Record, screenshot, annotate, review, trim and convert in one clean window. The defaults give you clear, smooth video straight away, and from a three-minute demo to an overnight capture session it holds on to every frame.
Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) · English and Simplified Chinese interface
7 scopes
Full screen, region, window, single display, webcam, follow the mouse, audio only
Fragmented MP4
A self-contained chunk is written about every 2 seconds, so a crash keeps what you recorded
Screen pen
Pen, chalk, marker, brush and highlighter, drawn live while you record
2 languages
English and Simplified Chinese, switched instantly without a restart
What we kept hearing
Recording your screen should not be stressful. Each improvement in Easy Screen Recorder 2.1 targets one of the problems below.
The machine freezes, the power drops or the app is closed, and the whole take is an unplayable file.
How Easy Screen Recorder helps
Recording uses fragmented MP4, writing a self-contained chunk about every 2 seconds. An interruption costs only the last few seconds, and the app finds and repairs the file on the next launch.
Wrong microphone, system sound off, and you only notice on playback.
How Easy Screen Recorder helps
Live level meters while idle, and a warning before you start if no sound is on or a device was unplugged.
Misaligned regions, blurry output, a black frame from the vertical display.
How Easy Screen Recorder helps
Per-monitor DPI awareness with every coordinate in physical pixels. Rotated displays are straightened before capture.
Capture in one tool, annotate in another, adjust color in a third, then pin it somewhere for reference.
How Easy Screen Recorder helps
Press Print Screen for the capture toolbar, annotate right after the shot, pin it to the desktop, and adjust it in the built-in viewer.
Hundreds of timestamp filenames, and last week's demo is a needle in a haystack.
How Easy Screen Recorder helps
Recent shows thumbnails, first frames and durations, with search and date grouping, and the history has no size limit.
You want to circle a detail or jot a note on screen, but the recorder cannot help.
How Easy Screen Recorder helps
A built-in screen pen with chalk, marker, brush and highlighter. What you draw is what gets recorded.
Features
Record
While recording
Scheduling and automation
Screenshots and annotation
A built-in viewer, so you do not need another app
Powered by the FFmpeg bundled with the app, nothing extra to download
Capture toolbar
There is no need to hunt for the app window. Press Print Screen (or the Ctrl + Shift + X hotkey) and a small toolbar appears at the top of the screen: choose screenshot or recording, pick the scope, and the capture starts right away. The toolbar itself never shows up in screenshots or videos.
Sensible defaults·Alt + F9 starts and stops recording, Shift + F9 pauses, Ctrl + Shift + D opens the screen pen. Alt + Print Screen and Shift + Print Screen keep their screenshot roles.
Conflict warnings·A hotkey shown in red is already used by another program, and the top bar warns you when another app has taken one.
Delayed screenshots·A 3, 5 or 10 second delay lets you open a menu first, and the countdown can be cancelled at any time.
Multi-monitor friendly·Everything is measured in true pixels, so selections across screens line up.
Screen pen
Open the screen pen during a recording and draw straight onto anything: what you draw is what you capture. Beyond the pen and highlighter there are chalk, marker and brush. Chalk has grain and ragged edges, the marker is a translucent chisel tip, and the brush thins with speed and tapers when you lift off. Fourteen colors, three weights.
The screen pen hotkey is Ctrl + Shift + D by default. Press Esc to leave the pen.
Library
Recent is more than a list of filenames: screenshots show thumbnails, videos show the first frame and duration. Search by name, and group by Today, Yesterday, This week, This month and Earlier. The history has no limit and is paged, so even ten thousand items stay fast.
Drag a recording straight into a chat window, a browser or Explorer.
Press Ctrl + C, paste into a chat, and the video or image is what gets sent.
Select several with Ctrl or Shift, then copy, remove from the list or delete in one go.
Double-click a screenshot to open it in the viewer and adjust brightness, contrast, rotation or size.
| 0.12 sec | Loading a list of 10,000 recent items |
|---|---|
| 1.6 ms | Filtering and searching the same 10,000 items by type |
| 50 per page | Only the current page is built, and only its thumbnails are loaded |
These figures come from tests during development. Real-world results vary with hardware and data size.
Long recordings
A standard MP4 writes its index last, so if a recording does not end cleanly the whole video is unplayable. Easy Screen Recorder records to fragmented MP4 and flushes a self-contained chunk roughly every two seconds. Interrupted mid-session, you lose only the last few seconds; stopped normally, it losslessly remuxes to a standard MP4 that plays everywhere.
What a forced interruption at 7.5 seconds leaves behind with each file structure
7.2 of 7.5 sec
A Media Foundation capture force-killed at 7.5 seconds kept 7.2 seconds and 144 frames playable.
About 2 sec
The keyframe and fragment interval, and the typical ceiling on what an interruption can cost.
0-byte drift
In segmented recording, audio and video are split frame-exact, so nothing is lost or duplicated between segments.
These are development test figures from forced-interruption tests on specific hardware. Real-world results vary with hardware, encoder settings and how a session is interrupted.
Turn on segment-to-disk and a new file is finalized every 1 to 720 minutes (name_001.mp4, _002 and so on). Each one can be opened the moment it closes, and they can be joined losslessly afterward.
If the previous session ended badly, the app tells you at startup and flags those files in Recent, and one click repairs them.
