What is a screen recording?

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Screen Recording is a new feature in AnyDesk which allows you to easily record your screen, even when you are not in an active session. This feature is perfect for capturing solutions to troubleshoot software issues, creating tutorials, or recording presentations quickly and efficiently.

🦉 For detailed instructions on how to manage screen recording, see this article


Use cases for Screen Recording

Screen Recording can be used in various scenarios, such as:

  • Creating tutorials, software demos, and product reviews

  • Quickly showing a bug to a software development team

  • Walking through a solution to a customer’s problem on their device

  • Recording online meetings, presentations, and training sessions

  • Capturing customer interactions for troubleshooting and quality assurance

  • Recording gameplay for sharing, tutorials, or competitive analysis


Comparison with Session Recording

Screen Recording offers similar functionality to the existing Session Recording feature, but it introduces new capabilities to better suit a variety of use cases. Here’s how they compare:

Feature

Session recording

Screen recording

Type

Old AnyDesk feature, still available

New AnyDesk feature, introduced with AnyDesk 9.0.0 for Windows

Screen recorded

Records the remote screen

Records the local screen

Session requirement

Requires an active session with a remote device

Does not require an active session

Pause / resume

Recording cannot be paused

Recording can be paused and resumed

File format

Video recording is saved in AnyDesk format (requires AnyDesk client to open)


Key differences

  • Local vs. Remote Recording - Screen Recording captures the local screen (your device’s screen), whereas Session Recording captures the remote screen (the screen of the device you are connected to).

  • Session Dependency - Unlike Session Recording, which requires an active session with a remote device, Screen Recording does not require an active session, giving you greater flexibility in capturing content.

  • Pause and Resume - With Screen Recording, you can pause and resume the recording, providing more control over what you capture. This is not possible with Session Recording.