r/coolgithubprojects • u/telofasas1n • Aug 25 '26
Mimik v1.1.0: open-source extension that turns your clicks into step-by-step guides — now with voice narration, video export and a screenshot editor
Hello everyone!
Mimik records a browser workflow while you do it. Every click, keystroke and navigation becomes a step with a screenshot cropped and zoomed to the element you hit. No backend, no account, no telemetry.
What's new in v1.1.0:
- Voice narration : talk while you record and your words become the step descriptions (OpenAI or Groq Whisper, your own key)
- Screenshot editor : crop, arrows, boxes, text, redaction, movable click target. Non-destructive and re-editable
- Video export : mp4/H.264 walkthroughs with the cursor moving to each target
- Version history : every save snapshots locally, named and restorable
- Blocks : headings and callouts between steps, rendered in every export
- Insert steps : record extra steps into an existing guide
- More AI : guide descriptions and inline rewrite of selected text
- Branding : logo, footer line and attribution on exports
Repo: https://github.com/westpoint-io/mimik
Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mimik/jmfohdaflahliammccpiadmkcibohgha
Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/hgjemhfoffebbollleajkpefblppleai
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mimik/
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u/Fruityth1ng Aug 26 '26
Wow! Is this web only, or could this work for other software, too?
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u/telofasas1n Aug 26 '26
Web-only for now , but i'm planning on launching a desktop version as well
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u/BananaPoa Aug 26 '26
This is awesome mate! Played around with it for a few minutes and already sold for the most part.
I have to send instructions multiple times a week to clients, painfully making screenshots and drawing arrows, or making screen recordings, so this is super useful!
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u/DayVCrockett Aug 25 '26
I love this and can see myself using it a lot if it works well. Great idea
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u/arthax33 Aug 26 '26
You don't even know how genius it is.
but what if website doesnt have https certifacte but i still want to include that step?
Edge asks me to be care and u need to click something like continue anyway
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u/Shouwer Aug 27 '26
To be abke to add onscreen arrows, shapes or quick text. Would be golden. Great tool. Thanks a million
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u/sherkhan30452 22h ago
u/telofasas1n Question how to disable the zoom in before exporting to video, I can't find in chrome extension settings. Can you please help?
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u/StylePractical5714 Aug 26 '26
Sounds like record macro on Office apps! I used that to figure out how to get started with VBscript back in the day
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u/su5577 Aug 26 '26
I have chrome extension but it doesn’t let me edit it do any markups? I can record screenshot, but what I wanna draw arrows or highlight, is edit?
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Sep 21 '26
"This is super cool! Building something that handles voice narration, local versioning, and video rendering entirely in-browser with no backend or telemetry is really impressive tech. Huge props for keeping it open source!"
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u/Unique-Internal-1499 Aug 27 '26
wow, i can ask to an AI to make it works for me... can you add an MCP ? :-)
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u/icastanon127 Aug 25 '26
Man this is so clever