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Single user
€89.99 one-time
incl. VAT · 30-day free trial
- For one person, all features
- Buy once, no subscription
- Purchase, trial and updates through Microsoft Store
Guides that write themselves.
Click through your program once. stepdok turns it into a finished step-by-step guide with images, cleanly redacted and in your organisation’s layout.
- Runs only on this PC
- No cloud
- No account
30 days free trial, full features. Then you decide.
- System
- Windows 10 · 11
- Data
- Stays on the PC
- Export
- Word · PDF · HTML · MD
- Trial
- 30 days free
Desktop, not browser
Records Windows programs: line-of-business software, practice and clinic systems, Windows dialogs – including everything a browser extension cannot see.
Fully local
No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Recording, detection, redaction and export run on the PC – even in an isolated network.
Built for organisations
Word export with your house template and classification, policies via Group Policy or Intune, team folders on a network drive.
01How it works
Three steps to a finished guide.
Your first guide in five minutes, without a manual.
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Record
Pick a program, the whole screen or a region and work as usual. Every click becomes a step with image and text – stepdok writes “Click “Save”.” by itself.
- Menus, context menus, typing and shortcuts are combined into clear steps
- The recording bar and the click marker never appear in an image
- Ctrl+Shift+F9 start and pause, Ctrl+Shift+F10 finish
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Edit & redact
In the editor you reorder steps, add tips and warnings and mark with a number, frame or arrow. Personal data is already redacted – the privacy check shows every spot.
- Reorder, merge or insert steps, or re-record from a given point
- Unlimited undo, automatic saving
- Redact areas by hand – optionally in every step of the same window
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Export
As Word with your template, as PDF, as a single HTML file or as Markdown. The file is created on this PC. Nothing is uploaded.
- Title block with details, table of contents, zoom details, tips and warnings
- Classification such as “Internal” or “Confidential” in the header
- Live preview of the pages before you export
02Privacy
Personal data stays where it belongs.
stepdok detects personal data in the image – from the texts of the program’s interface and with text recognition – and redacts it automatically. Every redaction can be traced, nothing is decided silently: uncertain spots ask you.
Detected and redacted
SurnameDoeRedacted
E-mailj.doe@example.comRedacted
IBANGB00 0000 0000 0000 0000 00Redacted
Date of birth01/01/1970Redacted
- Names
- E-mail addresses
- Phone numbers
- IBAN and account numbers
- Dates of birth
- Places and addresses
- Tax ID
- Social security and AHV number
- Licence plates
- Your own patterns, e.g. file numbers
Each category can be switched off or enforced by policy. Detection uses check digits, field labels such as “Surname” and a list of first names – no AI model, no download.
Privacy check before export
Every finding with preview, location and decision: Redacted or Keep visible. The same spot in several images is one decision. If IT wants it, a passed check is required before export.
Redaction is final
On export the pixels are replaced, not covered. Images without metadata, no template path in the Word document. Nothing can be recovered, not even from Word.
Originals for your eyes only
The unredacted images stay in the guide, encrypted with Windows DPAPI, so “Keep visible” remains possible. Only your Windows account can read them – everyone else sees redacted images.
Never passwords
Password fields appear in no image. Typed values are not put into step texts by default, keystrokes never into the log. “Never record” excludes password managers, sign-in dialogs and programs of your choice.
What goes over the network
- No contentImages, step texts, guides and detected data never leave the PC.
- No telemetryNo usage statistics, no crash reports sent anywhere.
- LicenceActivation with a licence key: only the key, a device hash and the app version – or entirely offline with a file.
- UpdatesStore version through Microsoft Store. Setup version at most once a day, can be switched off.
To be honest: automatic detection does not find everything – for example surnames without context, handwriting or text that is hard to read. That is why the privacy check shows every spot for review.
03Features
Everything a good guide needs.
Editor & image tools
Number, frame, arrow, text, highlight, blur, redact, crop. Zoom detail next to the image, unlimited undo.
Texts in your voice
German step texts in informal, formal or neutral form; English in the imperative. The guide’s language is independent of the interface.
Templates & design
Your own Word template (.dotx), logo, document colour, header and footer, classification – as a template package for the whole organisation.
Team folders with locks
Network drive, UNC path or synced SharePoint/Teams folder. Whoever edits holds the lock; everyone else reads or makes a copy.
Search with Ctrl+K
Across titles, step texts, programs and folders of all libraries, jumping straight to the step. Commands such as “New recording” in the same search.
German and English
Interface and generated step texts equally good in both languages; switch without restarting.
Light and dark
Light, dark or follow the system. Choose an accent colour and a text size from 90 to 130 %.
Keyboard & screen readers
Fully usable with the keyboard, meaningful names for screen readers, Windows contrast themes. Every shortcut can be changed.
