Record your screen without uploading it
Many screen recorders upload every take to their servers so you can share a link. If you only want a file, that’s extra waiting, extra data and a copy you don’t control. Plainware Recorder keeps the video on your computer.
What “without uploading” means here
Plainware Recorder has no server. The video is made inside Chrome and written to a private file area for the extension on your own disk, while you record. Its security policy only allows connections to the licence provider, so it can’t send a video anywhere. Sharing is up to you: you save a file and send it however you like.
Record and save a video
Click the Plainware Recorder button in Chrome’s toolbar.
Choose This tab, A window or Entire screen. The microphone is on by default and you can turn it off.
Press Start recording and choose what to share in Chrome’s picker. A 3-second countdown follows.
Press Stop, or use Alt+Shift+R. Chrome’s own Stop sharing button also stops, and keeps the recording.
In the Library, choose Save to computer for your Downloads folder, or Save as to pick a folder and name.
Check it for yourself
Turn off Wi-Fi and record something short. It records, finishes and saves exactly the same, because nothing needs the internet.
Good to know
- Save the file you care about. Until you do, the recording lives only in the extension’s storage, which Chrome removes if you uninstall the extension. The Library marks recordings “Not saved as a file yet”.
- No time limit or watermark. Your disk is the only limit, and it warns you before you start if free space is under 2 GB.
- Crashes: it writes to disk every second, so a crash costs at most the last second or two, and the take comes back as Recovered.
- Format: free recordings are WebM. MP4 is part of Plainware Pro.
- Consent: if you record a call or meeting, tell the people in it first.