Vidocu vs Scribe

Vidocu vs Scribe: the Scribe alternative that turns one recording into guides, video, and training

Scribe captures your clicks and writes a step-by-step guide with screenshots. Vidocu does that too, and from the same recording also produces the video, subtitles, an AI voiceover, translations into 70+ languages, a hosted knowledge base, and training modules with quizzes. If you would rather not do the clicking at all, its AI Recorder performs the workflow in a real browser and records itself.

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Scribe is the faster tool for one specific artifact: a silent, click-by-click guide of a web app, made by a person walking through the process. Its free plan covers that for any web app, and its enterprise redaction and governance are mature. Vidocu produces the same step-by-step guide with screenshots, and treats it as one output of many from the same source: the video with auto-zoom, subtitles, an AI voiceover, versions in 70+ languages, a searchable knowledge base, and training modules with quizzes and pass tracking. Scribe never produces video, voiceover, or subtitles, and its guides are always recorded by a person. Vidocu's AI Recorder can be given the task in plain language and will click through it and record the run itself. Pick Scribe if all you need is quick internal click-through guides. Pick Vidocu if the guide also has to be a video, a training course, a multilingual help article, or made without anyone booking screen time.

Both produce a step-by-step guide with a screenshot per step. Only Vidocu also returns the video, subtitles, and an AI voiceover from the same recording

Scribe's guides are silent images and text. Vidocu adds narration in 50+ AI voices and translates guide, subtitles, and voiceover into 70+ languages in one batch

Every Scribe is captured by a person clicking. Vidocu's AI Recorder performs the workflow itself in a real browser, on a desktop or mobile viewport, and records video, screenshots, and article in one run

Vidocu publishes to a hosted, searchable knowledge base and turns workflows into training modules with quizzes and per-person pass tracking. Scribe's Pages, on Pro Team and Enterprise, organize guides into a document

Vidocu works from any input: a Scribe-style screen capture, an existing Loom or Zoom recording, a phone video, a PDF or slide deck. Scribe works from its own capture only

Where Scribe is genuinely stronger: capture speed for simple web workflows, a free plan with no cap on guides, Smart Blur and admin-enforced redaction, and enterprise governance with SSO, SCIM, and multi-team controls

