Scribe Alternatives in 2026: Tango, Guidde, Trainual, Supademo and Arcade Compared

Tango is the closest Scribe alternative for screenshot instructions; Guidde fits narrated video, Supademo and Arcade fit interactive demos, and Trainual fits assigned training with sign-off. These 5 Scribe alternatives solve different problems, so choose the output and accountability you need before comparing subscriptions. If your only gap is turning rough notes into an SOP, a standard operating procedure, start with a reviewed ChatGPT or Claude draft.

Verified on 27 October 2026: pricing, billing units, exports and relevant product documentation on each maker's own site. This comparison is based on public documentation and public-page screenshots, without signed-in product testing. The workflows below are examples for evaluating a purchase.

Scribe alternatives at a glance

Start with the format your learner needs. A screenshot guide helps someone perform a task alongside their work; a video explains what to notice; an interactive demo lets them click through a prepared example; a training system assigns learning and records completion.

Prices are in USD. Annual rates are monthly equivalents under an annual commitment. Arcade's row uses monthly billing and covers its interactive-demo subscription. Trainual requires a quote, so it cannot honestly be ranked as a cheaper capture tool from public pricing alone.

Choose the result before replacing the recorder

A replacement should fix the failed handoff. If people cannot find the right button, a clearer screenshot guide may help. If they can follow the clicks but cannot explain when to use them, add context. If managers cannot tell who learned the procedure, changing the recorder leaves the central problem intact.

Consider a customer account handoff. The instructions need to show where to change the account owner, explain what information the receiving colleague needs, identify who resolves an incomplete handoff, and define what counts as finished. Capturing the clicks covers only part of that work.

Keep the distinction between a reference and an assignment explicit. A reference answers a question when someone needs help. An assignment tells a named person what to learn and gives a manager a record of progress. You may need both, but they are different buying requirements.

Scribe pricing: the baseline worth keeping

Scribe Capture, the workflow documentation product being replaced here, already offers browser guides with link and embed sharing on Basic. Paid plans add desktop capture and PDF, HTML and Markdown exports. Pricing: Basic is free; Pro Personal starts at $25/seat/month annually, while Pro Team starts at $13/seat/month annually with a 5-seat minimum. Scribe pricing.

That baseline matters because a tool with a lower advertised seat price may require more seats, while a more expensive product may solve a different problem. Stay with Scribe when your guides already work and the missing ingredient is an owner who keeps them current. Move when the replacement's output, distribution or training controls remove a specific source of repeated work.

The five tools, compared by need

Tango gets the first evaluation for a familiar screenshot workflow. The remaining picks are specialists: move to their sections when video, interactive practice or training accountability is the requirement that changes your decision.

1. Tango: the closest fit for screenshot step guides

Tango is a process capture tool that turns a demonstrated workflow into screenshots, highlights and written instructions. It is the first alternative to shortlist when an operations lead likes Scribe's basic approach but wants to compare the cost and sharing workflow. A useful example is teaching a colleague to update an account record while keeping the guide beside the application. The limit to understand is paid workspace membership: upgrading a workspace to Pro requires upgrading its members, so count the people inside that workspace before buying. Tango product overview, plan details.

Best for: Internal software procedures that people follow while working.
Standout: A captured guide can live as a link, an embed or an exported document.
Pricing: Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually for 3+ users, or $22/user/month annually for 1-2 users; each Pro workspace member is paid. Current pricing.
Free trial: Evaluate the Free plan, which includes 5 shared workflows and up to 10 workspace users.

For the account-handoff example, the guide should explain the starting state before it shows a button. Is the account ready for a new owner? Does the receiving colleague have access? What should happen if required information is missing? A capture records the path you took. You still need to explain the conditions that make that path correct.

The best reason to use a screenshot guide is selective reading. A colleague who knows the process can jump to the unfamiliar step. A new hire can work through the entire sequence. That makes the format a sensible default for repeatable software tasks where each screen contains a decision or a field to check.

Exports and embeds: Tango supports shared links and embedded workflows. Pro adds PDF, Markdown and HTML exports. The important maintenance distinction is that an embedded Tango can reflect source changes, while a copied or downloaded version stays as it was when exported. Use an embed for a frequently changing procedure; use an export when the destination needs a portable snapshot. Capture and sharing instructions, static export behavior.

