A tutorial maker that turns one screen recording into a video and a written guide
A tutorial maker turns a recording of a task into a lesson someone else can follow. stepvideo is a tutorial maker for software you use in the browser: you record the task once in Chrome, and it gives back an edited how-to video, with zooms on your clicks, sped-up waits, an AI voiceover and word-by-word captions, plus a written step-by-step guide from the same take.
No credit card needed — 5 AI video minutes, free for 10 days.
What does a tutorial maker do to a screen recording?
It does the editing a raw take is missing, so a viewer can follow it without you there. stepvideo does four jobs on one recording: it zooms in where you click, speeds up the waiting, explains every step in a voiceover with captions, and writes the steps down as a guide.
Zooms on your clicks
The extension records each click as data, so the edit can push in on the control you pressed, up to 1.8× (up to 2.4× on a small recording), and ease back out. A click that is already readable in the full frame stays wide. You place no zoom yourself, and you can move or remove any of them.
How the zooms workWaits sped up
Any stretch of 4 seconds or more with no click, typing, scrolling, page change or speech plays at up to 3× speed, a page still blank while it loads goes by faster still, and a pause just after a new page opens stays at normal speed. Waits are sped up, not trimmed: the edit leaves out only an attempt you redid or a stretch that shows nothing at all.
How dead time is handledA voice and captions for every step
A short script is written for each step from what happened on screen and anything you said while recording, read in an AI voice, with word-by-word captions burned into the video.
How the voiceover is writtenA written guide from the same take
Each step becomes a numbered heading, a short instruction and a screenshot with the control you clicked highlighted. You edit it in the browser, share it, or download it as a PDF.
How the guide is made
How do you make a software tutorial with stepvideo?
Record the task once in Chrome with the stepvideo extension, press Generate when you stop, and review what it made. The zooms, the pacing, the script, the voice, the captions and the guide are made for you, so your part is checking each step and fixing any line that is wrong.
Add the extension.
Install stepvideo from the Chrome Web Store and sign in once.
Pick one task.
Choose a task a viewer can finish in one sitting, and open the page where it starts. One task per video is easier to follow and easier to update later.
Record it once.
Pick the language you will speak and the tab or your whole screen, then do the task. Talk it through or stay silent. Fumble a step? Do it again and keep going: the edit is told to leave out the attempt you redid.
Stop and press Generate.
Name the video and choose what to make from the take: the video, the guide, or both. The editor then opens with the take cut into steps: zooms, sped-up waits, a script and voice for each step, captions, and the written guide.
Review step by step.
Rewrite a line and only that step is voiced again. Change the voice, reorder, merge, split or delete steps, move a zoom, or draw a blur (it reaches the export on a paid plan).
Export and share.
Download the MP4 (wide, vertical, or the shape you recorded), send the share page, or download the guide as a PDF. Add another language whenever you need one.
The extension is on the Chrome Web Store, and the extension page says what it captures and what it never does. For planning, scripting and recording a tutorial with any tool, read how to make a tutorial video.
What does a finished tutorial look like?
Like the player at the top of this page, which is a real stepvideo take: 2:07 of raw capture became a 1:29 tutorial with zooms, voiceover and captions. Each tutorial can also come with a written guide, one numbered step at a time, each with a screenshot of the step.
The guide is written from the same steps the video is cut into. You can rewrite any step, replace a screenshot, or draw boxes, arrows and labels on it, and the share page can carry the guide under the video.
To hear a finished take with its voiceover, and to see one tutorial made again in other languages, open how it works. You can hear the narrator voices on the voices page.
What kinds of tutorials can you make with it?
Any task that happens in a browser and that someone else will have to repeat. stepvideo turns one demonstration into the video and the written steps together, which suits teams that explain the same software over and over: to new customers, to new staff, and to whoever asks support next.
Customer how-tos and onboarding
Show a new customer how to set up the product, one task per video, with the written steps under it for anyone who would rather read. More in customer onboarding videos.
Software training for staff
Record how your team does a task in the tools it uses, so new staff can watch it or follow the steps. More in training videos and software training videos.
SOPs and work instructions
The guide gives you the steps and the screenshots; the SOP template and the work instruction template give them a home.
User guides and help articles
Publish the guide as a help article with the video beside it. More in how to create a user guide and the knowledge base article template.