Vidocu vs Scribe: Feature Comparison

See how Vidocu compares to Scribe across key features

Feature	Vidocu	Scribe	Notes
Primary output	Step-by-step help article with a screenshot per step, plus the video, subtitles, AI voiceover, and translations, from one recording	Step-by-step guide with a screenshot per step, from a captured click-through	The guide is a tie. Everything else on this page is what Vidocu adds around it.
How the process is captured	Record with the Chrome recorder, upload any existing video, or hand the task to the AI Recorder, which performs the workflow itself and records the run	Chrome or Edge extension on every plan; desktop app for native applications on Pro Personal, Pro Team, and Enterprise	Scribe requires a person to perform the steps. Vidocu can do that or send an agent. The agent needs credentials for the account being recorded and pauses for a one-time code when a login asks for one.
Video from the same capture	Yes: the recording itself, with auto-zoom and click highlights placed from the real interaction, editable in a video editor and in Studio's multi-track timeline	No. Scribe's features page describes guides, Pages, and GIF creation; it does not generate video	This is the largest gap. A workflow that needs both a guide and a video is two tools with Scribe and one with Vidocu.
Narration and voiceover	AI voiceover in 50+ voices and 70+ languages, with a glossary that locks pronunciation of product names	None. Guides are silent screenshots with text	Matters for training and for customers who prefer to watch rather than read.
Subtitles and captions	Auto-generated, editable, exportable as SRT or VTT or burned in	Not applicable; no video output	Scribe produces step guides, not video, so captions do not come up.
Languages and translation	Article, subtitles, and voiceover translated into 70+ languages in one batch from the same source	Translation is not described on Scribe's features or pricing pages	Vidocu also supports right-to-left languages on Business.
Screenshots and annotations	Screenshot captured per step with a screenshot editor for callouts, arrows, and blur; AI annotations on Business	Screenshot per step with annotation, cropping, and text formatting; custom branding on Pro Team and Enterprise	Both are strong here. Scribe's editing of the still image is more mature; Vidocu's screenshots are linked to the video and the article.
Sensitive data redaction	Manual blur in the screenshot editor	Smart Blur automatic redaction, manual redaction on Pro Personal and above, assisted on Pro Team, admin-enforced on Enterprise	Scribe leads on redaction. If you document workflows that show customer data, weigh this heavily.
Longer documents and organization	Knowledge base with sections, articles, search, and deep links to video timestamps; projects and workspaces in the app	Pages combine guides, text, video embeds, and links into one document, on Pro Team and Enterprise only	Scribe's Pages are a paid feature; Vidocu's article generation is on every plan and hosting is an add-on.
Where finished content lives	Hosted, searchable knowledge base with AI search, custom branding and domain; share and embed pages; HTML and Markdown export	Scribe library; share by link, email, embed, PDF, HTML, and Markdown, with a Confluence integration and the Sidekick in-page reader on team plans	Scribe distributes guides well. Vidocu hosts a destination customers can search.
Training, quizzes, and courses	Training modules with quizzes, scoring, pass tracking and per-person qualification, and a course builder	Views and completions analytics; no quizzes or scoring	Scribe tells you a guide was opened. Vidocu tells you whether the person passed.
Review, approvals, and roles	Comments, approval requests with a decision trail, locked approved versions, and workspace roles	Comments and feedback on guides; role-based access control and multi-team governance on Enterprise	Both handle team review. Scribe's governance is deeper at the enterprise tier.
Works with content made elsewhere	Upload any video (Loom, Zoom, OBS, phone), or a PDF, PPTX, Keynote, or Google Slides deck for a narrated video	Its own captures; image and screenshot upload on mobile and tablet	Vidocu is upload-first, so an existing video library becomes documentation without re-capturing.
AI writing	Article text, titles, and step structure written from the recording; glossary keeps terminology consistent	AI-generated titles and descriptions for guides; AI-written text inside Pages	Both use AI for the words. Vidocu's article is built from what happened on screen and in the audio, not just the click log.
API and automation	Public REST API, webhooks, and an MCP server so scripts and AI agents can record, process, and publish	Enterprise Search API for connecting guides to Copilot, Slack bots, and custom assistants, on Enterprise	Scribe's API reads guides out. Vidocu's API produces documentation in.
Security and compliance	SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant, encrypted in transit and at rest, no customer data used to train models, public Trust Center	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and CCPA positioning; Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM, IP whitelisting, and auto-redaction of PII and PHI	If SSO, SCIM, or HIPAA are hard requirements today, Scribe's Enterprise plan is ahead. Confirm current availability with Vidocu's team.
Free plan	200 credits (about 4 minutes of AI video), 1 help article, 1 video export, no limit on video length	Basic: works with any web app, Scribe branding, no desktop app, no Pages, no export to PDF, HTML or Markdown, no comments	Scribe's free plan is the better free guide maker. Vidocu's is a trial of the full pipeline.
Pricing in 2026	Pro $39/month for 820 credits (about 16 minutes of AI video), Business $149/month for 4,000 credits (about 80 minutes) with a team workspace and 3 editors; Enterprise custom	Pro Personal $25 per seat/month billed annually ($35 monthly); Pro Team $13 per seat/month billed annually ($17 monthly) with a 5-seat minimum, so a $65 floor; Enterprise custom	Scribe is per seat. Vidocu is per output volume, so viewers and occasional contributors are free.

What Vidocu Does Differently

While Scribe focuses on video communication, Vidocu transforms videos into complete content ecosystems

One capture, every format

Scribe's capture yields a guide. Vidocu's yields the guide, the video with auto-zoom, subtitles, an AI voiceover, and translated versions of all of them, and they stay linked so a corrected step updates everywhere. Teams that maintain both a help article and a tutorial video for each workflow stop doing the work twice.

Video is a first-class output, not a missing one

Scribe's features page describes guides, Pages, GIFs, and screenshots. It does not produce video, narration, or captions. Vidocu returns the recording itself, edited with zoom and highlights, with subtitles and a voiceover, ready for a help center, a course, or YouTube.

An agent that does the clicking

Vidocu's AI Recorder takes a plain-language description of a workflow, opens a real browser, performs the steps on a desktop or mobile viewport, and records itself doing it. One run returns the video, a screenshot per step, and a written article. Every Scribe guide requires a person to walk the process. The agent needs credentials for the account it records and pauses for a one-time code when a login asks for one.

70+ languages across the whole package

Vidocu translates the article, the subtitles, and the voiceover together, from one source recording, into 70+ languages, with a glossary that keeps product names spelled and pronounced the same in every version. Scribe's features and pricing pages do not describe translation.

A hosted knowledge base with AI search

Vidocu publishes articles and videos to a searchable knowledge base on your own subdomain, with AI-powered search that answers questions from your content and deep links to the exact moment in the video. Scribe distributes guides through links, embeds, and its in-page Sidekick, which is effective for internal teams but not a customer-facing help center.

Training you can prove

Turn any workflow into a training module with a quiz, scoring, pass tracking, and per-person qualification, and group modules into courses. Scribe reports views and completions; it cannot tell you whether the person can now do the task.

Upload-first, so nothing is re-captured

Existing recordings from Loom, Zoom, OBS, or a phone, and documents like a PDF or a slide deck, all go through the same pipeline. Scribe starts from its own capture, so an existing video library stays a video library.

