Mimik

WHAT IS IT?

Mimik is a browser extension that records a workflow as you click and turns it into a step-by-step guide, with an annotated screenshot for each step. Everything runs in the browser, with no backend and no account to create. It is available for Chrome, Firefox and Edge, and the code is MIT-licensed.

WHY IS IT INTERESTING?

• Automatic capture: clicks, form inputs, keyboard shortcuts, clipboard actions, drag events and page navigations all become steps. Rapid clicks on nearby elements are merged, and each click is intercepted before the page navigates away, so nothing gets lost on SPAs or full page loads.
• Ready-to-use screenshots: every step gets a screenshot with the clicked element highlighted and zoomed in. Pause and Resume stop capture without ending the recording.
• Smart Blur: this mode detects and masks emails, phone numbers, SSNs, credit cards, IP and MAC addresses on the page, with a toggle per category. A manual picker blurs any DOM element across every screenshot where it appears. The README lists what the scan misses: iframes, shadow DOM, text drawn on a canvas or inside images, content that shows up after you leave the mode.
• Optional AI descriptions: bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key and Mimik writes readable step descriptions from a lightweight DOM context (about 50-100 tokens), without sending screenshots. The description language is set separately from the UI language.
• Voice narration: talk through the workflow while recording, the audio is transcribed with an OpenAI or Groq key and matched to the steps it belongs to.
• Guide Me: replay a guide live on the real page. The extension highlights the next element to click and advances as you interact.
• Built-in editor: crop, annotate and redact screenshots, rewrite a step with AI, add headings and notes between steps, reorder, bulk-delete and roll back through version history.
• Seven export formats: narrated MP4 video with the cursor moving to each target, GIF, A4 PDF, DOCX, self-contained HTML with embedded images, Markdown and a .mimik file. Everything is generated client-side.
• File-based sharing: a .mimik file is a zip (manifest, screenshots, README.md) that a teammate imports into their own extension to edit or replay the guide. On export, blurred areas are burnt into the pixels, text typed into fields is removed and links are trimmed to the page address, without query strings.

Two things do leave the browser, and the privacy policy documents both: site icons, fetched from Google's favicon service which receives the site's domain, and requests to the AI or voice provider when those options are on. The UI is available in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Simplified Chinese.

USE CASES

• Document an internal tool or a back-office procedure without taking screenshots by hand.
• Produce a product tutorial exported as a narrated video or a PDF.
• Prepare onboarding for a new hire with guides they replay through Guide Me.
• Attach a reproduction GIF to a support ticket or a GitHub issue.
• Version procedures in a Git repo, as Markdown or .mimik files.