Glossary
What is Screen recording?
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Screen recording is the capture of everything displayed on a computer or mobile screen as a video file, typically with audio from the device microphone. The global screen recording software market was valued at $2.10 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $4.62 billion by 2030, growing at a 17% compound annual growth rate per Mordor Intelligence.
Screen recording powers three large workflows: internal communication (async video messages and status updates), documentation (tutorials, bug repros, customer support), and training (recorded lessons, onboarding videos). The category grew during the 2020–2022 remote-work shift and has not contracted since — Vidyard reported 943,305 videos created by its users in 2024, an 88% year-over-year increase. Modern screen recorders run in a browser tab without an install (the Web Capture API, supported in Chrome, Edge, and Safari), record the selected tab, window, or full screen with audio, and produce either a local file (WebM or MP4) or a hosted share link. Pullsy is a browser-based recorder: open pullsy.online/record, click record, get a shareable link. Related terms: screencast, async video, WebM, video transcript.