AI voiceovers used to read every step in the same steady voice. That's fine for a one-line instruction, but anything longer started to sound like a robot reading a list. This update lets you shape how your narration sounds as well as what it says.

More natural delivery

Voiceovers now run on a newer voice model, so narration sounds more like a person walking someone through the steps and less like text being read out.

Add a pause where it matters

Click Pause or Long pause in the voiceover editor, or type [pause] or [long pause], to give viewers a beat before the next instruction. Pauses show up as small chips in the script so you can see them at a glance.

Pick a pace

Every clip has a pace setting: Slower, Auto or Faster. Slow down the step with five fields to fill in and speed through the obvious ones.

A voice picker that's easier to browse

Filter voices by language and gender, and play a sample in the language you're narrating in before you choose. Your cloned voice has its own section.

A few voices are retiring

Some older voices are going away on November 30, 2026. They're grouped in their own section of the picker so they're easy to spot. Voiceovers you've already generated with them won't be affected and will keep playing as they do now. You only need to pick a new voice when you generate a new voiceover.

Note: AI voiceovers are available on all paid plans.

A recording with our extension or desktop app gives you steps like "Click on button" and "Type in input." They're accurate, but nobody wants to read twenty of them in a row. Until now, turning that into something that's easy to follow meant rewriting every step yourself.

Rewrite a whole guide in one click

Open any guide and hit Rewrite with Nila in the editor. Nila looks at each screenshot and what was clicked, works out what the guide is about, and rewrites the title, the description and every step so they read the way a person would explain them.

Pick a tone first. Auto matches what you've already written, or you can choose tones like Professional, Friendly, Concise or Casual. If you don't like the result, undo puts everything back.

Nila is on all paid plans. It uses AI credits, or your own OpenAI/Anthropic key if you've connected one.

Need a help article in Spanish? Stop writing a second one. Translate the one you have.

30+ languages, one article

Open an article, hit ⋯ → Translations, pick a language. Your formatting, links and code come through untouched. Readers can switch languages from the article, and your helpcenter opens in their language when it can.

Edited since? You'll be shown which translations need a refresh.

Forms, reactions and comments

Everything guides already had. Show a form when someone opens an article or is about to leave, let readers react, and let your team comment right on the page.

Translations, reactions and comments are on all paid plans.

You can now embed just the AI chatbot from your help center, without the rest of the help center.

Drop a single script tag on your website or app and visitors get an AI chatbot widget that answers from your guides and articles. It can answer in your voice, cites the guides it used, and only answers from your content.

You can set the welcome headline, description and suggested questions, and bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key or just use ours.

To set it up, go to Help Center → Widget in your dashboard, choose "AI chatbot" mode and copy the snippet. Changes to your help center show up in the widget automatically.

Ask AI is available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Until now the extension and the web app didn't really talk to each other. You recorded in one, then went to the other to clean up. v2.5.1 joins them up, and while we were at it we rebuilt the extension so that for most guides you barely need the editor at all: record, edit as you go, press stop, share the guide.

Start and steer recordings from your dashboard

Click Record a guide on the dashboard, pick any open tab or paste a URL, and the extension starts recording there. From then on the dashboard shows the same recording the extension does: steps as they land, the title, the count. Pause, rename, edit steps or finish from whichever side you happen to be looking at.

See the guide while you're recording it

The new recording panel shows every step as it lands: the numbered instruction, the screenshot, and the hotspot in your workspace's style and color. What you see in the panel is what the guide will look like.

Fix a step without stopping

Reword an instruction, remove a stray click, rename the guide, or blur something sensitive, all while the recording is still running. Whatever you change is what gets saved, so most guides go straight from recording to a shareable link without you ever opening the editor.

Guidejar asks before it follows you into another tab

Guides often span more than one tab, so the recording follows you. The tab you switch to out of habit shouldn't end up in the guide, though. Now, when you land on a new tab mid-recording, Guidejar asks whether to add it before capturing anything there. Say no and a quiet marker stays on that tab so you always know it isn't being recorded.

How to get the new extension?

Chrome updates extensions on its own within a few hours. To check, open the extension, go to Settings and look for version 2.5.1. Haven't tried our extension yet? Install it from the Chrome Web Store. It works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera and other Chromium browsers.

Give it a try on your next guide, and tell us what you think!

You've got a folder full of screenshots. Someone sent them over Slack, you grabbed a few on your phone, a designer exported the rest. There's a guide buried in there somewhere — but until now, getting it out meant recapturing every single screen from scratch.

Now you don't have to.

With Import Screenshots, you can upload a batch of images and turn them into individual steps in one go. Drop them in, and Guidejar lays them out for you to polish:

• Write instructions for each step right there, with full rich-text formatting

• Drop a hotspot anywhere on an image with a click

• Drag to reorder until the flow makes sense

• Choose where they land — at the end of your guide, or tucked in right after any existing step

Then hit import, and your screenshots become real, editable steps in your guide.

It's the fastest way to bring existing material into Guidejar — no re-recording, no starting from scratch.

Give it a try on your next guide.

Guides in Scroll View used to just sit there — you scrolled, you read. Now they come to life.

Guidejar can now play the guide in scroll view on its own: bringing each step into focus, reading it aloud, then gliding to the next.

For your audience, it feels less like reading a document and more like being personally walked through it — each step front and center exactly when it matters, narrated in a real voice, at a pace that's easy to follow. New hires, customers, and teammates can just watch and absorb instead of working to keep up.

And they stay in control the whole time — pause, replay a step, or jump ahead whenever they like.

Recording a guide means recording whatever's on your screen — and sometimes that includes things you'd rather not share. A customer's email. An account number. A face in a profile picture. Until now, the fix was opening every screenshot and blurring things by hand.

Not anymore.

With PII Redaction, Guidejar can scan your screenshots and automatically blur sensitive information for you. Click the redact option on any step, pick what you want hidden, and we'll take care of the rest.

It's especially handy if you're documenting internal tools, customer-facing flows, or anything that touches real user data — your guides stay useful, your data stays private.

PII Redaction is available on the Business & Enterprise plans.

Ever wanted your voiceover to explain more than what's on screen? Now it can. Write a separate voiceover script for any step — keep your display text short, let your narration do the heavy lifting.

Switch between the two right in the step editor, and Guidejar uses the right one in the right place. Don't set a voiceover script? It just uses your display text, same as always.