- In this video we're gonna look at
the best Android screen recorder apps right now.
With a walkthrough of each, showing you exactly
how to record your Android screen quickly and easily.
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Now when it comes to taking a screen capture
of your Android smartphone or tablet,
the process is often not as straightforward as it could be.
Fortunately though, there are some
great Android screen recording apps
that make the whole process a lot easier.
So right now we're gonna take a look at our top recommended
Android screen recording apps
after testing a ton of the options out there.
And show you exactly how to use each of them
with a quick walkthrough so that you can decide,
which one is the best one for you
and how you can easily put it into action.
Now depending on your specific phone or device,
some of these features may change
or may not be available to you.
And it's also worth noting that internal audio recording
is not allowed by Android anymore.
Meaning that you can still record from your phone
or from your device's microphone,
but you're not able to capture
the internal audio in your device.
Now, there are still some apps out there
that work with some devices,
but as a general rule, this is no longer allowed by Android.
But make sure you stick around for the third option,
'cause I'm gonna give you a solution here,
if that's something that you're looking to do.
So the first of our top two apps is a AZ Screen Recorder.
Now this one has been around for quite a while.
It's got a ton of downloads
and a ton of awesome reviews as well.
Interface wise, this app is almost pretty much identical
to our next recommended app.
And actually, surprisingly, a lot of the
screen recording apps out there on the Play Store.
It's like someone came up with the idea
of how these kinds of apps should look
and everyone just copied that and ran with it.
So yeah, the Interface is really easy to use,
it's really intuitive and even if you haven't used
an app like this before, it's really easy to get up to speed
and capturing your screen fast.
Quality wise, AZ Screen Recorder will let you record
up to 10 ATP resolution with a quality or a bit rate
of a maximum 12 Megabits per second,
which is more than most people are going to need.
But if you are someone who's looking for a
higher quality screen recording,
up to 24 Megabits per second,
the second app that we're about to mention,
is probably the one to look at.
And you also have the ability
to record it up to 60 frames per second.
So if you are gonna be recording any games or anything,
you wanna be setting it to those higher frame rates.
Now outside of the screen recording capabilities
in this app, there's two power features,
which I think are awesome.
The first one is that, it's not just gotta built-in
video editor, it's actually got a really decent
built-in video editor.
So you're not just limited just to trimming off things
like the start and the finish of your clip, you can actually
create decent videos inside of this app with that editor.
And the second feature is that,
it has built-in WiFi transfer.
So that you don't have to plug your phone into your computer
or upload your files to Dropbox or Google Drive
to get them over to your computer.
You can actually turn on this feature,
login on the same WiFi network on any other phone,
any other device, computer or laptop,
and you can easily transfer your files wirelessly.
Now up until recently, this was a feature that only
DU Recorder had, which was out go to Android app
for screen recording, but it's vanished,
it's disappeared from the Play Store.
So it's so awesome to see that this amazing feature
from that app is now inside of AZ Screen Recorder too.
Now the app itself is free,
but there are so many ads in there.
I would strongly recommend if you're gonna be using
this for more than a random video every now and then,
it's definitely worth paying to remove the ads
and it's only gonna cost you $3.99 to do it.
So I think it's definitely worth doing.
And one other additional feature that this app has
that most of the others out there don't have, is the ability
to livestream your phone screen out to places like Facebook
and YouTube or other live streaming platforms as well.
So we jump across now to AZ Screen Recorder
and show you how easy it is to use.
So when you open up the app,
you can see here that we have this floating menu icon,
we can close it by dragging it down to the X there,
or we can position it anywhere on our screen.
But if we tap on it, then we get the option
here to configure our settings.
So if I hit this button right at the top here
with all the squares on it,
this is how we can jump into our settings.
You see we got a ton of features in here,
things like, as I said, the resolution 1920 by 1080,
is what we can pick there, we can adjust the frame rate.
Bit rate settings here, as we set up to
12 Megabits per second, let's set that to 12.
We can lock our orientation, we can do time-lapse video,
we can record our audio from our microphone
it does say there again, internal audio recording
is not allowed by Google.
We can have text or a logo,
you can turn on or off your camera,
let's turn that on, and see me there,
turn that back off, countdown timers,
all of those sorts of things.
So the idea is that you go through
and you set all of this up first,
and then whenever you wanna just do a recording,
you just press the little circle here,
and then press the record button,
and that's going to start the recording.
Then to stop, all you need to do is swipe down from the top
and press stop recording and the recording is then done.
Once your recording's done, you can come back across here,
and you can access that awesome video editor
that I mentioned earlier.
And you can already see there's TikTok ads in the middle.
These things are everywhere,
when you're not running the paid version.
And if you're looking for where you can remove those ads,
it's back under Settings, scroll down to the bottom,
you can see here remove ads, if we press on that,
we get the ability to remove it you can see it only cost
$3.99 to upgrade to VIP to remove all of the ads,
strongly recommended.
So really quick looking at this editor,
you can see that you got a heap more features in here.
Instead of just basic trimming your videos,
there's a heap of much more advanced things
that you can do in here, that none of these other apps
like this seem to include straight out of the box.
Okay, so that's AZ Screen Recorder.
The next app is called Mobizen.
And as I already mentioned, the Interface is almost
identical, not just between Mobizen and AZ Screen Recorder,
but also for most of the
Android screen recording apps out there.
So once again, it's really easy to use,
it's really easy to find everything,
it's also really, really easy to get up to speed
and getting used to this if you've never used
an app like this before.
