Every release that changes what you, or the people watching your demos, can see is listed here on the day it goes live, newest first. Fixes you would never notice are left out.
19 October 2026
- A free video export that fails on our side no longer uses up the day's export. When an export stops because of a fault at our end, or a restart of the app, start it again straight away. Spoken lines are tried again when the voice service breaks off an answer, and a line that cannot be voiced no longer leaves the rest of the demo silent: the other lines are still made when you publish.
15 October 2026
- One question about cookies, said plainly. The cookie banner on our website and in the app now asks whether Google Analytics and Google Ads may set cookies, and Allow covers both: Analytics counts visits, and Ads tells us whether a visit that began with one of our ads led to a sign-up or a purchase. Ads are never personalised, and Decline still means no cookies at all. The Privacy Policy's Cookies section says exactly what each one gets.
14 October 2026
- A demo now costs $12 once (it was $29), with every feature as before: no subscription, nothing renews and no price per seat, and your first bought demo still lets your whole team in. A bought demo's AI agent now answers up to 300 questions a month (1000 before), and answers faster.
13 October 2026
- Plans at a glance. Settings > Plan now shows the free plan and a bought demo side by side, and lists the demos your workspace has bought, with what was paid. A hotspot's less used options (its tooltip's side and width, colours, buttons and typing) fold under More options, which names any you have changed. The sidebar's plan box stays a single line until you make your first demo, and the demos page has one search: the sidebar's finds anything, and the list has a filter by name or tag beside its folders. The keyboard now works inside every window the app opens: Tab stays in it and Escape closes it. On a phone, the leads list shows each lead's email, demo and date, and wide tables scroll sideways.
- Easier to find your way. Questions like deleting a demo, naming a folder or buying a demo now open in ShotDemo's own window instead of the browser's. An invitation says who invited you, to which workspace and as what, even before you sign in, and a link anyone can use to join can be copied again from Settings. New demo starts with recording clicks through your product with the Chrome extension. On a phone, the editor offers to preview, share or see a demo's numbers (editing needs a larger screen), and a demo's Back and Next buttons no longer sit on top of its picture. Every field in the app now has a name screen readers can say.
- Free exploration. A demo can now be explored instead of followed: switch it to free exploration in its settings and viewers click, type and scroll around your screens as in your product, with no steps to follow. Every hotspot leads to its screen, so does every clickable part you add (drawn on the screen, or picked on the page with a click), a link in a page to another page of the demo goes there, and a click on something that leads nowhere shows what can be clicked. Viewers can ask for the guided tour at any time. The editor lists the screens that lead nowhere and those nothing leads to, you choose the screen that counts as finishing, and the demo's analytics show where viewers clicked on nothing. It comes with buying the demo.
- New plans. The free plan is now for trying ShotDemo on your own: build as many demos as you like and keep one of them live (three before), with a 720p preview of its video once a day. A demo you buy is $29 once (it was $15) and has every feature, now including its written guide and the pictures of its steps. Your first bought demo lets your team into the workspace and gives everyone in it the full daily allowances for AI writing, website captures and spoken lines. A demo's AI agent answers up to 1000 questions a month. Demos that were already live stay live, and teammates who already joined stay.
- Sign in with Microsoft. Besides your work email and Google, you can sign in with a Microsoft account, from work, school or home. The first time, ShotDemo emails you a code to confirm the address.
- Sign in with your work email. Besides Google, you can now sign in, or make your account, with any email address: ShotDemo emails you a six-digit code to type back. Whichever way you sign in, your email address is your account, so your demos are always in the same place.
- Autoplay waits for each step's voice. A demo that plays by itself now keeps each step on screen until its spoken line has been said (and its typing has finished), then pauses and goes on. Before, a line longer than the step's seconds was cut off, in previews and in shared demos alike.
12 October 2026
ShotDemo became an interactive demo platform. You make a demo from screenshots of your app or from its website's address: each screen is a step, with a hotspot on what matters and a few words on why. You share it as a link, embed it on your site or in your help center, open it from a button as a popup, or show it inside your own app, and you see who watched it and how far they got. Building is free, three demos can be live at a time for free, and a demo with no limits costs $15 once: there is no subscription. The video maker ShotDemo started as is still inside: it turns any demo into a narrated MP4 or GIF.
Later the same day
- Click around the pages. Turn on "Let viewers click around the HTML pages" in a demo's settings, and a link inside a page that leads to another page of the demo takes the viewer to that page's step, as in the product itself.
- Pages translated too. Translating a demo now translates the words on its HTML pages as well (menus, buttons, headings, sentences), so viewers in another language see the product's screens in their language.
- Blurs on HTML pages. A blur or a cover you draw on a step with an HTML page no longer turns it back into a picture for viewers: when you publish, ShotDemo takes the words and pictures under it out of the page and lays the blurred part of the screenshot over that place.
- HTML pages in offline copies and SCORM. The offline copy and the SCORM package now carry each step's HTML page, with its pictures and fonts inside it, so the screens stay sharp from a disk or in a learning system.
