Technical Reference

Screen Recorder — Windows Free · No Watermark

• Capture modes: full screen, a selected region, a single window, or your webcam — solo or as a picture-in-picture overlay.
• Audio: mixes system (desktop) sound and microphone — use either or both.
• Outputs: MP4 (H.264, faststart for instant web playback), WebM, and GIF (PRO).
• Built-in library to review, trim, and convert recordings without a second app.
• Pixel-perfect screenshots at native resolution (PNG or JPG), saved to a Screenshots subfolder — works while recording or idle.
• Countdown before recording, pause / resume mid-capture, and an optional max-duration auto-stop.
• App UI and notifications are excluded from capture, so toolbars and toasts never appear in your video.
• Recordings save to Videos\Auto Screen Shooter - Record by default; the save location is changeable in Settings.

Recorder Controls, Hotkeys & Game Mode

• Global hotkeys for start, pause, stop, screenshot, and save-replay (letter-based defaults such as Ctrl+Shift+R / P / S and Ctrl+Shift+C for screenshot). Every action also has an on-screen button as a fallback.
• Game Mode instant replay: a rolling background buffer lets you save the last 30s, 60s, or 2 minutes at any moment — no need to have started recording first. Works on any GPU (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA).
• Webcam mirror and cursor highlight (PRO) for clearer demos.
• Per-recording Share to X, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, YouTube, and TikTok.
• UI localized in 19 languages, matching the desktop app's locales.

Recorder — Free vs PRO Free Core

• Free — all capture modes, system + mic audio, global hotkeys, Game Mode instant replay, screenshots, 30 fps, Standard/High quality, MP4 & WebM export, clips up to 10 minutes. No watermark, ever.
• PRO (one-time upgrade on the same install) — unlimited recording length, 60 fps, Ultra 16 Mbps bitrate, GIF export, trim & convert, webcam overlay picture-in-picture, and cursor highlight.

Desktop Apps — Windows & macOS Free

• Captures any public URL you supply — scrolls and stitches the full page automatically.
• Current release outputs: JPG (adjustable quality), PDF, and MP4 scroll recordings — pick a single format or combine JPG + MP4.
• Each run writes a timestamped session folder that includes the site hostname for easy archiving.

Desktop Capture Controls

• Scroll direction: top to bottom or bottom to top.
• Adjustable scroll step (px) — fine-tune how far the page moves each step.
• Adjustable delay per scroll step (ms) — let slow sites fully render between steps.
• Adjustable FPS for MP4 output (1–60 frames per second).
• Adjustable maximum frames for MP4 recordings.
• Adjustable JPG quality (1–100) when JPG output is selected.

Desktop Pre-Capture Loading

• Smart mode — designed to improve capture completeness on lazy-loaded websites by waiting for deferred images and components before stitching begins.

Desktop Auto-Capture Scheduling Licensed

• Optional recurring capture loop with a user-defined interval in minutes.
• Minimum interval: 1 minute for JPG/PDF; 3 minutes for MP4 or JPG+MP4.
• Auto-capture is license-gated — available to licensed users only.

Desktop Progress, Logs & Run Control

• Real-time progress events and logs displayed in the UI while capture runs.
• Start/stop controls with full cancellation support mid-capture.
• Input validation with user-facing guidance and clear error prompts.
• Result reporting includes output file paths (JPG / MP4 / PDF) and success/failure status.

Chrome Extension Free

• Operates on the active tab: visible viewport, stitched full page, or a desktop picker workflow (automations fall back to the visible tab when required).
• Raster exports are PNG; documents export as PDF.
• Manual captures from the popup plus a configurable keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Y by default).
• Optional auto-capture on a minute-based cadence (Chrome alarms; one minute minimum).
• Optional "Save As" prompt before each file lands in Downloads/auto-screen-shooter/.
• Filename templates with tokens such as {yyyy}, {host}, {title}, presets, and quick-insert helpers.
• Site rules: block lists, allow-only lists, and per-rule toggles without deleting definitions.
• Capture history inside the popup — export to JSON, clear, configurable retention (5–150 entries).
• Popup sizing guardrails (~576×720 default; width 400–900 px; height 320–920 px) so the toolbar UI never collapses to an unusable strip.

Licensing & Watermark Behavior

• License activation and deactivation via a remote licensing API.
• Local preference storage includes license status, customer name, activation date, and device fingerprint.
• Unlicensed — desktop exports apply branding watermark strips to JPG, PDF, and MP4 files; extension exports watermark PNG and PDF outputs.
• Licensed — newly generated captures skip all watermarks. One-time payment from $29.99 for two seats, no subscription.

Internationalization — 20 Languages

UI language support includes:

Appearance & Theme Preferences

Choose from 7 built-in theme modes to match your workspace: