Introduction to the Legacy Mobile Recorder

The legacy mobile recorder is a different recorder experience that is available on mobile browsers. We stopped using it as a default because it started working inconsistently on Android 14 and 15.

It uses the HTML Media Capture standard to record using native mobile iOS and Android apps. As a result, the experience will be familiar to your users.

The user can review the recording and make another one before uploading it.

Once a recording is made, it is POST-ed to our media servers for processing. There is a maximum file size limit of 5 GiB for accounts with paid subscription and 1 GiB for trial accounts.

The video quality depends a lot on the OS and, with Android, on the user-selected settings.

We see quite a few containers and video/audio formats, but mainly .mov from iOS and .mp4 from Android.

Audio-only recording capabilities are limited to some (most) Android devices. Audio-only recording is not possible on iOS.

It will work on older devices (iOS 10.3+ and Android 4.4+).

See below how the legacy mobile recorder looks on iOS and Android.

Safari on iOS #

2.0 Embed Code #

Here is how the video recording process looks with the legacy mobile recorder on Safari on iOS when using the 2.0 embed code. The initial user facing UI has 1 button.

Here’s the full recording process from beginning to end.

^ Right click on the image and select Open Image in New Tab to see a bigger version.

1.0 Embed Code #

The following sequence, captured using the demo on our homepage, shows the process on Safari on iOS when using the 1.0 embed code. The initial user facing UI has 2 buttons.

^ Right click on the image and select Open Image in New Tab to see a bigger version.

Chrome on Android #

2.0 Embed Code #

This is what the experience on Android (native) looks like with the 2.0 embed code. The initial user facing UI has 1 button.