Changelog
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mado works inside Claude
newAdd mado to Claude as a connector, sign in and pick a workspace, and ask for what you need: find a demo, make a personal link for each prospect with their company name filled in, see who opened theirs and how far they got, or rewrite a demo’s tooltips. Text Claude edits goes into the draft, and you publish it from Studio. Claude Code connects the same way, and owners and admins can make API keys for scripts. Part of Pro and Team. Setup: mado.show/docs/claude.
Screen recordings are back as a beta
newNew demo in Studio has a Recording tab again, marked beta: upload a recording from your phone or computer, or record your screen in Studio. You place the steps yourself in the editor; some steps and click targets may be filled in from the recording, and you can delete them. AI writing is off for recordings for now, so the tooltips and narration are yours to write; voice from your text and music still work. AI first drafts stay with extension captures and screenshots, which remain the recommended way to start.
Share pages open faster, and the player fits phones better
improvedShare pages now send no framework code, so the demo shows sooner; mobile Lighthouse went from 68–82 to 96–99. In the player: on a phone or tablet frame the controls sit under the device instead of over the app’s own buttons, the last screen holds long enough to read, the cover no longer shows the first step’s card, a light logo stays readable on the cover and end card, and a tablet demo on a phone gets the room it needs.
After a downgrade, the plan’s published-demo limit applies
improvedWhen a workspace moves to a plan with a lower limit, for example to Free after a cancellation or a failed payment, its most recently published demos keep serving up to that limit (5 on Free), with that plan’s badge, and the others stop serving. Nothing is deleted, and upgrading serves them all again. Before this, every published demo kept serving. Terms section 6 and the pricing page say the same.
mado capture is in the Chrome Web Store
newInstall the mado capture extension from the Chrome Web Store (version 0.3.1). It captures a web app as a screenshot per click, or records it with your microphone and camera, and it runs Learn this app, Sync and the Helper. Studio imports what it captures as a draft.
Intro slides, and player text in the demo’s language
newWhen a brief has context that no screen shows, the demo agent can open the demo with up to two slides of its own, drawn in the demo’s colours and font; every number, date and name on a slide has to come from the brief. The player’s own buttons and labels now follow the demo’s language. An AI job is charged once, and a job that fails for good uses no credits.
A scrub bar in Watch, showcase steps, and a phone edition from the demo agent
newWatch plays on a timeline you can scrub. A showcase step lights the parts of one panel in turn, with a short headline, in the player and in every video export; the demo agent writes them and you can edit them in Studio. Screenshot and scan demos on Pro and Team now get a phone edition from the demo agent: its own short lines and a readable frame for each highlight. The embed opens faster: first frame on simulated Fast 4G went from 1.89 s to 1.24 s.
Lead capture
newOn Pro and Team, add a short form after a chosen step of a demo, asking for an email address, a name or a company. Entries appear under Leads in Studio, download as CSV, and can send a Slack or email alert. The form names who the details go to, and entries from visits that look automated are flagged and never alerted.
Analytics: periods compared, custom dates, and what to fix
improvedDemo analytics compare a period with the one before it, take custom dates and pick one version for the whole page (live, all versions or one). New sections show what to fix first, how people watched, and each view’s path, and two versions can be compared side by side. Free compares within its last 30 days.
Ask mado, and an editor in three tabs
newAsk mado takes one instruction, for the whole demo or one step, such as “make step 3 shorter” or “rename the button to Book a call”, and changes only what it was asked to; you review the change before it is kept. A request can be up to 2,000 characters and carry up to three screenshots with your own marks. The editor’s top bar is now three tabs in working order: Steps, Polish and Share.
Credits for AI work
improvedAI work is now counted in credits: 20 a month on Free, 300 per editor on Pro, and 2,000 on Team plus 300 for each extra editor. Studio shows the estimate before a job starts and never charges more than it showed. Pro and Team can buy packs. Helper runs and promo films no longer have a monthly count of their own; each uses credits. Running out of credits stops only AI work: uploads, editing, publishing and analytics keep working.
The demo agent writes first drafts
newOn Pro and Team, the demo agent writes a demo from its screens: a story, a line for each highlight, and a check that draws every highlight and fixes what is off before it hands the draft over. In click-through, the viewer now moves through a step’s highlights one at a time, each with its sentence in a card beside it. Watch without a voice plays at reading pace, and the camera keeps its frame between steps on the same page instead of zooming out and back in.
