Dolly records your screen in the browser, then directs it: camera zooms that glide to the click, studio backdrops, real depth. Demos that look like launch films, from the browser you already have open.
THIS BROWSER HAS NO CAPTURE API — OPEN IN CHROME OR EDGE
A recording is raw footage. Dolly hands you the finished cut: the camera moves where the viewer should look, the window sits on a graded backdrop with real shadow, the fumbling at both ends is trimmed, and the file is an MP4 your feed actually plays.
Drop a zoom at any beat, click where the lens should look, and Dolly pushes in and out with dolly easing.
Seven graded stages built for feeds that autoplay in both dark and light mode.
Padding, rounded corners, and a real shadow lift your window off the background like a product shot.
Two handles cut the fumbling at the start and the reach for the stop button at the end.
1080p encoded on your machine. MP4 with H.264 and AAC where the browser supports it.
One frame on the same stage, downloaded as a PNG for docs, decks, and posts.
Every plan is the same studio. Try all of it before you pay: record, direct the zooms, stage the backdrop, and watch the finished cut in the preview. Paying unlocks the export button, by the month, by the year, or once and done. And on every plan, your footage never touches a server.
Capture, editing, and encoding all happen inside your browser tab. No frame, no audio sample, no pixel is ever sent to a server. Close the tab and it is gone.
Export is 1080p and renders in real time, so a five minute video takes five minutes. Zooms are directed by your clicks, not automatic. Safari and Firefox lack the capture APIs.
Exports carry a small Made with Dolly corner badge by default. One toggle turns it off, free, forever. It is just how new people find the tool.
Pick a tab, a window, or your whole screen. Three beat countdown, then Dolly rolls, with your mic if you want it.
Choose a backdrop, drop zooms where the action is, trim both ends. You are the camera operator, one click at a time.
One render pass in the tab and the MP4 lands in your downloads. Post it before your coffee cools.
Chrome and Edge on any desktop OS, including ChromeOS and Linux. Safari and Firefox do not expose the capture APIs Dolly needs, so the buttons tell you honestly instead of failing halfway.
Your microphone, yes, if you leave the checkbox on. Tab audio is captured when you record a Chrome tab; whole-screen system audio depends on your OS. Both are mixed into the export automatically.
There is no hard limit, but everything lives in your machine's memory. Demos under ten minutes are the sweet spot; for an hour-long webinar you want a different tool.
MP4 with H.264 and AAC when your browser can encode it, which current Chrome can, and WebM otherwise. Screenshots export as PNG. Everything renders at 1080p.
Yes. They are your recordings, made on your machine. Use them in launches, ads, docs, courses, anywhere. The Made with Dolly corner badge is a toggle, entirely your call.
$19 a month, $190 a year (two months free), or $399 once for lifetime access. One plan covers every computer you use, since there is nothing to install. Subscriptions cancel anytime from the billing portal.
Record, direct, cut. Free, in the browser you already have open.
NOTHING UPLOADS. EVER.