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Record
Press record in the side panel and do the task like you normally would. Every click becomes a step.
Free · Chrome, Edge & Windows
Do the task once.
Get the guide.
Click through anything in your browser and ClickToDoc writes the step-by-step guide as you go: a screenshot for every step, an outline around every button you clicked, and titles that read like a person wrote them. Mark it up, then export to Word, PDF, HTML or video.
- No account
- Nothing uploaded
- No paid tier
Your guidewriting
Invite a teammate
- 1Open the Team page
- 2Click “Invite member”
- 3Type “ada@acme.co” in Email
- 4Pick the Editor role
Export WordPDFHTMLMP4
exports toWordPDFHTMLMarkdownGIFMP4ImagesJSON
The tour
Every feature in three and a half minutes.
Recorded with the real extension, sound on: a narrator, the maker talking while clicking, and a little music. Jump to any chapter.
In this video
Captions are on screen, so it works muted too.
How it works
Three steps. The middle one is optional.
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Tidy up
Rename a step, erase a name, add an arrow. Or skip it: the guide is already readable.
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Export
Word, PDF, HTML, Markdown, GIF or MP4. Every format, free, no “upgrade to export”.
The manual
Everything it does, with the receipts.
Every clip below is the real extension doing the real thing, cut from the tour.
Part 1
Recording
Capture the task the way you already do it.
1Record
Every click becomes a finished step.
Hit record in the side panel and use the site like you normally would. Each click is captured the moment your button goes down, so the screenshot shows the page before it reacts: exactly what your reader will see.
- An outline around what you clicked, hugging the actual button, link, tab or field, with its own rounded corners. Pill buttons get a pill.
- Titles that read like a person wrote them: “Click Invite member”, “Type ada@acme.co in Email address”, never “Click div#x-3f2”.
- Typing gets its own step, with what you typed. Password and other sensitive fields are skipped automatically.
- Full-resolution screenshots, switchable mid-recording: Compact, Standard, High or Lossless PNG.
2Narrate
Talk while you click.
Press the mic and explain what you're doing as you go. You see a live transcript while you speak, and your words land on the step you're on as its description.
- The “why” behind each click ends up in the guide without typing a word.
- Keeps listening while paused, so the sentence you were halfway through isn't lost.
- Honest caveat: it uses Chrome's built-in speech recognition, which may send the audio to Google's speech service. It stays off until you press the mic.
The maker's own recording: the transcript appears as they speak.
3Combine
A fiddly dropdown is one step, not five.
Menus, dropdowns and pickers usually turn into a pile of near-identical screenshots. Press Alt Shift M, click through it, and press it again.
- One screenshot, numbered markers for every click in order, each with a slim pointer onto its target.
- The last click keeps its outline, even when the menu has already closed.
- Works in the Windows app too, in any application.
4Control
Snap, pause, resume.
- Snap (Alt Shift S) captures the page without clicking anything.
- Pause for anything private: clicks and typing while paused are never captured.
- Resume later on any open tab (type to find it), and new steps append to the same guide.
- Live side panel: rename, add notes and delete steps while you record.
Part 2
Editing
Make it clear, and make it safe to share.
5Annotate
A proper screenshot editor, built in.
Every step opens in an editor made for marking up screenshots, and what you draw is baked identically into every export.
- Arrows straight, bendable or hand-drawn; boxes and ellipses with rotation and rounded corners; a freehand pen.
- Speech bubbles, plain or handwritten text, numbered markers with pointer tails, and a zoom callout.
- Any colour, stroke and size, with layer order.
- Paste or replace any step's image, and copy the marked-up screenshot to the clipboard.
6Clean up
Smart erase: like it was never there.
Names, emails, card numbers: drag over them and smart erase blends the background back in. No black bars unless you want them.
- Do it once, apply everywhere. Same name in the same spot on every page? One erase, applied to every step, with a preview.
- Undo anything, including a whole apply-to-all.
- Redact or blur too: a solid bar for real redaction, or a cosmetic blur (blur isn't safe for secrets, and it says so).
- Smart redact (optional) finds emails, card and phone numbers as you record.
Focus, spotlight, smart zoom.
- Focus dims and blurs everything outside the windows you draw.
- Spotlight softly dims around the click so the eye lands on the action.
- Smart zoom crops the export to the area around the click.
- Per step, or the whole guide at once.
Chapters, rich text, a library.
- Headings renumber the steps below them (1.1, 1.2...) or start a new chapter.
- Rich descriptions: lists, links, code, tables and highlights.
- Drag to reorder, duplicate, hide, or move steps between guides.
