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Synthesia helps you present your product. Clueso lets it speak for itself.
Clueso and Synthesia both use AI to help you make videos faster, but they serve very different creators. Clueso captures your real screen and automates editing and voiceovers. It is perfect for showing your product in action. Synthesia, on the other hand, focuses on avatar-driven, scripted videos.
While AI avatars can narrate your script, but they can’t demonstrate your product’s real experience.
What makes Clueso different from Synthesia
Clueso vs Synthesia at a Glance
Video Creation Capabilities
Feature | Clueso | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
AI Avatars | ✓ | ✓ |
Face clones | ❌ | ✓ |
Voice clones | Enterprise only | ✓ |
Screen Recording | ✓ | Basic |
Process Capture | Automatic | ❌ |
Video Script Generation | AI-enhanced | ❌ |
AI Voiceovers | ✓ | ✓ |
Audio-video sync | ✓ | Manual |
Multi-language Translation | For videos & articles | Video only |
Automatic audio transcription | ✓ | ❌ |
Break down long recordings into bite-sized videos automatically | Advanced | ❌ |
Auto-Generated Closed Captions | ✓ | ✓ |
Documentation Capabilities
Feature | Clueso | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
Step detection | ✓ | ❌ |
Step-by-step documentation generation | ✓ | ❌ |
Convert screenshots to GIFs | ✓ | ❌ |
Custom formatting and style guidelines | ✓ | ❌ |
Article co-pilot to edit SOPs based on text in | ✓ | ❌ |
Breaking down long recordings into SOPs for each process/workflow | ✓ | ❌ |
Professional Features
Feature | Clueso | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
Custom Branding | ✓ | Limited |
Custom Video Templates | ✓ | ✓ |
Zoom Effects | Automatic | ❌ |
Visual effects (callouts, spotlights, text animations, transitions, etc) | Advanced | Basic |
Content Updates | Easy update | New recording needed |
Export Options | Multiple formats for video & text | Video only |
Convert PPT/slide decks to videos | Advanced | Basic |
Enterprise Features
Feature | Clueso | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
Security Compliance | SOC2, ISO 27001 | SOC2, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 |
Shared Team Workspace | ✓ | ✓ |
Access Control by Roles | ✓ | ✓ |
Content Category Management | ✓ | Enterprise only |
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Clueso vs Synthesia: Detailed Comparison
Both Clueso and Synthesia use AI to simplify video creation, but they serve very different purposes.
Synthesia is designed around talking-head avatar videos, while Clueso focuses on helping teams capture, explain, and update process videos automatically.
Here’s a closer look at how they compare across core areas like content creation, professional tools, enterprise features, and pricing.
Video Creation Capabilities
AI Avatars
While Clueso focuses on helping users build authentic, product-led videos, it also offers AI avatar feature. It records your actual screen, mouse movements, and workflows, giving viewers a realistic experience of how your product works as well as brings a human touch and makes your videos more engaging, polished, and relatable with AI avatars.
Synthesia’s core strength lies in AI avatars. It offers a wide selection of virtual presenters that can deliver your script in multiple voices and languages. These work best for corporate videos or presentations, but not so much for hands-on product walkthroughs.
Screen Recording
Clueso provides full-featured screen recording that captures cursor activity, keystrokes, and app transitions. Its goal is to make it effortless for anyone to record a process once and turn it into a polished video or guide.
Synthesia Offers limited, basic screen recording capabilities. The platform primarily focuses on generating AI avatar videos, so recording your screen or creating product demos isn’t its strong suit.
Process Capture
Clueso automatically captures your on-screen actions and converts them into editable steps. It’s ideal for creating tutorials, onboarding guides, or internal SOPs without needing any manual recording setup.
Synthesia Does not support process capture. Users must manually script, design, and upload every visual element for their videos.
Video Script Generation
Clueso features AI-enhanced script generation that drafts a polished script from your raw narrations. It provides you with an editable transcript that you can adjust tone, length, or structure instantly. Clueso also lets you add prompts for the script. It is perfect for users who don’t want to spend time writing a script.
