Webcam recorder
A face makes it a message. A screen behind it makes it a demo.
Record camera only when the point is you saying it, or camera and screen together when you need to show something while you say it. Both come out as a link that plays in any browser, with a transcript written for it.
Free plan · no credit card · Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS
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What is the Zight webcam recorder?
Zight is a free webcam recorder for Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS. Record your camera on its own, or your camera and screen together with the camera as an overlay, then share the result as a link that opens in any browser. Every recording comes back with a transcript, a summary and chapters.
What it does
Camera only, or camera over the screen
Both are one click apart in the same recorder, and both come out as a link rather than a file you have to send somewhere.
Camera on its own
No screen, just you: the update nobody needs to attend, the introduction before a proposal, the answer that is faster said than written. Thirty seconds of face beats three paragraphs of hedging.
Camera and screen together
The camera sits over the screen recording, so the person watching gets the walkthrough and the face explaining it. On every app — Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS.
Your voice, and the app’s
Microphone and system audio together, so a demo with sound in it still makes sense. The transcript comes from both.
It ends as a link
No render, no export, no file to upload somewhere. The URL is on your clipboard when you stop, and the person opening it needs no account and no app.
How to record a webcam video
Four steps, and one is checking the light
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Install it
The Mac or Windows app, the Chrome extension, or iOS. Signing up is free.
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Choose camera, or camera and screen
Camera only for a message; camera over the screen for a walkthrough. Pick the webcam and microphone while you are there.
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3
Check the frame, then record
A preview before the countdown, so you find out about the backlight now rather than in the recording.
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Trim and send
Cut the false start, then paste the link. The transcript and summary are already attached to it.
Before the take, and after it
The mic and webcam test is thirty seconds well spent. The rest run in your browser, with no account and no upload.
Before you record
After you record
Doing more with it
FAQ
Questions people ask first
Yes. The free plan covers screen and camera recording, screenshots, video requests and 15-second GIFs, with recordings up to five minutes and no credit card. Unlimited recording time starts on the Create plan.
Yes. Camera-only is its own mode on every Zight app, which is the right choice when the point is what you are saying rather than what is on your screen.
Yes — the camera sits as an overlay on the screen recording, on Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS. It is the format most walkthroughs want: the steps, plus the person explaining them.
No. A Zight link opens in any browser with the transcript and chapters beside it, with nothing installed and no account on the viewer’s side.
Yes, and it is worth thirty seconds: the free mic and webcam test runs in your browser with no account, and it catches the muted input before you have recorded four minutes with it.
Send a request link. They record their screen and camera from the browser without an account or an install, and it comes back to you — which is the part a webcam recorder on your own machine cannot do.
Say it to camera, send a link.
Free on Mac, Windows, Chrome and iOS. Camera only, or camera and screen together.