For anyone in a CTL, AV team, or IT support role who’s ever had to produce yet another “how to submit grades” or “how to use the new booking system” video, Guidde is worth a look. It’s a browser extension and desktop app built around what it calls “Magic Capture”: you record yourself clicking through a process as normal, and the moment you stop recording, AI takes over, identifying each step, writing a description for it, adding zoom effects and transitions, and generating a narrated voiceover, all without any manual editing. The company claims this turns hours of screen-recording-and-editing into a finished guide in under two seconds of processing time.
The AI does the heavy lifting throughout: it auto-generates a step-by-step “storyline” with contextual captions (e.g. “Click the Save button”), offers 200+ AI voices across multiple languages and accents if you don’t want to record your own narration, and, for institutions handling sensitive data, has a “Magic Redaction” feature that automatically blurs personal information in recordings, useful if a guide is filmed against a live student or staff system. Finished guides export as MP4, GIF or embeddable HTML, and there’s a free tier (25 videos, watermarked) to trial it before committing; paid plans start around €18 to 25 per creator/month.
On review platforms like G2 and Capterra, users consistently praise the ease of setup and speed of producing something usable, which lines up with its core promise. The more common criticism is that the editing tools stay fairly basic once you go beyond the automated output, don’t expect a full video editor, and some reviewers have flagged that pricing feels steep relative to what you get once you’re past the free tier. It’s a commercial SaaS product rather than an EU-funded or education-specific tool, so there’s no independent pedagogical evaluation of it, but its use case (fast, consistent documentation with zero editing skill required) maps directly onto the kind of staff/student how-to content CTLs and AV teams produce constantly.
This tool is free to try and available in different paid plans: www.guidde.com