Synthesia lacks built-in script generation. Users must bring in their own scripts before creating their videos and they can edit it as required.
AI Voiceovers
Clueso offers AI-generated voiceovers across multiple accents and tones in 40+ languages. Your natural sounding narration stays synced with your screen recording, making for cohesive videos.
Synthesia provides voiceovers only for its avatars. If you’re not using an avatar, you’ll need to record or upload your own voiceover manually.
Audio–Video Sync
Clueso syncs narration and visuals automatically during editing. It saves time and removes the need for manual alignment.
Synthesia requires manual syncing when you upload custom audio or visuals outside of its avatar workflows.
Multi-language Translation
Clueso enables you to auto-translate both videos and written documentation in 40+ languages. It allows teams to localize tutorials and product guides in multiple formats at once.
Synthesia supports translation for videos only.
Automatic Audio Transcription
Clueso transcribes audio instantly and uses the transcription to generate scripts, captions, articles, and translations. Edits to the transcript update across all outputs.
Synthesia does not transcribe your recordings automatically.
Break Long Recordings into Bite-Sized Videos
Clueso cuts uses AI to split lengthy recordings into short, standalone video segments. It is perfect for course modules, onboarding paths, or help center playlists.
Synthesia does not offer such features. Videos must be scripted and produced individually.
Auto-Generated Closed Captions
Clueso creates accurate, time-synced captions that remain in sync even if voiceovers or steps are edited.
Synthesia also supports auto-generated captions.
B. Documentation Capabilities
Step Detection
Clueso automatically detects every click, scroll, and action during your screen recording. Each interaction becomes a structured step that forms the backbone of your video, script, and documentation.
Synthesia does not support step detection. All structure has to be scripted manually before video creation.
Step-by-Step Documentation Generation
Clueso transforms recordings into clean, beautifully formatted step-by-step articles with screenshots, action descriptions, and auto-generated instructional copy. This makes it ideal for internal SOPs, customer help centers, and product onboarding.
Synthesia does not offer documentation generation. You can only export a finished video; all written SOPs must be created manually in a separate tool.
Convert Screenshots to GIFs
Clueso lets you turn any step or set of screenshots into lightweight GIFs — perfect for release notes, knowledge-base snippets, and quick inline help. It keeps cursor motion and highlights intact.
Synthesia does not support this feature.
Custom Formatting and Style Guidelines
Clueso enables you to use your brand’s fonts, colors, typography, and formatting rules in the documentation it generates. Every asset stays on-brand without manual tweaking.
This feature is not applicable to Synthesia as the tool does not generate documentation.
Article Co-Pilot for SOP Editing
Clueso includes an AI-powered article co-pilot that rewrites, improves, restructures, or simplifies your SOP based on your instructions. It can adjust tone, remove redundancies, expand explanations, or rewrite steps for clarity.
Synthesia has no built-in editorial assistance for SOPs or guides.
Break Long Recordings into SOPs per Workflow
Clueso automatically analyzes longer recordings, identifies process boundaries, and breaks them into smaller SOPs or process documents. It detects task segments, making it easy to create multiple guides from one session.
Synthesia does not offer any such feature.
C. Professional Features
Custom Branding
Clueso offers end-to-end brand customization — from color palettes and logos to typography and watermarking. Every exported asset, whether video or document, can be aligned with your brand identity and they can be set as default across all your team members.
While Synthesia also allows you to apply your brand colors, fonts, and logos to any video you create; it is an enterprise only feature.
Custom Video Templates
Clueso offers advanced custom templates tailored for tutorials, walkthroughs, and product videos. You can define styles, transitions, branding, and structural patterns for consistent output at scale.
Synthesia includes video templates for avatar-led explainers and presentations. They’re strong for storytelling but not optimized for product workflows.
Zoom Effects
Clueso automatically applies zoom effects to emphasize important on-screen actions. This smart effect helps viewers follow along without extra editing.
Synthesia does not support any such effects. The screen recorded videos remain static unless you manually edit them elsewhere.
Visual Effects (Callouts, Spotlights, Animations, Transitions)
Clueso automatically adds smart visual effects like cursor spotlights, zooms, etc. based on step detection. Users can also add motion highlights, callouts, UI annotations, or animation to enhance the clarity of their videos.
