Capture from anywhere. Record it once.
The browser extension records what happens in a tab. The desktop app records everything else: your desktop client, a terminal, a workflow that spans four windows. Both feed the same workspace, and the same self-verifying guides, video and course come out the other side.
macOS and Windows installers · Chrome Web Store extension · pairs with the browser session you are already signed in to.
Two separate tools
A browser extension you add to Chrome, and a desktop app you install. Take one or both; every capture lands in the same workspace either way.
Browser extension
Start hereAdd it to Chrome
Lives inside the tab as a side panel. Nothing is installed on the computer and it only sees the web app you point it at.
InteractiveDox for Chrome
Chrome Web Store
A side panel that turns a walkthrough in any web app into numbered, narrated steps without leaving the tab.
- Installs from the Chrome Web Store, nothing to run on the machine
- Side panel sits beside the app you are documenting, plus video capture
- Works in Chrome and the Chromium browsers that use the same store
Desktop app
Install on the computer
Runs from the menu bar or tray and records every application on the machine: desktop clients, terminals, admin consoles, the browser included.
Linux, or rolling this out through MDM? Email hello@interactivedox.com and we'll send the managed installers.
Same workspace, two front doors
Watch what each one does. The extension lives in the tab; the desktop app lives in the menu bar and sees the whole machine.
Browser extension
In the tab
Batch records
Open orders awaiting QA sign-off
- Opens as a side panel next to the app you are documenting, with no window juggling.
- Every click and keystroke becomes a numbered step with its own screenshot, narrated for you.
- Record a full video from the toolbar when a walkthrough needs a voice, not just steps.
- Sensitive fields are masked and capture only starts when you ask it to.
Chrome, and the Chromium browsers that install from the same store.
Desktop app
Everywhere else
- Records any desktop app: your desktop client, a terminal, a workflow across four windows.
- Reads the focused control from macOS Accessibility and Windows UI Automation, so steps name the field they touched.
- Screen recorder with a webcam bubble, background effects and a blur tool for anything that shouldn't ship.
- An upload queue that survives a crash or a dead Wi-Fi spell and finishes the job when you're back.
Most teams end up running both
They share a workspace, a step format and a published guide. Installing one never rules out the other.
Extension
Chrome
Desktop app
macOS · Windows
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Three steps, either way
Both tools are running in under two minutes, and neither one asks your team for a new set of credentials.
Browser extension
Chrome
Add to Chrome
Open the Chrome Web Store listing and confirm the prompt.
Pin the icon
Click the puzzle piece in the toolbar and pin InteractiveDox so it's one click away.
Open the side panel
Click the icon on the page you want to document and start capturing.
Desktop app
macOS & Windows
Run the installer
Open the .dmg and drag SmartDox across, or run the .exe. It lands in the menu bar or tray, not the Dock.
Pair with your browser
Pick “Pair with browser…”. It opens the workspace you're already signed in to and hands the app a scoped key, with no second password.
Grant capture permissions
On macOS, allow Accessibility and Screen Recording the first time you capture. Windows needs neither.
Capture is explicit
Nothing records ambiently. A capture starts when you press start and stops when you say so.
Secrets stay masked
Typed input is accumulated per field and secret fields are masked before a step ever leaves the machine.
Scoped, revocable access
The desktop app holds a workspace key in the system keychain (Keychain on macOS, DPAPI on Windows) that you can revoke without touching anyone's password.
The full picture lives on our security page, and the extension's data handling is set out in the privacy policy.
The questions IT always asks
No. Take the extension if everything you document happens in a browser tab. Take the desktop app if any part of the workflow lives outside one: a desktop client, a terminal, a companion tool. Teams that document both usually install both; captures land in the same workspace either way.