Simple Web Recorder

Simple Web Recorder is a local-first screen recording studio for Chrome. It records the tab you choose without playing that tab's audio out loud, layers in your camera and microphone, and keeps every frame on your own machine. No account. No sign-up. No upload. Your recordings are written to local browser storage and saved with Chrome's own download flow. WHAT IT RECORDS - A single browser tab, silently - the page keeps playing for you, not for the room - Tab audio only, when you just need the sound - Tab plus microphone, with independent levels, meters, and clipping indicators - Tab plus camera and microphone, with circle or rounded masks, mirroring, drag, resize, and corner snapping - A window or your whole screen, through Chrome's native picker - Studio composition: capture, camera, local video clips, text, images, shapes, and backgrounds as arrangeable layers EDIT WITHOUT LEAVING THE BROWSER - Trim, join, crop, and reframe to vertical or square - Chapter markers you can set mid-recording, then export as separate clips - Silence detection with reviewable Smart Cut ranges - Filler-word detection you approve before anything is removed - Caption styling, translation, and word-level timing - Export to WebM, MP4, GIF, WAV, or a PNG contact sheet ON-DEVICE VISUAL AI - FREE Every packaged vision feature is free, with no paywall: - Auto Frame and smart presenter framing - Face privacy blurring and pixelation shields - Gesture-triggered scene takes - Camera stabilizer, denoise, eye contact, and adaptive grading - Chroma key and background replacement PRO - 4.99 USD, ONCE - Local Whisper transcription in three model sizes. Unlimited, on-device, no per-minute charge - Local AI voiceover in six languages - 4K output - 60 fps capture One payment. No subscription, ever. Because the AI runs on your own hardware, there is no per-minute cost to pass on to you, so there is no reason to bill you every month for it. PRIVACY The recording path never touches a server. Captured video, audio, camera frames, captions, narration text, and scripts stay in local extension storage until you download or delete them. The extension declares no broad website host permission - it uses Chrome's temporary activeTab grant only for the tab you deliberately start recording. Two network paths exist, and both are disclosed in full in the extension's Privacy page: - After you explicitly start Whisper or AI voiceover, the selected open-source model is downloaded once from Hugging Face and cached. Your audio and text are never sent - only the model comes down. - Pro purchase status is checked with ExtensionPay, which processes payment through Stripe. That carries a random install identifier and your paid/unpaid state, nothing else. The extension does not attempt to bypass DRM, HDCP, or website capture restrictions. Protected content may appear black or silent. FREE FOREVER Silent tab, window, and screen recording. Camera and microphone layers. Trim, join, crop, and marker editing. Chrome speech captions and caption styling. All on-device visual AI. 720p and 1080p export at 30 fps.