Independent podcaster
Wants broadcast-looking video from remote guests without paying a per-hour recording platform.
Creators & podcasts
Record the remote guest in 4K, not in 'remote guest quality'.
The guest is the bottleneck in every remote shoot: they won't install anything, and the platform hands you a soft, over-compressed file. 4K Chat gives the guest a plain link, keeps the call peer-to-peer at full resolution, and writes each side's recording to its own machine.
- Per-side
- Local recording at capture quality — no compression from the call path.
- 1 link
- Guest join with no account, no download, no green room confusion.
- 0
- Upload minutes billed, because there is no cloud recorder to feed.
- On-device
- Noise suppression that runs on your machine, before the encoder.
Who this is for
Video producer / editor
Needs clean per-side sources at native resolution to cut from, not a single baked mixdown.
Guest booker
Just needs the guest to click one link and be on camera correctly within a minute.
The remote-guest tax
- Guests bounce off account creation, app installs, and permission prompts.
- Cloud recording quality is set by whatever the platform decided to encode.
- Multi-camera guests are effectively impossible — you get one webcam and like it.
Where normal conferencing breaks
- Cloud-recorded video is re-encoded by the platform before you ever see it.
- Uploading a session copy to a vendor is a licensing and privacy conversation nobody wants.
- No control over which source gets the bitrate when a second camera appears.
What 4K Chat brings to it
Local recording, per side
Each participant's browser can record to their own disk as WebM using MediaRecorder. Nothing is uploaded to us.
True 4K and 8K
AV1 or VP9 with SVC, negotiated per peer rather than capped by a platform.
How it works →A guest link that just works
No account, no install. A pre-join lobby lets the guest confirm camera, mic, and framing before they appear.
On-device noise reduction
Your browser's suppressor and a high-pass filter run locally, before the encoder — so the cleaned audio is what your guests hear and what gets recorded.
Cinema cameras via capture
Run a real camera through a capture card and it joins as its own participant at full resolution.
How it works →Quality you can verify
The live dashboard shows actual received resolution, bitrate, RTT, and codec, so you know before you roll.
Setting up a session
- 1
Open the room and add your cameras
Your main camera plus any capture-card angle each become their own participant.
- 2
Send the guest one link
They open it in their browser, check themselves in the lobby, and join.
- 3
Both sides hit record
Each recording is written locally at that side's own capture quality — no network compression in the file.
- 4
Collect the files after
The guest sends you their local WebM. You edit from two clean sources instead of one platform mixdown.
Gear that works
Mirrorless or cinema camera + capture card
Shows up as a normal video device and joins as its own participant, so the good camera is the tile, not the webcam.
USB interfaces and XLR chains
Pick the interface as the audio input; noise suppression and Opus RED redundancy run on top for resilience.
A second phone as a B-cam
Join from a phone as an extra participant for an alternate angle you can cut to.
Storage for the recording
Recording is written locally, so keep headroom on the recording machine — 4K WebM adds up quickly on a long episode.
Will this actually work for us?
What if a guest's internet drops mid-episode?
The call reconnects on its own with ICE restarts and keeps retrying. If their side records locally, the local file keeps its quality regardless of what the link was doing.
Can I get separate audio tracks?
Each side records its own source locally, so you assemble the episode from clean per-side files rather than splitting a mix.
Do guests need an account or a plan?
No. The host's plan covers the room; guests just open the link.
Which browser should I tell guests to use?
Chrome or Edge for the full feature set. Safari works for most of it; Firefox lacks the encrypted-frame path.
Questions we get
Is the local recording the same as what I see on the call?
It's captured from the local media on the recording device, so it isn't bounded by the network between you — the network only affects the live preview.
Can a guest record their own side without an account?
Yes — recording runs entirely in their browser and the file stays on their machine.
Keep reading
Recommended plan: Pro
No time limit on long-form interviews, plus room for a producer and a second camera angle.