Priced on output, not on seats

Scribe charges per seat, with a five-seat minimum on Pro Team. Vidocu charges for what is produced, so ten viewers and two occasional contributors cost the same as one prolific author. For teams where a few people document and many people read, that is usually the cheaper model.

Best For

Vidocu is perfect for teams that need to turn videos into comprehensive content

Help centers and customer support

Publish the guide and the video of the same workflow, in every language your customers speak, to a searchable help center.

Article with screenshots plus the video, from one capture

Hosted knowledge base or HTML and Markdown export

Feature Deep Dive

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Guide makers and knowledge platforms are different products

Scribe is a very good guide maker. Its extension watches your clicks and produces a clean, editable, step-by-step document faster than any manual process. That is the whole product, and for internal teams who need a quick how-to for a web app it is often enough. Vidocu produces that same guide and treats it as one of several outputs from the source material: the video, the subtitles, the voiceover, the translations, the training module, and the knowledge base that hosts them. The question to ask is whether the guide is the deliverable or one piece of it.

Scribe: click-through guide, fast, silent, from a person's capture
Vidocu: guide, video, voiceover, subtitles, translations, training, and hosting from one source
If your help center already has both articles and videos, Vidocu makes them from one capture

What Scribe does not produce: video, narration, captions

Scribe's own features page describes guides, Pages, GIFs, screenshots, branding, sharing, and analytics. It does not describe video generation, voiceover, subtitles, or translation, and Pages, its longer-document format, is limited to Pro Team and Enterprise. For many support and training teams the video is not optional: customers ask for it, and onboarding retention is higher when people can watch. With Scribe that means a second tool for recording, a third for captions, and a fourth for narration. With Vidocu it is the same capture.

Scribe: guides and Pages only
Vidocu: video with auto-zoom, 50+ AI voices, SRT and VTT captions
Vidocu's Studio adds a multi-track editor with an AI editing assistant

Removing the person from the capture

Scribe's model still requires the person who knows the workflow to sit down and click through it, then again when the interface changes. Vidocu's AI Recorder replaces that step for browser-based products. Describe the task, and an agent performs it in a real browser while recording, capturing a timeline of every click so zooms and highlights land on the real control. It stops and explains itself when a task is impossible. Runs are metered at 50 credits per minute of finished video, and, like every tool in this category, the agent needs credentials for the account it records.

Describe the workflow in plain language
Video, step screenshots, and article from one run
Pauses for OTP or 2FA codes when a login requires one

Where Scribe is ahead, honestly

Three places. Redaction: Smart Blur, assisted redaction, and admin-enforced redaction of PII and PHI are more complete than Vidocu's manual blur, which matters if your workflows show customer records. Governance: Enterprise Scribe offers SAML SSO, SCIM, IP whitelisting, and multi-team controls; confirm current availability of SSO and SCIM with Vidocu's team before committing. Free tier: Scribe Basic makes unlimited guides of any web app at no cost, with Scribe branding, while Vidocu's free plan is a trial of the pipeline with one article and one export. If those three are the deciding factors, Scribe is the right call.

Redaction depth
Enterprise identity and governance
Free guide making with no volume cap

Pricing: seats versus output

Scribe's Pro Personal is $25 per seat per month billed annually or $35 monthly. Pro Team is $13 per seat per month billed annually or $17 monthly, with a five-seat minimum, so the real entry price is $65 a month billed annually. Enterprise is custom. Vidocu's Pro plan is $39 a month with 820 credits, about 16 minutes of AI video, and Business is $149 a month with 4,000 credits, about 80 minutes, a team workspace, and three editors. Vidocu's Knowledge Center hosting is a $100 a month add-on. A five-person team that needs guides, video, and translation pays Scribe $65 plus whatever tools make the video, or Vidocu $149 for all of it.

Scribe: $13 to $35 per seat, 5-seat minimum on Pro Team
Vidocu: $39 or $149 per month, credit-based
Compare on what the workflow has to produce, not on seat count

How to switch from Scribe to Vidocu

Switching to Vidocu is straightforward. Here's how to get started.

List the guides that also need a video, a translation, or a quiz

Those are the ones Scribe cannot finish on its own. Simple internal click-throughs can stay in Scribe if you like; nothing here requires cancelling it.

Export the guides you want to keep

Scribe exports to PDF, HTML, and Markdown on paid plans. Keep them as references for terminology and step order while you rebuild the source in Vidocu.

Re-capture the top workflows with the AI Recorder or the Chrome recorder

For browser products, describe the workflow and let the agent record it. For native apps, record with the Chrome recorder or any screen recorder and upload; Vidocu is upload-first.

Review the article and lock terminology

Each capture returns the step-by-step article with screenshots. Fix product names once in the glossary and they stay consistent across article, subtitles, and voiceover.

