Folge is the most powerful yet simple tool for creating step-by-step guides, tutorials, and documentation. 100% local. 100% yours. 100% private.
Three simple steps to create professional documentation
Folge watches while you work, capturing every click, window, and detail. Focus on your task โ we'll handle the documentation.
Screenshots fire on mouse clicks, on keypresses, or on a key combination you pick. You can add a delay, and have the click position marked on the image.
The whole screen, one region, or just the active window. You can change mode without stopping the capture, which helps when a job runs across two monitors.
Folge names each step after the button, form label or window title you clicked, by reading the interface rather than by asking an AI. OCR pulls text straight out of the screenshot while it works.
Stop partway through and pick it up later. You can move the capture region, or retake one screenshot without starting the guide again.
Record a whole workflow, or take one screenshot on its own.



Steps down the left, the screenshot in the middle, everything about the selected step on the right.
Drag a step to move it, or drop it onto another to nest it underneath. Steps can also be duplicated, hidden or deleted.
Bold, italics, lists and links, with a spellchecker and any font you have installed.
Select text inside a screenshot and copy it out, so an error message or a URL never has to be retyped.
Mark a step as to do, in progress or done. It helps while a long guide is still half written.
A step can hold more than one image, and images can sit on top of one another. Alert boxes handle warnings and tips.
Build a cover page for a PDF by dragging elements where you want them, with your own logo and wording.
System, light or dark. System follows the operating system and changes the moment you switch it there.
Every tool you need to make your screenshots crystal clear. From basic shapes to advanced magnification โ we've got you covered.
Rectangles, ellipses, straight lines and arrows, including arrows that bend through several segments. Colour and width are yours to set.
Draw by hand, with pressure sensitivity, to ring an area or leave a note in your own handwriting.
Put text anywhere on a screenshot, in any font installed on your machine, at whatever size and colour suits.
Callouts that point at one part of the screen, in several styles.
Numbered circles that renumber themselves when you reorder the steps. Several shapes to choose from.
Cover passwords, email addresses and anything else private. Strength and shape are both adjustable. For a one-off there is a free online blur tool.
Translucent colour over the part of the screen you want read first, in your choice of colour and opacity.
Enlarge a small control or a line of fine print without the image going soft, up to 400%.
Crop one screenshot, or every step at once, to drop the window chrome you do not need. Aspect ratios hold.

Point at the control the reader needs, in the colour and weight you choose.

Lift one area out of a busy screen, or dim everything else.

Cover names, passwords and card numbers before anyone else sees the guide.

Crop every screenshot to the part you are actually describing.
Capture a process once - then export the same guide to any format your team uses, with no re-recording and no reformatting. From PDFs to PowerPoint, Markdown to animated GIFs, a SCORM package for your LMS, to online sharing - 9 formats plus direct integrations. See all formats with examples โ


Eleven of them, all rendered on your own machine.

Put a title page in front of the procedure.

Make the PDF look like it came from you.

Built from your step titles, page numbers and all.



Export directly to your knowledge base with one click. No copy-paste, no manual uploads.
Fonts, colours, sizes, spacing and layout, set separately for each export format.
Add your own CSS to PDF and HTML exports when the built-in settings do not reach far enough.
Save a set of export settings and reuse it, so every guide comes out the same. Templates can be shared with the rest of the team.
Publish a guide as an interactive page with Folge Cloud, share the link, or embed it in a page you already have.
An HTML guide with a tick box against each step, and a table of contents that follows you down the page.
Drop an HTML export into Confluence, SharePoint, Zendesk, or whatever knowledge base you already run.
Export the guide as a looping GIF for chat, wikis and bug reports. You set how long each step holds, the width, whether there is a progress bar and step titles, and whether it opens on a title card. There is a preview before you export.
Everything you need to work efficiently, securely, and professionally. From backup to multi-language support.
Guides live on your own computer and nothing is uploaded. That privacy is what makes Folge usable for confidential work, and it keeps you on the right side of GDPR.
Back up on a schedule, locally or to a remote folder. Guides are .flgg files, so moving one to another computer is a file copy.
Open Guide lets a team work on the same .flgg file in a shared folder, a network drive, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. Edits save back to the file, with no cloud account and nothing to pay monthly.
Keep guides in folders, tag them, and search by name or by what is written inside them.
Cmd/Ctrl + / jumps to anything from the keyboard, without hunting through menus.
English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese.
macOS 10.10 and later, and Windows 7 through 11, with separate builds for Apple Silicon and Intel.
Up to five guides with PDF export, for as long as you like, and no card to enter.
$89 (โฌ75) once. That covers every future update, and there is nothing recurring.
New versions come out regularly, and much of what goes into them comes from what users ask for.
Folge is a desktop application for Windows and macOS that creates step-by-step guides, SOPs and process documentation by capturing a screenshot on every click.
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