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How to screen record on a Chromebook with audio.

The built-in ChromeOS recorder captures your microphone, and on recent versions the device's sound too. If you want the page's own audio and your voice in one video you can edit, Screenix for Chrome records both from the tab. Here's how to do each.

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The short answer

Pick the sound you need, then the tool

Updated October 2026

  • Just your voice over the screen: the built-in recorder works. Press Shift+Ctrl+Show windows, choose video, turn on the microphone in the settings menu and record.
  • The sound of a web page, a video or a web app, plus your voice: use Screenix for Chrome. Turn on Tab audio and Microphone in the popup, then record the tab.
  • Screenix also redraws the cursor, zooms on your clicks and lets you trim and balance the audio before exporting an MP4.
  • Neither tool records sound from a phone call or a Zoom window that isn't a tab, and Screenix records browser tabs only.

Step by step

Record a Chromebook tab with its sound and your mic

About a minute. ChromeOS asks once for microphone access and remembers it.

  1. Step 1

    Add Screenix to Chrome

    Install Screenix for Chrome from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to the toolbar. Nothing is installed on ChromeOS itself.

  2. Step 2

    Open the tab that makes the sound

    Chrome only lets an extension capture audio from the tab the recording starts on. Open the video, the web app or the page you want to hear, then click the Screenix icon.

  3. Step 3

    Turn on Tab audio and Microphone

    Switch on Tab audio for the page's sound and pick your microphone to narrate. Add your camera if you want a bubble. Choose a countdown so you have time to get ready.

  4. Step 4

    Record

    Click Start recording or press Alt+Shift+R. You keep hearing the tab through your speakers while it records. Chrome shows a bar saying Screenix started debugging this browser; it isn't in the video.

  5. Step 5

    Balance and export

    Stop with Alt+Shift+R. In Studio, open the Audio panel and set the tab and microphone volumes separately so your voice sits above the page, then export an MP4 to Downloads or Google Drive.

The built-in way

Recording with the ChromeOS screen recorder

Press Shift+Ctrl+Show windows, the key with a rectangle and two lines, or open Quick Settings and choose Screen capture. Switch the toolbar from photo to video, pick full screen, a window or an area, then open the settings gear and turn on the microphone. Recent ChromeOS versions also offer to record the device's audio from the same menu.

Press record. The file is saved to your Downloads folder as WebM with your system cursor in it, and there's no editor, so trims, zooms and volume changes need another app.

Internal audio

What "internal audio" means on a Chromebook, and what each tool gets

People searching for internal audio usually want the sound of what's playing on screen, a YouTube video, a web app, a game in a tab. Screenix captures exactly that from the tab it starts on, in sync with the picture, while your microphone records on its own track.

It doesn't capture ChromeOS system sounds, Android apps or other windows. The built-in recorder's device-audio option covers those on versions that have it, with no editing afterwards.

  • Screenix: page sound from the starting tab, your microphone, your camera
  • Built-in recorder: your microphone, and device audio on recent ChromeOS

No sound?

If your Chromebook recording is silent

In Screenix, Tab audio has to be on before you press record, and the recording has to start on the tab that plays the sound. Switching to that tab later keeps the picture but not its audio. Check the track volumes in the editor's Audio panel too.

If the microphone is silent, open Chrome's site settings for Screenix and make sure microphone access is allowed, then check the right input is selected in the popup. On a school Chromebook, the administrator may have disabled the microphone for extensions.

What you get

Every detail of a good demo,
handled for you.

Camera and audio

Your camera, exactly where it belongs

Add your webcam as a bubble you can drag anywhere, round or square, with your microphone and the sound of the tab you started on.

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Follows your tabs

Switch tabs and the recording comes with you

Open a link, jump to another tab or reload the page. Screenix keeps recording whichever tab is in front in the same window, so a whole flow fits in one take.

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Auto zoom

Zooms that follow your clicks

Screenix zooms in on every click and pans with the cursor, so viewers see what you did without squinting. Keep the automatic zooms or move, resize and add your own on the timeline.

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Know before you install

Tabs only,
and it follows you between them.

Screenix for Chrome records the tab in front of you, so it can draw a perfect cursor over pure page pixels.

Records browser tabs

Screenix captures the page in the tab you're on, at full quality, without your system cursor.

Follows you between tabs

Switch tabs, open links or reload in the same window and the recording keeps going in one take.

Tab audio from the first tab

Your mic and camera record throughout. Page sound comes from the tab you started on.

Not your whole screen

It doesn't capture your desktop, other apps or other windows. On Linux, the Screenix desktop app does.

FAQ

You have questions.
We have answers.

Yes. The built-in recorder captures your microphone, and device audio on recent ChromeOS versions. Screenix for Chrome captures the page's sound and your microphone from a tab, mixed into one MP4.

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Record the tab, the sound and your voice on your Chromebook.

Add Screenix to Chrome, turn on Tab audio and your mic, and press record. The zooms and the cursor are done for you.

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