TapGuide / Steps recorder for Android

A steps recorder for Android

Windows had Steps Recorder: press Record, click through a problem, and get every click with a screenshot and a description. Android never had one. TapGuide works the same way for taps on your phone.

What a steps recorder does

Steps Recorder (psr.exe, also called Problem Steps Recorder) saved each click with a screenshot and a line of text, so a support team could see exactly what someone did. Microsoft has marked it as deprecated in Windows 11, and it never existed for phones.

On Android, people usually fall back on a screen recording video. Videos are hard to skim, can’t be edited step by step, and show everything on screen, including what you’d rather not share.

How TapGuide records steps

1. Press Record in TapGuide.
2. Reproduce the task or the problem in any app.
3. Press Stop.

For each tap you get a screenshot from just before the tap, the tapped button highlighted, and a written step like “Tap Save on the Edit contact screen”. Typing into a field becomes a step with the field’s name. What you typed is never stored.

What people use it for

• Bug reports. Attach the exact steps to reproduce, with a screenshot of each one, instead of “it crashed somewhere in checkout”.
• Support tickets. Ask a customer to record what they did, or record the fix and send it back.
• IT and helpdesk. Document device setup, VPN or email configuration, and app permissions once.
• Testing and QA. Keep a record of a test run on a real device.

Screen recording vs TapGuide

	Screen recording	TapGuide
Output	A video	Numbered steps with screenshots
Skim to step 7	Scrub the timeline	Scroll to step 7
Edit	Video editor	Reword, reorder, merge or delete steps
Hide private details	Hard	Blur, burned into every export
Paste into a ticket or wiki	Upload the file	PDF, Markdown or HTML

Before you record

TapGuide needs two permissions: the Accessibility service, to know which button you tapped and what it is called, and screen capture, to take the screenshot for each step. It uses both only while you are recording, and it has no internet access, so nothing is sent anywhere.