Wizardshot
Helpjuice · Productivity · Leaning
Wizardshot is a free Chrome extension that records your clicks and turns them into step-by-step tutorials, with AI-written captions, editable screenshots and one-click exports.

About Wizardshot
What Is Wizardshot
Wizardshot is a screen recorder for people who have to explain software to other people. You install the extension, hit Capture, and walk through a task the way you normally would. Every click becomes a screenshot with a caption, and the whole sequence arrives in your dashboard as a draft article.
The team behind it also builds Helpjuice, a knowledge base product, so Wizardshot is aimed at help documentation work rather than at polished marketing screenshots. Support teams use it to write onboarding guides, internal runbooks and customer-facing help articles without opening a word processor. Bloggers and consultants use it for the same reason: writing the steps by hand takes an afternoon, and recording them takes ten minutes.
The limits show up early. It records inside Chrome only, so desktop apps, mobile screens and terminal work stay out of reach. Tutorials also live inside a Wizardshot workspace, which matters if your team already documents everything somewhere else.
Getting Started
- Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store and sign in with a Google account or an email address.
- Open the tab you want to document, click the Wizardshot icon, then press Capture.
- Run through the task step by step. Press Stop when you finish and the AI writes a draft from the screenshots it collected.
- Clean up the draft in the editor: fix captions, blur private details, add a video or turn a step into a GIF.
- Publish the tutorial as a shared link, export it to PDF or DOC, or send it to a connected knowledge base.
Product Information
A quick look at Wizardshot's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Support and customer success teams
- IT and operations staff
- Freelancers and consultants
Tasks
- Writing onboarding guides
- Documenting a bug or a support case
- Turning a recorded process into a help center article
Scenarios
- A new hire starts next week and nobody has written the setup guide
- A repetitive admin task lands on someone new every month
- A UI change breaks your existing docs
Key features
Click Capture Instead of Screen Recording
Wizardshot watches what you click and grabs a screenshot at each step. You get a clean sequence of frames rather than a long video nobody wants to scrub through. The extension stays out of the way while you work, which matters when the task involves a dozen small clicks in a row.
AI Drafts the Steps
After you stop the capture, the AI tutorial generator writes a caption for every screenshot based on what changed on screen. It reads the page, guesses the intent behind each click and produces something close to a first draft. The text is a starting point, not a final copy: product-specific jargon and unusual UI labels usually need a rewrite.
Smart Blur for Private Details
Smart blur hides the parts of a screenshot you don't want to publish, such as customer names, email addresses, internal URLs or account balances. You can blur a region by hand or let the tool detect the obvious candidates. For support teams handling real user data, this is the difference between a usable tutorial and a compliance problem.
Editor With GIF Steps and Video
The editor lets you reorder steps, rewrite captions, crop screenshots and drop in a video where a static frame isn't enough. Any step can become a short GIF, which is handy for animations, drag and drop interactions and anything that looks confusing in a still image. Edits happen in the browser, so there's nothing to install beyond the extension.
Export, Share and Knowledge Base Sync
Finished tutorials can go out as a link, a PDF or a DOC file, and paid Helpjuice customers can push them straight into a knowledge base. PDF export covers the client who wants a document in an email attachment, while the shared link suits internal wikis. Social sharing exists too, even if a how-to article rarely belongs on a social feed.
Team Workspaces, Access Control and Analytics
You can invite teammates, restrict who sees which tutorial and check how often each article gets opened. Analytics answer a practical question: which guides people actually read, and which ones they open and abandon. Granular access control keeps sensitive runbooks away from the whole company.
Pros and cons
Pros
- The free plan covers the core workflow, including capture, the AI draft and PDF export, so you can test it on a real task before spending anything.
- Setup takes a couple of minutes: install the extension, sign in, press Capture. No desktop client and no screen recording permissions to configure.
- The AI draft removes most of the blank-page problem, and editing a rough draft is faster than writing ten steps from memory.
- Smart blur handles the privacy work that usually gets skipped when someone is in a hurry to publish a guide.
- Helpjuice integration means a tutorial can move from recording to published help article without a copy-paste detour.
Cons
- Chrome only. Desktop applications, mobile apps and anything happening outside the browser can't be captured, which rules out a fair share of IT documentation.
- No public API is documented, so teams that want to push tutorials into their own CMS or automate publishing have to rely on exports.
- Tutorials sit in a Wizardshot workspace, so an organization standardized on another documentation platform ends up managing two libraries.
- AI captions describe what changed on screen, not why it matters. Someone still has to edit for context, and vague UI labels often come out vaguer.
Frequently asked questions
Wizardshot records the clicks you make in a browser and turns them into a step-by-step tutorial with screenshots and written instructions. Teams use it for onboarding guides, internal runbooks and customer help articles.
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