Folders and tags
newSort demos and help hubs into folders (one level, a demo is in one folder) and give them tags, then search and filter the Demos page by either. Apps take tags too. Tags are private to Studio: they never appear in a published demo or a help hub. On every plan.
Terms and privacy policy updated for the Helper and the extension
improvedTerms section 17 and the privacy policy now describe the Helper, per-app notes, scans and what the Chrome extension keeps in your browser. Updated 7 October 2026; the text is at /legal/terms and /legal/privacy.
Tracked links, alerts, re-capture, rescan updates and Sync are Pro and Team
improvedTracked links per person or company, Slack and email alerts, re-capture, rescan updates and Sync are now part of Pro and Team, and Free no longer includes them. Demos you already published, and their share links and embeds, are not affected, and a review you have open stays open.
The Autopilot is now the Helper; Auto-approve is off by default
improvedThe feature that suggests the next click is called the Helper, because you stay in charge of it. Approving ordinary buttons for a run is off until you switch it on for that run. Delete, pay and send style buttons always need you. Explore links now stays inside the part of the app you start in, instead of following links out to public pages.
Rules and notes for the Helper, per app
newOn the Apps page you can write rules and notes for the Helper for each app, such as which account to use or what to leave alone. Notes steer the Helper; they do not switch off its safety rules. Apps also take tags now, visible only inside Studio. Needs extension 0.3 or later.
The Helper suggests the next click
newOn Pro and Team, the Helper explores an app you point it at and suggests the next click, up to 30 runs a month. Risky buttons (delete, pay, send) always need you, and every click is recorded before it happens. It needs AI assist and sends text only: page outlines and control names, never a screenshot. Needs extension 0.3 or later (updates through the Chrome Web Store).
Voice & languages in one panel
improvedOn Pro and Team, choose a voice, add a music bed and tick the languages you want in one editor panel, then press Generate. Each language becomes its own copy of the demo, translated from the original, with narration in a voice for that language. Lithuanian has six native voices we picked; for other languages you choose from the voices ElevenLabs lists, and you can ask for a language that is missing. Nothing is made until you press Generate.
Promo film
newOn Pro and Team, plan a 30 to 60 second film from a published demo, edit the storyboard, and render it in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 in the demo’s own look. The plan uses only what is in the demo, with no invented numbers. Up to 10 films a month.
Rescan proposes updates to your demos
newWhen you scan an app again, mado compares the new screens with every demo made from that app and proposes updates. Matching is deterministic and never guesses silently; you review each proposal before anything is published. On Pro and Team, in Studio; the scans come from the Chrome extension.
Phone overview and narration cues
improvedOn a phone, each new screen now opens whole, holds for a moment, then glides to the target at a pace you can follow. In Watch mode, the camera can zoom, highlight or point at what each phrase of the narration names, as it is spoken. Desktop and tablet keep their own camera.
Learn this app
newIn the Chrome extension, Learn this app follows an app’s own links, read-only, and keeps each screen with a text outline and the app’s look. Make a demo from the scan with a short brief, or pick screens yourself. Apps group the scans of one app. On every plan; the page outlines stay in your browser until you send them. Needs extension 0.3 or later (updates through the Chrome Web Store).
Sync and re-capture review
newSync re-walks a demo you captured with the extension and feeds the same review as re-capture: you see what changed, step by step, and your tooltips and redactions carry over. You start it yourself; automatic sync is not built yet. Pro and Team. Needs extension 0.3 or later (updates through the Chrome Web Store).
Demo style presets
newA demo starts in one of three looks: mado, neutral, or your own brand, read from your website (colours, fonts, corners). The player, the Studio settings and the MP4 follow the choice.
A desktop recording, laid out for a phone
newOn a phone, a desktop recording now plays as a framed window under a headline, opening on the whole screen and zooming to each step, with the target kept in view. A tablet plays the recording as it was made, horizontally. When you embed a demo, you choose the phone layout and can add a "watch the full demo" link. The player also has back and next buttons in its control bar.
Chrome extension: capture a web app, or record it
newThe optional mado capture extension for Chrome saves a lossless screenshot at every click with the exact box of the element, masks passwords, card numbers and codes as you type, and imports the capture into Studio as a draft. Record mode adds your microphone and camera, with optional background blur and a bubble in the demo. It is available from the Chrome Web Store.
