For IT and training teams

The easiest way to document how work gets done.

Capture any app and build clean step-by-step SOPs, organized and easy to keep current. Free to use, in storage you own. Add AI when you want it to write the whole thing up for you.

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Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) & Windows 10/11

The Notavi library: folders down the left, a grid of saved step-by-step guides on the right, each tagged with a version.
Notavi duplicate review: two near-identical guides with a 96% match score.
A full guide open in the Notavi editor: title, tags, summary and numbered steps.

Why Notavi

Easy to make, easy to keep current, and free to start.

Easy to make.

Capture any app on your Windows PC or Mac, from admin consoles to line-of-business software to the browser. Press a shortcut at each step and you have a clean step-by-step SOP in minutes.

How capture works →

Stays useful.

Keep every guide organized in folders, find it with search, and save each change as a new version. Notavi flags likely duplicates so you can clean them up, and your docs stay current instead of quietly going stale.

How version history works →

Yours, and free to start.

Your guides live in your own local or cloud storage, never on our servers. Building, organizing, versioning and exporting are free to use, with no subscription. US owned and operated.

See what’s free →

There when you want them

  • Auto-crop to the active window
  • Export to PDF, Word or a web page
  • Shared team libraries
  • AI that writes the whole guide up, on a paid plan

The task everyone puts off

The task takes minutes. The write-up takes your afternoon.

You wrap the actual work in twenty minutes. Then you open a blank page to capture the steps, and that’s the part that quietly swallows the rest of your day.

So the guide never gets written. The know-how stays locked in one person’s head, and the next person who needs it opens with a message that starts, “wait, how do you…”

Notavi takes the second step off your plate.

What Notavi does

Capture

You do the task. Notavi writes the guide.

Run through a procedure once. Notavi captures each step with its screenshot and turns the lot into a clean, numbered SOP in minutes, not an afternoon. Rather write it up yourself? Build a guide entirely by hand; the AI writeup is a paid convenience you switch on only when you want it.

Captures only when you ask.

No keylogging. No capturing on every click. Notavi records a step only when you trigger it, with a keyboard shortcut you set yourself.

See how capture works →

A Notavi guide open in preview.
Notavi capture mode: the capture toolbar with Fullscreen, Window, Selection and Screenshot modes.
Back in the editor, Notavi flags a possible duplicate, a green banner offering to review it.
Notavi version history: v2.0, v1.1 and v1.0 with a plain-language change note and controls to view, extract or make current.
An automatically written change log describing exactly what changed in the new version.

Version

Documentation with a memory.

Real procedures change. Notavi keeps every revision, free, with when it changed and who changed it, so a guide is always current and never quietly out of date. Reopen any earlier version to read it, or make it current again in a click.

  • Plain-language change logsWhat changed between v1.0, v1.1 and v2.0, written for you in sentences, not diffs. Included with a subscription.
  • Restore any earlier versionReopen an old version to read it, or make it current again without losing the newer ones.
  • Minor & major versionsA small fix or a full rewrite: bump the right kind of version and keep the whole lineage.

Explore version history →

Processes

Group your procedures into one process.

A real job is rarely a single procedure. Bundle related SOPs into one process, in the order they should be done, then hand it off as one thing. Each step links to the live, versioned guide, so the process always points at the current version.

  • Ordered, every timeLay the steps out in sequence, so nothing gets done out of order or skipped.
  • One sign-off sheetExport a single approval sheet for the whole process, so a manager reviews it in one place.
A Notavi process, GPO Administration, listing four ordered SOPs in sequence with an Export sign-off sheet button.
Related SOPs grouped into one ordered process, with a sign-off sheet.

Your storage, your control

You shouldn’t have to upload your internal systems to document them.

Notavi runs on your machine and writes to storage you already control: a folder on your computer, or any cloud you use, from OneDrive and iCloud to Dropbox, Proton or SharePoint. You keep control of the files, the folders, and who gets in. US owned and operated. It’s the SOP tool your security team will actually sign off on.

