewed by you), music, backgrounds and transitions, and export to MP4 without a watermark. The editor runs in the browser, and automatic captions are the only part that sends the audio to a speech recognition service, when you ask for it.

What doesn’t work: recording a phone screen

It is important to be clear: this recorder is for computers. Most mobile browsers do not offer this screen capture feature, so support on phones is limited. To record a phone screen, use the system’s own recorder (iPhone and Android both have one) and, if you like, take the video to the WebFaz editor afterwards, moving it to the computer through Drop.

Precautions before pressing the button

Close notifications, emails and personal tabs: anything on the screen may end up in the video.
If you are recording the whole screen, hide passwords, client data and document numbers.
For very long recordings, do it in parts: the video stays in the device’s memory until you download it.