Tango vs Scribe

Tango is a close substitute for the screenshot workflow, with a pricing advantage that depends on team size. Both vendors publish paid document exports, so “it can make a PDF” alone is a weak reason to migrate. Scribe also lists on-screen walkthroughs; avoid treating guidance as a capability only Tango offers. For Tango's particular in-app guidance features, confirm the entitlement you need: its pricing cards place Pins, Guide Me and Automations under Enterprise. Scribe plans, Tango plans.

Verdict: Choose Tango when screenshot instructions remain the right format and its workspace cost or sharing workflow fits better. Keep Scribe if the comparison leaves you with only a small saving and a working library to rebuild.

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   Capture a process with a clear beginning and end

   Open Tango's capture extension, begin the workflow and perform the task using suitable demonstration data. Finish with the green checkmark. Capture the successful path first so a learner can see what completion looks like.

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   Edit the explanation, not just the screenshots

   Review the title, step descriptions and images. Add the required starting permissions and the condition for escalating a blocked handoff. On a paid plan, review blur settings before sharing sensitive screenshots.

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   Choose the destination and test access

   Use Share & Export. Choose a link or live embed for maintained instructions, or a paid export for a portable copy. Ask a colleague with the intended permissions to open it and follow the task without coaching. These controls follow Tango's documented capture and sharing flow.

2. Guidde: for narrated video guides

Guidde is a video documentation tool for explaining a workflow with captured steps and narration. It fits a trainer who needs to show what happens on screen while explaining why it matters, such as what a new account owner should inspect before accepting a handoff. The plan distinction is consequential: Pro adds downloadable exports, while unlimited text-to-voice generation and desktop capture sit on Business. A trainer buying specifically for AI narration should check that requirement before choosing the lowest paid plan. Guidde features and pricing.

Best for: Training and support instructions where spoken explanation improves the handoff.
Standout: Video can be repurposed into illustrated documents and presentation material.
Pricing: Free; Pro from $19/creator/month annually; Admins, Content Managers and Creators take paid seats, while Viewers do not. Current pricing.
Free trial: 7-day Business trial without a credit card; downloadable exports require a paid subscription.

A video is most useful when the explanation contains judgment. For example, the trainer might explain how to recognize an incomplete customer brief before showing the acceptance step. Narrating every visible button adds little. Explaining why an apparently complete record should be sent back gives the learner information the screenshot cannot supply by itself.

Keep the narration scoped to the task. A guide called “Accept a customer handoff” should reach the acceptance decision. Background on the entire customer lifecycle belongs in a separate reference. Otherwise someone returning for a specific instruction has to search through introductory material each time.

Exports and embeds: Guidde documents MP4, GIF, PDF, Word, PPTX, HTML and Markdown output, alongside hosted sharing and embedding. The formats preserve different things. MP4 plays the video but loses interactive action links. PDF and Word contain illustrated steps plus a link to the hosted video. PPTX places captured steps on slides, with descriptions as speaker notes. These are ways to reuse a guide, not interchangeable copies of its interactive experience. Export documentation.

For external website embeds, Guidde requires the guide to be public. Keep that boundary in mind when the procedure contains internal information. Embedding requirements.

SCORM, a package format used to move learning content into a learning management system, is an Enterprise export in Guidde's documentation. If your existing training system requires it, put that requirement into the purchase discussion early. Do not assume an MP4 upload gives that system the same learning interaction or reporting. Guidde export formats.

For a practical evaluation, use a procedure that changes. Revise a field name or an explanation, then inspect the hosted version and the exported copy separately. The question is whether the owner can keep both destinations correct without turning each small change into a production project.

Verdict: Choose Guidde when explanation by voice is the missing ingredient. Skip it when staff mainly need a short reference beside their work, or when the required offline output has not been validated.

3. Supademo: for interactive practice and reusable SOPs

Supademo is an interactive demo builder that lets a learner click through a prepared product walkthrough. It fits an operations lead teaching unfamiliar software and a founder showing customers how a workflow works before asking them to use it. The most useful distinction is between a screenshot-based guided demo and a more flexible captured HTML or sandbox experience. Scale includes the guided-demo workflow; guided HTML demos start on Business and sandbox demos on Growth. Supademo plans.