Add narration and translate

Generate the AI voiceover, then pick the target languages. Vidocu produces the translated article, subtitles, and voiceover together.

Publish and assign training

Push articles and videos to a hosted Vidocu knowledge base or export to your help center. Turn the workflows people must learn into modules with quizzes and pass tracking.

Automate the updates

When a workflow changes, re-run the AI Recorder or trigger processing through the API or MCP server, so re-documentation does not depend on someone finding time to click through it again.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Vidocu vs Scribe

Is Vidocu a good Scribe alternative?

Yes, if you need more than a silent click-through guide. Vidocu produces the same step-by-step article with a screenshot per step, and from the same capture also returns the video with auto-zoom, subtitles, an AI voiceover, and translations into 70+ languages, then hosts the result in a searchable knowledge base and can turn it into a training module with a quiz. If a quick internal guide of a web app is all you need, Scribe's free plan does that well and Vidocu is more than you require.

Does Scribe make videos?

No. Scribe's features page describes step-by-step guides, Pages that combine guides into longer documents, GIF creation, screenshots, branding, sharing, and analytics. It does not generate video, voiceover, or subtitles. Vidocu produces all three from the same recording that generates the guide.

What does Vidocu generate from a single capture?

A step-by-step help article with a screenshot captured at each step, the video with auto-zoom and click highlights, editable subtitles exportable as SRT or VTT, an AI voiceover in any of 50+ voices, and translated versions of the article, subtitles, and voiceover in up to 70+ languages. Each output has its own editor, and the article can be published to a hosted knowledge base or exported as HTML or Markdown.

Can Vidocu capture a workflow without me clicking through it?

Yes. Vidocu's AI Recorder takes a plain-language description of the task, opens a real browser, performs the steps on a desktop or mobile viewport, and records itself doing it, returning the video, step screenshots, and the article from one run. It needs credentials for the account being recorded and pauses to ask for a one-time code when a login requires one, and it stops and explains itself when a task cannot be completed. Scribe always needs a person to perform the workflow.

What is Scribe's pricing in 2026?

Scribe publishes four plans. Basic is free, works with any web app, carries Scribe branding, and excludes the desktop app, Pages, exports, and comments. Pro Personal is $25 per seat per month billed annually or $35 monthly. Pro Team is $13 per seat per month billed annually or $17 monthly with a five-seat minimum, so it starts at $65 a month. Enterprise is custom and adds SSO, SCIM, auto-redaction, and multi-team governance. Vidocu's Pro plan is $39 per month with 820 credits, about 16 minutes of AI video, and Business is $149 per month with 4,000 credits, about 80 minutes, priced on output rather than per seat.

Does Vidocu translate documentation like Scribe?

Scribe's features and pricing pages do not describe translation. Vidocu translates the article, the subtitles, and the AI voiceover into 70+ languages in one batch from the same source recording, with a glossary that keeps product names consistent in every language, and supports right-to-left languages on the Business plan.

Which is better for training and onboarding?

Vidocu, if you need to know whether the training worked. It turns a workflow into a module with a quiz, scoring, pass tracking, and per-person qualification, groups modules into courses, and delivers the same content narrated and subtitled in 70+ languages. Scribe reports views and completions on guides, which shows engagement but not understanding.

Which is better for redacting sensitive data?

Scribe. It offers Smart Blur automatic redaction, manual redaction on Pro Personal and above, assisted redaction on Pro Team, and admin-enforced redaction of PII and PHI on Enterprise. Vidocu offers manual blur in its screenshot editor. If your workflows routinely show customer records, treat this as a deciding factor. Note that Vidocu's terms also prohibit uploading protected health information.

Does Vidocu support SSO, SCIM, and enterprise compliance?

Vidocu is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant, encrypts data in transit and at rest, does not use customer content to train models, and publishes its controls on a public Trust Center. Enterprise plans include signed DPAs and retention controls. If SAML SSO or SCIM provisioning is a hard requirement, confirm current availability with the Vidocu team before you commit; Scribe offers both on its Enterprise plan.

Can I keep my existing Scribe guides while adopting Vidocu?

Yes. Export them as PDF, HTML, or Markdown from a paid Scribe plan and keep them as references, or keep Scribe running for simple internal guides. Move the workflows that need a video, a translation, a training quiz, or a customer-facing knowledge base to Vidocu first; those are the ones Scribe cannot complete on its own.

When should I choose Scribe over Vidocu?

Choose Scribe when the deliverable is a quick, silent, click-by-click guide of a web app for internal use, when you need unlimited free guide creation, when automatic redaction of sensitive data is essential, or when enterprise identity features like SAML SSO and SCIM are a hard requirement today. Choose Vidocu when the guide also has to be a video, exist in several languages, sit in a searchable knowledge base, become a training module with a quiz, or be captured by an AI agent instead of a person.

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