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ScreenSteps Desktop Makes Visual Communication Easy

By streamlining the process of adding images to your communications, ScreenSteps helps you communicate more information in less time than any other tool available. ScreenSteps is perfect for:

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  • Tech support providing answers to customer questions
  • An instructor guiding students along
  • A blogger adding visuals to your articles
  • A business that needs to train your employees
  • Anyone who believes that a picture is worth a thousand words

ScreenSteps will revolutionize the way you communicate.


New in 2.7! – Visual Email

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why do we still spend so much time typing? Whether you are submitting a bug report, teaching a customer or colleague how to use a piece of software, or providing feedback on a marketing redesign, text-based email is not an efficient means of communication.

Export to Clipboard

ScreenSteps lets you create visual emails that communicate clearly and efficiently. Just capture your images, add, text and annotations, and then export the lesson to the system clipboard. The HTML can be pasted into any email client that supports creating HTML emails.

Software Documentation - Fun For the First Time

ScreenSteps is so simple. Now we are "rolling" out documentation on a weekly basis.

Writing software documentation has never been fun – until now. ScreenSteps does so much more than just collect pictures. It guides you through a process that helps you write documentation that is:

  • Easier to create
  • Easier for your customers to understand
  • Easier to keep up to date

No complicated systems. Just clear and simple instructions that help you customers do what they need to do. You'll be happy and your customers will be thrilled. And that's fun.

Export to Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, MindTouch, Confluence, Google Sites and ScreenSteps Live.

Upload Your Posts and Images With One Click

Adding images to a blog post can be a pain. Especially if you are creating tutorial posts that involve a lot of images. ScreenSteps Standard is the perfect tool for bloggers who create visually rich posts. Once you create your article in ScreenSteps, with one click you can post your entire article, including HTML and images to your WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Joomla or Movable Type blog.

WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type

New in 2.7!

ScreenSteps 2.7 makes it even easier to customize ScreenSteps to work with your blog. It also includes “smart updating” of posts adding more flexibility to how you use ScreenSteps.

Not Just Image Capture - Knowledge Capture

A lot of applications let you capture one picture at a time. ScreenSteps helps you capture and communicate knowledge. Not only does ScreenSteps help you easily capture knowledge, the information is captured in a format that is easier to read and understand than any other system available.

MindTouch, ScreenSteps Live, Confluence

Create lessons for your users, your colleagues and your organization. ScreenSteps makes capturing the knowledge easy. You can easily store the information in MindTouch or Confluence wiki, Google Sites, ScreenSteps Live, or add it to your favorite desktop information management system such as Evernote, Yojimbo or Together.

Answering Questions is Easy

I was linking people to lessons on day one. Customer support requests have dropped significantly.

Our customers love it, our trainers love it and our support team loves it.

We are spending less time teaching people how to do things and more time working to improve the organization.

At least it is with ScreenSteps. There simply isn’t a better tech support tool available.

Our customers tell us that they instantly see their support requests drop when they begin using ScreenSteps. Your customers have questions? Just create the answer in ScreenSteps and send it to them. Combine ScreenSteps Desktop with ScreenSteps Live for the ultimate customer support resource.

Cross Platform – No Strings Attached

Being a Mac user, it’s a tough sell to have Mac only programs, because one of my bosses is a PC user.

Being cross platform is big in my industry. The cross platform nature of the software allows us to run with it.

We know that a lot of people move between their Windows PC and their Mac. That is why ScreenSteps Desktop is built with cross-platform support from the ground up. We don’t make you purchase a separate license when you want to switch form one platform to the other. One license will cover you on both operating systems.

Windows Mac

Available for Windows and Mac

If It Isn't Easy, It Won't Get Done

My staff was reluctant to learn a new application. But it took just 25 minutes to train the staff. Our first meeting instantly turned into “How are we going to get organized?” rather than “How do you use the tool?”

I sat her down and said, “Make the help file.” In 5 minutes she was familiar with ScreenSteps and in about 10 or 15 minutes she had produced the help file. It’s just simple to use.

We firmly believe that things that are easy get done. Things that are hard don’t. None of the features or benefits of ScreenSteps matter if it isn’t easy.

That is why we have put a lot of work into making sure that ScreenSteps Desktop is the easiest visual communication solution available. Download a free trial. You will be creating visual content in under 5 minutes.

Deploying ScreenSteps to a large organization? No problem. A typical ScreenSteps training takes about 15-30 minutes.

New! ScreenSteps Version 2.7

ScreenSteps 2.7 brings a host of improvements to both ScreenSteps Standard and ScreenSteps Pro including:

  • Export Lesson to Clipboard – Export your ScreenSteps lessons to the system clipboard. You can then paste the content into any application that will accept HTML data, including many popular email clients and note taking applications.
  • Export Lesson to Clipboard as PDF – Need to quickly attach a PDF version of your lesson to an email? Or upload it to a site? Just export the lesson to clipboard and paste it into any application that accepts file urls. This is great for adding attachments to email applications that won’t let you paste in HTML content.
  • Drop shadows on annotations – Your annotations will look better than ever with the new drop shadow effects for image annotations.
  • Smart Annotation Selection – No more switching annotation tools when you want to move your annotations around. ScreenSteps is now automatically selects annotations for resizing and editing when you click on them, no matter what tool you have selected.
  • Smart Replace for blog and wiki export – ScreenSteps now allows you to update lessons you have uploaded to your blog or wiki without overwriting content you may have added to your entry via your blog/wiki editor.
  • New HTML Templates – The HTML templates have been updated so that your content looks great right out of the box. Preview the new templates
  1. Capture

    Capture a picture of each step of the process you are trying to demonstrate. ScreenSteps automatically creates a document for you with each screenshot in the exact order you took it.

