Flowcase: the rendered-video alternative to Arcade
Arcade is known for interactive, click-through demos. Flowcase produces a finished MP4 you can drop anywhere a video plays. Here is how the two approaches differ, and when each one fits.
If you are comparing demo tools, the first fork in the road is format. Interactive demos let a viewer click through a captured version of your product at their own pace. Rendered videos play start to finish, the same way every time, wherever video is supported. Both are good. They just solve different problems.
Flowcase lives firmly on the video side. You point it at your app's URL, describe the flow in plain English or hand it exact scripted steps, and it returns a polished MP4 rendered in the cloud. If your demo needs to live in an email, a paid ad, a sales deck, an app store listing, or a YouTube intro, a video travels further than an embed.
A real file, not an embed
Flowcase hands you an MP4 that plays in ads, email, decks, and app stores without a player or script tag.
Edited automatically
Auto-zoom, eased cursor motion, paced scenes, and captions are generated for you, with no editor and no takes.
Describe it, do not record it
An AI agent drives your app from a plain-English goal, or follows your exact scripted steps if you want full control.
Logged-in flows, safely
Save a login session once and Flowcase records as your account without ever seeing your password.
How Flowcase turns a flow into a finished video
Give Flowcase a starting URL and a goal. Its AI agent plans the clicks and typing, then captures a clean run through your app. Prefer to be precise? Hand it scripted steps instead: click this, type that, confirm the result. Either way, you describe the outcome and Flowcase does the driving.
Once the run is captured, a director pass groups the raw clicks into paced, named scenes, with timing and importance set like an editor would. Auto-zoom eases the camera into each click and field, then back out, so viewers always look where it matters. The cursor moves on smooth, eased paths, and captions are generated automatically. The result renders in the cloud, up to 4K, with no local app to install.
When an interactive demo makes more sense
Interactive tools like Arcade tend to fit when the goal is hands-on exploration: a prospect clicking through a guided product tour, a self-serve onboarding step, or an embedded walkthrough on a page. If you mainly need a viewer to poke around and feel the product at their own pace, an interactive format is a strong fit, and we would point you there.
Choose Flowcase when you need a single, repeatable artifact that plays anywhere video does. A rendered MP4 does not depend on an embed, a script tag, or a live session. It uploads to LinkedIn, autoplays in an ad, sits in a Notion doc, and ships inside a sales follow-up without any special player.
What you get without touching an editor
The work that usually eats an afternoon in a screen recorder and a video editor happens automatically. You do not record takes, you do not chase the cursor, and you do not key-frame zooms by hand. Flowcase reads the flow and makes those calls for you.
For demos behind a login, save a session once on the Connections page. Flowcase then records as your account without ever seeing your password, so authenticated flows look real instead of stopping at a sign-in wall.
Pricing that scales with how much you render
Flowcase is priced on rendered seconds, not seats. The Free plan gives you 3 minutes of rendered demo each month at 1080p with a watermark. Starter is $15/mo for 600 seconds at 1080p with no watermark. Pro is $39/mo for 3000 seconds at 1440p, plus AI agent demos and priority rendering. Scale is $99/mo for 12000 seconds at 4K with API access.
Paid plans bill pay-as-you-go per second over the monthly pool, so a busy month does not force an upgrade you do not need yet.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Flowcase a good Arcade alternative?
- It depends on the output you need. Flowcase is the right Arcade alternative when you want a finished MP4 that plays anywhere video does. If you specifically need an interactive, click-through demo a viewer drives themselves, an interactive tool like Arcade may suit you better.
- What is the difference between an interactive demo and a rendered video?
- An interactive demo lets a viewer click through a captured copy of your product at their own pace, usually as a web embed. A rendered video plays the same way every time and works anywhere video is supported, from a paid ad to an app store listing.
- Do I need to record my screen myself?
- No. You give Flowcase a URL and either a plain-English goal or exact scripted steps. The agent drives the app, captures the run, and Flowcase renders the video. There are no manual takes to film or re-film.
- Can Flowcase demo features that require a login?
- Yes. Save a login session once on the Connections page, and Flowcase records as your account without ever seeing your password. Authenticated flows record cleanly instead of stopping at the sign-in screen.
- What resolution can Flowcase render?
- Rendering goes up to 4K in the cloud. Output caps depend on your plan: 1080p on Free, 1080p on Starter, 1440p on Pro, and 4K on Scale.
- How does pricing compare across plans?
- Flowcase bills on rendered seconds. Free is $0 for 3 minutes a month, Starter is $15/mo for 600 seconds, Pro is $39/mo for 3000 seconds, and Scale is $99/mo for 12000 seconds. Paid plans bill per second over the monthly pool.
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