Chris Messina

StepShot Guides PRO - Create guides and video tutorials with no hassle

by

StepShot Guides Pro allows you to quickly create step-by-step tutorials and videos. Fully automate the way you create any help article or training material:

- capture your steps with every mouse click

- generate step descriptions

- code-free customization

- save 90% of your time

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Sasha Reminnyi
Thanks, @chrismessina for featuring us! We are truly excited to be back to Product Hunt and present here the new and upgraded version of our product - StepShot Guides Pro - which is a new-generation tool aimed to ease your documentation pains, help you create and share walkthroughs, educate yourself and your colleagues. This time, our team has been working on the implementation of new advanced features that will help: - Make engaging videos and demos - Create step-by-step guides with every mouse click - Automatically recognize text from screenshot and paste it where you need - Automatically generate text descriptions to each step - Prepare quick help articles - Easily onboard newbies, train employees, and create learning materials - Systemize routine procedures Our new features include: Unlimited export into video + auto-narration - Code-free and fully-customizable PDF template editor - Export into Word + in-built templates - Optical character recognition (OCR technology) - Rich text editing - Export into HTML, WordPress and as Images - Totally redesigned and customizable capturing process My team and I are really enthusiastic about sharing all these with you and would really appreciate any feedback and questions you may have. P.S. We’d also like to provide the Product Hunt community with a special 50% discount. To get it, apply the “PRODUCTHUNT” promo code at the checkout.
Andriy  Masnik
Could you please provide an example of the video made with your tool?
Sofia  Zhylych
@andriy_masnik sure, here it is:
Andriy  Masnik
@sofia_zhylych thanks! Is it possible to import other images to the video (not screenshots taken with StepShot)?
Sofia  Zhylych
@andriy_masnik sure, but firstly you have to import the external images to the guide and only then export them as a video. Let me know if this needs more explanation 😉
Andriy  Masnik
@sofia_zhylych thank you, that's what I've been looking for! I'll give it a try and then will contact you should anything seem unclear 😉
Sarah Forgrave
This has been a HUGE timesaver for me - it makes the process of documentation and SOPs a breeze. I think of all the time I wasted creating screen captures and writing instructions in the past and think where has this product been all my life! I haven't leveraged the video components yet, but i am absolutely thrilled with the ability to create "how to" document on the fly.
Anastasia Y
@geekegrrl thank you so much Sarah! We're extremely happy that our product became a useful tool in your case. We'll do our best to make it even better in future!
Ostap Yaroshevych

Have been using this software for more than a year and it became our favorite productivity tool so far

Pros:

Pro version allows to quickly create knowledgebase articles and easily transfer & share knowledge within an organization

Cons:

Haven’t found any of them yet

Sofia  Zhylych
Hi Ostap, Thanks for describing your use case! We're glad to discover that StepShot Guides Pro boosts knowledgebase articles creation & knowledge sharing within your company. Hope, you'll find it even more useful for all your personal and professional needs 😉
Sofia Sembai

For me, the most useful feature is video export with auto-narration available. Now it takes much less time to create a video tutorial and I don't have to narrate it myself. Also, I like that I can easily host and share videos everywhere

Pros:

A nice tool with a great number of exporting options: even video & Cloud outputs are available

Cons:

It takes some time to export a guide as a video

Sofia  Zhylych
Hi Sofia, Thanks for sharing your feedback! We're glad you see value in video and Cloud outputs since we've put much efforts into them. Regarding the duration of video export - agree, but, unfortunately, 'heavy' files (and most videos are so) need some time to be uploaded.
Zhouchen Tang
easy and useful! upvoted.
Sofia  Zhylych
@zhouchen_tang many thanks from the entire StepShot team!
Alexey Grishko

It’s often very complicated to communicate with our clients without the visual image of what they would like to change in the projects we make for them. Thanks to StepShot, our work has became much easier since now our clients just go through the website, click on what they like/dislike and provide us with a quick feedback, all in one doc!)

Pros:

love the possibility to customize PDF docs and collaborate in the Cloud dashboard. Plus, responsiveness of their support

Cons:

wanna have more default templates

Sofia  Zhylych
Thank you! We're glad to meet your professional needs. Regarding the templates, we'll definitely take this suggestion into consideration ;)
Marta Hlova
Congrats on your success. Keep up the good work!
Sofia  Zhylych
@marta_hlova thanks a bunch! Only the sky is the limit for us 😉
Ruslan Markiv

As a BA, I deeply appreciate the job StepShot does: an array of available exports, great performance quality, intuitive interface, sleek editing tools, and still much more features. StepShot is great in creating a bulk of software docs.

