Free Cam 8.7.27159 for Windows

Free Cam 8.7.27159 is a free screen recorder for Windows from iSpring Solutions Inc. It captures the whole screen or a selected area together with your microphone, lets you cut out mistakes and saves the result as a video. The program is made for tutorials, lesson recordings and short how-to videos, and you can download Free Cam for Windows from iSpring's website.

Quick facts

• Version: 8.7.27159
• Developer: iSpring Solutions Inc.
• Platform: Windows
• Licence: free
• Size: about 22.01 MB according to catalogue data
• Documentation: Free Cam Guide

Who it suits

Free Cam fills the gap between the basic recording tools built into Windows and full video editors. Teachers use it to record a lesson over slides, support staff to show a customer where a setting is, and colleagues to explain a process instead of writing a long email. What makes it pleasant for beginners is that recording and editing live in one small window: you record, remove a pause or a slip of the tongue and save. There are no timelines with dozens of tracks to learn. The flip side is that anything more ambitious, such as webcam overlays, multiple scenes or animated callouts, needs a different tool. iSpring sells more advanced recorders for that, but Free Cam itself is enough for a clean screencast.

Guide: your first screencast

1. Download Free Cam from iSpring's official site and install it.
2. Click to start a new recording and drag a frame around the area you want to capture, or choose the full screen.
3. Pick your microphone and check the level with a short test sentence.
4. Record, then stop with the button or the keyboard shortcut.
5. In the editor, cut the start and end, and delete mistakes.
6. Save the video to your PC or share it.

Tips for clear recordings

• Close chat apps and turn on do-not-disturb so notifications do not appear on screen.
• Increase the font size in the program you are demonstrating.
• A cheap headset microphone usually sounds better than a laptop's built-in one.
• Write down the three or four points you want to cover before you start.

Safety and privacy

A screen recorder captures whatever is visible, including open emails, browser tabs and passwords typed without masking. Check the full recording before you share it. Install Free Cam from iSpring's own pages; product news is posted on the iSpring what's new page.

Pros and cons

• Pro: free and quick to learn.
• Pro: recording and basic editing in one tool.
• Pro: records microphone narration together with the screen.
• Con: no webcam overlay or multiple scenes.
• Con: limited editing compared with a video editor.

Alternatives

For streaming and advanced recording, our listings include OBS Studio and Streamlabs OBS. To edit recordings further, Shotcut, DaVinci Resolve and CapCut are good options.