A screen recorder that zooms where things happen.

Choose Menu › Record screen…, pick a screen, a window or a browser tab, and work the way you normally would. A Recording pill at the top of the editor counts the time; stop there or from the browser. A recording runs up to five minutes and can bring the sound of the tab or screen with it.

When it lands, Paraplex has already zoomed in where things happened: a menu opening, text being typed into a field. Zoom strength sets how close it goes, from None through Gentle and Medium to Close. A change that fills most of the screen, such as a page load, ends a zoom rather than starting one, so the camera doesn't lurch every time a page loads.

The automatic zooms are a starting point, not a render. Each one is an ordinary keyframe on the timeline, so you can drag it earlier, hold it longer, change how close it goes or delete it, and shape it with an easing curve or spring like any other move in Paraplex.

In an empty scene, the camera faces the recording over a soft moving gradient. In a scene that's already busy, the recording starts at the playhead and the timeline grows to fit, so you can record a walkthrough straight into a launch video you've already built.

The recording is a layer like any other, so everything around it is Paraplex. Dress it in a browser or phone frame, play it on the screen of a 3D phone, tablet or laptop, add titles and callouts, a voiceover with captions timed word by word, and a soundtrack cut to the beat.

Then lay it out once and reframe it for 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, each artboard laid out again for its shape, and export MP4, WebM or GIF. Free exports go up to 1080p at 30 fps with no watermark; Pro adds 4K and 60 fps.

Building a full walkthrough around it? See product demo videos.

Paraplex Recorder is a Chrome extension that records a tab together with your clicks and where you type. Open the recording in Paraplex and it draws a smooth cursor along your path, in any cursor style, as a layer of its own, and zooms on each click and each field you type in.

It records where you typed, never what you typed, and keeps everything on your computer until you open it in Paraplex. Stop it from its button, with Alt+Shift+R, or by closing the tab. The extension isn't listed on the Chrome Web Store yet. Until it is, Record screen works in any Paraplex project, and you can animate a cursor along a path of your own, with clicks, taps and drags.

How the cursor path works, from stops to Press to drag: more on the animated cursor.