Build your help hub from your recordings
newOn Help hubs, "Build it for me" takes a few questions about your product and any number of recordings or screenshot sets, then drafts a hub: sections, titles, the pages each demo belongs on, and a list of tasks still missing. You review it in the editor and publish in one click. The editor itself is clearer: one screen with a status line, drag and drop, a live preview on a phone or desktop, and undo that lasts the session. With AI assist off, you get a plainer draft made without a model.
Cleaner demos from the same recording
improvedNarration now holds a steady level, music loops under it, and the player has a volume slider. Steps that are dark, filler or repeats are dropped, the recorded mouse cursor is removed from screenshots, and images are encoded sharper. A zoomed shot now loads the file it will actually show, so it no longer opens on a blurred placeholder. In Studio, the timeline plays back, you can add your own music, an Effects lane shows camera moves, and you can replace selected steps or start a demo from screenshots.
Social cut, and an end card on the MP4
newPublish a short video for social: 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, up to 40 seconds, with a hook line and four to six key steps. The plain MP4 export now ends on your end card and call to action. Both are on every plan; on Free they carry the "made with mado" badge.
Download your recording, or a demo to run offline
newOn every plan, download the source recording you uploaded, or a published demo as a zip that plays from index.html with no network and no analytics. Both are in the dashboard menu and the publish panel.
Fonts
newSet the font a demo uses: your system font, one of 23 self-hosted library fonts, or a font file you upload. The same font appears in the MP4 and the social cut. Nothing loads from Google at runtime.
In-app help: "Show me how" buttons and a searchable help hub
newAdd one script to your own product and any button can open a mado demo in a modal over your app. A help hub lists your demos by section, puts the ones for the current page first, and searches every step, so "export CSV" opens the demo at the step that shows it. The script is 3.6 KB gzipped and waits until the page is idle. Native apps can open the hosted hub in an in-app browser.
Write with AI
newWith AI assist on, a new upload comes back with a title, step names, tooltips, narration, chapters and an end card written from its screens. In the editor, "Write with AI" takes a short brief (audience, goal, tone) and proposes changes you accept or skip one by one. It never deletes a step, and the end card waits for a link you type.
Voice and music
newNarrate a demo with a generated voice and add a music bed. You hear them in Watch mode and in the MP4, never in click-through. The music lowers under the voice. Nothing audio is downloaded until a viewer presses Watch.
Watch mode and a cinematic camera
newA demo can now play itself: a cursor moves to each control, presses it and moves on, and any tap hands control back to the viewer. Add ?play=1 to a share link, or turn on autoplay for an embed. The camera zooms toward what each step is about and pans between controls on the same screen. Under reduced motion it cuts instead.
Tracked links, alerts and deeper analytics
newOn Pro and Team, make a link for a specific person or company and see how far they got, whether they clicked through or watched, and whether they pressed your call to action. Get a Slack message or email when a tracked link is opened or a CTA is clicked. On every plan, analytics shows where viewers drop off, split by clicked and watched, plus sources, devices, countries and CTA conversion.
Better step detection on desktop recordings
improvedClicks that open a dialog, drags, and clicks where the mouse moves slightly are now found. Loading screens and dimmed waiting states fold into the click that caused them, and each step is pictured once the screen has settled.
Upload from your phone, and see where viewers get stuck
newScan a QR code in Studio to upload a recording straight from your phone. Taps that hit nothing are now counted and drawn on each step, so you can see which screens confuse people.
Publish, redaction, and versioned exports
newPublishing now bakes redaction destructively into the exported asset — pixels are removed, not covered, at publish time. Every publish creates an immutable version; a share link never moves out from under a visitor mid-session.
Editor core: timeline, inspector, autosave
newThe full authoring surface landed — filmstrip, timeline scrubber, hotspot inspector, and autosave with conflict-safe rebase, so two tabs editing the same demo never silently overwrite each other.
Scroll stitching scores 10/10 on the golden corpus
improvedPipeline stages 1–4 (probe, sample, classify, scroll stitch) now match exact step counts, sticky bands, and scroll travel against what the recording browser actually scrolled, across every fixture.
Player ships at 10.2 KB gzipped
improvedThe interactive player and its loader are both under budget — 10.2 KB gz for the player, 1.0 KB gz for the loader. zod stays out of the player bundle by construction.