Nothing gets lost
Every step is saved the moment it is recorded; after a crash stepdok offers to restore the recording. Trash with 30 days.
04Export
Four formats. Your template.
One guide, one layout model – Word, PDF, HTML and Markdown look like the preview. Spots you have not decided on are exported redacted.
Word
With your
.dotx: styles, margins, header and footer, logo. stepdok formats only through named styles – you control the look in Word.PDF
Fonts embedded, a bookmark per step, tagged for accessibility. Metadata only title and program name.
Web page
A single file with embedded images, print-friendly, loads nothing from the network when opened.
Markdown
Text with an image folder – for wikis, repositories and documentation systems.
05For organisations and IT
Centrally managed. No admin rights needed.
Built for public administration, law and tax firms, hospitals and practices, banks and insurers, IT service providers and industry – and for the IT team that runs it.
Group Policy & Intune
ADMX template with ADML in German and English. Enforce redaction and lock categories, central patterns, “Never record”, allowed export formats, classification, salutation, storage locations, updates and online activation. Locked settings show a padlock: “Set by your IT department”.
Deployment
MSIX package for Intune and software distribution; single users through Microsoft Store. Runs without administrator rights, without services, without drivers. Windows 10 (22H2) and Windows 11.
Team folders & house style
Set team folders and the library by policy, load the template package from a network path – the whole organisation gets the same look.
Offline
Activation with a request and response file, organisation licence from a file on a share. With updates and online activation switched off, stepdok opens no network connection at all.
Command line
--export for scripts with exit codes, --policy-report shows the effective policies, --selftest checks recording, redaction and every export.
Open file format
A .stepdok file is a ZIP with JSON and PNG, openly documented. No lock-in – an argument in public procurement, too.
06Pricing
Licences from one person to the whole administration.
30 days free trial – full features, no watermark, no account.
from 5 seats
Team & public sector
on request
volume pricing
- Purchase on invoice, quote as PDF
- Organisation licence from a file via policy
- Activation without internet, too
- After 12 paid months the then-current version stays usable for good
one-off
Perpetual licence
on request
plus optional maintenance
- For procurement without running costs
- Version usable for good
- Maintenance for new versions optional
Store price incl. VAT; in Microsoft Store the price shown there applies. Quotes for team, public sector and perpetual licences plus VAT. After the trial everything you have stays usable: view guides, finish the privacy check, export to every format. New recordings, editing and changing templates need a licence.
07FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Does stepdok really run only locally?
Yes. Recording, detection, redaction and export run on the PC. There is no account, no cloud and no telemetry. Network connections exist only for licence activation, updates and purchase links you click yourself – content is never transferred.
Which programs can I record?
Windows programs – a single program (stepdok follows its window, including menus and dialogs), the whole screen for workflows across several programs, or a fixed region. Where no control is recognised (for example in Citrix or Java without Access Bridge), the step gets a marked click position and the text “Click the marked spot.” Programs running with administrator rights can only be recorded when stepdok is started as administrator, too.
Which data is redacted?
Names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, IBAN and account numbers, dates of birth, places and addresses, tax ID, social security and AHV number, licence plates (off by default) and your own patterns such as file numbers. Detection uses check digits, field labels and a list of first names. Uncertain findings ask you. It does not find everything – that is why the privacy check shows every spot.
Can a redaction be undone in the Word document?
No. On export the pixels under a redaction are replaced, not covered, and the images carry no metadata. The exported document contains no original content.
Does stepdok store what I type?
No. stepdok only recognises that something was typed into a field or that a shortcut was pressed (“Enter … in “Surname”.”, “Press Ctrl+S.”). It takes over the typed value only when you explicitly switch that on, the field is not a password field and no personal data is detected. Nothing is stored from password fields, and keystrokes never go into the log.
Can we use our own Word template?
Yes. stepdok takes styles, margins, header and footer with logo and page numbers from your .dotx. Content controls such as Stepdok.Organisation or Stepdok.Kennzeichnung are filled in. With a template package the whole organisation gets the same look.
Can several people work on the same guides?
Yes, through team folders on a network drive, UNC path or synced SharePoint/Teams folder. Whoever edits a guide locks it; everyone else sees “being edited” and can read it or make a copy. Saving is atomic – never a half-written file on the network drive.
What happens after the trial?
The trial lasts 30 days with all features. Afterwards everything you have stays usable: the library, viewing guides, finishing the privacy check and exporting to every format. New recordings, editing and templates need a licence.
Which Windows versions are supported?
Windows 10 (22H2) and Windows 11, 64-bit. stepdok runs without administrator rights, also per user on terminal servers, and supports several monitors with different scaling.
Do I need an internet connection?
Not for working. Licences can be activated offline with a request and response file, organisation licences loaded from a file via policy. The Store version gets its licence and updates through Microsoft Store.
The next guide writes itself.
30 days free trial. No account, no cloud.