Just like AZ Screen Recorder,
Mobizen will let you record at up to 10 ATP resolution,
but it will let you record
at a higher bit rate or higher quality,
at up to 24 Megabits per second verses 12
on AZ Screen Recorder.
So if you are someone who's looking for the highest
recording quality possible,
then you're gonna be looking at Mobizen.
And just like AZ Screen Recorder, you also have the ability
to record at up to 60 frames per second,
if you are gonna be recording any games
or anything like that.
Feature wise Mobizen is very similar,
screen recording wise to AZ Screen Recorder.
The features in control over the actual screen recording
themselves, are almost identical.
But what Mobizen doesn't have, that AZ Screen Recorder does,
is some of those extra killer features.
It does have a video editing tool built-in,
but it is nowhere near as good as the video editing tool
that is inside AZ Screen Recorder.
It's also missing the ability to livestream.
So if you're after that,
this is gonna make your decision pretty simple.
It also doesn't have that
killer WiFi transfer feature in there either.
The only other really important thing to be aware of
with Mobizen, is that the free version
does have a watermark or Mobizen branding on it.
You will need to pay to upgrade to the premium version
to remove that watermark from your videos.
So we'll jump across now and take a quick look at Mobizen.
Okay so straight away you can see we've got this
floating menu thing again
and we can place it wherever we want,
strap it over here, when we tap on it,
we get a few circles again, the Interfaces I told you,
they're exactly the same.
You can already see that you got a lot less options here,
you've got the ability down the bottom to take a screenshot,
you've got your menu button there with the squares
in the middle, and you've got the capture button
or the record button right at the top.
So let's go into settings, take a quick look at that.
If we go up to the video settings at the top here,
you can see you got your 10 ATP resolution,
and that's the maximum there.
Quality wise you can see we're already set to 24 Megabits,
but we've also got 12, eight or lower.
So let's go back to 24 and frames per second we can set
that as high as 60, back out of this now.
Now as we scroll down, you can see that
we've got a lot of the same options that
we had inside of AZ Screen Recorder.
Now you probably also noticed that there's quite a few ads
in here, I would actually say that there are a lot more ads
inside of Mobizen than there are in AZ Screen Recorder.
So again, you can run this for free,
but I would strongly recommend paying to remove the ads.
But in this case, you're also unlocking
a heap of extra features.
So let's click here, wanna remove ads premium Mobizen,
these are the options you get.
You get to remove ads, you get to remove their watermark,
you get to add your own watermark,
you also get the tool to create animated GIFs,
there is a mini-mode,
and there is some other stuff coming soon.
And if we press it to remove it,
this is probably gonna show us Australian dollars,
but we're looking $2.59 for one month access
to their premium version, three months access $6.99
or 12 month access for 24.99.
So it is quite a bit more expensive than AZ Screen Recorder.
At the top once again, we've got our buttons here to jump
across to our screen captures and to our videos,
we're seeing more ads, we've got our editor in here,
which I said is again, really basic,
so we'll back out of that now.
And once again to actually start
and stop the recording itself
you just press on the M logo and press on the record button
at the top and Mobizen will start capturing your screen.
To stop recording, all you need to do is swipe down
from the top to your notifications bar,
and just hit stop recording.
Okay, so those are the top two apps for recording
your Android screen right now,
AZ Screen Recorder and Mobizen.
And really, unless you're needing
that highest quality recording possible,
AZ Screen Recorder is going to do everything you need,
it's going to be cheaper and it's got more features.
If you're someone who is looking for the highest quality
recording of your Android device,
then it is gonna go to Mobizen, yes,
it is gonna cost you a little bit more
and you're gonna lose some features there.
But it is the only way that you're gonna get access
to that 24 Megabit recording quality.
Now earlier in the video, I did say that I would also share
a third option for you, especially if you're someone
who's looking for that internal audio recording.
So the third option is using
a piece of software called Reflector,
that you'll install on your laptop or your desktop computer
and it works on both Mac and PC.
So all you need to do is install Reflector on your computer,
make sure that your Android device
and your computer are on the same network,
and then you'll have the ability to mirror or screen share
your Android device over onto your computer, wirelessly.
So depending on which phone you have,
it could just be swiping down to your notifications area,
and enabling Smart View or Screen Mirroring,
or on some devices, you might need to download
the Google Home app, select your profile button
down in the bottom right hand corner
and then choose mirror device.
From there your computer should show up
and then your phone screen will appear
over on your computer.
And then to record that, all you need to do on your computer
is just hit the record button.
And just like with the apps, you do have a ton of
recording options in there as well,
especially to do with the frame rates
and the quality of the recording.
But one really important thing to note,
if you are gonna be recording your phone screen this way,
is that if you have patchy WiFi or bad WiFi where you are,
or a bad connection between your device and your computer,
it could have quality issues or lagging
or dropouts in your end recording.
So you really want to make sure
that you are on a solid WiFi connection.
So if you wanna test this out, you can grab a trial version
of Reflector there is a link down in the description below,
or you can purchase Reflector for $14.99.
And again, it works on both Mac and PC.
Okay, so those are the top ways to record the screen
of your Android device right now.
Now if you're also using your Android device to
create video content, and you're looking at ways
that you can up the quality of those videos,
then check out the video linked on screen
with our complete walkthrough on how to
create professional videos using your Android device.
And I'll see you in the next one.