Build a recipe by hand

Build mode is VisorBot’s on-screen recipe editor: you play the game, and every tap you make becomes a step you can see, test and edit — right there on top of the game. It’s the precise alternative to recording a session: instead of capturing everything you do, you choose each step deliberately, and each step tests itself the moment you add it, so you know it works before you move on.

Building by hand is free, needs no account, and works entirely offline.

Open the builder

Tap the floating VisorBot bubble and choose Build.

VisorBot overlay menu on Android showing Record, Build, Build AI, Chain and Run modes

A slim bar appears at the top of the screen with the two gestures you’ll use the whole time:

  • Tap anywhere → a menu opens asking what kind of step this should be.
  • Hold → the tap is recorded instantly and passed through to the game, so you can keep playing while the recipe writes itself.

VisorBot build bar over a game: tap to choose an action, hold to record a tap and click through

Pick a step type

When you tap (rather than hold), VisorBot asks what you meant:

The Add a step menu listing every VisorBot step type: tap, tap text, wait until, type text, tap image, wait for image, step guard, wait, scroll and launch app

  • Tap here — tap these exact coordinates.
  • Tap text — find a word on screen by reading it (OCR) and tap it, wherever it is. Survives layout changes and other devices.
  • Tap image — for buttons with no text: draw a box around the button and VisorBot matches the picture from then on.
  • Wait until — pause until a word or image appears (loading screens, popups).
  • Wait for image — the picture version of the same idea.
  • Type text — enter text into the focused field.
  • Scroll — swipe a list or pane in a direction.
  • Wait — a fixed pause between steps.
  • Step guard — an “if this popup shows up, dismiss it” safety net checked automatically when a step can’t find its target.
  • Launch app — start the game itself, so a recipe can run from the home screen.

Text targets: tap what the screen says

Choose Tap text and VisorBot reads the screen and highlights every piece of text it found — you just tap the one you want. Because the step stores the word rather than the position, it keeps working when the button moves or the recipe runs on another phone.

VisorBot OCR text picker over Idle Heroes: nine texts found, tap the one you want

Image targets: draw a box once

Icons and picture-buttons have no text to read, so VisorBot photographs them instead. Choose Tap image, draw a box around the button, and drag the corner dots to fine-tune it:

Drawing a box around a button on screen to capture it as a VisorBot image target, with corner handles for fine-tuning

Then give it a short description. The description is more than a label — if the image ever fails to match (a skin changes, an event re-themes the button), VisorBot can fall back to finding the button from your words.

Naming a captured image target in VisorBot after drawing the box

Every step tests itself

The moment a step is added, VisorBot runs it against the live game and reports back in the bar — ✓ works means it found and hit the target for real, not just in theory. A step that can’t find its target tells you immediately, while you’re still looking at the screen it should have matched.

VisorBot confirming a newly added step works, live over the game

Review, reorder, insert

Open the step list at any time to see the recipe so far. Steps can be edited, removed, or reordered, and the + markers between steps let you insert a new step in the middle — handy when a run reveals you skipped a screen.

The VisorBot step list panel showing recorded steps with insert points and a Save button

Save it

Tap Save, give the recipe a name, and it’s stored on your phone as a plain file — yours to run, edit, or copy to another device.

Saving a finished VisorBot recipe with a custom name

Run it and watch

Run the recipe from the overlay menu (or the Recipes screen). The live step feed shows exactly which step is executing and what it’s waiting for — the same view you saw while building.

A VisorBot recipe replaying with a live step feed over the game

A completed VisorBot run: all steps finished

If a step fails on a later run, VisorBot snaps a screenshot at the moment of failure and offers Teach the fix — you show it the right target once, and the recipe is patched.

Where to go next

  • Prefer to just describe the task in a sentence? Build AI drafts and live-tests the same kind of recipe for you.
  • New to VisorBot? Start with Getting started — install, permissions, and your first recorded recipe.