Screen + Webcam Recording in Chrome? 6 PiP Extensions (2026)

Key takeaways

• Six Chrome extensions record your screen with a live webcam picture-in-picture bubble; all six are installable on the Chrome Web Store as of August 7, 2026.
• SuperchargeCapture and Screenity do it with no account, no watermark, and no recording cap, keeping the file on your device.
• Loom’s free tier stops at 25 videos of 5 minutes each; Screencastify’s at 10 videos with a watermark. Check the caps before you standardize on a tool.

A screen recording with your face in the corner needs no desktop app. As of August 2026, six Chrome extensions overlay a live webcam picture-in-picture bubble on the recording itself. Two of them, SuperchargeCapture and Screenity, do it with no account, no watermark, and no time cap. The other four trade free-tier limits for cloud hosting and share links.

Every listing below was checked live on the Chrome Web Store on August 7, 2026, including version numbers and free-tier limits. Free tiers drift; the caps here are current, not recalled.

The use case is the same everywhere: a tutorial, a Loom-style async update, a bug walkthrough where your voice explains the steps and your face carries the tone. What separates the tools is what the free tier actually permits and where the video ends up.

SuperchargeCapture: a Local Bubble, No Account

SuperchargeCapture (v1.0.2) records the current tab through chrome.tabCapture, so recording starts without a “choose what to share” picker. Turn on the camera and a live bubble appears on the page itself: draggable and resizable mid-take, so you can pull it off a button it is covering, and it is baked into the video exactly where you placed it. A device picker handles external cameras, and an on-device blur softens your background without sending a frame anywhere.

Mic and tab audio record alongside. Export goes to MP4, WebM, or GIF, written to local storage: no account, no watermark, no recording cap, nothing uploaded.

Two honest limits. The bubble rides tab recordings; choose full-desktop capture and you get plain screen video. And there is no hosted video library or transcription — sharing means the file itself, or an opt-in Share to Drive that uploads to your own Google Drive and copies a link, not a viewer page with analytics.

Screenity: Open Source, Also Uncapped

Screenity (v4.6.4, ~200,000 users) is the open-source pick, and its free tier is equally clean: webcam overlay on screen, window, or tab recording, with no watermark, no time limit, and no account. Recordings stay local. It adds drawing and annotation while recording, click highlighting, and push-to-talk, which makes it strong for live-marked-up walkthroughs. A paid Pro adds cloud storage and auto-captions, but nothing about the core recorder is gated. If you want to read the code before trusting a recorder with your screen, this is the one whose code you can read.

The Free Tiers, Side by Side

Chrome 151 runs Manifest V3 extensions only, so being installable today settles the MV3 question for all six.

Loom: Fastest Share Link, Tightest Cap

Loom (v5.5.203, ~7 million users) defined this category, and its recording flow is still the smoothest: stop recording and a hosted link is already on your clipboard. The circular webcam bubble is polished, and viewer analytics plus AI summaries come with the paid tiers.

The free Starter plan is where it pinches: 25 videos total and 5 minutes per recording, with everything stored in Loom’s cloud under a required account. For a team already paying for Loom, none of that matters. For an individual, a 5-minute ceiling rules out most real tutorials. The full head-to-head is in SuperchargeCapture vs Loom.

Screencastify: Built Around Classrooms

Screencastify (~4 million users) leans into education: Google Classroom integration, questions and polls on videos, and admin controls for schools. Its free tier, from its own pricing page as of August 2026, allows 10 videos at up to 30 minutes each, watermarked, with a Google account required. Starter at $7 per user per month billed annually removes the watermark and video limit and raises recordings to 60 minutes. A teacher whose district pays gets real value here. Outside that context, the free tier is the most restrictive on this list. Deeper comparison: SuperchargeCapture vs Screencastify.

Vmaker and CocoShot: the Smaller Names

Vmaker (v6.1.0, ~60,000 users) has the most generous cloud free tier: unlimited recordings, no watermark, screen plus webcam together, with hosted share links. The trades are a 720p resolution ceiling on free, a required account, and videos living in Vmaker’s cloud. If you want Loom’s share-link workflow without Loom’s caps and can live with 720p, that is Vmaker’s pitch.

CocoShot (v1.37, ~70,000 users, 4.9 stars) bundles a picture-in-picture webcam overlay with screenshots, live annotation, and AI subtitles, and advertises no watermark and no time limit on the free tier. We verified the listing is live and current, but have not tested its account flow or export path hands-on, so weigh its promises as advertised rather than confirmed.

Match the Tool to the Recording

If your team already runs on Loom and pays for it, stay: the share-link workflow is unmatched. If you teach in a Google Classroom district, Screencastify’s paid tier earns its seat. If you want hosted links free of charge and 720p is fine, try Vmaker. If you want to audit the code, Screenity. And if what you want is a talking-head tutorial as a real file on your own disk, with the bubble positioned where you drag it and no account between you and the record button, install SuperchargeCapture and press record.