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A quick and unfussy way to capture presentable video and hand it straight to whoever needs it.

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Free online recorder Share without downloading 1080p high-res capture Straightforward editor
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A capable screen recorder that fits the tools you already use

A recorder that behaves the same on every machine your team owns. Capture the screen, capture the webcam, or capture both, and send the result somewhere useful without a hand-off. Now paired with our gaze correction pass, which nudges the small glances away from the lens so you read as prepared rather than distracted. One tool, whichever kind of message you are sending.

Record product walkthroughs, launch explainers, and long-form playthroughs at a quality you can put a name on: sharp picture, clean room-tone-free audio. When you stop recording you land in the built-in editing workspace, where the trimming tools and the automated passes are already waiting.

How recording works:

Portrait — Jake Nackos on Unsplash

Pick a layout

Choose what gets captured — camera, audio, screen, screen plus camera — then click Allow so the browser can reach the sources you picked.

Hit record

A countdown runs before capture starts. Fumble a line and you can retake as often as you like — switch tabs mid-flow and the recording keeps rolling.

Remove background Gaze correction Clean audio

Fix the takes, then export

Export straight out, or run a pass first: drop the background, tidy the audio, or let the auto-cut stitch the strongest sections into a single clip.

Watch a walkthrough of the recorder:

Choose the layout that suits the message

Not every recording wants the same frame. Halyard captures video, audio, or both at once, and you can bring slides in and narrate over them. Decide where the camera sits — beside the screen, floating in a corner, or off entirely. It holds up for a conference session, an internal update, or a quick how-to you will never watch again.

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Capture meets a real editing workspace

Halyard ships with a full editor rather than a trim slider. Run the auto-cut over a long take and it pulls the sections worth keeping. Correct the small eye movements with the webcam gaze tracker. Drop the background in one click when the room behind you is doing too much, clean the audio, and strip the filler words so the take sounds like you meant it. No second app in the chain.

Gaze correction Remove background Clean audio
Portrait — Thanh Xuan Nguyen Ly on Pexels

Give your team the update instead of the meeting

Plenty of what ends up on a calendar could have been a two-minute recording. Send the walkthrough, send the decision, send the encouragement — then let people watch it when they are actually free. Colleagues comment inline, so the follow-up conversation lives next to the thing it is about.

Portrait — Korede Adenola on Pexels Hey team — quick update on Thursday

FAQ

How do I use the screen recorder?

Pick a layout at the top of this page, allow the browser access to your screen and camera, and press record. Everything runs in the tab — there is nothing to install.

How do I share the recording?

Every recording gets a link the moment you stop. Send that, or export an mp4 if the person on the other end would rather have the file.

How do I edit it afterwards?

Stopping the recording drops you into the editor with the take already on the timeline. Trim, caption, and run the clean-up passes from there.

Can I record audio on its own?

Yes — choose the audio-only layout. You get a waveform instead of a video track, and the same captioning and clean-up tools apply.

How long can a single recording run?

Up to 45 minutes on the free tier and up to four hours on paid plans. Longer sessions are chunked automatically so nothing is lost if a tab crashes.

Can teammates edit my recording?

Only if you invite them. Recordings are private by default; sharing a link grants view access, and edit access is a separate toggle.

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What they say about Halyard

The transcription is the most accurate I have used, which matters because captions were the step that always got skipped. I can turn a screen recording into something publishable in about fifteen minutes and it actually looks considered.
Portrait — Jake Nackos on Unsplash Marit Halvorsen
Brand Marketing Manager, Fernbrook

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Halyard pairs capture with a full set of manual and automated clean-up tools, so a raw take becomes something you would send to a client. Resize a recording for whichever platform it is headed to, and edit anything you shoot — screen capture, webcam, or footage off your phone. You can also caption it automatically, add audio, and translate the captions.

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