Synthesia supports basic transitions and text animations, but has no callouts or spotlight effects options.
Content Updates
Clueso makes updating videos effortless. When your product interface changes, Clueso lets you replace or tweak segments without starting over. It saves hours of rework.
Synthesia requires you to record and render a new video for each update, which can slow down fast-moving teams.
Setup & Learning Curve
Clueso requires no setup, no scripting, no design prep. You can start recording your screen with the chrome extension. The intuitive interface makes it easy for anyone to produce polished tutorials.
Synthesia requires upfront planning — users must write a full script, choose an avatar, and configure scenes. The process can slow down fast-moving teams.
Export Options
Clueso exports in multiple formats for video and text, including step-by-step articles or documentation with relevant screenshots. This versatility lets teams repurpose one recording into training content, knowledge base articles, or social clips.
Note - Clueso’s article co-pilot enables you to edit screenshots, adjust phrasing, formatting, and more with a simple prompt.
Synthesia exports video-only content. There’s no automatic way to generate accompanying text or documentation.
PPT/Slide decks to Videos conversion
Both the tools offer slide to video feature. But Clueso can use your speaker notes too to generate the script. And if there are no speaker notes, it automatically goes through the visuals for generating the script. Synthesia cannot use the speaker notes and the scripts generated are basic at best.
D. Enterprise Features
Security Compliance
Clueso is certified for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, ensuring enterprise-grade data security and compliance.
Synthesia complies with SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023, offering strong security measures across its AI video infrastructure.
Shared Team Workspace
Clueso and Synthesia both support shared workspaces, enabling teams to collaborate, review, and manage video content centrally.
Access Control by Roles
Both platforms provide role-based permissions to manage content access and ensure data security within teams.
Content Category Management
Clueso lets teams organize content by department, use case, or project. It simplifies search, access, and governance at scale.
Synthesia offers native content categorization tools for enterprise pricing tier only. It can make large-scale content management for others more manual.
E. Pricing Comparison
While Synthesia’s entry point looks cheaper, Clueso includes far more per plan — more minutes, additional content formats, and multi-user support. All of it together makes Clueso more cost-efficient for teams creating ongoing video content. <add how Clueso offers most of what is Synthesia's enterprise package in the Starter plan itself.>
Feature | Clueso | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
Starting Price | $120/month (billed yearly) | $18/month (billed yearly) |
Free Trial | ✅ 7-day free trial | ❌ Not available |
ROI Advantage
Clueso enables one recording to produce multiple outputs, effectively doubling content ROI.
In Synthesia, each new version or format requires starting over. It increases production time and costs.
Purchasing Add-ons
If you exceed your video limit, you can contact Clueso to purchase an add-on for more minutes. In Synthesia, there is no way of adding on more minutes. You have to upgrade your pricing plan.
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Clueso vs Synthesia: Which one is for you?
If your goal is to walk users through real products, workflows, and processes, Clueso is built for you. It captures your actual screen, detects each step automatically, generates scripts and voiceovers, and exports both videos and written guides.
If you prefer to tell stories with avatars, like creating corporate explainers, HR videos, or presentations, Synthesia is the right choice. It delivers high-quality talking-head videos with AI-generated presenters, perfect for more formal, presentation-style communication.
Clueso empowers product teams, customer support, and operations to turn real workflows into shareable knowledge instantly. Synthesia empowers HR, L&D, and marketing to scale scripted communication with AI avatars.
Ideal Use Cases
Here are the different scenarios each tool excels in:
Use Case | Clueso | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
Product Teams | ✅ Capture and update real product demos easily | ❌ |
Customer Support & CX Teams | ✅ Create visual SOPs, FAQs, and help articles | ❌ |
Training & L&D | ✅ Combine screen captures with AI narration and translation | ✅ Great for scripted avatar-based courses |
Marketing Teams | ✅ Authentic walkthroughs and demo snippets | ✅ Polished explainer or promo videos |
IT & Operations | ✅ Record and share internal workflows securely | ❌ |
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