Screen recorder
Record your screen.
And ask anyone to record theirs.
Every screen recorder sends a video outward. This one goes both ways: capture your screen on Mac, Windows, Chrome or iOS and share it as a link — then send a request link and get someone else’s screen back, with their console logs attached.
Free plan covers recordings up to five minutes · no credit card
Trusted by 5m+ people who would rather show than tell
What is the Zight screen recorder?
Zight is a free screen recorder for Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS. Record your full screen, a region, your camera, or screen and camera together, then share it as a link that plays in any browser. Recordings come back with a transcript, an AI title and a summary. The free plan covers recordings up to five minutes.
What it records
The recording part, done properly
None of this is exotic — it is the set of things you notice the absence of halfway through a take, when it is too late.
Any part of the screen
The full screen, one window, or a region you drag. Camera only, screen only, or both — and the same capture can come out as a video or a GIF.
Your voice and the app’s
System audio and your microphone together, so the error chime and your explanation of it both land in the recording.
Annotate while recording
Draw on the screen mid-take — an arrow at the thing you are talking about beats saying “the button on the left, no, the other one”.
The link is ready when you stop
No render, no export, no upload to wait through. The share link is on your clipboard — paste it into Slack, the ticket, or the email you were about to write.
See it in action
See how to create a screen recording in 80 seconds.
How to record your screen
Four steps, and only two are decisions
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Install it
The Mac or Windows app, the Chrome extension, or the iOS app — whichever matches where you work. Signing up is free.
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Choose what to capture
Full screen, a region, camera only, or screen and camera. Pick video or GIF, and which microphone and webcam to use.
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Hit record
A 3-2-1 countdown, then a toolbar with a timer and the controls that matter mid-take: annotate, pause, finish.
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Share, or tidy first
The link is already copied. If the recording needs a pass, trim, cut, split or merge it — then the same link carries the new version.
The other direction
A recorder can only show. This one can also ask.
Half of explaining is understanding what went wrong in the first place, and no amount of recording your own screen tells you what is happening on someone else’s. Send a request link and they record theirs — in the browser, no account, no install — and it arrives with their console logs, network detail and browser information attached.
“Request Video is so much better than users trying to explain what’s happening in an e-mail… I can see exactly when an issue occurs and what is causing it.”
Which recorder
Two recorders, and the difference is who hits record
Screen recorder This page
You hit record and capture your own screen, on your own time. A walkthrough, a bug, an update nobody has to attend. Mac, Windows, Chrome, iOS.
Meeting recorder
A notetaker bot joins a live call on your calendar, records it, and writes the summary and action items afterwards. You stay in the conversation instead of typing through it.
See the meeting recorderRequest links
Somebody else hits record — a customer, a colleague, an employee — from a link, with no account or install, and their console logs come back with it.
See request linksAll three land in the same library, and Zight AI writes up all three.
What people record
The motions a recording starts
Teams that record most days
Customer Support ·Customer Success ·Engineering ·Product ·Sales ·Training & Onboarding ·IT & Internal Support ·Education
Where it runs
One library, four places to record from
A recording made on Windows opens from the same link on a colleague’s Mac. There is no per-platform library to keep track of.
- macOS
- Desktop app
- Windows
- Desktop app
- Chrome
- Extension — nothing to install for viewers
- iOS
- Record and share from a phone
FAQ
Questions people ask first
Yes. The free plan covers screen recording, video requests, screenshot sharing and 15-second GIFs, with recordings up to five minutes and no credit card. Unlimited recording time starts on the Create plan.
Yes — both together, so what the app is doing and what you are saying about it end up on the same recording rather than you narrating a silent video.
Yes. There are Mac and Windows desktop apps, a Chrome extension and an iOS app, and all of them share one library — a recording made on Windows opens on a colleague’s Mac from the same link.
No. A Zight share link opens in any browser with the transcript and chapters alongside it. There is nothing to download and no account to create on their side.
You can trim, cut, split and merge, and annotate. It is not a timeline editor — if a recording needs compositing or effects, a production tool is the right shape for that job.
Yes, and this is the part most recorders do not do. Send a request link and the other person records their screen in their browser — no account, no install — and it comes back to you with their console logs and browser details attached.
Who is doing the recording. Here you hit record and capture your own screen, on your own time — a walkthrough, a bug, an update nobody has to attend. The meeting recorder is a notetaker bot that joins a live call on your calendar, records it, and writes the summary and action items afterwards. Same library, different moment.
Record the thing you were about to type.
Free on Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS. The link is ready before the message would have been.