Displays
A laptop at 100% beside an external 4K at 150%, or one landscape panel next to one in portrait: these are everyday desks. Easy Screen Recorder runs per-monitor DPI aware and measures everything in physical pixels, so regions never misalign and the output never blurs.
Rotated displays are straightened before capture, and if you change resolution mid-recording it adapts instead of freezing. For encoding it prefers your GPU's hardware path (Media Foundation, NVIDIA NVENC, Intel QuickSync), which means lower CPU use, quieter fans and longer sessions.
Easy to learn
A three-step first run walks you through picking a scope, checking your sound and hitting start. After that, every button's tooltip carries its hotkey, and the top bar warns you when another app has taken one.
Scope, sound and quality presets stay visible; codec and frame rate live under More settings.
Press Ctrl + F in the settings window, type "countdown", and jump straight to it.
Each settings section can be restored on its own, without touching your hotkeys, language or save location.
Options you cannot change mid-take are grayed out and say why, so you never assume a change took effect.
Use cases
Webcam picture-in-picture plus the chalk pen lets you write on screen like a blackboard, and scheduled recording archives live classes automatically.
Print Screen grabs anything, keystroke display and click effects make every step visible, and you can annotate and pin shots for line-by-line review.
Segment-to-disk slices files by time like a DVR, so a power cut costs only the last few seconds.
One-tap vertical and square sizes, trim the intro and outro, convert to GIF, publish.
| Record, screenshot, annotate, pin | Yes |
|---|---|
| Crash-resistant fragmented MP4 | Yes |
| Remux to standard MP4, segment join, file repair | Yes |
| Built-in player | Yes |
| Trim, GIF, compress, extract audio | Yes |
| Bundled FFmpeg | 9.0.2 |
| System requirements | 64-bit Windows 10 / 11, .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later |
| Interface languages | English, Simplified Chinese |
The open-source components used by the software (FFmpeg, NAudio, SharpDX, ImageProcessor and others) ship with their licenses in the licenses folder of the install directory.
Trial and registration
Videos recorded during the trial have no watermark. Here is how the unregistered and registered versions differ, and how to register.
Unregistered
Registered
The dialog also shows how many trial days are left.
Try the full program first (15-day free trial), then choose a license. Your license key is e-mailed to you after checkout. Prices are in US dollars.
Personal License
One payment, no expiry, all future updates included.
Private, non-commercial use at home. One license per computer.
Commercial License
One payment, no expiry, all future updates included.
Use in a company or any other business. One license per computer.
Education License
One payment, no expiry, all future updates included.
Students, teachers and schools. One license per computer.
Several licenses, a school or a non-profit? Ask us for a quote. Already bought? See the activation guide or look up your license key. By buying you agree to the store's terms.
The latest version of Easy Screen Recorder is v2.1 for Windows. It is free to download and includes a 15-day trial.
Requires Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) · .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later · FFmpeg is included
FAQ
More detail is in the user manual that comes with the app.
Easy Screen Recorder has a 15-day trial. Videos you record during the trial carry no watermark, and the registration dialog shows how many trial days are left. After the trial, new recordings get an "Unregistered" watermark in the middle of the picture. Registering removes the watermark and unlocks high-quality export.
Unregistered, recording quality goes up to Standard (70) and the frame rate up to 30 fps, and exports through Trim, Compress and GIF use a minimum quality setting. After the 15-day trial an "Unregistered" watermark is added to the middle of new videos. A registered copy has no watermark and exports at high quality.
No. Easy Screen Recorder records to fragmented MP4 and writes a self-contained chunk about every two seconds, so an interruption usually costs only the last few seconds. When you stop normally, the file is remuxed losslessly to a standard MP4. If the last session ended badly, the app tells you on the next launch, flags the files in Recent and repairs them in one click. How much survives depends on hardware, encoder settings and how the recording was interrupted.
Turn on Microphone or System sound before you start, then check the device under Settings, Sound. Click Refresh devices after plugging in a new microphone or headset. The main window shows live levels while idle, and warns you before you start if no sound source is on.
Yes. The app runs per-monitor DPI aware and measures everything in physical pixels, so regions do not shift and the output does not blur. A rotated display is straightened before capture, and a resolution change in the middle of a recording is handled automatically. If a recording comes out black, turn on Compatibility capture mode under Settings, Recording and restart the app.
No. The installer includes FFmpeg 9.0.2, which powers the built-in player, trimming, GIF conversion, compression and audio extraction. It does not rely on system codecs. If the app reports that FFmpeg is missing, the ffmpeg folder next to the program was probably deleted; reinstalling fixes that.
It runs on 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 and needs .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later. The interface is available in English and Simplified Chinese, and the language switches immediately without a restart.
Open Settings, Hotkeys. A key shown in red is already used by another program, so pick a different combination. The capture toolbar uses Ctrl + Shift + X by default, and Print Screen can open it too. Alt + Print Screen and Shift + Print Screen keep their screenshot roles.
If something does not work, or you have a suggestion, send us a message or an email.
The worst tutorial problems are missing audio, unclear clicks and no way to highlight a point. This walkthrough covers setup, recording and finishing in Easy Screen Recorder, step by step.
Version 2.1 targets the classic screen-recording failures: files that will not open after a crash, silent takes and misaligned multi-monitor capture. Fragmented MP4, live sound check, per-monitor DPI.