How to Record Zoom Meeting Without Permission as a Participant [3 Ways]

Video conference software is best alternative to face-to-face communication in the remote-work era. Zoom is one the most used platform by remote team members for its intuitive and abundant features on hold an online meeting easily and quickly. Zoom also builds in a recording function in case that you may miss any important details during the live conference or need to share the meeting to absent members. However, if you want to record Zoom meeting as a participant, you should get the permission from the host.

Is it possible to record Zoom meeting without permission? Yes. With a professional screen recorder, you can record Zoom meetings with no restriction secretly. Now, follow us to seek for the best way of how to record a Zoom meeting without permission on PC and Mac.

How to Record Zoom Meeting Without Permission on Windows

How to Record a Zoom Meeting Without Permission on All Windows PCs

iTop Screen Recorder shows an intuitive way to record a Zoom meeting without permission. It is endowed with the ability to capture everything on your screen, of course including the ongoing meeting. Due to offline recording, you can record Zoom meeting without host permission and anyone knowing. Working as a straightforward screen recorder, you can enjoy easy and smooth recording experience.

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What can iTop Screen Recorder do for recording Zoom meetings? Its powerful features will lead you out.

Flexibly Select Area for Recording Zoom Meetings

iTop Screen Recorder allows recording any areas of the screen by cropping. While in the zoom meeting, you can select to record part of screen, or full screen, or a window. That is, you can record speeches or presentations of the host or a certain participant without them knowing. Also, you can make it possible to record Zoom meeting and finish other tasks on computer at the same time.

Record a Zoom Meeting with Audio

iTop Screen Recorder offers you several options to record a Zoom meeting without permission. You can capture video and audio in Zoom simultaneously. It can also capture your voice through microphone when you make a statement in the meeting. All sounds can be clearly recorded. The built-in denoiser helps enhance audio quality by reducing background noise. What's more, you can only record Zoom audio with Only Audio mode, which is best for calls recording.

Record a Zoom Meeting in HD, No Lags

iTop Screen Recorder enables you to record a Zoom meeting in 720p, 1080p HD, and 4K. It delivers vivid images and you can find details in the video clearly during reviewing. Thanks to hardware acceleration and low-CPU usage, you can capture a high-quality video without lagging and shuttering. What's more, it can output the Zoom meeting recording as a video file in MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV etc. You can play it on PC flawlessly without incompatibility issue.

Free to Record Zoom Meetings on All Windows PCs

iTop Screen Recorder is a free screen recorder for Windows 10, 8, 7 and the latest 11. Although as a participant, you can enjoy all above listed feature to record Zoom meeting without permission in Windows laptop and computers for free. It is also a beginner-friendly program. You can get started with it quickly, no guesswork.

Additional Screenshot and Editing Tools

• Screenshot: Take a Zoom screenshot at any time. You can capture a special area, full screen and make annotation on the screenshot.
• Video Editor: Trim, flip and combine Zoom recordings easily; enhance the recording by adding filters, transitions, text and background music.
• Video compressor: Compress a large Zoom recording into a small size for email or online sharing. 
• Teleprompter: Use the Zoom teleprompter to read your script during meeting as a pro. 

How to Record Zoom Meeting Without Permission on PC with iTop Screen Recorder?

Step 1. Download and install iTop Screen Recorder on your PC. It is fully compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7.

Step 2. Join a meeting/chat in your Zoom, and open the free screen recorder.

Step 3. Now, make settings and start recording your Zoom meeting or call.

• Go to Record > Screen. 
• Select recording area. You can record full screen, the Zoom window, or any selected region. 
• Turn on Speaker to record Zoom meeting with audio. 
• If needed, turn on Mic, Webcam to record yourself and your voice. 
• Click REC or press F9 to Start Recording.

Step 4. Once the meeting is ended, click on the red button to stop recording.

Your Zoom meeting recording is automatically saved to Files > Video. From here, you can edit and compress video for later sharing. Also, you can directly upload it to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Google Drive, Dropbox etc.

How to Record a Zoom Meeting Without Permission on Windows 10/11

Another way of how to record on Zoom without permission in PC is to use the built-in screen recorder for Windows - Xbox Game Bar.

Step 1. Press Windows Key + G to launch the program.

Step 2. Join in the Zoom meeting, and click Record button or press Windows Key + Alt + R to start recording.

Step 3. Press Windows Key + Alt + M to record microphone. Press Windows Key + Alt + M again when you want to turn off microphone.

Step 4. Press Windows Key + Alt + R to stop recording.

How to Record Zoom Meeting Without Permission on Mac

QuickTime Player is an application for Mac that available you to record a Zoom meeting without permission. 

Step 1. Join in the Zoom meeting and open QuickTime player from Application folder. 

Step 2. Choose File > New Screen Recording.

Step 3. Click the drop-down arrow next to Record button. You can choose to record Zoom meeting with or without microphone.

Step 4. Click on Record button to start recording. Click anywhere on screen to record full screen. Otherwise, drag and select an area to record. Then, click Start Recording.

Step 5. Click Stop button or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape) to stop recording. QuickTime Player will automatically opens the recording file. You can play, edit or save it.

How to Record Zoom Meeting Without Permission Online

You can also record a Zoom meeting secretly without installing any software, instead, with an online screen recorder. iTop Online Screen Recorder is a highly-recommended tool that enables you to record online meetings and webinars without hassle. It fully supports Chrome, Firefox and Opera. You can use it to record Zoom meeting on both PCs and Macs for free. 

How to Record a Zoom meeting without permission using iTop online screen recorder?

Step 1. Open the online screen recorder from here: https://recorder.itopvpn.com/online-screen-recorder

Step 2. Select recording options. You can check webcam, system audio and microphone to record Zoom meeting with audio, your own voice and face. Now, click on Start Recording.

Step 3. Choose the recording region. If you enter Zoom in full screen mode, choose Entire Screen, or you can just record Zoom window. After selection, click Share.

Step 4. Allow your browser to access your webcam and microphone. After 3-second countdown, it will automatically record Zoom meeting without permission.

Step 5. Click Stop when the meeting is finished. Now, you can download the recording to your hard drive. 

What We Should Notice You: Online screen recorder arrives with several limitations:

• Record for 5 minutes;
• Record twice per day;
• Record in 720p and save to WebM only.

If you need to capture 1080p HD video to MP4 or more formats with no time limit, it is suggested to download iTop Screen Recorder to unblock advanced features.

The Bottom Line

It is not a big problem to record Zoom meeting without permission. With a professional screen recorder, you can easily record a Zoom meeting on laptop/computer secretly as a participant, no host permission, no others knowing. For Windows users, iTop Screen Recorder is the best choice. It delivers a hassle-free and smooth screen recording process as well as outputs a high quality video that clearly delivers you every important detail on the meeting. Additional built-in tools can also help you take a screenshot, edit Zoom recordings with ease.