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How To Zoom Call Recording? Best Video Call Recorder for Zoom

A step-to-step introduction to teaching you how to record a Zoom call with Zoom APP & How to record video call for Zoom without permission.

Zoom has become the focus of attention during the last two years since more and more people choose to work from home. The reason why Zoom, instead of other telecommunicate, became the big hit is that the Zoom has highly flexible & various features and supports, and it is convenient to use.

Zoom Call Recording - Title

Many people, shockingly find that they are able to make a call on Zoom, and they can also call a person by Zoom computer APP on Windows. As you can easily record your Zoom meeting with one simple click – How to record a Zoom call then? Is there better software to do the Zoom call recording without permission?

Zoom Call Recording on Zoom APP

How to record a video call on Zoom on Zoom APP? It is fairly easy. Just follow the step and you can connect & record your phone call on Zoom.

Step.1 Get your Zoom APPs prepared, here we will assume a scenario that you’ll try to do Zoom call recording on the Zoom PC APP.

Zoom Call Recording - Run Zoom

Step.2 Click the “Contacts” button, you can see “My Contacts”. Under the “External” tab you can find, you may find your contactors list.

Zoom Call Recording - Contact

Step.3 If you don’t know how to add a contact, Click the “+” icon near the “Contact” tab, click “Invite a Zoom Contact”.

A window will pop up and ask you to enter & add the email address of the Zoom account which you want to add as a contact. The contact will be added once you’ve done the input. 

Zoom Call Recording - Meet with Video

Step.4 To start a Zoom phone call, right-click the contact, click “Meet with Video”, If you need voice call only, click “Meet without Video” instead.

Zoom Call Recording - Permission

Step.5 The conversation will begin once your invitation is sent & and your contactor is accepted.

Zoom Call Recording - Record

Step.6 To start the Zoom call recording, click the “Record” button in below.

Attention, while you click the “Record” button, participants will receive a warning which informs them that you are about to record this phone call and ask them for permission. That means 1. Your recording will be declared to participants. 2. You can not record Zoom phone calls without permission/ secretly.

Zoom Call Recording - Pause/ Stop

Step.7 Once you’ve done, click the “Stop Recording” button. Zoom will after processing your recorded files and the recording is finished.

Also read: >>How to Easily Record Duo Video Call<<

Problems of Zoom Call Recording with Zoom APP

Generously speaking, Zoom offers a very convenient recording feature by itself. It satisfies almost all needs of Zoom call recording, the only concern is that Zoom will not allow you to record a phone call without permission.

That causes trouble when you are about to record the Zoom phone call if you can’t record the Zoom phone call covertly. If you have such need like to record phone calls secretly, you might want to have the best screen recorder to record the Zoom phone call.

You may also try online screen recorder to record the Zoom Calling as well.

iTop Screen Recorder – Best Private Video Call Recorder for  Zoom

How to record Zoom calls privately & without permission? The iTop Screen Recorder can be the best assistant to help you to record Zoom phone calls secretly.

Not only Zoom phone call recording can be accomplished by iTop Screen Recorder, but you can also record the Zoom online meeting without permission – just like the reason you have for recording Zoom phone calls.

The way to use iTop Screen Recorder to do Zoom call recording is fairly easy:

Step 1. Download the iTop Screen Recorder from its official homepage.

Step 2. Execute the iTop Screen Recorder before Signing in to Zoom, because Zoom will detect your recording behavior (though it will not prevent recording).

Video Call Recorder for Zoom

Step 3. Prepare the Zoom phone call, click the contactor and begin with “Meet with Video & Audio” and start the phone call.

Zoom Call Recording

Step 4. Instead of recording the Zoom phone call with its built-in recording feature, we switch to the iTop Screen Recorder.

Step 5. On iTop Screen Recorder, click the “Full Screen” button, there will be a drop-down menu to let you select the recording zone. You can click “Select Window” to select the recording Zoom phone call window & start recording. Or you may select “Select Region” to select & determine the zone of recording.

Zoom Call Recording - With iTop

Step 6. Once you’ve done zone selecting, click the red round “REC” button to start recording. You can also press the “F9” hotkey on the keyboard to start recording.

Step 7. You can terminate the Zoom call recording anytime by pressing the “F9” key. You can find your recorded phone call on “Files”.

Check Recorded Zoom Call Video

Benefits of Using iTop Screen Recorder Zoom Call Recorder

As explained above, recording Zoom phone calls will be under the user’s permission. A proper third-party screen recorder, like the iTop Screen Recorder. Since Zoom has no capability to intervene in the running of a third-party screen recorder, so you can record the Zoom phone call secretly & privately without asking permission.

Also, iTop Screen Recorder offers a great variety of functionalities & flexibilities. You can adjust the recording video quality, do post edit, convert file format, screenshot…etc. It is also a multi-purpose screen recorder, you can use iTop Screen Recorder to record game playthroughs, to record the online conference and other different purposes.

One thing needs to be mentioned: the iTop Screen Recorder is free-to-use. It will leave a watermark on the video, but it has no time limitation, and you can record as long as you want.

The Bottom Line

This post introduces how to do Zoom call recording with the Zoom build-in recoding feature. Also, a better, stronger and powerful video call recorder for Zoom – iTop Screen Recorder is recommended if you need to record the Zoom call private/ secretly without permission. Don’t miss that if you really need to record the Zoom call!

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