Privacy policy

Last updated 12 October 2026

StepCast turns a recording of a web task into a step-by-step guide and a narrated video. This page explains what it keeps about you and why.

What StepCast stores

• Your Google account name and email address, received when you choose Continue with Google. StepCast uses them only to sign you in and to show you your own guides.
• The guides you record: screenshots of the pages you recorded, the text of each step, and the address of each page without anything after ? or #.
• Your voice, only if you tick "Narrate out loud" before recording. The recording is stored with that guide.
• Background music you choose to add to a guide.

Text typed into password fields is never stored. Screenshots contain whatever was visible on your screen while recording, so check them, and use Blur an area, before you share a guide.

What StepCast does not do

• It does not sell your data or use it for advertising.
• It does not read your Google Drive, Gmail, contacts or any other Google data. It asks Google only for your name and email address.
• It does not record anything unless you start a recording.

Who can see your guides

Your guides are private to your account. A guide becomes visible to others only when you press Share on it: anyone with that link can then view it, including its screenshots and, if you narrated, the recording of your voice. Stop sharing turns the link off.

The StepCast administrator can view guides for support and to keep the service within its storage limits, and cannot change or delete them.

Analytics on shared guides

When someone opens a shared guide, an embedded guide or a hosted guide video, StepCast records what happened so the guide's owner can see how it is used:

• that the guide was opened, whether the walkthrough was played, which steps were watched or scrolled to, whether it was watched to the end, and roughly how long the page was in view;
• whether it was opened from the link, embedded on another website or played as a hosted video, and the name of that website (for example help.example.com), as reported by the browser;
• the country, as estimated by Cloudflare from the connection, and the type of device (computer, phone or tablet).

StepCast does not record viewers' names, email or IP addresses for this. Each visit carries a random number, and a second random number stays in the viewer's browser so repeat visits can be counted as one person. Only the guide's owner and the administrator can see the totals. Deleting a guide deletes its analytics.

Where data is kept

Guides and files are stored with Supabase (database and file storage, in Singapore). The website is served by Cloudflare. Sign-in is provided by Google.

Optional AI features

If you add your own OpenAI API key in Voice and AI settings, the step text or narration you choose to process is sent to OpenAI. The key stays in your browser and is never stored by StepCast.

Deleting your data

Delete guide removes that guide and its files. To have your whole account removed, email the address below from the account's email address.

Questions: [email protected]