Best 17 Video Tutorial Software Programs to Create Effective Video Guides

Do you want to show your audience how to use a piece of software or demonstrate how a product or concept works? Or are you going to create how-to videos for your eLearning course? You will definitely need some video tutorial software then.

This is a roundup of 17 tools that can help you create engaging tutorials and improve your training output. Check them out or just bookmark this article to come back to later.

1. iSpring Suite

iSpring Suite is a full-featured authoring solution that allows you to create video tutorials by recording your screen with webcam and audio. The tool has all the necessary features to make your tutorials look professional. For example, you can add titles, annotations and images, create visual hints, and apply transition effects. To measure learners’ understanding after watching the tutorials, you can create interactive quizzes. iSpring Suite also allows you to build slide-based courses, dialog simulations, and interactions.

Cost: $970/year for the whole toolkit. Free 14-day trial →

2. Camtasia

Camtasia is an easy-to-use screen recorder with powerful video-editing options. As with iSpring, you can capture any portion of the screen, record and insert a video using your webcam, and support a screencast with audio, images, and text. Camtasia has a full set of animations and video effects, including green-screen. To make a lesson more immersive, you can add your own music or choose a track from Camtasia’s library of royalty-free music. To engage your learners and measure learning in your tutorials, you can add quizzes and interactivity.

Cost: $249. Free 30-day trial.

3. Snagit

Snagit is simple screen and video capture software. You can record the action on the screen and audio (from a microphone or system audio) as an MP4 file and, if desired, turn it into an animated GIF. In Snagit, you can trim your video tutorials or GIFs and share them with your learners in a couple of clicks. The software makes it easy to add your tutorials to email, documentation, training materials, blogs, or social media.

Cost: $49.95. Free 15-day trial.

4. Ashampoo Snap 10

Ashampoo Snap 10 is another simple tool for creating video tutorials. It lets you capture your screen and add arrows, graphics, automatic numbering, and visualized mouse clicks and keystrokes to create self-explanatory steps, and turn your screencasts into video tutorials. Like with Snagit, you can export your videos as GIF animations and send them to your learners via email, upload them to all common clouds services like DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive, or save them to Ashampoo Webspace.

Cost: $39.99. Free 10-day trial.

5. ActivePresenter

ActivePresenter includes the full set of tools needed to record screencasts, annotate, edit videos, and create interactive eLearning content in HTML5. You can make polished and high-quality video tutorials and training simulations with different line/fill/text styles and shadow effects. ActivePresenter has a flexible event-action mechanism that allows you to build various learning scenarios based on viewers’ responses.

Cost: There’s a free plan. The paid version starts at $199.

6. FlashBack

FlashBack allows you to capture your screen, audio, and webcam. It has a feature-packed video editor in which you can make engaging video tutorials by adding text, callouts, sound, images, blur effects, highlights, wartermarks, and interactive buttons to your screen recording. You can export your tutorials in multiple formats or upload straight to YouTube or FlashBack Connect.

Cost: $99. Free 30-day trial.

7. Joyoshare Screen Recorder

Joyoshare Screen Recorder serves as a smart screencast and audio recorder. You can choose to record video with or without system audio or microphone sound. The tool also lets you take screenshots during the recording process whenever you like.

Cost: $39.95. Free trial.

8. Filmora Scrn

Filmora Scrn is an online lecture software program that provides a stable and smooth screen recording experience and allows you to quickly and easily edit your tutorials. You can record from your computer and webcam simultaneously and create picture-in-picture videos. To enhance the learning experience for your viewers, you can complement your screencasts with images, videos, music, and other media files, annotations, and drawn circles and arrows. The software enables you to export your tutorials to multiple formats, including MP4, MOV, and GIF.

Cost: $19.99 for 1 year or $29.99 for the lifetime license. Free trial.

9. ScreenFlow

ScreenFlow is advanced screen recording software. It comes with powerful editing options like adding transitions, video animations, text animations, freehand annotations, multi-channel audio, and more. You can even animate graphics, titles, and logos. ScreenFlow has a built-in stock media library with access to over 500,000 unique media clips that you can use for your tutorials. To make a series of tutorials quickly and easily, you can create a customized template and just populate it with a neсessary screencast when needed.

Cost: $129

10. DemoBuilder

With DemoBuilder, you can create professional and fully interactive tutorials with a whole range of tools and animations. It allows you to edit and fine-tune your videos with balloons and notes, cursor records, click zones and buttons, and 3D effects. To make your tutorials even more engaging, you can add animated characters who will talk with your voice and use various actions and realistic movements, from walking and talking to intricate eye and head movement.

Cost: $298. Free 15-day trial.

11. Hippo Video

Hippo Video enables you to create tutorials by using your screen capture, webcam, and audio in HD quality. While recording, you can annotate, highlight mouse-clicks, erase, and more. What is special about Hippo Video is that it has a robust reporting engine. For example, you can track how many people have watched and shared your video, see the locations you got video visits from, and get information about viewers’ likes and dislikes.

Cost: There’s a free plan. The paid version starts at $15/month.

12. Open Broadcaster

OBS Studio is an open-source solution designed specifically for video recording and live streaming. It’s more focused on recording gameplay, but it can also be used as tutorial creation software. The studio records in HD in full-screen at 60 frames per second. It includes real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Open Broadcaster provides robust editing options including different kinds of video and audio filters and custom transitions, but, overall, it has quite a steep learning curve and requires some time for training.

Cost: Free

13. Panopto

Panopto is an online video platform with built-in multi-camera video recording software. It allows you to capture video from your screen(s) and simultaneously record an unlimited number of video feeds with the help of a webcam, a camcorder, and more. Panopto’s video editor makes it easy to trim unwanted sections, switch between different video feeds, and even embed quizzes, polls, and surveys. With Panopto, you can live stream your video tutorials and instantly share the recordings when the broadcast ends.

Cost: Upon request. Free trial.

14. Ezvid Wikimaker

Ezvid Wikimaker is the world’s first video creator powered by voice synthesis. It was initially designed for researchers and journalists to turn text into video wikis, with a minimum of hassle, but you can also use Ezvid Wikimaker as a video tutorial app. It lets you create screen recordings and support them with text that is automatically transformed into narration. You can also enhance your tutorials with images and video clips.

Cost: Free

15. StepShot

StepShot is designed to quickly create step-by-step manuals and tutorial videos. You can make screenshots, customize them with the built-in editor, add step descriptions, and save a guide as a video tutorial or export it in Word, PDF, or as a HTML file. Your tutorials can be shared online via StepShot Cloud or embedded directly into your support knowledge base in Confluence, WordPress, and some other platforms.

Cost: upon request

16. Animoto

Animoto is an easy tutorial video maker that allows you to create step-by-step tutorials in a matter of minutes, with no editing experience. To make a video, you simply need to choose a storyboard template, upload your photos and video clips, or select from the Getty Images stock library, and customize the template by changing the colors, adding text and music.

Cost: From $5/month (annual billing). Free 14-day trial.

17. Moovly

Moovly is another video tutorial maker that offers the ability to create videos with customizable templates. You can make video lessons simply by dragging and dropping your images, video clips, and music into pre-built templates. The tool allows you to quickly personalize everything: colors, footage, background, sounds, and more.

Cost: From $24.92/month (annual billing). Free trial.

All of the solutions covered in this article are suitable for creating video tutorials. Choose any of these tools and take them for a spin before you decide whether they’re worth investing in.

Have you used any of this software to create video tutorials before? We’d love to hear your comments below.

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