Have you ever wanted to embed a calendar, form, survey, or YouTube video as a step inside your Arcade? Arcade now support embedding content from the following apps:
Embedding widgets minimizes the number of clicks your viewer has to take and keeps them one one screen.
Check out our knowledge base article to get a full rundown of form embeds!
Choose from 3x cursor options to give your viewers different visual experiences.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Seamlessly edit your captions for perfect copy and grammar.
Add headings, hide titles, and text alignment options.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Never miss another form submission. Receive real-time notifications for form submissions and when a teammate publishes an Arcade to a dedicated Slack channel.
Additional privacy options for sharing Arcades with individuals and/or teammates. You can share an Arcade via an email invite or with members of your team.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Over the years, we've been adding these to the right sidebar as we've built them - but it was getting cluttered and not contextual.
The biggest change? We've moved all components that require adding something to your Arcade to the top, and all components that require editing or changing an existing elements to the right.
From day one, we've focused on designing an editing experience that is delightful, fast, and effortlessly easy. We want our customers to feel the magic ✨ of building interactive demos with a platform that evolves as quickly as their needs do.We have redesigned our editor to provide a more seamless, intuitive editing experience.
Check out the blog post from our Head of Design, Aleks Faure.
Sometimes you want to add a callout, but exclude the buttons. Now, the same callouts you know and love can have buttons toggled on and off.
Toggle 'internal viewer' data on/off in Insights, for a clear view of how your Arcades have been performing with external viewers.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Viewers can press 'forward' and 'backward' on the wrapper bar.
Background music will now pause when the Arcade player pauses!
All 29 (and growing!) voiceover languages are now available to use for translations. Need a reminder on how translations work? Check out this Arcade.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Public or Private? Now, you can seamlessly switch between two access options from the share button.
*Currently available for Growth/Enterprise customers only
Add multiple pan and zoom events inside a video to create a more dynamic visual experience and focus your viewer on specific details.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
There are now 30(!) synthetic voice languages to choose from (with local dialects) -- all powered by ElevenLabs.
A faster way to add new steps to any part of your demo. You can upload media, copy from another Arcade, record from your extension, or add from your library.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Today, we are introducing brand new voiceover options for the clearest, most-natural sounding voices yet. Voiceovers are a powerful tool for communicating your message in a consistently polished way. Auto-language detection enables you to move and scale content quickly across geos and languages.
Take a moment to explore the Arcade above and hear for yourself!
*Synthetic voice is available on all Arcade plans.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Our latest release is designed to give you more flexibility and creativity in recording, organizing, and analyzing demos.
Want to include a powerpoint or Google Slides to an Arcade?
Now, you can upload PDFs to an Arcade, removing the need to upload images of slides one at a time.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Create an Arcade in one language, but have your viewers experience it in 10+ languages.
The new translation experience enables you to scale demos globally without the need for multiple Arcade versions, time wasted, or the fear of misspelled words.
Time-saving features:
*Translations are available on Growth and Enterprise plans.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
You can now include Arcades in Product Hunt launches to showcase what you've built and better tell the story of your product.
It's as simple as:
1. Publish an Arcade
2. Paste the URL to your Product Hunt launch page
3. Go live 🚀
Launching on Product Hunt is a pivotal moment for many companies, whether you're a stealth company unveiling your idea to the world or an established enterprise betting on a new category or product line.
Your product is your competitive advantage 💪, and interactive demos are a way to show, not tell, how you solve your customer's problems.
Check out the announcement to learn more.
📹 Camera Recording: Add your own video recording or voiceover to any step in an Arcade (post-capture) and get auto-generated captions that keep pace with your voice's speed.
We are excited to announce our latest camera recording feature, which allows you to take your audience on a personal product journey—whether that's greeting viewers at the start, explaining complex sections mid-flow, or wrapping up with a personal touch.
With this feature, you can add your own video recording 📹 or voiceover 🎙 to any step in an Arcade (post-capture) and get auto-generated captions that keep pace with your voice's speed.
Recordings are added to the step level in 'edit' mode, making it easy to go back and update and change.
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about camera and how to incorporate it in your demos.
📂 Personal folders: Organization is not just for your team. Now you can create folders just for you in 'My workspace.'
📜 Collections sidebar: Easily navigate through a collection with an interactive menu.
✍️ Per-Arcade branding: Customize the share button, watermark, and logo for each Arcade.
🔍 Navigation bar: Choose the navigation experience on an Arcade or theme level.
🖼 Design tab: Upload images and add stickers to any image for post-capture editing
📂 Folder re-ordering: Easily organize folder structures by drag-and-dropping
🌎 More languages: Norwegian voices are now available with synthetic voiceover
⬆️ Upload location: Images and videos that are uploaded to an Arcade will now be added after the current step highlighted, not at the end of the Arcade.
🔍 Hotspot and callout scaling: Made improvements to how hotspots and callouts scale based on Arcade size and available space. This update is designed to improve the viewer experience if the Arcade is being shown on a relatively small screen or a very wide screen.
Concise on the front, standardized on the back. Choose the name you want your audience to see for an Arcade without needing to remove any existing nomenclature your team may use to keep Arcades organized.
Said differently... your customers don't need to see "Product Demo V6 [FINAL FINAL]" anymore 😊
Yes, it's here! Sharing context is not just for static steps. Now, you can include hotspots and callouts for any motion steps to give additional context or guide your viewer to a specific part of your product.
Last week was focused on squashing lots of bugs!
Multiple Arcades. One landing page.
Collections is our latest feature designed to transform how you share your demos. By combining multiple Arcades into a single, streamlined landing page, you can tell a more cohesive story about your product — whether that's for a changelog or a sales leave-behind.
Progress through an Arcade without having to click on a (visible) hotspot or callouts.
Previously, form submissions were shown on the Insights page for each demo. Now, you can get a holistic view of submissions in the 'Leads' tab, saving yourself lots of steps and having to remember which Arcades included forms.
The end-viewer experience is even more intuitive with speed controls, elapsed time indicators, combined controls, and navigation.
Check out our March Changelog blog post to see all of last month's updates wrapped into one!
Over the past few months, we have invested in providing more detailed and actionable insights for your demos. Some of the features we introduced include audience reveal and integrations. In February, we rolled out more updates to Insights to allow you to get more granular data.
Callouts allow you to share more context while keeping your viewer engaged.
Now, you can make it more apparent where a callout is pointing with directional arrows.
Never miss another form submission. Configure webhooks to sync form submission data back to your tools in real-time.
Learn more
*Available on our Enterprise plan.
Custom variables enable you to personalize your Arcades at scale and understand the performance of selected audiences -- all from one demo.
Now, you can close the loop on the customer journey by adding custom variables in URLs on call-to-action buttons.
Example CTA & use cases:
Tracking performance has never been easier. Filter by 'tags' or 'folders' to get a cohesive view across Arcades.
Since launching background music last year, we've seen (and heard!) so many Arcades that have an extra bit of polish. Now, you can set the volume level for even more customization.
Choose a background to make your Arcade pop -- whether that's a branded image or a set color.
Nine(!) new integrations to collect, understand, and act on your Arcade event data including Google Analytics, Amplitude, Segment, PostHog, and more.
Separate or isolate parts of step images for a more focused viewer experience.
Choose the pace of your demo with customizable interaction controls.
Detailed timestamps for trimming and skimming.
Last November, we announced that we had rebuilt our video generation and rendering framework to ensure that video and GIF exports were on par with interactive Arcades.
Since then, our engineering team has been working to make this process even faster.
And when we say faster, we mean at least 21x faster! 🏎
