Record your screen, let each click become a step automatically, then edit the screenshots into an SOP, a training deck or a help article. Export to HTML, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, SCORM or Markdown. No sign up, no watermark.
Smart capture watches the shared screen and creates a step each time the screen changes, so each click becomes a step without you pressing anything. The screenshot is taken from just before the change, so it shows what to click rather than what happened afterwards.
Record a walkthrough, then choose the precise frame for each step from a frame accurate timeline. Drag a step marker to change its frame at any time.
Callouts, speech bubbles, arrows, shapes, highlights, numbered badges, text, a synthetic mouse pointer with click effects, a magnifier that really enlarges part of the screenshot, blur, redaction and a spotlight.
Set fonts, a colour palette, heading styles and default shape styles once, save them as a brand file, then reuse or share that file across guides.
Start as a 16:9 deck or switch to A4, Letter, Legal, 4:3 or a custom size. Content reflows between slide and document layouts, and you can drag text, images and shapes anywhere on a page.
HTML for a knowledge base, PDF for printing, Word for editing, PowerPoint for training, SCORM for an LMS, Markdown for a docs site, or images for a ticket reply.
Useful when the screens you document contain customer data, internal systems or anything under an NDA. There is no upload step to review with your security team.
Open the page and start. Nothing to install, no seat to buy, no trial to expire.
Open the tool and try it on something small first, such as resetting a password.
Tools such as Scribe popularised automatic step capture. This is a free, browser based alternative that covers the same core job: capture a process, produce a written guide with screenshots, and share it. It is worth being straight about where it differs, so you can judge whether it fits.
Feature sets and pricing of commercial products change often, so check the current details on their own site before deciding.
Yes. Every feature described on this page is free to use and there is no account to create. There is no watermark on what you produce and no limit on the number of guides you make.
No. Screen capture, editing and every export happen inside your browser using local code. Your guide is stored in your own browser storage on your device, so nothing is sent to a server. That also means clearing your browser data removes your saved guides, so export anything you want to keep.
No. The tool runs in the browser on its own. An optional Chrome extension adds a global keyboard shortcut and true click detection inside browser tabs, which is useful when you are documenting a web application.
Chrome and Edge support everything, including screen capture, video recording and the floating controls. Firefox supports capture and recording, with a slightly reduced set of capture options. Safari can open, edit and export guides; its screen capture support is more limited. Screen capture is not available on mobile browsers, though you can edit and export a guide on a phone or tablet.
A web page, a PDF, a Word document, a PowerPoint deck, SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 for a learning management system, a ZIP bundle, Markdown, PNG images of every step, and an editable project file you can reopen later.
Yes. Guides you create are yours. If you insert an image from a third party search inside the tool, that image keeps its own licence, which is shown on the tile before you insert it and copied into the credit line.
A recording is useful for watching, but poor for following along, searching and printing. This tool produces both: a recording you can trim and add zoom effects to, and a written guide with a screenshot for each step, which people can scan, translate, print or paste into a knowledge base.
Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. The demo guide inside the tool shows a finished example you can pull apart.