Show them where to click.

TapTrail lets you click through a page once and send the path. The other person follows it on the live page, one step at a time.

A list of clicks

Press record and use the site normally. Each click becomes a numbered step, and the recording continues when you move to another page. Stop, and you get a link.

The other person opens it and sees the same path: the page scrolls to the element, a numbered mark pulses, a dotted line joins it to the last step, and a tooltip names what was clicked. When a step is on another page of the same site, the replay goes there.

This is not a screen recording. A trail is a short list of steps — which element, which spot inside it, which page. It is a few kilobytes, and it replays at the other person's window size.

What a step holds

• A selector for the element, plus a short label taken from its name or its visible text.
• Where inside the element the click landed, and a viewport position to fall back on if the element has moved.
• The page address, and how long after recording started the click happened.

The value typed into a field is never read. Only the fact that the field was clicked or focused is kept.

How long a link lasts

A trail lasts a day unless the person recording picks another lifetime, up to three days. After that it is gone. A recording that has not been saved yet lives only in that browser tab, and disappears when the tab closes.

Try it

The demo is a pretend admin app called Lumen Console. Record a trail there, copy the link, and open it in another window. One script tag drops the same recorder onto any other page. Details are on the install section of the home page.