Frequently asked questions

Yes — completely free, with no trial period, no locked features, no watermarks on exports, and no ads inside the app. The project is supported by voluntary donations: if Flowizard saves you time, you can buy the developer a coffee.

No. Flowizard is 100% offline by design: no account, no cloud, no telemetry, no AI, and no network connections at all. Screenshots, projects, and exports exist only as files on your own PC. You can verify this yourself with any firewall — Flowizard never attempts a connection.

That message is Microsoft SmartScreen being cautious about any program that isn't code-signed with a commercial certificate (which costs hundreds of dollars a year — a lot for a free tool). Click More info, then Run anyway. Only download Flowizard from this website's official download link so you know you're getting the genuine file.

No. Flowizard detects password fields through Windows' accessibility system and records only a step called Type password with a fixed row of bullets. The real characters are never stored — not even how many you typed. You can also switch off all typing capture with the "Capture typed text" checkbox, or pause recording with F9 at any moment.

Watching clicks and typing is the product — that's how it builds your guide. It only listens while you're actively recording (between pressing Start and Stop), everything stays on your machine, and the pause button suspends capture instantly.

No. Flowizard is a single portable .exe — download it and run it, even from a USB stick. No installer, no admin rights, no dependencies. To "uninstall", just delete the file.

Not currently — Flowizard is built for Windows 10 and 11. Its smart step titles rely on Windows' own UI Automation system, which doesn't exist on other platforms.

Yes — save your work as a .fwproj project file (Ctrl+S). It keeps everything editable: step order, titles, descriptions, and all annotations, with the original screenshots stored losslessly. Word and PDF exports are final documents for sharing; the project file is your working copy.

Flowizard names buttons using the accessibility information applications publish. A few apps don't publish any, and the bare desktop has nothing to name — in those cases the screenshot and click marker are still captured, and you can type your own title in two seconds. In browsers, occasionally the very first click of a session misses the element name while the browser's accessibility layer warms up.

Yes, it appears small in the top-right of captures (or wherever you've dragged it). Position it over something irrelevant, or use the Box/Blur tools afterwards if it landed somewhere distracting.

Three free ways: tell a colleague who still pastes screenshots into Word by hand, report any bugs you find, and share the site. And if you'd like to chip in, a coffee on Ko-fi directly funds continued development. Thank you!