Walkstamp and the alternatives
Updated 14 August 2026.
We wrote this page, so read it with that lens. To compensate, it has two things vendor comparisons
never have: the competitors' list prices and a section on
where each of them beats us.
The five groups
Every tool that turns on-screen work into a document falls into one of these groups:
- What came with Windows — Steps Recorder (
psr.exe), deprecated in 2024. There is a whole page about it. - Cloud step capture — Scribe, Tango, Guidde and the like: you click, they assemble the guide on their site.
- Installed on the PC — FlowShare, Folge: desktop programs that capture locally.
- Test suites — Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, qTest: regression automation that also documents what it executes.
- Walkstamp — recording and document in the browser, no install, no upload.
Side by side
| Walkstamp | Steps Recorder | Cloud (Scribe, Tango, Guidde) | Installed (FlowShare, Folge) | Suites (Tosca, Worksoft, qTest) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Installation | None — it is a web address | Came with Windows | Browser extension | A PC program, with IT approval | An implementation project |
| Does your content leave the machine? | No — processing in the tab | No | Yes: the screens go to their servers | No | Depends on the installation |
| Spoken narration becomes text | Yes, transcribed and synced | No | No | No | No |
| Clock time per step | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Evidence header case, system, ticket, result |
Yes | No | No | No | Yes, in the suite's format |
| Image fingerprint (SHA-256) | Optional | No | No | No | Own audit trail |
| Outputs | PDF, Word, ZIP, JSON | MHT | Link; PDF on paid plans | PDF, Word, HTML, PPT | Suite reports |
| Works offline | Yes — single file | Yes | No | Yes | Depends |
| List price | Free | Gone | US$ 13–38 per user/month | Folge: €75–130 once FlowShare: €450/user/year |
Not public; customer reports of €10–20k per licence/year |
| Built for | Test evidence and AI context, with nothing uploaded | What is now orphaned | Onboarding and support guides | Manuals and training | Automated regression |
Public list prices as of August 2026, from the vendors' sites; suite figures come from customer reports (PeerSpot), as there is no public price list. Check before deciding — prices change, and this page is only updated from time to time.
Where each of them beats us
The part other people's comparisons leave out:
- FlowShare reads the fields of SAP GUI for Windows — it knows which transaction and which button you clicked, and writes that by itself. A browser has no such access, and neither does Walkstamp. If your day is classic SAP GUI only and IT approves the install, it is the best tool for that job.
- Scribe, Tango and Guidde generate each click's description automatically, have rich editing, and host the guide at a link that stays current. If the goal is a living guide base for the team — and the screens hold nothing sensitive — they solve a problem we do not try to solve.
- Tosca, Worksoft and qTest execute the regression test for you, thousands of times, and document every run. Walkstamp documents a test a person ran once. Different problems; if yours is the first one, that is where it lives.
- Steps Recorder came pre-installed on every corporate machine in the world — distribution nobody will have again. That is why its page is our front door, not a trophy.
Where Walkstamp wins
- Friction. No install, no account, no IT ticket. On a locked-down workstation, that is the difference between using it today and using it next quarter.
- Structural privacy. Not a contractual promise: there is no server to upload to. The security page shows how to verify that in thirty seconds.
- Speech. You narrate the test out loud and the narration becomes each step's written description. None of the alternatives listens.
- The audit document. Clock time, identification header, step numbering and optional hash — in the format you attach to a ticket, with the right name on the file.
- Price. Free, because your computer does the work.