Free Chrome screen recorder. Capture a tab, a window, your whole screen, or just your camera — and switch between bubble, split, screen-only or camera-only during the recording. On-screen highlights, HD camera with studio touch-up. Save locally or to your own Drive. No subscriptions, ever.
Four capture modes — a single browser tab, any application window, the entire screen, or a clean camera-only video message. Tab audio mixes with your microphone automatically. Add a draggable camera bubble with background blur, four built-in backdrops, custom uploads, and five levels of beauty touch-up including a new Studio preset. An optional 3- or 5-second countdown fires after you pick the window, not before — so the recording starts exactly when you’re ready.
Once you’re live, a floating side panel lets you switch between Bubble, Split, Screen-only and Camera-only layouts without ever stopping the recorder. One continuous .webm, no gaps, no encoder restart.
Cursor spotlight darkens everything but your point — viewers can’t miss it. Pen, arrow and circle tools in four colours. The toolbar collapses out of the way. All marks captured directly in the recording — no post-edit required.
When you stop, your .webm downloads instantly to your machine. Want a shareable link? Connect Google Drive in one click and El Ojo uploads straight there — the file lives in your Drive, under your control. We never host your videos. Zero vendor lock-in.
No tiers. No watermark. No surprise upgrade prompt. The whole extension is free forever.
The same recorder, dropped into the way you already work. No new accounts, no dashboard to learn.
Most screen recorders are a video host that happens to ship a recorder. El Ojo is just the recorder. The file goes from your browser to your machine — or directly to your Drive, with the narrowest OAuth scope Google offers.
drive.file — El Ojo can only see files it creates, never your existing Drive contents.Yes. The extension is free forever — no tiers, no watermarks, no time caps. There's no paid upgrade today.
On your machine when you click Download. If you want a shareable link, you connect your own Google Drive in one click — uploads go straight from your browser to your Drive, never through our servers. We don't host any of your recordings.
As long as you want. There's no built-in cap. We've tested past three hours in a single session.
No. Recording runs in a separate Chrome offscreen document, so the tab you're capturing stays responsive.
Four modes: a single browser tab (with tab audio), any application window, your whole screen (with optional system audio), or just your camera as a clean video message. Pick at start, or switch between Bubble / Split / Screen-only / Camera-only mid-recording via the floating side panel.
Yes — the camera bubble is a draggable on-page element with selfie-segmentation background blur, four built-in backdrops, up to three custom uploads, and five levels of beauty touch-up topped by a Studio preset. Mirror is on by default, and background text stays readable.
Optional 3-second or 5-second pre-roll. It fires after Chrome's screen-share picker resolves, not before — so you have time to switch to the right window first.
No signup, no email. Install the extension and hit record. Connecting Google Drive (optional) uses your existing Google account.
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc — any Chromium-based browser that supports Manifest V3 extensions.
Add El Ojo to Chrome and record your first video in under a minute. Free forever — your recordings, your storage, your audience.