  2. Author

    Use ScreenSteps built in annotation and text tools to add highlights, arrows, and text to complete your tutorial.

  3. Deliver

    Export to a wide variety of formats including HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Joomla, Movable Type, MindTouch, Google Sites and Confluence.

Download ScreenSteps Desktop now and in just 15 minutes you can have a complete visual tutorial ready to send to your customers or colleagues. Spend a a little more time and you can create a visual manual complete with a table of contents, ready to export to Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, HTML or PDF.

ScreenSteps Desktop makes the entire process so simple you won’t believe how much high quality, visual content you will be able to create in no time at all. There are many screen capture utilities out there. ScreenSteps Desktop helps you turn screenshots into visual communication.

What Our Customers Are Saying

I didn’t think I needed “yet another screen capture” application…

What surprised me was that ScreenSteps was completely different

I was able to write documentation in a matter of 10 minutes or less. Normally I’d have to take screenshots then put them in some word-based application. Then format them, and before I knew it 45 minutes had passed. With Screensteps it was, and has always been a breeze. If I get a customer who’s confused, I simply rev up my ScreenSteps and in 10 minutes that customer has a clear idea of what to do next.

Sean D'Souza, Pyschotactics.com

Before I used to take screenshots and they would go to my desktop, it was a total mess. Then with ScreenSteps every screenshot was already a step and I could edit the image in any photo editor and save it back to the step. That was huge for me and made the process of writing tutorials much easier and enjoyable.

Fabio Sasso, abduzeedo.com

We had used other capture products.

But with other tools the process from capture to documentation takes quite a few steps. In ScreenSteps we easily move from the capture to documentation to publishing in just a few minutes.

Michael Morrison, Director of Technology Services, Saddleback Valley Unified School District

As a custom web-development shop, we create unique customer-specific applications. At the end of every job, we provide our customers with step-by-step guides on how to use their applications.

Before ScreenSteps we used screen capture programs and put together documents, then saved them as .pdfs for our clients. This was functional but incredibly time consuming. I had to capture or copy the file, then insert or paste it into the document then line it up correctly. Screensteps provides a very intuitive interface that allows me to quickly take a screenshot, then it automatically places it in the document and brings me right back to the tutorial I’m working on.

I love the speed at which I can make tutorials, especially for unique situations, such as custom built applications. I also love the way ScreenSteps publishes to blogging platforms like WordPress. That is really helpful for both my personal site, and our business site.

Our clients are always very pleased with the instructions we provide, and because they’re so easy to make, we’re able to build comprehensive tutorials for every project.

Joseph Hinson, Front End Developer, Out:think Group

ScreenSteps is truly a must have application for anyone who must provide training and support to clients and/or customers.

Grant Griffiths, G2 Web Media

When I first saw ScreenSteps I thought it was too easy to be true.

But it is absolutely true: very easy to use and with so many ways to use it, unbelievable.

Karin Hermans, 1 plus 1 makes 3

Being a Mac user, it’s a tough sell to have Mac only programs, because one of my bosses is a PC user. Being cross platform is big in my industry. The cross platform nature of the software allows us to run with it.

Todd Gilbert, Second Street Media

I sat down one of our people who had never used ScreenSteps and said, “Make the help file.” In 5 minutes she was familiar with ScreenSteps and in about 10 or 15 minutes she had produced the help file. I thought that was pretty remarkable. It’s just simple to use. I think that anybody can get up to speed on ScreenSteps really fast.

Tom Molloy DVM, Partner, VetPort LLC

I love software applications, and the kind I love best are the cross platform ones so everyone can play. I test out new apps every day (I once added 3 apps to my Blackberry while waiting on a freeway off-ramp!) so when my friend Niraj pointed me to ScreenSteps I thought I’d give it a spin.

I had lots of screen snapshot apps (I did a whole show about them once) so I thought this was yet another one. I love the category, but with a yawn I gave it a try. Imagine my amazement as I realized that ScreenSteps actually replaces Microsoft Word in creating documentation! No more fighting with word wrap around images, no more wondering why the image suddenly jumped to the end of the file or other annoyances!

I find now that I’m excited when i find an excuse to make documentation – from a short instruction in an email, to a long tutorial on how to use a complex tool such as Audacity for my Podcast, I use ScreenSteps. I use it constantly to help my listeners, my friends, and my family who sometimes need a little nudge on the Mac or Windows!

Allison Sheridan, NosillaCast Mac Podcast, http://podfeet.com