Screen capture, 20+ annotation tools and 11 export formats

Folge is the most powerful yet simple tool for creating step-by-step guides, tutorials, and documentation. 100% local. 100% yours. 100% private.

11+
Export Formats
20+
Annotation Tools
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Customization Options

How Folge Works

Three simple steps to create professional documentation

1CaptureAuto-screenshot on click21Edit & Annotate20+ annotation tools3HTMLPDFDOCX+6Export9 formats + integrations

Automatic capture: every click becomes a step

Folge watches while you work, capturing every click, window, and detail. Focus on your task โ€“ we'll handle the documentation.

Capture triggers

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.

Capture modes

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.

Step titles filled in as you go

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.

Pause and resume

Stop partway through and pick it up later. You can move the capture region, or retake one screenshot without starting the guide again.

Sequences or single shots

Record a whole workflow, or take one screenshot on its own.

Folge selecting a region of the screen to capture, with the capture mode panel open Folge capture modes: active window, full screen and selected region
The Folge editor with a captured guide open
A Folge step preview showing a warning callout above the screenshot

Edit every step in one editor

Steps down the left, the screenshot in the middle, everything about the selected step on the right.

Drag steps into order

Drag a step to move it, or drop it onto another to nest it underneath. Steps can also be duplicated, hidden or deleted.

Rich text descriptions

Bold, italics, lists and links, with a spellchecker and any font you have installed.

Text extraction

Select text inside a screenshot and copy it out, so an error message or a URL never has to be retyped.

Step status

Mark a step as to do, in progress or done. It helps while a long guide is still half written.

Several images per step

A step can hold more than one image, and images can sit on top of one another. Alert boxes handle warnings and tips.

Cover pages New

Build a cover page for a PDF by dragging elements where you want them, with your own logo and wording.

Dark mode New

System, light or dark. System follows the operating system and changes the moment you switch it there.

20+ annotation tools

Every tool you need to make your screenshots crystal clear. From basic shapes to advanced magnification โ€“ we've got you covered.

Basic drawing tools

Shapes and lines

Rectangles, ellipses, straight lines and arrows, including arrows that bend through several segments. Colour and width are yours to set.

Freehand brush

Draw by hand, with pressure sensitivity, to ring an area or leave a note in your own handwriting.

Text on the image

Put text anywhere on a screenshot, in any font installed on your machine, at whatever size and colour suits.

Speech bubbles and tooltips

Callouts that point at one part of the screen, in several styles.

Advanced tools

Numbered badges

Numbered circles that renumber themselves when you reorder the steps. Several shapes to choose from.

Blur

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.

Highlight

Translucent colour over the part of the screen you want read first, in your choice of colour and opacity.

Magnifier

Enlarge a small control or a line of fine print without the image going soft, up to 400%.

Crop

Crop one screenshot, or every step at once, to drop the window chrome you do not need. Aspect ratios hold.

What the annotation tools look like

A red arrow drawn on a screenshot in Folge

Arrows and shapes

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

A highlight drawn over a row of a table in Folge

Highlight and spotlight

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

A blurred area covering private data on a screenshot in Folge

Blur and redact

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

Focused view zooming a screenshot to one region in Folge

Focused view

Crop every screenshot to the part you are actually describing.

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One guide in. Every format out.

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†’

PDF export
PDF
Print-ready
Word export
Word
Easy editing
PowerPoint export
PowerPoint
Presentations
HTML export
HTML
Rich web pages
Markdown export
Markdown
Git repos
JSON export
JSON
API ready
Animated GIF export
GIF
Chat & wikis

What the export formats look like

The Folge export dialog listing every output format

Pick a format

Eleven of them, all rendered on your own machine.

A PDF cover page being designed in Folge

Cover page

Put a title page in front of the procedure.

The Folge PDF design tab with header, footer and logo settings

Header, footer, logo

Make the PDF look like it came from you.

A generated table of contents in a Folge PDF export

Contents page

Built from your step titles, page numbers and all.

Publish straight into the tools you use

Notion integration
Notion
Confluence integration
Confluence
WordPress integration
WordPress
Hudu integration
Hudu

Export directly to your knowledge base with one click. No copy-paste, no manual uploads.

Styling

Fonts, colours, sizes, spacing and layout, set separately for each export format.

Custom CSS

Add your own CSS to PDF and HTML exports when the built-in settings do not reach far enough.

Export templates

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 online

Publish a guide as an interactive page with Folge Cloud, share the link, or embed it in a page you already have.

Interactive HTML

An HTML guide with a tick box against each step, and a table of contents that follows you down the page.

Embedding

Drop an HTML export into Confluence, SharePoint, Zendesk, or whatever knowledge base you already run.

Animated GIF New

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.

Privacy by default: your guides stay on your computer

Everything you need to work efficiently, securely, and professionally. From backup to multi-language support.

Everything stays on your machine

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.

Backups

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.

Shared guides New

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.

Folders and search

Keep guides in folders, tag them, and search by name or by what is written inside them.

Command palette

Cmd/Ctrl + / jumps to anything from the keyboard, without hunting through menus.

Eight languages

English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese.

macOS and Windows

macOS 10.10 and later, and Windows 7 through 11, with separate builds for Apple Silicon and Intel.

Free version

Up to five guides with PDF export, for as long as you like, and no card to enter.

One payment

$89 (โ‚ฌ75) once. That covers every future update, and there is nothing recurring.

Still being worked on

New versions come out regularly, and much of what goes into them comes from what users ask for.

Folge at a glance

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.

Platforms
Windows and macOS desktop app. No browser extension needed; it captures any application.
Price
$89 (โ‚ฌ75) one-time payment, all future updates included. No subscription. Business licenses available; volume pricing from 10 seats. 7-day money-back guarantee.
Free version
Free forever for up to 5 guides, with full capture and PDF export. No credit card required.
Where your data lives
On your computer. Guides are captured and edited offline; nothing is uploaded unless you publish or export. GDPR-friendly, made in Europe.
Export formats
PDF, Word, PowerPoint, rich and simple HTML, SCORM, animated GIF, Markdown, JSON, online guide and embeddable widget (11 formats).
Integrations
One-click publishing to Notion, Confluence (Cloud and Data Center), WordPress and Hudu.
Editing
20+ annotation tools, blur for sensitive data, OCR text extraction, AI-written step descriptions, custom CSS.
Made by
Oleksii Sribnyi, independent developer in Europe, since 2020. Contact: hello@folge.me.

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