Folge overview

Folge - is a fast tool for creating step-by-step guides, tutorials, lessons and documentation.

It is a desktop tool to capture steps with every click of the mouse, customize screenshots, create annotations, and generate the final guide in HTML, Word Document, PDF, PowerPoint slides, and more. This app is suitable for anyone who wants to help others easily navigate products, applications, training, tasks, or any process.

The whole process is as easy as following:

Take screenshots of apps, any selected area on your desktop or fullscreen. Pause, adjust, and resume. Screenshots with every click.
Give each step a name and description. Reorder them, hide them, and add new ones on the fly. Organize guides in projects.
Bring more details to screenshots by adding shapes, arrows, lines, and text. Blur out sensitive information. Add step icons for multi-step instructions.
Export with one click to simple HTML, ready to be published to your help desk, rich HTML, PDF, Word File ready to share with others.
Export to JSON (use it to transform your guide into any format or parse in your code) or Markdown (export as .md and folder with images, embed in your knowledge bases, websites etc.).

What’s new in version 1.26.0

🎁 New Features

Custom AI API endpoint – You can now connect your own ChatGPT-compatible API endpoint for AI features.
Nested placeholders – Placeholders can now contain other placeholders, unlocking more dynamic templates.
Confluence Data Center support – Export your guides directly to self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances.

⭐ Improvements

Refreshed the editor UI and UX – Help Center moved to the right, zoom logic improved, and a smoother canvas with scrolling added.
Cover page editor now preserves new lines in elements for cleaner formatting.
Code block element in the editor can now be toggled on and off with a single click.
Confluence export now produces more robust HTML that won’t fail if some tags are not properly closed.
Step text block now uses the new editor for a more consistent editing experience.
Improved clicked element metadata retrieval precision