Best for: Click-through onboarding with a second life as written documentation.
Standout: Copy Steps turns demo slides into images and explanatory text for a document or wiki.
Pricing: Free; Scale from $38/creator/month annually; paid Admins and Creators are billed per seat. Current pricing.
Free trial: Free plan with 5 guided interactive demos for 1 creator, plus a 14-day paid-plan trial.

For the account-handoff example, build a prepared record and let the learner choose the relevant hotspots, the clickable areas that advance the demonstration. This gives them a chance to recognize the screen layout and sequence before handling a live customer. It is especially useful when granting production access merely to explain a process would be premature.

The acceptance test should match the promise. A learner successfully clicking through a prepared path has demonstrated navigation through that example. To evaluate job readiness, give them an unfamiliar record afterward and ask what they would check, what they would change and what would make them stop. The demo is practice material; the follow-up establishes whether the underlying decision has transferred.

Exports and embeds: Supademo supports shared links and embeds for the interactive experience, MP4 and GIF for linear playback, and PDF or PNG for document-style reuse. Its Copy Steps option provides HTML or text with the step images. That makes it a useful bridge between a click-through lesson and a reference article. Export options, Copy Steps instructions.

There is a specific video-export ceiling worth checking: Supademo caps an individual video export at 70 steps and recommends splitting longer demos. That restriction is about the export, not a claim that every demo has the same creation limit. More broadly, a long onboarding sequence is usually easier to maintain when separate tasks have their own entry points. MP4 and GIF exports.

A good evaluation runs the same source through the destination your staff already use. Choose Share, then Copy Steps, select HTML or Text and paste it into that destination. Check that the screenshots remain readable, that explanations survive the paste, and that the result is understandable without the original hotspot animation. A portable file is only useful if it still teaches the task.

Scale also lists branching, variables, AI voiceovers and tracking analytics. Branching means choosing different paths within the prepared demo. Use it for a meaningful decision, such as a complete versus incomplete handoff, rather than letting every decorative click produce another branch. Plan capabilities.

Verdict: Choose Supademo when interactive onboarding and reusable written instructions both matter. For a screenshot-only internal reference, test whether its extra demo production work earns its place.

4. Arcade: for a focused, branded interactive demo

Arcade is a product demo tool for presenting a prepared walkthrough with interactive steps and a controlled story. It belongs on the shortlist when a founder or trainer wants a learner to understand a particular product workflow, especially when the same experience will be shared with customers. Growth includes branching, calls to action, forms and MP4/GIF exports. Its current interactive-demo subscription is sold separately from its AI video subscription, so buying one does not include the other's paid features. Demo plans, subscription separation.

Best for: A branded product walkthrough used in customer education or a product introduction.
Standout: A guided story can include branches and a clear next action.
Pricing: Free; interactive-demo Growth is $50/seat/month on monthly billing, supporting up to 10 users; AI video subscriptions are separate. Current demo pricing.
Free trial: A Free demo plan permits 1 published demo; the dedicated pricing page does not state a trial duration.

Arcade's buying case is strongest when the walkthrough has a specific ending. A customer learns how to configure a feature and then opens the relevant setup page. A new colleague learns how a record moves between stages and then discusses the exception rule with a trainer. The demo has a purpose beyond displaying the interface.

That structure is useful for a product story, but do not make every internal procedure behave like a sales presentation. Staff returning to a routine task often want to find the relevant step immediately. During evaluation, ask someone who has already seen the walkthrough to return directly to the part they forgot. If that is awkward in your chosen design, provide a written reference beside it.

Exports and embeds: The dedicated demo pricing page lists sharing by link and iframe embedding, which places the hosted demo inside another page. Growth includes MP4 and GIF downloads. For an offline interactive experience, Arcade lists offline access on Enterprise, together with HTML capture, collections, custom domains and version history. A downloaded video should not be confused with that offline interactive option. Arcade demo capabilities.

A useful purchase check compares the same short walkthrough in its hosted, embedded and downloaded forms. Check the website layout around the embed, the visibility of instructions on a smaller display, and whether the final action still makes sense in a video. An export can be perfectly usable for an announcement while being unsuitable for a learner who needs to make choices.