Pros:

A smooth and productive software, especially when it comes to creating docs where you easily encompass visual, sound, and text dimensions

Cons:

It would be great to have some more integrations

Sofia  Zhylych
Hi Ruslan, Many thanks for sharing your feedback! We're glad to hear you find StepShot useful for BA purposes. Regarding the integrations, we're already working on the integration with UiPath - a leading Robotic Process Automation vendor providing a complete software platform to help organizations efficiently automate business processes.
Ruslan Markiv
Congrats with a great release! And here is a question about the Cloud export: are there any traffic or other limitations? is there any possibility to share the content created with users who have no StepShot subscriptions so far?
Dima Kondratyuk
Hi @ruslan_markiv1 ! We do not limit Cloud upload for any user for now. We'll consider limits introduction based on how people interact with their Cloud accounts during the beta. As for sharing content created in StepShot app and published to Cloud - anyone with a shared link can view it, you are not required to have a StepShot account for that.
Olya Zabalkanska

Drastically speeds up the process of preparing help articles and any training materials for my team

Pros:

they’ve implemented OCR technology and improved a version for Mac

Cons:

Some updates need a bit long to wait

Sofia  Zhylych
Hi Helga! Thanks for your review! We've done our best to make the user experience on Mac OS smoother and are really happy you find the OCR feature useful! As for the updates, we always try to put quality above quantity and the high-quality feature takes a bit more time for implementation ;)
Oleksandr Ivanets

Love how quickly it helps me to explain sth to my employees or delegate the particular task

Pros:

Amazing soft, with a wide range of outputs (PDF, Word, HTML, Video) and auto-narration in the video feature

Cons:

----

Sofia  Zhylych
Hi Oleksandr, Thanks for sharing your feedback! We do love that fact that you find StepShot helpful! Hope, in future it will solve even more of your use cases ;)
Hacer Slime
How can I follow him?
Sofia  Zhylych
@wasap could you please clarify your question so that I could properly answer it?
José Sotelo Cohen

the best way to create step by step SOPs, how to's, and any kind of tutorial

Pros:

it's great!

Cons:

none

Anastasia Y
Hello Jose! Anastasia from marketing department is here. Many thanks for your kind words from the whole StepShot team, it means a lot to us!
Vlad Korobov
Could you show couple examples of generated videos?
Sofia  Zhylych
@vladkorobov of course, here're the videos created with the help of StepShot Guides Pro and its auto-narration feature: https://youtu.be/vmXE0P25Q60 https://youtu.be/Jj8jXgpUPu0
Sophia Salo
StepShot Guides is a super handy tool. I'm a Communications Manager here, and I'm using it every day for my tasks - they start from creating quick step-by-step guides for users in the website chat to detailed videos & help articles for our knowledgebase. Can't be happier to see the growth of this product and feedbacks of the people who love using it:)
Sofia  Zhylych
@sophia_s we're also super-excited ❤️
Quin Caylor
I must be missing something because I still can't build my project. Where do I go? Do I have to download the app? Can't find on play store.
Quin Caylor
Was able to get in and download on my other (non-chromebook) computer. Problem now is I created a sample to see if it will meet my needs, but can't export or view. It says I've reached a frame limit. What's that?
Sofia  Zhylych
Hi @quin_caylor, thanks for giving StepShot a try! Once you’ve downloaded the app, create your StepShot account at https://guides.stepshot.net/regi... and then, sign into StepShot app and start the guides creation. Regarding the frame limit issue, please message me at sophia.z@stepshot.net, identify the email you’ve used during account registration and attach the screenshot of the issue. I’ll do my best to fix it ;)
Ostap Yaroshevych
Congratulations on release guys! Really happy to see the StepShot growth!
Sofia  Zhylych
@ostap_yaroshevych thanks a lot! We're excited to share with you all the opportunities StepShot Guides Pro offers!
Olya Zabalkanska
Perfect for onboarding and preparing video tutorials. We used to spend a lot of time on onboarding new people, explaining to them how to publish the blog posts, use the CRM, etc, and now it is at least 5 times faster! You just download the materials to your cloud workspace and share it whenever you hire someone. Really recommend this tool!
Sofia  Zhylych
@olya_zabalkanskaya thanks for such pleasant words! It's nice to hear that StepShot Guides Pro has sped up the onboarding processes inside your company, cos our main goal is indeed to become a time saver for business people.
Oleksandr Ivanets
Can I upload my own branding to the docs?
Sofia  Zhylych
@oleksandr_ivanets thanks for the question! Yes, there're actually two ways to add your own branding to the docs with the help of StepShot Guides Pro: 1) The tool has a powerful template editor that has a set of default Word/PDF/PowerPoint templates. You can edit them by adding your company branding: logo, colors, variables (not to copy/paste repetitive values on every new doc) etc. 2) Also, our dev team is working on "branding wizard" - a new feature that allows you to set up your own branding (custom elements, colors, fonts, etc) :)