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Changelog

What is in showdo today and what comes next. Bigger updates are written up here as they ship.

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Use showdo in AI apps

Search your team's guides from the AI apps you already use, and get the answer as steps with their screenshots.

  • Add https://showdo.app/mcp as a connector in any AI app that supports MCP connectors.
  • Sign in with your showdo account and approve. There are no keys to copy.
  • Ask how to do something and get the steps, the screenshots and a link to each step.
  • Read-only, and it only sees the guides you can see. Disconnect any time in Settings.
How to connect
Early access

Team workspaces

showdo now lives on the web. Recordings from every Mac and browser land in one shared library your whole team can use.

  • Team workspaces with owner, admin, editor and viewer roles.
  • Folders, tags, search and collections for onboarding handbooks.
  • Share links that are private, by link or public, branded with your logo and color.
  • Exports to HTML, Markdown and PDF.
The showdo dashboard for the Marlow & Finch workspace: guide count, views this week, members and a grid of recent guides.
  • showdo for Mac

    • Records clicks, typing and shortcuts across every app, with a screenshot for each step.
    • Floating bar to pause, resume, finish or discard, plus manual screenshots.
    • Narration is turned into text on your Mac and used to write clearer steps.
    • Do it for me repeats a recorded guide with a gliding cursor while you watch.
  • showdo for Chrome

    • Records any website, with steps appearing live in the side panel.
    • Password fields are always hidden.
    • Repeats web guides and asks you to type hidden values yourself.
  • showdo for Android

    • Records your taps and typing in any app on your phone, only while you record, with a screenshot for each step.
    • A floating button to pause, take a screenshot or stop, and a Guide ready notification.
    • Personal details are blurred on the phone before upload. Password, phone-number and one-time-code fields are never captured as typed text.
    • Sign in with a short code you enter at showdo.app/connect. Read your guides in the app's library. Needs Android 11 or later and is coming soon to Google Play.
  • Privacy

    • Emails, phone numbers, cards, IBANs and secret keys are blurred on your device before upload.
    • An AI privacy scan lists names, addresses and account numbers for your review.
    • Editors can add a blur on the web. Originals never leave your device.
  • Guides and editing

    • AI writes titles, descriptions and a summary, and flags misclicks and undone steps.
    • Edit everything in place: steps, tips, alerts and section headers.
    • Screenshot editor with arrows, shapes, text, highlight, blur and crop, with undo.
    • Translate a guide into a new copy in another language.

Coming next

Planned, not available yet.

  • Public downloads for Mac and Chrome, and showdo for Android on Google Play
  • Single sign-on and two-step verification
  • Automatic updates for the Mac app

Try the early access release

Record a task once and turn it into a guide and a video your team can follow.

Cookie settings

Pick what showdo can save on this device.

  • Needed to work

    Keeps you signed in and remembers your cookie choices.

    Always on
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    • Your cookie choicesCookie

      6 months

      Remembers what you chose here so we don't ask again.

    • Sign-inCookie

      30 days

      Keeps you signed in to showdo.

    • Sign-in for this visitCookie

      Until you close the browser

      Signs you out when you close the browser, if you didn't choose to stay signed in.

    • Sign-up age checkCookie

      1 hour

      Remembers that you ticked "I'm 18 or older" while you finish making an account, including with GitHub or Google.

    • Sign-in with GitHub or GoogleCookie

      5 minutes

      Keeps the sign-in with GitHub or Google safe while it finishes.

    • Tips you have seenSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers which tours you finished, skipped or turned off, so they don't come back each time you open showdo.

  • Remember my settings

    Remembers things like your theme, where you left off in a guide and which tips you have seen.

    See what's stored
    • ThemeSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers light, dark or your device setting.

    • Side menu sizeSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers whether the side menu is open or small.

    • Recent guides listSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers whether the recent guides in the side menu are shown or minimised.

    • Requests layoutSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers if guide requests show as a list or a board.

    • Extra settings shownThis tab only

      Until you close the tab

      Keeps a section's extra options open while you move around Settings.

    • Home layoutSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers if your recent guides show as cards or a list.

    • Guides layoutSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers if your guides show as cards or a list.

    • Folders panelSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers whether the folders panel is open.

    • Passkey sign-inSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Asks for your passkey first when you sign in on this browser, because you used one here before. Keeps a scrambled form of your address, not the address itself.

    • How you last recordedSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Starts New guide with Chrome or Mac, whichever you used last.

    • showdo for MacSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers that this browser has talked to showdo for Mac.

    • Where you left offSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Reopens a guide at the last step you reached.

    • Intro video tucked awaySaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers that you tucked the home page intro video into the side, so it stays there next time.

    • Video export choicesSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      Remembers your last size, quality and format when you export.

    • Team set-up progressThis tab only

      Until you close the tab

      Keeps what you typed if you refresh while setting up your team.

    • Workspace switch promptThis tab only

      Until you close the tab

      Asks about switching workspaces only once per visit.

  • Usage statistics

    Helps us see which parts of showdo get used so we can improve them.

    See what's stored
    • Usage statisticsSaved on this device

      Until you clear it

      A random number for this browser, so we can count which pages and buttons get used.

    • Usage statistics for this visitThis tab only

      Until you close the tab

      Groups the pages you open in this tab into one visit.

    • Usage statistics turned offSaved on this device

      A moment

      Stops usage statistics straight away when you turn them off. Removed at the same moment.

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