Arcade or Supademo? Start with Supademo when extracting the walkthrough into a written SOP is central to the job; its Copy Steps documentation makes that path explicit. Evaluate Arcade when the main deliverable is a focused product story with a branded presentation and next action. If HTML capture or offline interaction decides the purchase, compare the exact required plan rather than the entry price.

For a founder, the practical boundary is maintenance. Every demo makes a promise about how the product works. Choose a small workflow whose owner can update it after an interface change. A compelling tour of a large product becomes expensive to keep trustworthy when no one is responsible for its individual sections.

Verdict: Choose Arcade for the demo experience you want someone to complete. Avoid buying it as a wholesale replacement for a maintained company handbook without first specifying where the rest of that handbook will live.

5. Trainual: for an SOP library with training and sign-off

Trainual is a documentation and training system that connects company procedures to role-based learning, assignments and completion records. It earns its place when an operations lead already has guides but cannot consistently onboard people or establish who has completed required learning. For an account handoff, that means putting the procedure into the relevant role's training and checking understanding afterward. The buying boundary is clear: Trainual's public page quotes by team size and features, and e-signatures have plan or add-on requirements that need to be confirmed. Training features, pricing, e-signature requirements.

Best for: A growing company that needs maintained procedures, assigned learning and evidence of completion.
Standout: Documentation sits alongside training paths, tests and reporting.
Pricing: Custom quote based on team size and features; the maker publishes no starting dollar price. Current pricing.
Free trial: The public page offers a demo conversation, without a published self-serve trial duration.

Trainual's documentation tools include AI-assisted writing, document imports, screen recording, uploaded or embedded video and flowcharts. Those formats let the process owner assemble a complete explanation rather than insisting that every policy become a screenshot sequence. The relevant question is which parts of the job need reference material, which need practice, and which require acknowledgment. Documentation features.

Take a growing services company where new account managers learn from whoever happens to be available. A useful pilot would cover the customer handoff from receiving the brief through accepting responsibility. The process owner writes the acceptance conditions, adds the software guide and prepares an example of an incomplete handoff. The trainer then assigns the material and checks whether the learner knows when to escalate.

This is where Trainual is more relevant than buying another recorder. It gives the learning activity a home and an assignment structure. The implementation work still belongs to the company: someone must decide what the correct process is, maintain the material and interpret completion in the context of job performance.

Sign-off needs its own decision. Trainual's e-signatures apply at document level and depend on the subscription or add-on. Its help page also warns that editing a document with a signature requirement prompts people to sign again. Agree on a review and release process before making frequently edited notes require signatures. A sign-off is an acknowledgment; assess practical competence separately. E-signature behavior.

Exports and embeds: Trainual accepts embedded material inside its training content and can export subjects, documents and flowcharts to PDF when exports are enabled and the user has the necessary permissions. Its public-share feature can expose a published subject to people outside the account. Those are distinct distribution options, with different consequences. Documentation formats, PDF export rules.

The PDF boundary matters when assessing portability. Trainual's export documentation excludes tests, checklists, standalone videos, premium courses and standalone files from PDF content exports. Embedded videos appear as placeholder images. Exporting a handbook therefore does not create a complete portable copy of the training experience; plan separately for the material and records you need to retain. What PDF export includes.

Verdict: Choose Trainual when the recurring problem is getting people trained consistently and recording that work. Skip it when you merely want a cheaper way to capture browser steps. The Trainual review goes deeper on that buying decision; the employee onboarding software guide separates job training from employee records, payroll and access setup.

Scribe AI alternatives for drafting SOPs

ChatGPT and Claude, general-purpose AI assistants, fit a narrower job: turning supplied process knowledge into a draft someone can review. This route is useful for a founder who can explain the work but keeps postponing the document. It becomes risky when the prompt asks the assistant to invent the policy, approval chain or exception rules that the company has never supplied.

ChatGPT: turn source material into a reviewable draft

ChatGPT can create and revise documents from supplied material, with document and PDF output available through its file workflows. Give it the process notes, an approved template and the audience, then ask for a draft with uncertain details marked for review. Pricing: the maker offers a $0 Free plan and paid subscriptions; access to particular tools depends on the plan and surface. Output: review, revise and download the generated file into the documentation system you intend to maintain. Official ChatGPT file workflow.

