Scribe
Records you performing a task once, then writes the step-by-step guide with screenshots and instructions automatically.
What you'd use it for
Turning a process you just did once, in the browser, into a step-by-step guide with screenshots - without writing any of it down yourself.
- Record yourself performing a task in the browser and get a step-by-step guide with a screenshot and caption for every click
- Auto-redact sensitive information like passwords or account numbers from captured screenshots, or blur individual screenshots by hand
- Add your own branding, tips, and alerts to a guide after it is captured
- Export a finished guide as a PDF, HTML, or Confluence-ready markdown
- On Pro plans and above, capture any desktop application or window, not just what happens in the browser
The verdict
Scribe does one job well - turning something you already know how to do into a guide you did not have to write. The free plan and browser extension are enough to prove the format is worth using, but capturing anything outside a browser tab needs a Pro seat, and Pro Team's cheaper per-seat rate only kicks in at five seats, so a two- or three-person team pays close to Pro's individual rate anyway. It suits people who document processes often enough to feel the cost of skipping it, not people who need one guide a year, and it is not itself a place guides live once written.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Documenting the occasional process — a single onboarding step, a one-off how-to. | Basic guide capture and sharing, with limits on guide count or features versus paid plans. |
| Pro | $25/seat/month billed annually ($35/month billed monthly), starts at 1 seat | One person — a consultant, an ops lead — documenting processes regularly. | Unlimited guides, advanced editing, and export options. |
| Pro Team | $13/seat/month billed annually ($17/month billed monthly), starts at 5 seats | A whole organisation standardising how it documents process. | Everything in Pro, shared workspaces, and team-wide guide libraries, at a lower per-seat rate than individual Pro. |
Read from Scribe's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
What you need to start
- A Scribe account, email or Google sign-in, no credit card needed for the free plan
- Chrome or Microsoft Edge, since the free plan's browser extension is what does the capturing
- A Pro plan or higher to record outside the browser with the desktop app
Two clicks installs the browser extension, and the first finished guide exists the moment you stop recording - often inside ten minutes including the task itself.
Your first run You click Start capture, do the task normally in Chrome or Edge, then click Complete capture, and Scribe hands back a formatted guide with a screenshot and instruction for every step, ready to edit within minutes of finishing the task.
Where it breaks
Pro Team's lower per-seat rate only applies once you commit to a 5-seat minimum — a 2- or 3-person team pays the individual Pro rate per seat instead, which is nearly double.
Browser extension and desktop app that records your screen while you work, turning the recording into a written guide automatically — no manual screenshotting or typing required.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
When not to use it
Not for anyone who mainly needs to document things happening outside a browser tab - desktop and multi-monitor capture sit behind a paid seat, so a solo user recording a desktop accounting tool or an installed app hits that wall on the free plan. Also not a fit for a team of two or three hoping for Pro Team's lower rate, since that price only applies once you commit to five seats.
The task Scribe automates is one almost every small business avoids until it causes a problem: writing down how to actually do something, so the next person does not have to learn it by interrupting whoever did it last time. Scribe removes the excuse — you click record, do the task normally, and it hands back a formatted guide with a screenshot and instruction for every click, ready to edit and share.
That is a meaningfully different proposition from asking someone to write documentation from memory afterward, which is both slower and reliably worse — steps get skipped, screenshots get forgotten, and the guide is stale within a month because nobody wants to redo the work to update it.
What the tiers actually buy
Free is genuinely usable for the occasional guide, which is enough to judge whether the format is useful before paying anything. The jump to Pro is about volume — unlimited guides instead of a capped number — and Pro Team adds a shared library so guides live in one place the whole team can find, at a lower seat price that only kicks in once you are onboarding at least five people at once.
Where it sits
This is a tool that acts on your own screen when you ask it to, producing a document you then own and share manually — it is not connected to a wiki or watching your team’s work for you. Pair it with Trello or a knowledge base to actually distribute what it produces once written.
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Trello
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Get Scribe
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