Is there a maximum recording length? EN

No single take has a fixed maximum length. What stops a long recording is your allowance in Cloud mode, or the free space on your device in Offline mode.

In Cloud mode

Cloud mode has no per-take cap. Whether a long take can finish depends on where it's being recorded.

• With a paid seat: recording is unlimited. Your recordings in that workspace don't count towards the free allowance. See What Pro costs, and what it includes.
• Without a paid seat, in your personal workspace: you share one free allowance of 60 minutes and 1 GB across your whole account. It covers every workspace where you don't hold a paid seat. It's a total of what you're keeping, not a per-take or monthly limit, so the length of one take is limited by how much of the allowance is left.
• Without a paid seat, in a team workspace: you can't record into it. The extension shows the workspace as read-only until someone gives you a seat. See Give someone a paid seat, or take it back.

Either number can stop you first. A long take at high quality can hit the 1 GB storage limit before it hits 60 minutes. To see which one you're at, read Which limit am I hitting: minutes or storage?.

If you reach the limit during a take

Rekorder warns you shortly before the limit, showing how much time or storage is left. When you reach it, the recording stops and the extension tells you which limit you hit.

The take isn't discarded. What was recorded up to that point is kept. Deleting recordings you no longer need gives the minutes and storage back straight away. See You hit a limit mid-recording. Was the take lost?.

In Offline mode

Offline mode doesn't use the free allowance, so there's no time limit. Recordings are saved in Chrome's storage on your device, and the only limit is the space Chrome makes available. The extension shows how much of that space you've used.

If the space runs out, Chrome can remove recordings you haven't downloaded, and you could lose them. For a long take, check your free space before you start and download the recording when it's done. See Where offline recordings are stored, and how to keep them.

What doesn't limit a take

• The number of times you pause and resume.
• Which capture mode you use: tab, window, screen or camera.

A recording is uploaded in small pieces while you record, so a long take doesn't have to be sent all at once when you stop.

Related articles

• The free allowance: 60 minutes and 1 GB, explained
• Which limit am I hitting: minutes or storage?
• You hit a limit mid-recording. Was the take lost?
• Record a lecture or a long walkthrough
• My recording stopped by itself
• Where offline recordings are stored, and how to keep them