StepGrab turns a recorded screen session into a clean, step-by-step guide automatically. You perform a task once; it captures every click, screenshots each step, writes the instructions, and hands back a document you can share or embed, with no manual annotation.
What it does
StepGrab watches a recording and segments it into discrete steps, pairing each action with a cropped, highlighted screenshot and a written instruction. The result is an editable guide you can export, publish to a help centre, or embed in-product, cutting the busywork of documentation down to a review pass.
Who it's for
Support and success teams building help articles, product teams writing onboarding flows, and agencies producing SOPs for clients all use it to keep documentation current without a dedicated writer. Anyone who has to explain how software works, repeatedly, is the target.
Why it stands out
The value is in the automation: most guide tools still expect you to draw boxes and type captions. StepGrab does the tedious part (capture, crop, describe) and leaves you the judgement calls, which is why a guide that used to take an hour takes a few minutes.
Built for support, success and product teams who have to explain how software works, over and over.
Discussion
OpenA live thread the maker hosts. Community signal here never affects the readiness score.
Hey, I'm Nadia, I make StepGrab. This is the place for feedback, questions and the roadmap. I read everything and I ship in public. No account needed to use the tool; no account needed to lurk here either.
Pinned: the current roadmap is (1) sample data on the empty first-run screen, (2) team sharing, (3) a Windows build. Tell me if that order is wrong for you.
Milestone
2Moments the product shipped or crossed a line.First 100 users 🎉, and not one of them had to make an account to get there. Thank you.
v2 shipped: GIF and MP4 export alongside PDF, plus blur-on-capture for anything sensitive on screen. Changelog in the note above.
AMA
1The maker is answering questions in the open.Doing an AMA this week on the on-device capture pipeline and why StepGrab starts cold with no login. Ask me anything about the build, the offline-first bet, or the launch.
How are you capturing clicks on-device without an accessibility permissions nightmare? That's the part I always get stuck on.
One accessibility grant on first run, then it's all local. Nothing leaves the machine. That's the whole reason it can work offline.
Question
2Asks from people using the product.Any plan to let a team share a library of SOPs, or is it staying single-user for now?
It's #2 on the roadmap. The tricky part is keeping the offline-first guarantee once there's a shared library. Working through it.
Does the empty first-run screen bother anyone else? Took me a second to get what to do. Would love sample data there.
You and everyone, it's #1 on the roadmap now. Sample recording on first launch so the empty screen is never the first thing you see.
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