Your own voice
What you said while you showed the task, kept with each step.
Vaitly Guides · Part of Pro · Coming in the next update
Show it once. Get the guide.
Do a task on your screen and talk it through. VV turns every click and every new screen into a step, with a picture, the place to click and your words as the instruction. Play it back with captions and an AI voice, or send it as a PDF, a web page or a video.
Be first to try it
Tell me when Guides is ready.
One email when Vaitly Guides arrives in VV, and nothing else. We do not share your address, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.
How it works
You do the task. It writes the guide.
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Pick what to show
Choose one window or a whole screen. A thin border shows exactly what is being captured, and it never appears in the pictures.
- 2
Do the task and talk
Work through it as you normally would, explaining as you go. Each click and each new screen becomes a step by itself, with the place you clicked marked.
- 3
Tidy it up
Your words become each step's instruction. Edit, reorder, crop, add a callout or black out anything private. SmartText can suggest cleaner wording, on your computer.
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Play it or send it
Play it back full screen with captions, read in your own voice or an AI voice. Or export it as a PDF, a web page or a video.
Play it back
Full screen, with captions that follow the voice.
A guide plays like a short film. Each step's picture fills the screen and the captions run along the bottom in large white text on black, lighting up word by word as it is spoken. Space plays and pauses, the arrow keys move between steps.
Natural AI voices
Ten British and American voices. Play a sample of each, then download the one you like: about 92 MB the first time, half a megabyte for each one after. They speak on your computer.
Your computer's voices
The voices already on your Mac or PC, with no download at all.
Send it anywhere
The format the next person needs.
Every export asks you to confirm you have reviewed the guide first, and uses only the cleaned-up pictures. Choose an AI voice and the playable guide and the video are read by it, each step lasting as long as its line.
- PDF, ready to print or attach
- Markdown with an images folder, for wikis and docs
- One self-contained web page, no scripts or trackers
- A playable guide: pictures, captions and voice in a folder
- MP4 video with the voice you chose (Mac)
Made for the things you explain more than once
- Onboarding: how to set up the tools, request access or file expenses.
- Support: answer a customer once with a guide instead of a long email.
- Handovers: leave the steps behind before a holiday or a role change.
- Processes: month-end, releases, reports: the steps nobody wrote down.
What stays private
- Your screen: pictures stay on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
- Typing: never recorded, and neither is the clipboard.
- Sensitive areas: black them out or crop them; exports cannot show what you hid.
- Voices: all speech is made on your computer, so the words of your guide are not sent to a voice service.
Guides is new and comes with the next update, on the Mac first. MP4 export is Mac only for now. A red border marks the window being captured; VV keeps its own toolbar out of the pictures.
Questions
About Vaitly Guides.
Is Guides part of Pro?
Yes. Making and editing guides is in Pro, at £9.99 a month or £99 a year. If your plan ends, the guides you made stay on your computer and you can still open and export them.
When can I use it?
Guides comes with the next VV update, first on the Mac. Windows follows once it has been tested there. Pro customers get it in the same app, with nothing extra to install.
Does it record what I type?
No. Typed text and the clipboard are never recorded. Keyboard shortcuts are only shown, as key pictures, if you turn that on for a guide.
Is anything uploaded?
No. Capture, the step builder, SmartText's wording suggestions and the AI voices all run on your computer. A natural voice is downloaded once, then works offline. Pictures are made safe before export: crops and blacked-out areas are flattened into the image, so the hidden part cannot be recovered from the file.
Can I turn a meeting into a guide?
Yes. From a meeting in Vaitly Meetings, Create guide drafts the steps from what was said. It has no screenshots, because none were taken, and it is marked that way.
Why would I use this instead of a screen recording?
A recording makes people scrub through minutes of video to find one step. A guide gives them each step as a picture with its instruction, which they can scan, search, print or follow at their own pace. If they want to watch, they can still play it with captions and a voice.