One click in the editor puts a finished demo on Demo Maker Pro hosting and gives you a URL you can paste into an email, a proposal or your own site. No build step, no server to configure, and no account needed by whoever opens it.
Hosted publishing and self-hosting are not two products. They are two ways of getting the same finished demo out of the same editor, and both are included on every plan. You choose per demo, and you can do both with one demo, publish a link for a prospect this morning and export the file for an air-gapped customer this afternoon. Nothing is rebuilt in between.
Every demo you make in Demo Maker Pro has two exits. Publish > Publish to DemoMakerPro uploads it and hands back a shareable link. Publish > Export HTML writes a single self-contained HTML file you host yourself. Same project, same steps, same tooltips, the only difference is where the finished thing ends up.
Most people use both, and the reason is usually the audience rather than the technology. A link is the fastest way to get a demo in front of someone outside your company. A file is what you need when the demo has to live on an intranet, go into an LMS, survive without a network, or outlast your subscription.
There is no deploy step and nothing to configure.
Record your steps, arrange them, add tooltips and targets, and add a title page or completion screen if you want them. This is the same work whichever exit you take.
Choose Publish > Publish to DemoMakerPro. The demo uploads and the app returns a link on demos.demomakerpro.com.
Paste it into an email or a proposal, or drop it into your own page in an iframe. Whoever opens it needs no account, no licence, no extension and no install.
Publish the same project again and it updates the existing demo in place. A link you sent last week keeps working and now shows the new version, which matters more than it sounds, because the alternative is chasing down everyone you sent the old URL to.
This is what makes re-recording a single changed screen worth doing. A vendor changes one page of their console, you re-record that step, publish again, and every link already in the wild is current.
Published demos are managed from File > My Demos > My Cloud Published Demos. Deleting one there takes the link down immediately.
Worth reading before you send one to a customer.
A published link is unguessable, but it is not password protected. The URL contains a long random identifier, so nobody is going to find it by typing addresses. But anyone who has the link can open it, and anyone you send it to can forward it. Treat a published demo as public.
That is fine for the great majority of demos, a product walkthrough you would happily put on your marketing site, a how-to you want a customer to be able to share internally. It is the wrong choice for anything you would not want outside your company. For that, export the file and put it somewhere your own access controls apply, which is exactly what self-hosting is for.
The demo itself contains whatever was on screen when you recorded it. Record with a demo or test account, not a real customer's data. This is true of a published link and an exported file alike.
Every platform in this category will host a demo and give you a link. The question worth asking is whether you can also walk away with the demo. From the vendors' own materials, September 2026.
| Platform | Hosted link | Self-contained HTML file you host | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demo Maker Pro | Yes: one click, updates in place | Yes, Publish > Export HTML, on every plan | $59/month |
| Navattic | Yes | Not documented, offline is a progressive web app on Enterprise | Free tier; Startup $125/month billed annually |
| Supademo | Yes | Not documented, offline is a hosted player at their URL | Free tier; Scale $38/month per creator billed annually |
| Storylane | Yes | Not documented, Offline Demos listed on Premium | Free tier; Starter $40/month billed annually |
| Arcade | Yes | Not documented, offline is Enterprise only | Free tier; Growth $42.50/seat billed annually |
| Walnut | Yes | Not documented, offline is a paid add-on | $575/month billed annually |
| Reprise | Yes | Not documented, offline is a downloadable player application | No public pricing |
"Not documented" means the vendor's own materials do not describe it, not that it is impossible. Each of those offline features is a reasonable thing to build. They are just answering a different question, which is "how do I show this demo on a bad conference-centre connection", not "what happens to my demo if this company goes away". See the full comparison.
Plans differ only in how many demos you can have published at once, never in what the software can do. Creator includes three cloud-published demos; Publish and Team are unlimited. Self-contained HTML export is on every plan, including Creator. See pricing.
No. Viewers need no account, no licence, no extension and no install. They open the link in any browser and click through.
No. A published link is unguessable but not password protected, so anyone who has it can open it and anyone you send it to can forward it. If a demo must not be seen outside your company, export it as a self-contained HTML file instead and host it where your own access controls apply.
No. Publishing the same project again updates the existing demo in place, so a link you have already sent keeps working and shows the new version.
Yes. A published demo can be embedded in an iframe on your own page, which is exactly how the demo on our homepage works.
Open File > My Demos > My Cloud Published Demos and delete it. The link stops working immediately.
When a paid plan ends you can no longer record, edit, export or publish. Self-contained HTML files you have already exported to your own computer keep working, because they do not contact our servers at all. If you want a demo to outlive the subscription, export it.
No. They are two ways of getting the same demo out of the same editor, and both are included on every plan. You choose per demo, and one demo can be published as a link and exported as a file.
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