Do the task once on your PC. Sopycat writes the steps, with a picture of every click.
Works in any programDesktop software, websites, the old system in the back office. If it is on your screen, Sopycat can follow it.
Never leaves your PCThe recording, the pictures and the words are all made on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
Nothing to sign up forDownload it and start recording. No login, and no workspace to invite people into.
A PDF editor, includedEdit the words in a PDF, sign, fill, redact and merge. No second subscription.
Each one written down in the time it takes to do it once.
And the day they are out is the day it needs doing. The how-to never gets written because writing it is miserable. Sopycat makes it the easy part.
21 jobs for one procedure. Then the next procedure.
That's it. Your step-by-step manual is made.
When they are off sick or move on, everyone else guesses, or waits.
A small window walks the next person through it one step at a time, right beside the program they are using.
Screenshots, cropping, arrows, numbers, typing. An afternoon for a five-minute task.
Do the task the normal way. When you press Stop, the steps, pictures, boxes and numbers are already done.
The software moves a button and nobody notices until someone gets stuck.
Compare a manual with the live screen and it flags the steps that changed. Set a review date and it reminds you.
The auditor asks who was trained and when. The answer is an email thread.
Each follow-along and each “I have read this” is logged with names and dates, and saves as a spreadsheet.
Writing down how the office works usually means a screenshot tool, a guide maker, a PDF editor and a spreadsheet. Sopycat does all four, on your own PC.
Snip, crop, paste, draw the arrows, type the steps. An afternoon for each procedure, out of date by next quarter.
Hours of someone's timeA browser extension that only sees the browser, and uploads every screenshot to its own cloud.
Another per-person subscriptionAcrobat or Nitro, to fill in, sign, redact and fix the forms the procedures point to.
$23.99 a person a month for Acrobat ProWho read which procedure, and when, kept by hand. Until the auditor asks for it.
Nobody's job, until it is
Sopycat, one app on each PCOne price per person. Every feature in every plan.
Try it free for 14 daysNo templates to fill in. Nothing to set up first.
Press Record a task and work like you normally would. A slim bar stays out of the shot and names each click as you make it, so you can fix a slip on the spot.
Sopycat finds every step, names what you clicked, and boxes it on a numbered picture. It usually takes a minute or two.
Nudge a box, blur a name, reword a line. Then send it as a PDF, a Word file, a web page, a video, or a checklist to follow along.
Other tools write “Click here” under a screenshot. Sopycat asks Windows what you actually clicked, then checks every name against a dictionary.
Everything comes from the same recording, so there is only ever one thing to keep up to date.
Changing one word in a contract should not take an Acrobat or Nitro subscription, or a website that uploads the file. Sopycat has a full PDF editor built in, at no extra cost.
Adobe Acrobat Pro for teams is $23.99 a person, every month. So it often goes to a few people, and everyone else emails them the PDFs to fix.
The free PDF reader on every PC opens a file, but cannot change a word, move a page or make a real redaction.
The free online editors upload the contract, the medical form or the payslip to someone else's server to do the job.
Drawing a shape over a name hides it on screen, but the words stay in the file for anyone to copy out.
List prices per person, billed yearly (Adobe Acrobat Pro for teams $23.99 a month, Nitro PDF Standard $15 a month), checked September 2026. Each vendor's current prices may differ.
Nothing locked behind a higher plan, and nothing uploaded.
A recording shows client names, amounts and whatever else was open. So Sopycat does all of its work on your computer, and nothing leaves unless you send it.
Put the library on OneDrive, Dropbox or a shared drive, and everyone works from the same manuals. No new server, no new logins.
Most guide makers are browser extensions: they only see the browser, upload every screenshot to their own cloud, and need an account for each person. Sopycat records any program on your Windows PC, keeps everything on it, needs no account, and adds a full PDF editor and training records. See the comparison
For everyday PDF work, yes. Changing the words, filling in and signing forms, redacting, merging, splitting, compressing, making scans searchable and converting Office files are all included. Try it on your own files during the free trial before you cancel anything. Every PDF tool
Nowhere. Recording, writing the steps, the pictures and PDF editing all happen on your PC, in a library folder you choose. Nothing is uploaded unless you switch on the optional online writing, which sends only the pictures of the steps it describes. How Sopycat handles your data
As long as doing the task once. When you press Stop, Sopycat usually needs a minute or two to name every step and box every picture. Then it is ready to read, share or follow along.
Click the title and type. You can also move the box, blur something, pick a different moment of the recording for the picture, split a step in two or merge two steps. Every change saves itself.
Open the manual, compare it with the screen, and Sopycat marks the steps that may have changed, so you only re-record what moved. Give each manual an owner and a review date, and Sopycat reminds you when it is due.
Yes. Put the library on OneDrive, Dropbox or a shared drive. Everyone sees the same manuals, edit locks stop two people changing one at once, and you can ask staff to confirm they have read a manual. Sopycat for offices
It was built with them in mind. Nothing leaves the PC, names and card numbers can be blurred in the pictures automatically, and regulated-office mode switches off online writing, web-page sharing and automatic updates for everyone. Sopycat does not make an office compliant on its own; it keeps your screens and files where your rules say they belong.
Nothing is deleted and nothing is locked away. Every manual and PDF still opens and reads. Recording, editing and exporting pick up again as soon as a key is entered.
Not yet. Sopycat runs on Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
It takes as long as doing it. By the time you finish, the manual is written.
14 days free, every feature. No account, no card.