Screen recorder with audio
Record the sound the app makes, and what you say about it.
Most screen recorders give you one audio track and make you choose: the meeting, or your commentary. Zight captures system audio and your microphone together, so the error chime and your explanation of it land on the same recording.
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How do I record my screen with audio?
Install Zight on Mac, Windows or Chrome, choose whether to capture system audio, your microphone, or both, and hit record. Both tracks are captured together, so app sound and narration end up on one recording. Grant screen and microphone permission the first time, then share the result as a link with a transcript attached.
What it does
The audio half, which is the half that goes wrong
Picture is the easy part. Everything below is about the track most recorders make you choose between.
Both tracks, one recording
System audio and your microphone at the same time. The alert that fires, the video you are reacting to, the call you are demonstrating — plus your voice over it, without a second app mixing them afterwards.
Internal audio without the workaround
Recording what the machine is playing is the part the built-in tools make hard — macOS needs a virtual audio device for it, and most guides are eight steps long. Zight captures it directly.
The audio becomes text
Every recording comes back with a transcript, chapters and a summary written from what was actually said — which is only possible because the audio was captured properly in the first place.
Fix it after, not again
Trim the throat-clearing off the front, cut the middle where the build ran, and re-share the same link. A bad take does not mean recording the whole thing twice.
How to record with audio
Four steps, and one of them is a permission dialog
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Install and open the recorder
Mac, Windows or the Chrome extension. Signing up is free.
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Set the two audio choices
Which microphone, and whether system audio comes with it. Both settings stick between recordings, so this is a one-time decision.
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Say yes to the permission prompt
macOS asks for screen and microphone access the first time, in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Windows and Chrome ask in the app. Skip it and you get a silent video.
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Record, then share the link
The link is copied when you stop, with the transcript and chapters generated from the audio you just captured.
Recording sound, and what to do with it after
The per-platform guides, and the browser tools for the file you end up with. All of them run without an account.
Recording audio
Working with the file after
Check it first
FAQ
Questions people ask first
Yes, both together. That is the setting most screen recorders make you choose between, and it is the one that matters when you are talking over something that makes noise.
With Zight, you turn system audio on in the recording preferences and grant screen and microphone permission in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Without a tool that supports it, macOS needs a virtual audio device, which is why the guides for doing it natively run to eight steps.
Almost always a permission: macOS and Windows both ask separately for microphone access, and denying it once means every later recording is silent without warning. Check the privacy settings for your operating system, then take a five-second test recording before the real one.
The recorder is built around capturing a screen, so audio-only is not what it is for. If you need to trim or convert an audio file you already have, the free browser tools will do that without an account.
Yes. Every recording comes back with a transcript, an AI title, a summary and chapters, in 50+ languages — all of it generated from the audio, which is the practical reason to get the audio right.
Yes — Mac and Windows desktop apps and a Chrome extension, all capturing system audio and microphone, and all sharing one library.
Record it with the sound on.
Free on Mac, Windows and Chrome. System audio, your microphone, and a transcript of both.