Record it, cut it, export it — without leaving Chrome.
Cool Easy Cut captures a high-quality master of your screen, tab or window, lets you edit it non-destructively — cuts, camera moves, annotations, narration — and renders the result to an MP4 in the browser. No install, no upload, no account.
What it does
Everything except turning an edit into a file is free and unlimited. Export is the paid act.
| Feature | What it means | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Screen, window or tab capture | Chrome's own picker, your choice of frame rate and codec. The controller is a floating window, so it never squeezes the page you are recording. | Free |
| Non-destructive editing | Trims, cuts with transitions, speed, fades, captions and panels. The master is never touched — the edit is a document over it. | Free |
| Cursor and clicks | The pointer is drawn back in cleanly, and every click is logged with the label of what it hit — which is what the annotation drafts are built from. | Free |
| Camera moves | Pan and zoom over the frame, drafted automatically from where the pointer actually went, then adjusted by hand. | Free |
| Webcam bubble | Your camera over the recording, positioned and sized in the editor, with its own audio. | Free |
| Narration | Record voiceover clips against the take, per clip, with the take's own audio ducked underneath. | Free |
| AI assist | A vision model watches the take and suggests cuts, annotations, camera moves and panels — as suggestions you accept or reject one at a time, never as an edit made for you. Also writes a tutorial or description of the video. Bring your own OpenRouter key. | Free |
| AI narration | The model writes a voiceover script you can edit line by line, then reads it aloud. Same key; separate layer from your own narration, so you can have both. | Free |
| Save the raw take | The untouched capture, straight out, at any time. | Free |
| Export MP4 | Renders the edit — cuts, camera, annotations, cursor, webcam and narration — to an MP4 in the browser. Size and quality controls; no ffmpeg, no upload. | £99 once |
Pricing
One price, paid once. There is no subscription and there never will be.
- Three free exports first. Judge it on real work before paying. The count is on screen the whole time.
- A key, not an account. No sign-up, no password, no profile. Paste the key in, press Activate.
- Every computer you own. No seats to manage, nothing to free up before activating elsewhere.
- Works offline, permanently. The key is checked on your machine against a signature. Nothing is ever sent anywhere — including if this site disappears years from now.
- It does not expire. Nothing to renew.
Your recordings never leave your machine
Takes and edits live in the browser's own storage. There is no upload, no cloud rendering and no account to hold them. The only network calls the extension makes are to the AI provider you configure, with your own key, and only when you ask for a suggestion. Licence checks are done offline against a signature — the extension never calls us at all.
Questions
- What do I need to run it?
- Chrome 116 or later. Exporting MP4 needs Chrome 130 or later, which is when Chrome learned to write MP4 directly.
- Is it on the Chrome Web Store yet?
- Not yet — that is what "launching soon" means here. This page will carry the listing link the day it is live.
- Do I need an AI subscription?
- No. The AI features are optional and use your own OpenRouter key, billed by them, not us. Everything else works without one.
- How long does an export take?
- Real time — a three minute take takes three minutes, because playback is what drives the encoder.
- What happens if I lose my key?
- It is shown on screen right after checkout as well as emailed, and the success page can send it again. Failing that, email us.
- Who am I actually paying?
- Paddle. They are the merchant of record for this purchase, which is who handles the payment and the tax. Your card statement will say Paddle.