Record from your microphone with pause, resume, and a live level meter, then save as WebM, WAV, or MP3. No install, no account, no upload.
The audio recorder captures straight from your microphone in the browser, with pause and resume, a live level meter while you speak, and export to WebM, WAV, or MP3. There's no app to install and no account to make — your browser asks permission for the mic, and the recording stays on your machine.
It's for voice memos, podcast takes, demos, and anything you'd otherwise open a DAW for. Two things decide whether a recording is usable: your level, which wants to sit healthily below the ceiling rather than pinned at the top where it clips, and your distance from the mic, which does more to remove room echo than any plugin will afterwards. How to record audio in your browser covers both, and from raw recording to finished edit takes it the rest of the way. Captured something noisy? The noise reducer is the next step.
Browsers require your explicit permission before any page can hear your microphone — that's the permission prompt you see the first time you arm the recorder. While the recorder holds an open microphone connection (armed or actively recording), your browser and operating system show a mic-in-use indicator; that light is the system telling the truth, not a sign anything is being sent anywhere. The audio goes only into your browser's memory on your own device. When you stop the recording, leave the page, or switch tools, the microphone connection is fully released and the indicator turns off.
The live recording uses your browser's native recorder: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox produce WebM with the Opus codec, while Safari produces MP4 (AAC). The tool shows you the actual format it negotiated before you record — it never claims a format it isn't really using. After recording, you can also download the take as WAV (lossless, converted on your device) or MP3 (encoded on your device at your chosen quality), whichever suits where the recording is headed.
No — this tool records microphone input only. Browsers expose system/tab audio through a completely different, screen-sharing-style permission flow that isn't part of this tool. If you need to capture what's playing on your computer, you'd route it through a virtual audio device (like a loopback driver) so it appears as a microphone — at which point this recorder can capture it like any other input.
Yes, on modern iOS (14.3 and later) Safari supports in-browser recording; your take is produced as MP4/AAC there rather than WebM. Two iOS-specific quirks to know: recording only starts from a direct tap (a browser rule, which the record button satisfies), and switching away from Safari mid-recording can cause iOS to suspend the microphone — if that happens the tool stops gracefully and keeps everything captured up to that point.
There's no timer or artificial cap — the practical limit is your device's memory, since the recording accumulates in your browser rather than being streamed to a server. Compressed voice audio is small (roughly a megabyte per minute), so multi-hour sessions are realistic on any modern device. For very long or irreplaceable recordings, it's still wise to stop and download in chapters — a browser crash or accidental tab close discards an unsaved take, and no copy exists anywhere else, by design.