Screen Awesome
The free screen recorder that cannot upload your video
Screen Awesome launched on August 4, 2026 with 129 votes, #256 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Every screen recorder promises not to misuse your recordings. Screen Awesome can't: it requests zero host permissions, so Chrome itself blocks it from reaching any server. Check it in chrome://extensions before you install. Record a tab, screen or camera to MP4. Auto-zoom glides a virtual camera to every click. Screenshot a region or a full scrolling page. Annotate with arrows, blur, redaction, step counters and text — all editable vectors. Free, unlocked, no account, no watermark.
A free Chrome screen recorder and screenshot tool that cannot upload your captures — no account, no cloud, no host permissions. Records MP4 and annotates.
The tools other extensions charge for are the reason anyone annotates a screenshot. They are all here, and they all stay here. Captures are written to your browser's own storage the moment they exist. No account, no sync, no analytics, and no host permissions — so there is nothing to opt out of. Recording a tab notes where you click, then the studio glides a virtual camera onto each one and pans between them. Screencast polish without an editor. Arrows, pen, highlighter, shapes, text in any system font, speech bubbles, step counters, emoji stamps, crop and image insert. Every mark stays editable. Records to MP4 wherever Chrome can, so your file drops straight into Slack, Docs or a video…from screenawesome.com
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