The useful evaluation is fidelity to the source. Ask the process owner to highlight every instruction that was not supported by the notes. An elegant document containing a fabricated approval rule is harder to trust than a rough draft that identifies the missing rule plainly.

Claude: draft and refine an editable SOP

Claude can use Claude Docs to draft, edit and share a document from supplied context. Pricing: a $0 Free plan is available, with optional paid subscriptions. Output: Claude Docs exports to Word, PDF, Markdown or Google Docs, so a reviewed SOP can move to an established document home. Availability and organization settings still apply. Claude pricing, Claude Docs.

Use either assistant to improve the explanation around captured evidence. For example, paste approved notes describing the account handoff, identify which screenshots belong to each action, and ask for the prerequisites and exception path to be made explicit. The final source should remain under a named person's control, whether it lives in a document, a wiki or Trainual.

A reusable SOP prompt and review template

Start with the process owner's notes and use this prompt. The instruction to identify gaps matters more than the choice of assistant.

Turn the source notes below into an SOP for a new colleague. Use only the supplied facts. Do not invent permissions, policies, deadlines, system behavior or approval rules. Mark every missing fact as “Needs owner confirmation.” Separate the normal path from exceptions. Include purpose, trigger, owner, prerequisites, steps, expected result, escalation route and review owner. For each step, identify the supplied evidence that supports it. End with questions the process owner must answer before publication.

Use these fields in the resulting document:

• Purpose and trigger: What outcome does this procedure produce, and what starts it?
• Owner and prerequisites: Who is responsible, and what access or information must already exist?
• Actions and checks: What should the learner do, and how do they know each action worked?
• Exceptions: What conditions require stopping, correcting the record or asking for help?
• Completion evidence: What observable result shows the handoff is finished?
• Review responsibility: Who updates the document when the process or interface changes?

For the account-handoff example, “send the record to the next person” is too vague. A reviewable instruction identifies the receiving role, the information required and the acknowledgment that closes the transfer. If the source notes do not provide those details, the assistant should return questions instead of plausible answers.

Verdict: Use ChatGPT or Claude when writing is the bottleneck and an owner can verify the facts. Pair the approved draft with captured evidence and a distribution process. A prompt alone is not evidence that someone performed, learned or approved the task.

Which alternatives to Scribe should you choose?

For an operations lead documenting routine software tasks, evaluate Tango first. Keep the successful process visible alongside the application and compare the actual paid workspace size. Move beyond screenshot guides only when a different format helps the learner complete the task.

For a trainer explaining decisions and exceptions, evaluate Guidde. Spoken context earns its place when the learner must notice something that is difficult to express through a highlighted button. Confirm the narration entitlement and the required export before committing.

For a founder teaching a product through interaction, compare Supademo and Arcade. Supademo has an explicit path from demo steps to written SOP content. Arcade merits evaluation when the primary asset is a focused product story with a next action. Use the same example in both, then judge the intended destination and upkeep effort.

For an operations lead coordinating repeated onboarding, evaluate Trainual. The decision flips when you need assigned learning, completion records or document acknowledgment in addition to producing the instructions. Confirm those requirements in the quote, including the sign-off entitlement.

For someone who already knows the process but has no usable draft, start with ChatGPT or Claude. Supply the facts, approve the document, then decide whether a dedicated capture or training subscription is still necessary.

The rule is straightforward: buy the format that helps someone do the work; add a training system when you also need to assign and record learning. A prettier guide is valuable only if it improves that handoff.

Move the process, not just the screenshots

Migrate a representative task before migrating the library. The sample should include a normal path, an exception and a destination someone will use. That reveals problems hidden by a polished homepage demonstration.

Give every stage an accountable person. The experienced operator supplies the actions. The process owner approves the meaning. The trainer checks whether a learner can use the material. The maintenance owner updates it when the work changes. The same person may hold several responsibilities, but none should disappear between tools.

Scribe AI documentation: plan the export and rebuild boundary

Scribe's paid PDF, HTML and Markdown exports provide ways to preserve existing instructions. They do not, by themselves, prove that another tool can import the same material as a fully editable native guide. Before canceling or moving a subscription, validate the specific source format and destination with a representative guide. Scribe export availability.

