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Blur Screenshot
Drag a mosaic over the email, the price, the API key — before the screenshot leaves the page. Nothing uploads.
Watchable Demos Without an Editing Timeline
Record your screen and get the zoom for free: the camera follows your cursor and the export zooms where you acted. No editing.
- Runs locally
By Virgil Dean · Updated
Sound familiar?
The everyday friction this page exists to remove.
The raw recording is unwatchable
You demonstrated the feature perfectly at 100% zoom — which means the important pixels are a speck in the corner when the video is watched anywhere smaller than fullscreen.
Editing the zoom is the real cost
Cut, zoom in, hold, zoom out, repeat — the timeline work to make a 90-second demo takes longer than the demo, and it repeats for every language and every update.
Zooming while recording breaks the flow
Manual browser zoom during capture makes menus reflow, layouts shift, and the result looks like a screen struggling to keep up.
The fix, step by step
From capture to finished image in 3 steps.
Record the demo
Run through the feature at normal zoom. Move the mouse to what you are demonstrating — that is the only direction the zoom needs.
Export
On export, the zoom curve is computed from your cursor's activity: in toward the action, out for context, automatically.
Use the MP4
Attach it, embed it, send it. No editor was opened in the making of this video.
Overview#
An auto zoom screen recorder solves the gap between recording and watching: the demo you recorded at full zoom is a speck in the corner on a laptop, and fixing that has traditionally meant an editing timeline — keyframes, holds, exports — that costs more time than the demo itself.
The tool on this page removes the timeline. It is Poindeo, built in this library: while you record, it tracks where your cursor is acting; when you export, the video zooms toward those moments automatically. You demonstrate at normal zoom, and the finished MP4 arrives with the cinematography already in it — locally, without the recording leaving your machine.
The honest edges: the zoom follows the mouse (keyboard-only navigation gives it nothing to follow), it is computed at export rather than keyframable, and it is Chrome 109+ only. The extension's own page documents the full feature set and the freemium split, and how recording with auto zoom works in practice walks through it in detail.
What you can do
What this workflow looks like with the extension installed — as implemented today.
Zoom follows your mouse
While you record, the extension tracks cursor activity. On export, the video zooms toward where the action happened — the click, the field, the menu — without you marking a single keyframe.
Export-time, not live
The zoom is computed from the tracking data when you export, so nothing shifts under you while you record. You demonstrate at normal zoom; the export does the cinematography.
One take, no timeline
There is no timeline because there is nothing to edit: record the demo once, export, and the zooms are already in. The 90-second demo takes 90 seconds.
Local-first by default
Recordings live in the browser's local storage on your machine. The editor is optional and separate — this recorder is not a cloud library.
MP4 output
Exports as MP4, the format every ticket system, deck and chat handles without conversion.
Who it is for
The situations this task page is written for.
Product demos for customers
One recorded pass through the flow becomes a zoomed, followable demo — small text and buttons arrive pre-magnified.
Feature walkthroughs for docs
Record the interaction, embed the export, skip the editing session that walkthroughs usually demand.
QA and support explanations
"Click the third icon in the second row" becomes obvious when the video zooms to the third icon in the second row.
Course and tutorial clips
Teaching sequences where the viewer should watch the cursor — the zoom keeps their eyes where the action is.
How it compares
An honest look at where this tool fits — and where other options fit better.
| Criterion | Auto Zoom Screen Recorder | Recorder + video editor | Recorders with cloud auto-zoom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom without editing | Automatic, from cursor tracking | Manual keyframes | Automatic, on their server |
| Your recording stays local | Yes — local storage, local export | Yes, until the editor cloud-syncs | No — processing happens server-side |
| Manual fine-tuning of zooms | No — the curve is computed, not edited | Yes | Varies |
| Time from demo to finished video | The demo's own length plus export | Demo plus an editing session | Demo plus upload and render queue |
| Works outside the browser | No — Chrome tab recording | Yes, desktop too | Often desktop too |
Our take: An editor wins when the zoom needs to be art-directed frame by frame. Cloud auto-zoom wins when you want their hosting anyway. For the everyday case — a demo that should simply be watchable — recording once and exporting the zoom beats both on time, and on what leaves your machine.
Limitations & known boundaries
What this extension does not do, and the cases where results may be imperfect. Stated plainly so you can decide before installing.
- Chrome only, version 109 or later — Poindeo is built on Chrome's capture and encoding APIs; Firefox and Safari are not supported.
- Auto zoom follows mouse activity. Navigate purely by keyboard and there is nothing for the zoom to follow.
- The zoom is computed on export from tracking data — it is not a live camera effect while recording, and it is not manually keyframable.
- Some DRM-protected video records as a black area; the browser enforces this.
- It is a recorder, not an editor: no timeline, no cutting, no captions. Recordings live in local browser storage, so very long sessions consume disk space.
Frequently asked questions
Questions people search for before choosing a auto zoom screen recorder.
What is an auto zoom screen recorder?
A recorder that decides the zoom for you: it tracks where your cursor acts while you record, then bakes zooms toward those points into the exported video — the effect of an edited demo without the editing.
Can I control when it zooms?
Not with keyframes — the zoom is computed from your mouse activity, which is exactly why there is no timeline to learn. Moving deliberately through the feature you are demonstrating is the control you have, and it is usually enough.
What browsers does it support?
Chrome 109 or newer. It relies on Chrome's tab capture and encoding APIs, which is also why the export can stay local — the encoding happens through browser APIs, not an upload.
Does it upload my recordings?
No — recordings live in the browser's local storage on your machine, and the export is produced locally. The optional editor product is separate; this recorder is local-first.
Is it free?
The recorder is free to install from the Chrome Web Store and free to record and export with; the companion editing product has paid tiers, the recorder does not need them.
Why is my streaming service recording black?
DRM-protected streams are protected by the browser itself — protected frames are never handed to recording APIs. This applies to every Chrome recorder, not just this one.
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Editorial disclosure
We are the developers of the extensions documented on this site. This page describes the shipped version as we built and tested it — including its limitations — and was fact-checked on . Claims are based on our own testing of released builds; where third-party tools are named, their capabilities are described as documented by their publishers.
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