Video to Flowchart Converter

Turn a Video Into a Flowchart

You have a video of a process: a software walkthrough, a training session, a support call where someone fixes a problem step by step. Now you need it as a flowchart for a manual, an onboarding doc or a troubleshooting guide, and drawing it means watching the whole video again with your finger on pause.

ScreenApp watches the video for you and writes the process out as flowchart steps: what happens first, every decision point as a yes or no question, where each answer leads, and the timestamp of each step. It can also give you the same flow as Mermaid code, a plain-text format that diagram tools turn into a drawn flowchart.

To be clear about what this page does: ScreenApp writes the flowchart, and a diagram tool draws it. ScreenApp does not draw the boxes and arrows itself. You paste its output into a tool such as draw.io or the Mermaid Live Editor, and the diagram appears.

How It Works

Video to Flowchart From Loom, YouTube or Your Own Screen Recording

Loom walkthroughs are the most common starting point. Someone on the team already recorded how the task is done, talking through each click. That narration is where the decisions live (“if the invoice is over the limit, send it to finance”), so a Loom usually comes back with clear branches.

YouTube and Vimeo tutorials are longer and padded with intros and asides. The flowchart keeps the process and drops the rest, and every step keeps its timestamp, so you can check it without rewatching the whole video.

No video yet? Record one. Use the Record tab at the top of this page, do the task once on screen while you say what you are doing, then ask for the flowchart. That is often the fastest way to document a process nobody has written down.

Links have to be public. A private Loom, or anything behind a login, will not import. If you can watch it but cannot share the link, download it and upload the file, or screen record it.

How to Turn a Video Into a Flowchart

1. Add the video. Paste a link from Loom, YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, upload a file, or record your screen with the Record tab at the top of this page.
2. Let ScreenApp read it. It transcribes the speech, and AI reads video frames, not just the audio, so steps that are only shown on screen count too.
3. Ask for the flowchart. The button above asks for the steps, the decisions and Mermaid code in one go. You can also type your own request in the chat.
4. Check it against the video. Each step comes with a timestamp. In ScreenApp, clicking a moment in the transcript jumps the player to that point in the recording.
5. Paste it into a diagram tool. In draw.io, open Arrange, then Insert, then Advanced, then Mermaid, and paste the code. Or paste it into the Mermaid Live Editor to see the chart straight away.

Example Output

A short support video about resetting a password could come back like this:

flowchart TD
    A[Open sign-in page] --> B[Select Forgot password]
    B --> C[Enter account email]
    C --> D{Reset email arrived?}
    D -- Yes --> E[Open link and set new password]
    D -- No --> F[Check spam, request email again]
    F --> D

The video and the steps are made up for this example. Real results depend on the video you add and how clearly it shows the process.

Questions to Ask the Chat

The first answer is a starting point. Ask follow-ups in the same chat to shape the flowchart:

What You Can Use It For

Flowchart, SOP, Steps or Mind Map?

ScreenApp has a few pages that turn a video into structure. They answer different needs:

What It Can and Cannot Do

What Each Plan Does Here