Inventory where the current instructions appear: shared links, embedded guides, downloaded attachments and training assignments. Decide which copy is authoritative. If you replace the source but leave an old attachment in circulation, staff may keep following the outdated version even though the new system is correct.

An embed and an export solve different problems. Tango explicitly documents that its live embeds update with the source, while its exported copies do not. That makes an embed useful for maintained reference material and an export useful for a fixed handoff or archive. It also means you must test what happens to the hosted material if access changes. Tango sharing behavior.

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   Define the learner's finished result

   Write down what the learner must produce and the condition that requires escalation. Use the same task when comparing tools, so the result reflects the workflow rather than different examples.

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   Publish to the destination that matters

   Test the wiki embed, downloaded PDF, video file or assigned lesson that staff will use. Open it with the intended permissions and device. Check links, legibility and the exception explanation.

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   Ask someone to use it without coaching

   Observe where the learner stops, guesses or asks for help. Record those gaps before editing. A completed walkthrough is useful evidence; a correctly completed unfamiliar task is stronger evidence of understanding.

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   Make a change before approving the switch

   Update an instruction and inspect every distribution destination. Assign responsibility for replacing static copies, reviewing linked content and communicating changes. Move the next process only after this maintenance path is clear.

Monday move: Choose the handoff that causes the most repeated questions, identify its owner and pilot the appropriate tool on that task. Judge the result by the learner's ability to complete it and the owner's ability to keep it correct.

How these were picked

The shortlist follows five buying criteria: the output a learner receives, the unit the vendor bills, the formats that leave the product, the training evidence you can retain, and the work required to maintain the result. Current maker pricing and help pages were checked on 27 October 2026. Recommendations are analysis of those published capabilities, with illustrative acceptance tests rather than claims of hands-on performance.

The scope is Scribe Capture and process documentation. Meeting transcription tools, medical scribes and e-readers address different jobs and are excluded. Extra products were also left out when they did not add a necessary decision beyond screenshot guides, narrated guides, interactive demos, assigned training or document drafting.

No score predicts how well a tool will fit your organization's permissions, destination or process quality. Those are the reasons to run the small migration test above. A verified feature list narrows the purchase; the learner's result decides it.

The ones to avoid

Avoid Trainual if your entire requirement is cheaper screenshot capture. Its strongest case is organizing and recording learning. If that work is not needed, the quote and implementation process solve a problem you do not yet have.

Avoid Arcade as the default home for an entire operating handbook. Choose it for a specific interactive experience, and establish where policy, exceptions, ownership and training records will live around that experience.

Avoid committing to Guidde from a trial alone when downloadable files are mandatory. The trial's export restriction prevents that conclusion. Verify the exact paid output before moving the library.

Avoid upgrading a large Tango workspace before counting its members. The person making the guide is not necessarily the only paid member. Design the authoring and sharing arrangement before deciding it is cheaper.

Avoid an unreviewed ChatGPT or Claude SOP. A draft that invents your approval rules can spread the wrong procedure with impressive consistency. Use the assistant to organize supplied knowledge and expose missing facts.

These are mismatches to avoid, rather than universal judgments against the products. The right tool should remove a recurring handoff problem you can name.

Frequently asked questions

Best scribe alternatives

Tango is the closest starting point for screenshot guides. Guidde fits narrated instructions. Supademo and Arcade fit interactive product walkthroughs, with Supademo especially relevant when extracting written SOP steps matters. Trainual fits an SOP library that also needs assignments, completion tracking and sign-off. Pick by the learner's task and the evidence you need afterward.

Scribe alternatives free

Tango's Free plan supports 5 shared workflows. Guidde's Free plan includes up to 25 how-to videos, with downloadable exports requiring payment. Supademo permits 5 guided interactive demos for 1 creator. Arcade's demo Free plan permits 1 published demo. Those are different output allowances; choose the free plan whose sharing format works for the intended reader.

Scribe for free

Scribe Basic supports browser capture and sharing by link or embed. Desktop capture and PDF, HTML and Markdown exports are paid capabilities on its current pricing page. If Basic already produces the instructions you need, another free account may add migration work without solving a new problem.