For anyone who hands manuals to clients or maintains systems

Snap it, explain it. Explicaí builds the manual.

The manual comes out with the client's logo and colors and with their data hidden. PDF, HTML or Markdown, free and open source.

npx explicai manuals

Needs Node 22.12 or newer. Runs on your machine, no account, no cloud.

See a sample manual →

Studio with the Register a bill page open: three numbered steps and, below them, the Accounts payable screenshot marked with the numbers 1, 2 and 3.

Every screen change makes the manual out of date.

Redoing the screenshot, the markup and the text for each step takes time, and it is easy to leave the manual for later.

How it works

From screenshot to manual in three steps

  1. 1 Paste the screenshot.

    Copy your system's screen and paste it into the page. The image goes into the manual.

  2. 2 Mark the screen.

    Add numbered markers, highlights, arrows and clickable areas, and write what the reader does at each one.

  3. 3 Export.

    Generate PDF, HTML or Markdown in one click. PDF export needs Chrome, Edge or Chromium installed.

Explicaí does not capture the screen. The screenshot comes from you. See a manual made with Explicaí →

What comes with it

Beyond the paste and the markup

  • Client data out of the screenshot

    Hide burns a bar or a blur into the screenshot pixels and deletes the original.

  • A manual that looks like the client's

    Logo on the cover, theme colors and nine fonts that travel with the HTML.

See all features →

Start with your first manual.

npx explicai manuals