Recording
Record in your browser, what is captured, and the free allowance.
You record at ramble.sh. Ramble needs screen sharing and a WebM recording from your browser, so use a current desktop Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Any other browser gets a message saying so. On a Mac you can also use Ramble for Mac.
Record a ramble
- Open ramble.sh and press Start rambling.
- Your browser asks what to share: a tab, an app window or the whole screen. Pick the one that is misbehaving. Ramble sees only what you share.
- Allow the microphone when your browser asks. Without it Ramble says "Ramble can't hear you" and does not start. Your narration is the point of a ramble.
- Ramble shows a preview of what you are sharing and counts down three seconds. Press Start now to skip the wait.
- Click around and talk.
- Press Stop and review when you are done. The page for your ramble opens and shows it being read.
By recording you agree to the Terms and the Privacy Policy. The home page says so right under the button.
While you record
A small capsule shows that Ramble is recording. It has a pulsing red dot, a clock, a waveform and a round stop button. The waveform is lively while you talk and settles when you go quiet, so you can see that Ramble hears you.
The recording stops by itself at ten minutes. The limit is real: the server enforces it, not just the page. In the last minute the clock turns red and counts down, for example "0:42 left".
You can end the ramble from any of these:
- the Stop and review button on the Ramble tab;
- the capsule in the floating panel, if your browser can show one;
- your browser's own "Stop sharing" bar.
If your browser can't show a floating panel, Ramble says so. The browser's sharing bar then carries the stop control, and the Ramble tab keeps the full view.
Pause stops capturing until you press Resume. While paused, nothing is captured and no audio is sent.
Tips for useful findings
- Say what you do and what you expected. Ramble can't tell where you click. It sees what changes on screen. Say "I click Save and nothing happens" and it can match your words to the right moment.
- Window sharing usually hides your mouse pointer. Share the whole screen if you want it visible.
- One thing at a time. Stay on the screen where the problem is while you describe it.
- Praise and ideas count. A finding can be a bug, a feature idea, friction or praise.
- Take it back out loud. If you say "scratch that", Ramble tries to leave that finding out.
- Don't show secrets. Keep passwords, payment details and other private information off the shared window. A recording can capture anything on it.
What is captured and where it goes
| What | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| The video of what you shared | Uploaded to ramble.sh in small pieces while you record, and kept there until the ramble is deleted. |
| Your voice | Streamed to a speech-to-text service for the transcript, and to the AI model that listens for findings as you talk. Ramble also keeps the narration audio with the ramble. |
| Screenshots, about one a second and whenever the screen changes | Kept on ramble.sh. The AI model sees them while you record, then receives screenshots and the transcript to check the findings. If a recording has to be read again after a problem, it receives the whole video. |
| The transcript | Kept on ramble.sh and sent to the AI model. |
The companies that process a recording for Ramble don't train their models on it. Privacy in plain words has the rest, including how long things are kept.
Free rambles and signing in
You don't need an account to try Ramble. By default a browser can record 3 rambles without one, and the home page shows how many are left, for example "1 free ramble left".
When the free rambles are used up, the button changes to Sign in with Google to record. The rambles you already recorded come with you when you sign in. See Account.
Signing in earlier is fine too. A ramble recorded while you are signed in belongs to your account from the start. Only you can then delete, edit, reorder or retry it. See Your ramble.
If saving the video doesn't finish
Ramble saves the video in pieces on your device while it uploads them. If the tab closes or the connection drops before the last piece arrives, the home page shows an Unfinished recording card the next time you open it in that browser. Press Resume saving to upload what is missing, or Delete local copy if you don't want it.
A request from your coding agent
If your agent sent you a link to ramble.sh with a request in it, the home page shows a card, "Your coding agent asks you to ramble", with the agent's note. Recording works the same way. See Record requests.