Framecast - Screen Recorder

About

Framecast records your screen the way you actually need it — the whole screen, a single monitor, an application window, a browser tab, or just a rectangle you draw yourself. No sign-up, no upload, no watermark. Every frame is captured, composited and encoded on your own device.

Highlights

• Four capture modes — entire screen, a specific monitor, an application window, or a Chrome tab, chosen through Chrome's native picker
• Region recording — after picking a source, draw a rectangle (like Shift+Win+S) on a frozen snapshot; Framecast records exactly that area, cropped pixel-for-pixel
• Camera overlay — drop your webcam into any corner as a circle or rounded square, in three sizes
• Microphone + system audio — capture your voice, the computer/tab audio, or both mixed together
• Five output formats — WebM (VP9), WebM (VP8), WebM (H.264), MP4, and animated GIF
• Built-in GIF encoder — a self-contained GIF89a encoder (median-cut color quantization + LZW), no external libraries, no servers
• Built-in trimming — after recording, drag two handles on a timeline to keep only the part you want; trim a brand-new clip from the preview screen or any older recording from the library, with audio preserved
• Quality & frame rate control — Auto, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K, at 24, 30 or 60 fps
• 3-2-1 countdown — optional, full-screen, so you're never caught off guard
• Compact recording bar — the window shrinks to a tiny timer + pause + stop bar while you record, staying out of your way
• Pause & resume — capture a single recording across breaks
• Keyboard shortcut — Alt+Shift+S stops recording from anywhere
• Local recording library — every recording is kept on-device (IndexedDB) with a thumbnail; play, download or delete any time
• Optional auto-save — archive finished recordings automatically
• Modern dark interface — clean, calm, purpose-built

How it works

1. Click the Framecast icon to open the recorder
2. Choose "Full Screen / Window" or "Region", then pick audio, camera, format and quality
3. Click "Start Recording" — Chrome's picker lets you choose the screen, window or tab
4. In Region mode, draw the rectangle you want to capture
5. A 3-2-1 countdown plays, then the window shrinks to a small control bar
6. Stop from the bar, with Alt+Shift+S, or via Chrome's own sharing bar
7. Preview your clip — trim it down to the part you want if you like, then download it (WebM / MP4 / GIF) or save it to the library

Privacy

Framecast is fully offline. It makes no network requests of any kind — no analytics, no accounts, no telemetry, no remote code. Recordings live in your browser's IndexedDB, settings in localStorage, and a single window id in chrome.storage.session — all device-local. Nothing ever leaves your computer.


Free, forever.