howtovideos.ai is an AI how-to video maker from DigitalShyft. You capture a task once, by uploading a screen recording, recording in your browser or pasting a link for an AI agent to click through, and it hands back a finished tutorial: an AI-written script, a natural voiceover, zooms on every click, captions and your brand, plus a matching written guide. You pay per video, with no subscription.
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What is howtovideos.ai?
It is the studio for the videos every software company, support team and agency needs and rarely has time to make: how to set up an account, how to run a report, how to use the feature you shipped last week. Not a screen recorder that leaves you with a raw take to edit, and not a slideshow tool, but a finished, narrated tutorial from one plain recording.
It lives at its own address, howtovideos.ai, and it is built and run by DigitalShyft in Scottsdale, Arizona, alongside SocialShyft and NightShyft.
Why did we build it?
Because how-to videos are the content that answers the most questions and gets made the least. A good tutorial takes a script, a clean recording, a voiceover, zooms, captions and a brand intro. That is a day of editing for three minutes of video, so most teams write a help article instead, or send another email.
We saw the same thing with our own clients and with the DigitalShyft portal: every new feature needed a walkthrough, and the walkthroughs were always behind. We wanted a way to record a task once and have the editing done, so the video could exist the same day the feature did.
How does howtovideos.ai work?
You capture the task any way that suits you. Upload a screen or phone recording you already have, record your screen in the browser with nothing to install, use the Chrome extension or desktop app, or paste a link and let an AI agent open the page, click through the task and record it for you.
Then the AI does the editing. It finds the key moments, writes the steps and the script, adds a natural voice, zooms on every click and blurs sensitive data such as emails and API keys. Change a word in the script and only that line is re-voiced. Your logo, colors and fonts are pulled from your website and applied to every intro, outro, caption and share page.
What do you get from one recording?
A finished video in wide, square and vertical shapes (16:9 for YouTube and help centers, 1:1 and 9:16 for social and phones), a written guide you can export as PDF or Word, and an interactive click-through demo, all from the same capture and kept in sync.
From there you can download the MP4s, share a hosted page, embed it, translate and dub it into other languages, or publish it to the tools you already use, such as Zendesk, Intercom, Help Scout, Notion, Confluence and YouTube. Training teams can add quizzes and export SCORM or xAPI for their LMS. Some of these depend on your plan.
Who is it for?
Two kinds of teams. Software teams: support, onboarding and training people who need tutorials for customers or staff without a video editor on the payroll. And agencies and consultants who make branded how-to videos for their clients, with a separate workspace and brand kit per client, white-label sharing and approval links clients can comment on without an account.
It fits anywhere a "how do I" question gets asked more than once: support replies, new-hire training, frontline teams on their phones, IT help desks, sales demos and compliance training.
How does it fit with the rest of DigitalShyft?
DigitalShyft builds systems that replace guesswork, and each product takes one job off a team's plate. SocialShyft plans, writes and publishes social media. NightShyft keeps a website in shape for search and AI answers. howtovideos.ai makes the tutorials.
They also work well together. A how-to video is some of the most useful content a business can publish: it answers a real question, it earns links and it gives search engines and AI assistants something concrete to cite. A vertical cut of the same tutorial is a ready-made social post.