- The AI agent talks. Viewers can ask a demo's AI agent aloud with the microphone button and hear the answer in the demo's voice, or have every answer read to them. Three questions written from the demo open the chat, and when a viewer wants to buy or to talk to someone, the agent offers the demo's own calendar or form and takes them to it. To let viewers ask aloud in a demo on your own site, copy its embed code again: it now lets the demo use the microphone.
- The extension keeps pages too. Version 1.1.0 of the Chrome extension also keeps each page you record as HTML, unless you turn it off: your viewers see it sharp at any size, and you can change its words in the editor without recording again. A page holds no more than your screen showed, with email addresses as blurred shapes.
- Pages as HTML. A demo made from your website's address now keeps each page as HTML too, beside its screenshot: viewers see the page sharp at any size and on any screen, and you change its words (a name, a price, a date) in the editor without capturing it again. ShotDemo checks every page against its screenshot and keeps the screenshot alone when the two differ.
- The Chrome extension. Click through your product and the ShotDemo extension turns each click into a step, with the picture of the screen, a hotspot where you clicked and the name of what you clicked as its words; typing becomes a typing step, and passwords and card numbers are never recorded. It is free: add it to Chrome.
- Your own domain. Show your demos, showcases and embeds at an address of your own, such as demos.yourcompany.com: add it in Settings > Domain, point one CNAME record at custom.shotdemo.com, and ShotDemo sets up its certificate. Your links and embed codes then use your address, and only your workspace's demos are shown there. It comes with buying a demo.
- An AI agent for your viewers. Turn it on in a demo's settings and viewers get an "Ask a question" button: the AI answers from the demo's own words and what you tell it, shows them the step with the answer, says when it does not know, and keeps every question for you in the demo's Analytics. It never reads what waits behind a password. It comes with buying the demo.
- A logo per viewer. Put a picture note on a screen and set it to show the viewer's logo: a link made for one person shows their company's logo there, read by ShotDemo from the company's website (or their work email's), and everyone else sees your own picture or nothing.
- A monthly recap. At the start of each month, the admins of a workspace get one email with last month's views, viewers, completion and leads beside the month before's, and the most viewed demos. Settings turns it off.
Making demos
- 32 languages. The AI translates a demo's words into any of 32 languages, each with a voice of its own, and viewers get the demo in their browser's language or pick one in the player.
- Voices with a manner. A demo's spoken lines can take a speaking style, such as cheerful or friendly, where the chosen voice has one.
- Screen recording. Record your screen in the editor, with your camera in a round bubble in a corner if you like. A recording becomes a video step, and a hotspot can stop the video at a chosen second until the viewer clicks it.
- The demo check. A score out of 100 and what to fix first, with fixes you make in one click, and an AI review that also finds email addresses, phone numbers and keys on the screenshots to blur.
- Find details to blur. The AI marks the private details on one screen, or on every screen, and you keep the blur boxes you want.
- Ask the AI. Press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) and ask in plain words: which demo was watched most this month, translate this one into Spanish, tag the onboarding demos. It looks things up by itself and changes nothing until you confirm.
- Several steps at once. Select steps with Ctrl or Shift to duplicate, delete or move them together; copy steps from another demo; zoom every step to its hotspot in one go.
- Versions and publishing. Each published version shows what changed since the one before, and a workspace can let only its admins publish.
- Keyboard shortcuts. Press ? anywhere in the app to see them all.
Sharing
- Showcases. Several demos on one page, laid out as a list, a checklist that remembers what each viewer finished, a gallery, or paths that ask the viewer a question first and show the demos for their answer. YouTube, Loom and Vimeo videos can sit between the demos, a folder of demos can become a showcase in one click, and a showcase can be duplicated for another audience.
- A demo hub on your site. A button in the corner of your website or app opens the showcase's demos, each in a window over the page.
- Where a demo may be shown. List your own websites, and every other site's attempt to embed the demo or the showcase is refused.
- Embeds from a link. Paste a demo's link into an editor or wiki that reads oEmbed, and it puts the demo there by itself.
- Presenter mode. Give a demo live, with your notes, the next step and a timer on your screen.
- Comments and review links. Your team discusses each step beside the editor, and a review link lets someone outside your workspace comment on the published demo.
- Downloads. A demo for learning systems (SCORM 1.2), every step as a picture, an offline copy, and the narrated video.
- For every viewer. The player works with the keyboard and with screen readers, and says each new step aloud to them.
Your workspace
- Tags and filters. Tag demos, find them by tag or by title, show only the live ones or the drafts, and move, archive, restore or delete several at once.
- Showcases in Analytics. How many demo views each showcase brought, how many demos were watched in it and how many viewers finished.
- An example to look around. A new workspace can open an example demo, ShotDemo's own one-minute tour, to see how one is made.
- An API and AI agents. Make and change demos from your own code, and let AI assistants such as Claude work with your demos: Claude connects by signing in, with no key to copy. See the API page.
- Easier to read and to use. Clearer contrast across the app and this website, and pages left open in a browser keep working while a new version of ShotDemo goes live.
September 2026
ShotDemo began as a maker of product videos from screenshots: camera moves to what matters, captions, a voice, music, and every shape from 16:9 to 9:16. That engine now makes the video of any demo.