Guidejar is a polished, well-built documentation platform with a help centre, analytics and a team plan. GuideGen is a capture tool that runs on your machine and costs nothing. The honest question is which job you are doing.
Written first, and honestly. A comparison page that cannot name a single thing the other product does better is marketing, not information.
Turn the last two minutes into a guide after the fact. Guidejar, like every other tool here, needs you to have pressed record first.
Every call a step fired, as a copyable cURL with what came back. Nothing comparable exists in their product.
Narration is synthesised locally and guides upload only when you publish one. Their Chrome Web Store listing declares that they handle user activity and website content, as any cloud product must.
Their free plan stops at five guides and keeps a watermark; MP4 export sits in a paid tier, and so do Markdown and HTML export.
If you need a branded help centre on your own domain with analytics and seats for a team, buy Guidejar — that is a real product and GuideGen does not do it. If you want to capture a workflow (including one you already did), keep it off other people’s servers, and pay nothing, GuideGen is the better fit.
Free, unlimited guides, no watermark and no card. Everything runs in your browser until you choose to publish.