Onboarding videos
The onboarding video maker for first steps
Turn your getting-started guide into short narrated videos, one per step. New users watch the step they are on, then jump straight back into your product.
- 500 free credits at sign-up
- Free storyboard review
- 45–180 s, vertical 9:16
- 8 voices, 10 languages
Your idea
9:16 · 1080×1920“Getting started with our expense app: snap a receipt, add it to a report, submit it to your manager.”
- Length
- 45–60 s
- Look
- Light
- Voice
- Lily
- Rendering
- 2D · English
Storyboard · 5 scenes
- 0–5 sWelcome. Your logo, then the title “Your first report, in 3 steps”.
- 5–18 sStep one. A phone camera frame snaps a receipt; the amount and date fields fill in on a simple mock-up.
- 18–32 sStep two. The expense card slides into a report, and the report total updates.
New users rarely read the help center. They skim the welcome e-mail, open the product, and stop at the first screen that doesn’t explain itself. A one-minute video at that exact moment does more than a ten-minute product tour they never start.
Motiongist makes those short videos from what you already wrote: a help article, a getting-started doc or a few lines of instructions. Each step becomes a clear sequence of animated screens and arrows, narrated in a calm voice, with captions for people watching at their desk with the sound off.
How it works
From a help article to a set of onboarding videos
- Step 1
List the steps to the first win
Not every feature: just what a new user must do to get value on day one. Three to five steps is usually enough.
- Step 2
Make one video per step
Give each step as a sentence, paste the instructions, or link to the help article. Pick the short length (45–60 s) and the beginner audience.
- Step 3
Check the wording against your UI
In the free storyboard step, make sure every button name matches your product exactly. Fix a line, cut a scene, add the tip support always gives.
- Step 4
Put each video where it’s needed
Link it from the welcome e-mail, embed it in the help article, or open it from your app. The share page can carry a button that sends users back to the right screen.
Example
Your first expense report, in three steps
What you give: “Getting started with our expense app: snap a receipt, add it to a report, submit it to your manager.”
What the video shows, scene by scene
- 0–5 s
Welcome. Your logo, then the title “Your first report, in 3 steps”.
- 5–18 s
Step one. A phone camera frame snaps a receipt; the amount and date fields fill in on a simple mock-up.
- 18–32 s
Step two. The expense card slides into a report, and the report total updates.
- 32–45 s
Step three. A “Submit” button is pressed and the status pill changes to “Sent to your manager”.
- 45–55 s
What’s next. “Next video: approvals”, with an arrow toward the button that opens the app.
An illustrative storyboard for this brief (Light look, 2D). Motiongist writes its own scenes from your input, and you can edit them for free before rendering.
Why Motiongist
Why short onboarding videos work
A full guide becomes a series
On the Team plan, drop your getting-started doc and Motiongist splits it into 2 to 12 episodes, one project each, reviewed before rendering.
A button back to your app
Each share page can show a call-to-action button with your own URL, so the video ends one click away from the next step.
Works with the sound off
Word-by-word captions are part of the video, plus an SRT file for your own player or help center.
Onboard in 10 languages
Narrate the same steps in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish and Indonesian, with on-screen text and captions in that language.
Looks like your product
Apply your brand kit (logo and colors, importable from your site) from the Solo plan.
One video per step, not one long tour
Long walkthroughs get abandoned halfway, and they go stale as soon as one screen changes. Short videos are easier to watch, easier to place exactly where a user gets stuck, and cheaper to update: a revision costs 50% of the base price and rebuilds only what changed.
Name every video after the task it solves (“Invite your team”, “Connect your bank”) so users can find it again in your help center.
Where to put the videos
In the welcome e-mail, as a share link. In your help center, as an embedded player. In the product itself, behind a “Show me how” link on an empty screen. In a customer-success follow-up, when someone hasn’t completed a step yet.
Start faster
Templates that fit
Each template is a ready-made brief: an example subject, a target length, a look and notes. Open one and change the subject.
What it costs
One credit balance. A short video is 400 credits, a standard one 700, a long one 1,000, plus 1 credit per 10 narrated characters for the final voice.
Free
$0
500 credits at sign-up
To try it out: a first video, draft voice, discreet watermark.
Solo
$19 / month
3,000 credits / month
To post every week: final voice, clean exports, your brand.
StudioMost popular
$49 / month
30,000 credits / month
To produce at volume: priority rendering, custom looks, API and MCP.
Team
$149 / month
100,000 credits / month
For teams and agencies: 5 seats, 4 renders in parallel, one invoice.
Prices before tax, in US dollars. Yearly billing is 35% cheaper. Failed renders are refunded automatically.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Can it show my real interface?
It draws simplified mock-ups of your screens from your description; it doesn’t record your screen or import screenshots. Name the buttons and fields in the notes so the mock-ups use your words.
Can I turn our whole help center into videos?
Take one article or doc at a time. On the Team plan, a long document can be split into a series of 2 to 12 episodes in one go.
Can several people work on onboarding videos?
Yes. The Team plan includes 5 seats in one workspace, so support, product and customer success can share the work.
How do I keep videos up to date when the product changes?
Edit the line or the notes that changed and run a revision. It costs 50% of the base price because only the affected scenes are rebuilt.
What does an onboarding video cost?
A short video (45–60 s) is 400 credits plus the final voice. Sign-up gives 500 free credits to test one, and Solo is $19 a month for 3,000 credits. See pricing.
Ready to make your first one?
500 free credits at sign-up. Review the storyboard for free, see the exact price, then render.
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