ScreenSteps?ScreenSteps has almost everything you can think of for a knowledge management system. It is a complicated tool that does many things for a considerable price. Folge offers you an intuitive and straightforward solution for creating guides.
Folge is a well-known alternative to ScreenSteps, providing an ideal solution for those seeking to generate attractive, interactive documents, step-by-step instructions and tutorials. Offering custom design options and competitive costs, Folge enables people and companies of all sizes to quickly craft spectacular documentation and share it with their target audience.
Folge has a very transparent pricing strategy with three versions. Use the free version for as long as you want, or upgrade for a one-time price to a personal license.
Are you a business and need more flexibility and features? The business license lets you reuse licenses for your employees.ScreenSteps starts at $239/month/user.
For lesser features and restricted access, you'll likely pay hundreds of dollars to ScreenSteps annually, which is very expensive.
When using Folge, you can personalize every part of your guide. It all begins with capturing, where you can choose to capture only the window you are working with, a particular area, or the entire screen - and you can switch between these modes quickly. Once your process is recorded, you start customizing and editing images.
The Image Editor offers an extensive range of tools to modify your screenshots as required: WYSIWYG editor, nest steps, create multi-image steps, add new steps on the fly from new captures, existing images, clipboard content or have no-image steps.
Utilize one of the multiple tools to add context to your screenshots. You can adjust each tool as desired: colors, widths and special attributes: Rectangle, Ellipse, Lines, Various Arrows, brush, text (any font/color), step numbers, blur/highlight/magnify/orc/crop.
Finally export your guide in one of many formats: PDFs/Docs/PPTs/two HTMLs/JSONs/MDs and more coming. Add logos; utilize custom CSS; brand colors; localize; add borders to images and more.
| Features | Folge | ScreenSteps |
|---|---|---|
| Free Version | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| One time price | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Multiplatform | ✅ Yes, Mac and Windows | ❌ Yes, in paid |
| Unlimited Guides in Paid Version | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Capture active window, full screen or region | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Capture web and desktop | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| OCR in editor | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| PDF, HTML export | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Word, Powerpoint, JSON, Markdown exports | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Exports localisation | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| WYSIWYG editor | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Blur, magnify, step numbers, highlight tools | ✅ Yes | ❌ Partially |
| Online knowledgebase generation | ❌ No, coming soon | ✅ Yes |
Folge is a desktop application. Download and use it for free forever or upgrade for lifetime features and support.
The Gold Standard Of Guide Creation
With a ScreenSteps knowledge base, your employees or customers can easily find and follow any process within seconds.
No. Screensteps doesn't offer a free version, and has a very high pricing unattractive for small businesses and personal usage.
Folge is an affordable and multiplatform Screensteps alternative. Folge is a powerful desktop tool to create, manage and share your processes and knowledge.
Yes. Folge has both free and paid versions. You can use the free version for 5 guides and export to PDF. If you want more feature you can pay an affordable one time price and get app, and all future features and bug fixes. You own your data and your guides
