Product · Capture
Record a tab.
Or any Windows program.
Press record and do the task. Every click becomes a step with its screenshot, whether it happens in Chrome or in a program that is not a website at all.
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What does Capture do?
Chronika is a screen recorder that writes step-by-step guides. The Chrome and Edge extension records a browser tab, and the Windows app records one window or a whole screen. Each click becomes a step with its screenshot, narration lines up with the step it explains, and password fields are blurred before upload.
01Browser
The extension records the tab you are in
Open the toolbar popup, pick the workspace the guide should land in, and start. The page shows a small recorder bar with the time and the step count while you work.
- One step per click, typed field, selection or page change
- Each step has a screenshot with the click ringed
- The screenshot shows the page as it was just before the click
- Pause, resume and complete from the popup or the bar
- Add steps to a guide you already have
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02Windows
The Windows app records a window or a screen
Most work is not only in a browser. Pick one window or a whole screen, wait out the 3-2-1 countdown, and work normally. Excel, Teams and your internal tools all count.
- One step per click or typed text, with a screenshot and the click marked
- Reads the name of the control you clicked, so steps say what you touched
- Records which program each step happened in
- The recorder bar and the countdown never show up in a screenshot
- One self-contained .exe: no installer, no admin rights
Starting
Sample · one window, one screen
03Narration
Say it out loud as you go
Turn narration on and talk through the task. Your words are turned into text and lined up with the step you were on when you said them, so the explanation sits next to the click it explains.
- Narration is optional and off until you switch it on
- Each step keeps what you said while you were on it
- The narration helps write the step text when AI is configured
- Play it back from a step on the guide page
Heard while this step was recorded
“The sixteen-inch model is for developers and designers only, so pick the fourteen.”
04Safe while it records
Password fields are blurred before anything leaves your computer
A recorder sees everything on the screen, so it has to be careful. Password fields are detected and blurred in the screenshot, and the text you type into them is not recorded. If a picture cannot be made safe, it is left out.
- Password fields are blurred in the pixels, on your computer, before upload
- Typed text in those fields is never sent
- Steps upload as they happen, so a long recording is not held back for the end
- The browser extension keeps its place even when the browser pauses its background worker
- Recorders sign in with a personal token and act with your own permissions
Sample sign-in screen, as uploaded
Blurred before upload. The typed text is not kept.
What you get
What you have when you press stop
- 01
A guide when you stop
Complete the recording and the guide opens, with a title and step text already written.
- 02
Two recorders, one library
Browser and Windows recordings land in the same workspace and the same kind of guide.
- 03
Control names, not just pixels
On Windows, steps carry the name of the button, tab or field that was clicked.
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Nothing typed in passwords
Blurred in the screenshot, never stored as text.
Questions
About Capture
Which browsers does the extension work in?
Chrome and Edge. It is a Manifest V3 extension. You download it from the Recorder page in the app and load it in developer mode, then connect it to your account.
Which versions of Windows does the app need?
Windows 10 version 2004 or newer. That is the version that lets Windows keep the recorder bar out of the screenshots.
Are there programs the Windows app cannot see?
A program running as administrator is not seen unless the recorder is started as administrator too. UAC prompts and the lock screen cannot be captured. A program that exposes no accessibility information still gives you the screenshot and the click position, just without a control name.
What if my connection drops mid-recording?
Steps are sent one at a time as they happen, and the app retries on network and server errors. There is no offline queue yet, so if the network stays down longer than the retries, those steps are reported and skipped.
Does the recording see everything I type?
It records typed text as a step, except in password fields, where the text is not recorded and the field is blurred in the screenshot.
Where Capture is used
- IT documentationFixes, requests and set-ups you only want to explain once.
- Operations documentationThe standard way to do the recurring jobs.
- HR onboarding and training guidesOnboarding and training that people can follow alone.
- Customer support how-to articlesHelp articles and internal how-tos from real screens.
- SOP softwareProcedures that write themselves as you do the work.
- Onboarding documentationA first week of guides, not a first week of questions.
- Employee training guidesShow the task once; everyone can repeat it.
- Software rollout guidesClick-by-click guides for the new tool.
Ready when you are
Record your first guide
Install the recorder, press record, do the task once.