Tape's Chrome extension is live

Sometimes the fastest way to explain something is to show it. A pricing page your teammate can't find. The exact click path that confuses customers. A recipe tab you want to send your mate before dinner. Typing that out takes forever. A short video does it in one go.

Tape's Chrome extension is built for that moment: you're already looking at the thing, and you want to share it without jumping through hoops.

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Key features

Start from wherever you already are. Toolbar icon or Alt+Shift+R. Stay on the page you're explaining. Hit record. No hunting through another app first.

Tab, window, or full screen. A single tab when you're walking someone through a site. A window when the app lives outside Chrome. Full screen when you need the whole desktop in frame.

Mic and camera as a bubble. Turn them on in the pre-flight popup and park the camera in the corner you want. Great when a face and a voice make the walkthrough feel human, without covering what you're pointing at.

Tab and system audio. Capture what the tab is playing, or the wider system audio, so the person on the other end hears the same clicks and sound you do. (The extension asks Chrome for the capture; Tape's recorder page does the actual recording.)

It's a capture broker, not a second recorder. The extension asks Chrome for permission to capture what you chose, hands that to Tape, and gets out of the way. Recording, trim, AI title/summary/transcript, upload, and share links all stay in Tape. Nothing is captured until you start, and nothing leaves your machine unless you hit Upload & share on the preview.

Same free / Pro deal as the site. Recording and download stay free and unlimited. Hosted share pages sit on the free plan with a small slot limit. Pro is A$8/mo or A$79/yr if you want the caps lifted. No watermark on the video itself.

How to record something useful in under a minute

This is the loop that actually sticks.

1. Install once. Open the Chrome Web Store listing, click Add to Chrome, pin the icon if you like. Done.

2. Get the screen ready before you hit record. Open the page or app you want to show. Scroll to the starting point. Close the chat bubble that's covering half the UI. Thirty seconds of prep beats two minutes of "hang on, let me find it" at the start of every share.

3. Open the popup and set the capture. Click the toolbar icon. Choose tab / window / screen. Toggle mic and camera if the viewer needs your voice or face. Pick a camera corner that doesn't cover the thing you're pointing at.

4. Start, then talk like you're helping one person. Hit record (or use Alt+Shift+R once you've got the muscle memory). Say what you're about to show in one sentence, do the thing, stop. Don't narrate every mouse twitch. Aim for the shortest clip that still makes the point.

5. Trim before you share. When you stop, Tape drops you on the preview. Chop the dead air at both ends. Generate a title and summary if you want, then Upload & share. Or download the file and keep it local. Viewers don't need an account to watch a share link.

That's it. The effective part isn't a clever feature. It's how little friction sits between "I should show them this" and a link in the chat.

Who this is for

Product managers. Walk the team through a flow in the live product instead of writing a three-paragraph Slack message. Same for stakeholder updates: show the screen, say the decision, send the link.

Support and success. Record the exact steps a customer needs, once. Paste the link into the ticket or the help reply. Next time the same question shows up, you've already got the answer on tape.

Anyone explaining something to teammates or friends. "Here's how you book the meeting." "Here's the bit of the form that trips people up." "Here's the page I meant." If you'd otherwise type a novel, record a minute instead.

A few patterns that work well

How-to for a teammate. Capture the tab, talk through the clicks with mic on, stop. Trim. Drop the link in Slack or email. They watch it when they're free.

Customer reply. Reproduce the path once on your screen, narrate the fix, share the link. Clearer than a numbered list, and faster to make the second time.

Quick share with a friend. Full window or tab, ninety seconds max. One thing you want them to see, one link, done.

The extension is Chrome-only. Tape isn't.

The Chrome Web Store listing is for Chrome (and other Chromium browsers that can install from the store). The toolbar button and Alt+Shift+R shortcut come with that install.

Tape itself still works in the browser without the extension. Open use-tape.com/record in Firefox, Safari, Edge, or Chrome, grant the permission, and record the same way you always have. The extension is just a faster on-ramp when you're already in Chrome and want to start from the page you're on.

If you try the extension and something feels off (hotkey clash, weird Chromium fork, permissions), email support or yell at me. I'm reading those.

Go show someone what you're looking at.