Show IH: Turn screen recordings into docs and interactive walkthroughs
Hi Indie Hackers,
I was the person writing docs six months after shipping. The docs were always stale. I'd record a quick Loom for the team and think, "this is basically the documentation, someone just needs to write it and add screenshots." That someone was never me.
Every existing tool in this space (Scribe, Tango, Guidde) requires a browser extension and captures clicks instead of a real recording. My day job wouldn't let me install extensions. And click-based capture frustrates me: you get 47 steps for a 3-step workflow, half of them "clicked the search bar." I wanted something that actually watched the screen and wrote sensible steps, using the audio from a real recording for context.
So I built Easy Scribe. You record your screen (with narration if you want), add a title, pick a template (SOP, user guide, release notes, troubleshooting, and so on), and it generates a step-by-step guide with contextual screenshots. Export to Markdown, PDF, HTML, or Word.
But a generated doc wasn't the only thing I wanted from a recording. Sometimes a document is overkill, and you just want to share a quick walkthrough. So Easy Scribe also builds an interactive walkthrough from the same recording: a clickable, step-by-step player with spotlight hotspots, tooltips, and captioned screenshots.
What makes it different from the alternatives:
- No browser extension or desktop app required.
- Generates from a real screen recording with narration, not just click logs.
- Interactive walkthroughs are a first-class output alongside documentation, not a separate tool or an upsell.
- PDF, Markdown, HTML, and Word export with no watermarks and unlimited documents on the free tier.
- PII redaction at $9.99 Pro, not behind an enterprise sales call like most competitors.
Try it at: https://www.easyscribe.guide/
Would love feedback, especially on the document quality and the walkthrough experience. What would make this your default over writing docs by hand?
What I found interesting is that you're not really competing with documentation tools—you're competing with the habit of never documenting in the first place.
If people start thinking, "I'll just record it," instead of "I'll document it later," you've changed the workflow rather than just improved the output. That's a much stronger position to build from.
Nice execution on this + the docs-from-recordings space is genuinely useful and mostly still clunky elsewhere. I'm in a similar 'capture the small stuff while you work' space with Tansei, so I recognize how much of the hard part is the organizing/retrieval side, not the capture. How are you handling that as libraries grow?
This is pretty cool