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Record a video of your screen
Record a screen or window, with or without your voice, then save an MP4 or turn it into a guide with a marked step for every click. Free.
- Plan
- Free
- Reading time
- 3 min read
- Checked against Thoth for Windows on
- October 23, 2026
Sometimes a short video is the right answer, and Thoth records one without a separate tool. It records moving pictures into an MP4 you save wherever you want, or into a guide. To make a video out of a guide’s steps instead, see Export a guide as a GIF or a video.
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Open Record a video
Choose Record a video in the library’s left sidebar.
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Choose what to record
The Screens tab lists your monitors and the Windows tab lists open windows. Pick one. Turn on Record microphone if you want your voice on it.
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Record
After a three-second countdown it records. You can pause, resume and stop. You can also minimize Thoth and come back to it from the taskbar to pause or stop.
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Preview and save
When you stop, Thoth shows the video. Give it a name, then choose Save and pick where to put the MP4. The video stays on your computer until you save it.
| Detail | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Quality | Up to 1080p at 30 frames per second, H.264 video and AAC sound, in an MP4. |
| Length | A recording can be up to 2 GB. |
| Cost | Part of Free. |
| At the same time as a guide | Not possible. Finish capturing a guide first, and Thoth won’t start a capture while a video is recording. |
| Each recording | Asks you to choose the screen or window again, so a video never records something you didn’t just pick. |
Turn the recording into a guide#
When the preview appears, choose Make a guide…. Thoth builds a guide from the recording: one step for each click you made, with the screenshot taken just before the click, the click marked on it, and the control you clicked named in the title, like Click “Export”. The app each step happened in is noted too. This is free; you don’t need AI.
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Record as you normally would
Click through the task at a calm pace. Pausing is fine: paused time isn’t counted, and your clicks on Thoth’s own Pause, Resume and Stop buttons aren’t recorded.
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Choose Make a guide…
It shows the clicks it found, with a preview of each step. Choose Create guide.
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Add AI if you want it (Pro)
Tick Then improve the step titles and write an introduction with AI. If you spoke while recording and your provider can transcribe speech, tick Use what’s said in the video so your words shape the steps. See Use AI to write and improve steps.
- Only clicks are logged. Thoth doesn’t log what you type or which keys you press, so add typed steps by hand afterwards.
- Only what you recorded. Clicks outside the screen or window you chose aren’t kept, and nothing is sent anywhere. The log stays on your computer and goes when you make the guide or discard the video.
- A saved video has no clicks. The click log isn’t part of the MP4. To make a guide from an MP4 you saved earlier, import it as a video; Thoth then finds a step for each change on screen instead.
- Where the clicks come from. Windows reports which control is under the pointer. Some apps don’t name their controls, and those steps are titled Click here.
If Thoth closes mid-recording#
Thoth keeps the video recorded so far. The next time you open Record a video, it offers Recover video or Discard draft. A draft is kept for 7 days, and the last few seconds before an interruption may be missing. Only one unsaved recording is kept at a time, so save or discard it before you start another.