- A library with folders, search and scheduled backups.
Part 3
Sharing
Make it look like your organisation made it.
7Make it yours
Word templates you design yourself.
The template editor is visual: no styles pane, no Word fiddling.
- Fonts, colours, sizes and the rule under headings. Duplicate a built-in and change what you like.
- Import your own branded .docx: cover page, header banner, footer and page size come along.
- Footer text with page numbers, cover subtitle, author line and logo; A4 or US Letter.
- A real contents page that fills itself in when Word opens it.
One guide, three templates, rendered by Word itself.
8Export
Export to anything. All of it free.
- Word (.docx): fully editable, with a contents page, numbered headings and your descriptions.
- PDF, HTML, Markdown with embedded images, and every image as a ZIP.
- GIF and MP4 walkthroughs, made in your browser: headings become title cards and each step stays up long enough to read.
- Workflow JSON: an open, documented format any AI agent can read, edit or create.
- Optional: upload exports to your own Google Drive, or publish guides to your own server.
9Your AI
Bring your own AI, or a local one.
Connect OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or run fully offline with Ollama or LM Studio. Off by default, and nothing goes through ClickToDoc.
- One-click tasks: polish titles, write descriptions, translate, annotate screenshots by sight, redact, merge duplicates, or your own instruction.
- Every change is a diff you approve, with before and after previews. One undo reverts the lot.
- Redactions are burned in before any screenshot is sent.
- Your key stays on your machine; requests go straight to your provider.
10The web version
An HTML export that looks designed.
- One self-contained file with a contents sidebar and click-to-zoom screenshots.
- Theme, accent, typeface and density in Settings, or write your own CSS.
- Readers pick their look: light, dark or sepia, right inside the file.
Private by design
There is no server.
Your guides live on your computer. No account, no analytics, no telemetry. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you switch on an integration yourself (your Drive, your server, your AI), and then it goes straight there.
No account
Install it and record. There is nothing to sign up for.
Nothing uploaded
Your screenshots never touch a ClickToDoc server, because there isn't one.
Works offline
Recording, editing and every export run on your machine. Read the privacy policy.
Beyond the browser
ClickToDoc for Windows.
Records any application, not just web pages: File Explorer, Office, your company's own tools. The same outline around what you click (through Windows' own accessibility layer), the same combine mode, editor and exports.
- Any app you can click, with steps titled from the app and window.
- Same editor, same exports, same guide files.
- Free, like the extension.
Free. Signed by Microsoft and kept up to date by the Store. Windows 10 (1809) or later, 64-bit.
How it compares
The usual tools, minus the catch.
Cloud guide recorders are good products. They also keep your screenshots and put the useful parts behind a subscription.
| Feature | The usual cloud tools | ClickToDoc |
|---|---|---|
| Where your screenshots go | Their servers | Your machine |
| Account needed | Yes | No |
| Word / PDF export | Usually a paid plan | Free |
| Bring your own AI, or a local model | No | Yes |
| Works offline | No | Yes |
| Price | Per seat, per month | Free |
There's no hosted dashboard, analytics or team workspace, because nothing is hosted. Sharing means sending the file, or dropping it in your own Drive.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
Free, with no paid tier and no plans to add one. There's no server to pay for, so there's nothing to recoup. If it saves you time, there's an optional support button inside the app.
Where are my guides and screenshots stored?
In your browser's own extension storage, on your computer. Scheduled backups write a file to your Downloads folder that you can restore on any machine. Uninstalling the extension removes its storage, so keep a backup.
Does anything ever leave my machine?
Only if you turn on an integration: uploading to your own Google Drive, publishing to your own server, or sending a guide to the AI provider you configured. Voice notes use Chrome's speech recognition, which may send audio to Google; it stays off until you press the mic.
Which browsers does it work in?
Chrome and Edge, from their official stores, and other Chromium browsers (Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera) can install from either store. For recording any application, there is also a Windows app on the Microsoft Store.
Can my team use it?
Yes: everyone installs it, and you share guides as files (Word, PDF, HTML) or the workflow file. There's no shared online workspace, by design.
Is it open source?
Not right now. The extension ships as plain, readable JavaScript, so you can see exactly what it runs, and you can watch the network tab yourself: there are no calls unless you turn on an integration.
Does the AI see my private data?
Only if you send it, and only to the provider you chose, with your redactions already burned into the screenshots. Pick a local model (Ollama or LM Studio) and nothing leaves your machine at all.
Ready when you are
Your next guide is
one click-through away.
Free on the Chrome Web Store and Edge Add-ons. Works in any Chromium browser. And the Windows app is on the Microsoft Store.