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Screen Awesome

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The free screen recorder that cannot upload your video

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The free screen recorder that cannot upload your video

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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.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Screen Awesome after recording a bug report on a page full of client data and realising I had no idea where that video was going. Every capture extension has a privacy policy. Screen Awesome has a limitation instead: host_permissions is empty in its manifest, and Chrome will not let an extension with no host permissions make a request to any server. No account, no telemetry, no sync — not because I promise not to, but because there is nothing in the code that could. You can verify it before installing: chrome://extensions → Screen Awesome → Site access: none. The other half of it is that everything is unlocked. Arrows, blur and redaction, step counters, speech bubbles, crop, text in any system font — the tools that are usually the paid tier. Annotations stay as vectors, so you can move, restyle, re-edit or undo any of them later. Three bits I'm proud of: • Auto-zoom — while you record a tab it samples your clicks, then the studio replays the footage through a virtual camera that glides in on each one. Preview it live, switch it off, or bake it into the export. • MP4 out wherever Chrome can encode it, so the file drops straight into Slack, Docs or Premiere with no conversion step. WebM and GIF export too. • Full-page screenshots that scroll and stitch — including the fixed header/sidebar handling that normally stripes the image. Honest limits: Chrome and Chromium only for now, no Firefox or Safari. Most of my testing has been on Windows. And because everything is local, uninstalling deletes your captures — bulk-download first. It's free, there's no paid tier, and I'm not planning one. What I'd love your take on: does "verifiable" land better than "trust us" for you? And if you make screencasts often — what's the one thing your current tool still makes you do by hand? — Nitin

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1d ago

Verifiable lands better, but the claim has a shelf life. Empty host_permissions is true today and Chrome auto updates extensions, so 1.4 can quietly add one and nobody checks chrome://extensions twice. If you want it to hold, publish the manifest diff with every release and link it from the store listing, that's the thing someone can keep checking without trusting you. The one I still do by hand is re-recording a whole take because a single sentence came out wrong.

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32m ago

Next3 Offload

I have tried multiple times to use this tool for recording purposes but have not been able to start. Would you please check the issue? I am using a Mac

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44m ago