Copycat
Free Chrome extension · No account needed to record

Show, don't tell.
Private guides & videos
in one click.

Copycat records your clicks and turns them into annotated step-by-step guides — or captures your screen and webcam as a video. Everything downloads straight to your device, never to our servers. We can't watch your recordings — and we'll never train AI on them.

Hero screenshot — the finished result
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Your recordings are yours — full stop. Guides and videos download straight to your device — nothing is uploaded to us. We never see your content and never use it to train AI. That's why the free plan can be genuinely useful rather than a trial.

Three steps, under a minute

No setup, no editing timeline, no learning curve.

Side panel with Record button
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Hit Record

Open the side panel and press Record — for a click-by-click guide, or a screen video with your webcam.

Page with annotated click markers
2

Do the thing

Work through your flow normally. Every click, scroll, and keystroke becomes an annotated screenshot — across tabs.

Export options
3

Export & send

Download a polished PDF guide or the video file, ready to drop into an email, wiki, or chat.

Video recording

Loom-style videos, minus the subscription

Record a tab, window, or your full screen with your webcam floating on top. Drag the bubble anywhere — it moves in the final video too. Pause, resume, and switch tabs freely while recording.

  • ✓ Webcam bubble with mic visualizer
  • ✓ Keeps recording across tab switches
  • ✓ Downloads as a ready-to-send video file
Screen recording with webcam bubble
Guide editor with annotated steps
Step-by-step guides

Documentation that writes itself

Every action is captured as an annotated screenshot with a numbered marker. Edit labels, add notes between steps, delete what you don't need — then export a PDF that looks like you spent an afternoon on it.

  • ✓ Click, scroll, type & navigation detection
  • ✓ Animated per-step playback
  • ✓ One-click polished PDF export

Who it's for

Anywhere someone has to be shown how

The work you already do once becomes something you never have to explain again.

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Employee onboarding

Stop walking every new starter through the same systems. Record the process once while you do it for real, and hand over a guide they can follow at their own pace — and come back to in week three when they have forgotten.

  • Internal tools and admin systems
  • Role handovers before someone leaves
  • Consistent training, not whoever is free that day
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Customer success

Answer once, reuse forever. Turn the reply you were about to type into a step-by-step guide with real screenshots, and send a link instead of a paragraph that starts "click the gear icon, then…".

  • Support replies that actually get followed
  • Self-serve help centre articles
  • Onboarding calls that leave something behind
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SaaS companies

Product documentation goes stale the moment the UI changes. Re-recording a guide takes a minute, so keeping your docs honest stops being a project nobody volunteers for.

  • Feature walkthroughs and release notes
  • In-app help and tooltips
  • Sales demos your team can repeat
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Knowledge management

Most process knowledge lives in one person’s head and leaves when they do. Capturing it should cost minutes, not an afternoon with a screenshot tool and a document template.

  • SOPs and compliance procedures
  • Finance, HR and ops runbooks
  • Tribal knowledge, written down at last

✨ Some features are incoming — here's what's already in the box:

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No account needed

Record guides and export PDFs without signing in. Sign in only to personalize your exports.

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Multi-tab capture

Flows that span several tabs or pages are stitched into one guide automatically.

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Any surface

Record a single tab, an app window, or your full screen — with or without your webcam.

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Your own branded header

Make guides look professional: sign in with Google or Microsoft and upload your company header — it tops every PDF you export.

Set up your header →
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Polished PDF export

Numbered steps, annotated screenshots, your notes — a document you can send as-is.

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Your device, your data

Everything downloads straight to your computer. Nothing is stored on our servers, and no AI is ever trained on it.

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Free to start

3 PDF guides and 3 screen recordings every month, free and without a watermark. Upgrade only when it becomes a habit.

Set up your header →
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Incoming

Cloud save to your own Google Drive, share links with view tracking, and live notifications when someone watches — all on the way.

Stop retyping instructions

The next time someone asks “how do I…?”, record it once and send the link.

Add Copycat to Chrome — free