Mixed capture

One walkthrough across a browser app and a desktop application

Record the browser half with the extension and the desktop half with Record Desktop. Both land in the same step list, in the order you took them, and export as one file.

Demo Maker Pro records both halves of a workflow that crosses from a web browser into a Windows program, and keeps them in one demo. The Chrome or Edge extension captures browser steps as real HTML and CSS, streaming into the desktop editor as you click. Record Desktop captures a Windows window as images: one press of the capture key (F9 by default) per screen. Both kinds of step land in the same step list, in the order you took them.

From there, nothing is split. Targets, tooltips, navigation, the optional title page and completion screen, HTML export and publishing all behave identically whether the step underneath is markup or a picture. You save one .dmp project, export one self-contained HTML file, or publish one link.

The honest part first: the two step types look different because they are different. A browser step has selectable text; a desktop step is a picture. A viewer will notice the transition. The rest of this page covers the workflows this is for, how to make that seam deliberate, and where the feature sits against other tools.

Real work does not stay in one window

The workflows hardest to document hand off between a web console and something installed. Three shapes recur.

Configure in a web console, verify on the client

You change a policy, VLAN assignment or certificate profile in a vendor's web console, then switch to the Windows client to prove it took effect, the supplicant dialog, the adapter status, the client's log window. No DOM recorder reaches that second half.

Raise the ticket, then do the work

The learner opens a ticket in a browser ITSM tool, then acts on it in a thick-client admin tool, an MMC snap-in, a Java console, a vendor management client. Splitting that into two demos breaks the point: it is one procedure.

Provision in the cloud, connect to the box

Create the instance, security group and key in a cloud console, then open an RDP session or a terminal and finish on the machine itself. The remote session window captures like any other.

How the two recorders combine

Record the browser part

With the desktop app open and licensed, start the extension in your own Chrome or Edge, in your already-logged-in session. Steps stream into the editor as you click. Pause a second or two between clicks so each captures fully, and record at the width you intend to present at: 1440 or 1920 is a sensible default.

Record the desktop part

In the app, click Record Desktop, switch to the program, press F9 once per screen, then click Stop. The capture key is configurable, and while a session runs it belongs to Demo Maker Pro rather than the program underneath. "Capture one window only" pins capture to a chosen program instead of whatever is in front. Whatever was on screen is captured, including an open menu.

Work one step list

Browser and desktop steps appear together in the left sidebar in the order taken. Reorder by dragging or through the step's menu; rename or delete from the same menu. A desktop step arrives with its target box in the middle of the screen; drag it onto whatever you are pointing at.

You need not record the halves in order, or in one sitting.

Everything after capture is identical

This is what makes mixing worth doing rather than merely possible.

The seam, and what to do about it

A browser step is real markup. A desktop step is an image of a window. That difference is visible.

Text in a browser step stays selectable and searchable, fonts and spacing survive, and a single changed screen can be re-recorded on its own. Text in a desktop step is part of the picture, the honest trade for reaching something HTML cannot read. There is no DOM inside a Windows application, for us or anyone else.

A viewer crossing from the web console into the Windows client will notice. Do not hide it; make the handoff look intentional:

If the whole workflow lives in a Windows application, skip the mix, see the Windows application demo recorder. If it is entirely in a browser, see HTML interactive demo software.

Where this actually sits against other tools

Mixed capture is not unique and we will not pretend it is. Guideflow's own materials describe combining screen capture and HTML capture inside one guideflow, and desktop recorders are common, Supademo, Guideflow, Storylane and Arcade all publish one. All of them, and us, capture the desktop as images or video rather than DOM.

Two things differ: what the HTML half costs, and whether you finish with a file you hold.

ToolEntry price for HTML captureNative desktop captureSelf-contained HTML file you host
Demo Maker Pro$59/month (Creator)Yes, Record Desktop, imagesYes, Export HTML
Supademo$350/month, Growth billed annuallyYes; HTML capture is Chrome-extension-onlyNot documented, hosted Offline Demos Player
GuideflowFrom $499/month, annual tierYesNot documented
ArcadeEnterprise only, custom-pricedYesNot documented, offline is Enterprise
Walnut$575/month, Ignite billed annuallyNot documentedNot documented, offline is a paid add-on
NavatticNo public pricingNone native, image, GIF or video Media CapturesNot documented, PWA on Enterprise

Figures are from each vendor's own published materials, September 2026. Navattic, Reprise and Tourial publish no prices, so none are quoted. "Not documented" means the vendor's materials do not describe it, not that it is impossible. Full working on the comparison page; the file-you-host argument on self-hosted interactive demo software.

What this does not do

Recording requires a licensed copy of the Windows desktop application, open, while you capture, including for browser capture, because the extension streams into it. There is no macOS or Linux build, and the extension is Chrome and Edge only.

Desktop steps give up what markup gives: text is not selectable or searchable, and a changed screen is recaptured as an image. If a workflow could be done entirely in a browser, capture it that way.

A published link is unguessable but not password protected, so treat it as public, if the demo shows an internal console, export the HTML file and host it behind your own access controls. When a paid plan ends you can no longer record, edit, export or publish, though exported files keep working. More in the documentation and interactive software training.

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