Ntamara's General
Fifteen minutes, one real task, nothing on your live data. By the end you will have a recording that replays on its own, and you will know why the steps it kept are the ones it kept.
Ntamara's General watches two different worlds, and it cannot see into one from the other. Almost every failed first attempt is this choice going the wrong way.
The trap. A website open in your usual browser is not the browser surface. To the desktop surface an entire web page is one nameless rectangle, so every click becomes a position rather than a name, and it stops working the moment the page shifts.
There is no installer. Download the zip, unzip it somewhere sensible, and run NtamarasGeneral.exe from inside the unzipped folder, not from inside the zip itself. Windows will warn you once because the file is not signed with a paid certificate: choose More info, then Run anyway.
It will not appear in your Start menu on its own. Right click the exe and pin it to Start, or send a shortcut to your desktop, and afterwards it opens like any other program. The version sits in the sidebar; anything before 1.3.2 has a fault where the recording window opens behind your other windows without telling you.
The app ships with a fictional supplier called Kampala Supply Co for exactly this. Nothing you do to it matters. Learn the shape of the tool there first.
Choosing the browser surface opens a separate browser window. That window, and only that window, is watched. It comes to the front and fills the screen by itself.
It starts signed out of everything, because it keeps its own profile. Sign in once and it remembers, for this recording and every one after.
Whatever sits under the pointer is outlined and labelled with how it will be found again tomorrow. The colour is the honest answer, not a guess.
A recording keeps everything, including the housekeeping. In one real session, nineteen captured steps contained two worth keeping. Remove clicks on your taskbar, any click on Ntamara's General itself, and one time prompts such as Got it or Accept, which will not be there next run.
Steps flagged with a warning landed on a pop up rather than the page underneath. They are marked, never deleted for you, because sometimes you did mean to click the thing on top.
Test deliberately runs a single pass so you can watch it without committing. Read the strategy shown against each step: it tells you which rung of the ladder that step actually landed on, and anything resolved by position is worth fixing now.
Only once a single pass is clean.
| Mode | It stops when | Reach for it when |
|---|---|---|
| Once | the steps finish | a one off job |
| Dataset | the rows run out | you have a spreadsheet |
| Count | it has run a set number of times | you know the number |
| Until | something appears on screen | you are waiting on a condition |
| Until failure | a step runs out of anywhere to go | working through a feed to the end |
The Automate tab hands the job to Windows Task Scheduler, so it runs on a timer with no window open. On the same tab you can give it a web address to report to, and a summary posts there whenever a run finishes, which is how Zapier, Make or n8n find out it happened.
| What you see | What is actually happening |
|---|---|
| Nothing was recorded | You worked in your own browser instead of the window the app opened. Only its own window is watched. |
| Every step is a position | You recorded a web page on the desktop surface. To Windows the whole page is one nameless pane. Re-record on the browser surface. |
| It ran once, not eight times | Test always runs a single pass, on purpose. Your repeat setting is untouched. Use Run for the full number. |
| Windows warns before it opens | The download is not signed with a paid certificate, so Windows shows its usual warning for unsigned programs. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Every release publishes a checksum if you would rather verify the file. |
| A password was never saved | Deliberate. Password fields record as an empty step you fill in yourself. Nothing you type into one is written down. |
| A step cannot find its control | Point it at the right control from the run log. The app opens the page and outlines whatever you hover; your click is not passed on to the page, so pointing at a Delete button deletes nothing. |
Nothing. The download is free, there is no account, and nothing is charged later. It runs entirely on your own machine, so your data never leaves it.
The one thing it does without is a paid code signing certificate, which is why Windows shows a warning the first time you open it. The full manual ships inside the app under Guide, so it works offline too.