How to make your own tutorials with AI — no screen recording
Making a how-to guide usually means recording your screen, re-recording when you fumble, then editing it all together. There's a faster way: describe the task, and AI writes an interactive tutorial you can actually follow on your own screen.
Anyone who has tried to make a decent tutorial knows the drill. You start a screen recorder, click through the steps, mess one up, start over, then spend an evening trimming clips and adding captions. By the time it's done, the app has updated and half your screenshots are wrong.
Skip the recording entirely
PathTutorial takes a different route. Instead of capturing video, you describe the task in plain words, and AI turns it into an interactive, on-screen tutorial. When someone runs it, an arrow points at the real button in their own window, a friendly voice reads each step aloud, and it waits until they've done it before moving on.
There's no footage to shoot, no timeline to edit, and nothing to re-record when you stumble. The tutorial is a small .ptf file that opens in the free PathTutorial Player.
Three ways to create one
- ➤Describe your task to the website's AI assistant and let it write the steps.
- ➤Browse the library for a ready-made tutorial that already covers what you need.
- ➤Connect your own ChatGPT or Claude through the PathTutorial connector, so your assistant can hand you a guided tutorial directly.
To connect an assistant, it's a one-time setup. In Claude, go to Settings, then Connectors, choose Add custom connector, and paste the PathTutorial URL. In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Connectors, turn on Developer mode under Advanced, and add the same URL, no login required.
A tutorial that points at your real screen beats a video you have to pause and rewind ten times.
Why this beats a screen recording
A video shows someone else's screen and hopes yours looks the same. A PathTutorial guide points at your actual buttons, on your actual machine, and waits for you. Nothing clicks for you, so you stay in control and learn the steps as you go. If an app changes, updating a written tutorial is far easier than re-shooting and re-editing a video.
It's a great fit for anyone who needs to explain a process once and have people follow it reliably, whether that's a hobby, a household, or a small team. PathTutorial is free and runs on Windows 10 and 11, reading on-screen elements through Windows accessibility so the arrow lands in exactly the right place.
Get a step-by-step tutorial for your task
Describe what you want to do and get an interactive tutorial that guides you on your own screen.