Answers to support questions
When the same question keeps arriving, record the answer once and send the share page. More in screen recording for customer support.
What stepvideo does not do
stepvideo is built for one thing: a task recorded in the browser that has to become a narrated video and a written guide. If your tutorial needs something outside that, such as a presenter on camera or a clickable demo, another kind of tool will serve it better. This is what stays out of scope.
It records through the Chrome extension, with no desktop app and no mobile recording. It can film your whole screen, but clicks are captured only on Chrome pages, so the zooms and the step breaks need the task to happen in the browser.
It is not built for camera or talking-head footage, AI avatars, or interactive click-through demos. Its output is a video and a written guide.
You edit steps, not a timeline of frames. For layered tracks, transitions or a keyframe placed by hand on every shot, a timeline editor gives more control.
It speeds dead time up rather than trimming it, and there is no speed control. A very long wait at the end of a step can still run for several seconds with no narration.
Which languages and voices can a tutorial use?
stepvideo transcribes 96 languages and publishes narration in 58. You choose the language you will speak before you record. A finished tutorial can be translated into another language with no second recording: it keeps the same cuts and zooms and gets a new voiceover, new captions and a translated guide.
The voices page plays the 48 narrator voices that have their own audition clips, across 16 languages, and the languages page lists what each language can do. A translation is a new video, so it counts the recording's AI minutes again. More in how to translate a video.
How much does the tutorial maker cost?
Every stepvideo account starts with a 10-day free trial (5 AI minutes, no card, watermarked), including up to 5 written guides. Paid plans start with Creator at $29/month. Trial exports render at draft quality, and a paid plan exports anything you made again without the watermark and at full quality.
The pricing page lists both plans, the top-up minute packs and any offer running now. The Chrome extension you record with is free.
How does stepvideo compare with other tutorial software?
It depends on the kind of tutorial you make. stepvideo is for demonstrated browser tasks that need a narrated video and a written guide. For a presenter lesson, an AI avatar, an interactive product demo or frame-by-frame production, a different tool is the better fit, and the pages below compare them.
The best tutorial video software compares tools by the kind of tutorial each one suits. The comparison pages set stepvideo beside 12 named tools, and the alternatives pages start from the tool you use now; both quote each company's own pages, with the date they were read.
FAQ
Questions
Is stepvideo a tutorial creator or a screen recorder?
Both. Its free Chrome extension records the tab or your screen, with every click on a Chrome page captured as data, and the web app turns that take into the edited video and the written guide. A plain screen recorder stops at the raw take and leaves the zooms, the pacing, the narration and the captions to you.
Is there a free tutorial maker?
stepvideo is free to try, not free forever. Every account starts with a 10-day free trial (5 AI minutes, no card, watermarked), enough for a few short tutorials before you decide. After that, Creator costs $29/month ($228/year) with 25 AI video minutes a month, and Studio costs $99/month ($780/year) with 100 AI video minutes a month. Minutes are counted on the length of each recording you turn into a video.
Do I have to narrate the tutorial myself?
No. Talk while you record or stay silent. stepvideo writes a short script for each step from what happened on screen and anything you said, and reads it in an AI voice. If you would rather keep your own voice, one switch uses your recorded narration, cut to each step, instead.
How long can a tutorial recording be?
Up to 5 minutes on the free trial, 12 minutes on Creator and 15 minutes on Studio. A longer take is not refused: the video is made from its start, up to your plan's limit. Short tutorials of one task each are easier to watch and to keep up to date.
Can it make interactive tutorials or click-through demos?
No. stepvideo makes a video and a written guide. It does not build a clickable copy of your product for a viewer to step through, and it does not put a presenter or an AI avatar on screen. If that is the tutorial you need, the tutorial software roundup and the comparison pages name tools built for it.
Can I change what the AI wrote?
Yes. Every step's script is editable, and rewriting a line makes that step's voiceover and captions again without recording anything. You can reorder, merge, split or delete steps, move or remove a zoom, change the voice, and edit the written guide.
What do I get when the tutorial is finished?
An MP4 with the zooms, voiceover and captions in it, the captions again as .srt and .vtt files, a share page that plays the video and can carry the guide (public, link-only or limited to your organization), and the written guide as a PDF.