There are probably plenty of times you have needed to explain how to do something to a friend or family member — from showing your son how to change a tire to explaining to your grandmother how to plug in the PS3. It's easy enough to write down instructions, but some things are best explained visually, or in sequential steps, or in real-time, which is where Snapguide comes in handy.
Snapguide, a free iOS app with a sister site, is like a cross between Instructables and Pinterest: a well-organized, easy to browse app with a clean design that allows you to effortlessly put together a how-to guide on any subject of your choosing with photos and video taken with your iPhone.
Your guide can then be published and viewed on the web, tablets or phones. In fact, Snapguide is optimized for viewing on smaller screens; the app makes it easy to browse guides, jump to specific steps, and share guides, making it ideal for having in hand while attempting to follow the instructions. It's also exceptionally easy to create the guides, which can be edited, rearranged or deleted as necessary before being published.
Guides range in category from automotive to arts & crafts to cooking to photography, fitness, technology, and pets, and can be easily shared via email or a variety of social media sites including Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. The guides will show you what supplies you will need as well as the number of steps, and can also be viewed on the Snapguide website. Users can like and comment on guides, as well as send text and audio messages among each other (audio messages can also be added to guides themselves — Nuance technology is used to transcribe it).
Because Snapguide has only been live for a few short weeks, there are not as many guides as you might expect to see yet; however, the Snapguide community is sure to grow, as the service nicely bridges the gap between YouTube and eHow and provides an a way to easily capture steps in real-time. Although it's only available as an iOS app, the company is working on expanding to Android and other versions.
More Info: Snapguide
(Images: Snapguide)
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Love the Snapguide site! The guides are much less complicated than instructables.com.
Anyone know of something similar but for showing step-by-step guides to doing something on your computer - ie step-by-step guide to creating a facebook account? Thanks
Thank you for sharing this!!! I'm downloading the app right now. This is perfect for when I have out of town guests visit and they need to know how to deal with all of the remote controls or take advantage of the convenient public transit.
@johnogg - i.e. or e.g. ?? (i.e. are you actually looking for a facebook step-by-step or using it as an example?)
Seems like this site would work for step-by-step guides for doing things on the computer, as well. Just need someone to produce them...
@kaz Excuse poor grammar, facebook was just an example. The problem with this seems to be that you can't use computer screenshots but rather you have to get images via the iphone camera. I would like to produce the guides myself and do so at the moment using HTML but would be nice if there was a desktop app or web app that could speed up the process....
@Johnogg - sounds like a money-making possibility.. if only I had the time to create and code it...