  • Stays in your storage
  • Never used to train AI
  • We don’t keep your content
  • AI processing in the US

When you use an AI feature, the content you send is processed on US-based infrastructure and never used to train AI. Everything else (your documents, your library, your files) stays in storage you control.

How Notavi compares to Scribe →

The Notavi library in dark theme: the same organized grid of versioned guides, kept in storage you own.

One source of truth

Never keep two of the same guide.

Search across every folder to pull up the right guide in seconds, then keep the library clean. When a new guide looks like one you already have, Notavi flags it automatically and scores how alike they are. Review the pair side by side, then merge them into one authoritative version, cross-reference them, or keep both. Nothing changes until you decide.

Notavi duplicate review: two near-identical guides compared with a 96% match score and options to merge, cross-reference, or keep separate.
Notavi step-level comparison: matching, differing and only-in-one steps shown side by side before you merge.

Looks the part

Guides people actually want to use.

Export any SOP as a polished document (two-column, quadrant, or single-page), ready to hand a new hire or attach to a ticket. Open an example and read the whole thing.

The details

Thoughtful where it counts.

Notavi guide preview.

Preview before you share

See exactly how a guide reads before it ever leaves your hands.

Create a new version: minor or major.

Minor tweak or major rewrite

Bump a small revision or start a new major version. The whole lineage stays intact.

Start a new version from the existing guide or from scratch.

Branch or start clean

Spin a new version off an existing guide, or from a blank one under the same lineage.

Start documenting free.

Build your library free, and add the AI writeup whenever you want it.

Notavi for teams

One library your whole team works from.

Bring your team into shared libraries with roles. Everyone works from the same current guides, kept in a shared folder in storage your organization already owns, and you manage people, seats and settings from a web portal.

Pay per seat.

Give each person a Lite seat ($10 a month) or a Pro seat ($20 a month), and mix them as you like. Start with one seat, your own. Teammates without a seat keep their role and everything that doesn’t use AI.

How teams work →

  • Readers Read, search and export the guides they need.
  • Contributors Draft new guides and new versions. Their changes wait for an editor.
  • Editors Approve and publish, so the live version is always the reviewed one.
  • Owners and admins Invite people, assign seats and roles, and set and lock app settings for everyone, from the web portal.

Pricing

Start free. Add AI when you’re ready.

Documenting is free. Build guides by hand, organize, search, find possible duplicates, and export your whole library right on your own machine, no subscription. A subscription adds the AI writeup, so you can let Notavi write your guides for you.

Free Your manual library

Build guides by hand, organize them into folders, open, search, find possible duplicates, and export (as a PDF, web page, or Word document) all on your own machine. Free account, no subscription; your library stays with you.

Subscription The AI layer

When you’d rather not write it yourself, let AI turn what you capture into a finished guide and keep a change log on every guide. Export any guide into any of eleven languages.

Two subscription plans, same features. Lite is sized for everyday documenting, Pro gives you more room to document at volume.

Lite

$10 / month

For everyday documenting

AI writes your guides and keeps a change log on each one, for steady, everyday documenting.

Every subscription includes

  • AI writes your guides from what you capture
  • Automated change logs for every guide
  • Mac & Windows app
Start with Lite

Pro

$20 / month

For documenting at volume

Everything in Lite, with more room to document at volume, for IT, ops, training and knowledge teams.

Every subscription includes

  • AI writes your guides from what you capture
  • Automated change logs for every guide
  • Mac & Windows app
Start with Pro
Teams Pay per seat

Each person on your team gets a Lite seat ($10 a month) or a Pro seat ($20 a month), and you can mix them. Teammates without a seat keep their role and everything that doesn’t use AI.

How teams work

Prefer to download first? Get Notavi for Mac or Windows. Build your library free, and subscribe in-app only if you want the AI writeup.

Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) · Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit

Capture. Version. Improve.

Your best procedures shouldn’t live in someone’s head.

Capture them once, keep them in your hands, and let them improve on their own.

Free to build your own library · Apple Silicon Mac (M1+) · Windows 10/11 · 64-bit

The Notavi library: a grid of versioned step-by-step guides.