Turn your clicks into a step-by-step guide

No. Recording, editing, redaction and export all happen on your machine, and guides are stored as plain files in your user folder. Wombat talks to one address: its public releases page, to check for a new version. If there is one it downloads in the background, and asks before installing anything.

This website is a separate thing from the app, and it does keep one number: the clicks people make here — pressing record, and anything you click while it's running — add up to a shared total. There's no identifier attached to it, and it says nothing about anything you record with the app itself. Even writing to us doesn't touch this site — those buttons open your own mail client, so the message goes from you to us and past nothing in between.

Licences are the one other thing this site records. Payment goes through Pakasir, which never tells us who paid — so if you buy, the email address you type on this page is stored here first, against an order number, and that's what the key gets issued to. It's also what lets you get the key back if you lose it. If you start a purchase and don't finish it, the address sits there unused and is deleted. Nothing is ever sent to it: there's no mailing list here, and no mail server either — you collect the key yourself on the key page. The app itself never sends any of it. A licence is checked by verifying its signature on your own machine, so activating one works with the network switched off and Wombat has no idea whether you ever did.

Anything on screen. Wombat captures the display and hooks input system-wide, so desktop software, spreadsheets and internal clients record exactly like web apps do. Label quality depends on how well an app exposes accessibility information — native Windows and Chromium-based apps are generally good; some canvas-drawn or Java/Qt interfaces expose almost nothing and fall back to generic text.

Password fields are never read: the accessibility helper refuses them at the source, and the step text is redacted again independently, so a value can't leak through either path. For everything else there's manual redaction — drag over a region to pixelate it, and “apply permanently” to rewrite the file so the original pixels are gone. Exports always bake redactions in.

Recording, editing, redaction and export are free, with no account or trial. The free plan keeps up to five guides at once; deleting one immediately lets you record another. Exported guides carry a small “Made with Wombat” line. Pro removes the guide cap and branding, is a one-off purchase, and includes a year of updates — after that year the version you have keeps working forever, and so does your key. It's Rp 55.900, paid with QRIS, an Indonesian e-wallet or a bank transfer, plus the payment provider's own small fee. If none of those work where you are, write to us and we'll arrange it.

Nothing is time-limited, nothing stops working, and nothing about your privacy depends on paying: redaction in particular is free and always will be. Hiding your customer's data is not a feature to sell you.

Because it isn't code-signed. SmartScreen flags binaries from publishers it doesn't recognise. Only continue if you downloaded Wombat from this official site, then choose More info → Run anyway. You can also verify the file against the checksum on the release page.

Recording, screenshots, the editor, redaction and export all work. Smart step labels don't — they're built on Windows UI Automation, so on macOS every step reads “Click here” until the equivalent native helper is written. macOS also needs Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions granted in System Settings.

The build is also unsigned, so Gatekeeper may require Open Anyway under Privacy & Security. Never bypass a message that explicitly says malware was detected or the app will damage your computer. The permanent fix is a signed, notarised build.

All of it. Rewrite any instruction, reorder or delete steps, insert a step you forgot, drag the click marker to the right spot, drop a mis-detected outline, and toggle the zoom per step or across the whole guide.

A single self-contained HTML file, with every image inlined — so it renders from a mailbox, a shared drive or a wiki attachment with nothing else alongside it. That's deliberately the only format, rather than a half-decent version of four.