Screen recording

Document Any Workflow by Recording It Once

Writing documentation by hand means screenshot, caption, repeat. Trainn turns one screen recording into a video and a written guide.

The problem

Stop Spending Hours Documenting a Quick Workflow

Documentation work is where productive hours quietly disappear. Atlassian's State of Developer Experience 2025, based on 3,500 developers and managers, found finding information is now the top source of friction, and half of developers lose more than 10 hours a week to organizational inefficiencies.

Good documentation fixes that, but producing it is slow. Teams describe the goal simply: guides that let colleagues follow a process without tracking down the person who knows it. Getting there means taking a screenshot for every step, writing a caption, assembling it in a document, and doing it again when the process changes.

That is the editing dependency in documentation: the workflow takes minutes to perform and hours to document.

The Solution

Trainn Turns One Screen Recording Into a Video and a Written Guide

Trainn's AI video agent turns a screen recording of a workflow into documentation in two formats. Trainn produces a narrated video and a written guide with a screenshot and description for each step. The person who knows the process performs it once and gets both formats back. Trainn's screen recording tool replaces writing each step by hand.

The features

Three Trainn Features That Help You Create Documentation From Screen Recordings

  • Create a Guide

    Create a Guide

    Record the workflow and Trainn detects each action, captures a screenshot per step, and writes a title and description for it. You get a numbered guide without taking or captioning screenshots by hand. You can also build a guide from uploaded screenshots when there is nothing to record.

  • Turn Video into a Guide

    Turn Video into a Guide

    Already recorded a video of the workflow? Convert it into a step-by-step guide with one click. The video and the guide are separate, editable outputs from one recording. One recording session produces two documentation formats.

  • Guide Step Editor

    Guide Step Editor

    When one step of the process changes, swap that screenshot and edit its text. The rest of the guide stays as it is, and every shared copy updates. Blur sensitive data in any screenshot from the same editor.

“We ran comparisons of how long it used to take last year versus this year. We saw a 50% reduction in production time.”
Fa Lujan Waisberg
Sr. Manager, Strategic Programs, ServiceNow

ServiceNow cut video production time from 10 days to five. Its 200-plus technical writers document thousands of pages on a monthly release cycle, and one recording session now produces a video, a guide, and draft documentation.

Who this is for

  • Technical writers

    Produce a video and a guide for each procedure from one recording instead of writing and screenshotting each step.

  • Operations and process owners

    Document internal workflows once and stop answering the same process questions.

  • Support and knowledge base managers

    Keep procedural articles current by editing steps, not rewriting pages.

FAQ

What is screen recording for documentation?

It is recording a software workflow to produce documentation from it, such as a step-by-step guide with screenshots or a narrated video, instead of writing each step by hand. This guide on turning screen recordings into standard operating procedure documentation shows the process step by step.

Does Trainn produce written documentation or only video?

Both. Create a Guide produces a step-by-step written guide from a recording, and Turn Video into a Guide converts an existing video into one. The same recording can also become a training video.

How is this different from Scribe?

Scribe captures clicks into screenshot-and-text guides quickly, which works well for internal standard operating procedures. Trainn is an AI-powered product video and guide creation platform. It produces both a written guide and a narrated video from the same recording. For documentation, Trainn is the better fit when readers need more than screenshots, because one recording gives you a guide for people who skim and a video for people who need to watch the workflow.

Can I export guides into our documentation tools?

Yes. Guides export as Markdown, HTML, PDF, PPTX, or images, or embed into a help center without code.

Can I keep documentation current after a release?

Yes. Guide Step Editor swaps one screenshot and description at a time, and the Clip-by-clip editor does the same for the video, so only changed steps need work. Quick fixes like this also keep async updates accurate after they are shared.

Can documentation be translated?

Yes. Guide Translations translates a whole guide in one click, and video translations cover voiceover, subtitles, and description.

How much does Trainn cost for screen recording for documentation?

Trainn starts at $19 per month with the Creator plan, which includes a 3-day free trial. Creator includes AI video and guide generation, AI voiceovers, and link or embed sharing for one user, covering up to 15 documentation videos and guides.