

It’s also possible to schedule recordings to take place between certain times. You don’t have to start recordings manually ApowerREC includes a feature called Follow Recording, which starts capturing the on-screen action when you launch a certain program and ends it when you close it again. There’s also a whiteboard mode for making more extensive notes, which temporarily turns the background a solid color.ĪpowerREC also includes a screenshot tool (accessible through the Tools menu), which allows you to select a region of the screen, apply annotations and captions, and either save the resulting image or pin it to the screen. To remove any annotations, simply click the undo arrow. These include a paintbrush, highlighter, arrows, shapes, text and (particularly useful for tutorials and presentations) an automatic numbering tool, which isn’t something we’ve seen in screen recording software before. There are extensive tools for annotating your recordings while they’re being captured, all of which are accessible via a collapsible palette on the right-hand side. It’s also possible to record sound – from your system, your microphone (for narration), both or neither. You can record a section of screen with specific dimensions or a custom area (though unlike some other screen recorders, there’s no option to choose an active window to record) and capture footage from a webcam – either by itself, or picture-in-picture. ApowerREC (usual price $39.95 per year) is also available for Android and iOS, but here we’re looking at the PC version.Įverything is clearly laid out, with large icons that display tooltips when hovered over, plus keyboard shortcuts. At its simplest, you can just hit the red ‘Start recording’ button to begin capturing the whole screen – but the software is capable of much more than that. We’re great fans of Apowersoft’s free online screen recorder, so we were curious to see how the premium desktop software compares.
