Screen recorder · v0.2.1
Record your screen. Not your controls.
A small Windows screen recorder: a whole screen, one window or an area you drag out, to MP4 with your mic, computer sound and a webcam bubble. The control bar sits on your screen and never shows up in the video.
Free · Windows 11 · Not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen asks once
On Air Screen Recorder
The story
Recording a quick walkthrough meant either filming the recorder's own toolbar or hunting for it under other windows. I wanted controls I could see and the video couldn't.
On Air's bar floats on your screen and is invisible to every capture. From there it grew Clips for games, transcripts made on your own PC, and trims that take no time at all.
What it does
For the recording you send a colleague, the walkthrough for a customer, and the moment in a game you wish you'd caught.
Pick a source and record after a 3-2-1 countdown, or press Ctrl+Alt+R from anywhere. Pause, resume or start over.
The bar is visible to you and invisible to the recording. Clicks pass straight through it to whatever's behind.
Keeps the last few minutes of your screen. Ctrl+Alt+C saves a clip from any game, with a chime instead of a pop-up.
Computer sound and your mic, with background-noise removal and an automatic level that lifts a quiet voice.
A camera bubble that snaps to any corner, and a live picture of another window in a corner.
Draw over the screen while you record. A red ripple marks each click, in the video only.
Speech becomes captions and text without anything leaving your PC. Search what was said, fix a word, or keep only the lines you pick.
Trim instantly with no loss in quality, or save a copy with the captions burned in for any chat app.
Finds a graphics card that records reliably on your PC, and falls back gracefully if none do.
Screens
Rendered from On Air's own interface with sample devices. Click any screen to see it full size.
Built with
Idles in the tray using a few MB.
No framework and no build step.
Video is captured and encoded on the graphics card, so recording barely touches the CPU.
Transcripts are made on your PC. Nothing is uploaded.
Test recordings play known tones to prove the sound stays in sync.
Behind the build
One Windows setting hides the bar from every screen capture while it stays on your screen, and clicks pass through everywhere except the buttons.
Instead of recording twice, On Air keeps the last few minutes as short, ready-made pieces and joins them when you save, so a clip is instant.
Some drivers accept video and never hand it back. On Air tests each card once, remembers which ones work, and quietly uses one that does.
