A Scribe alternative for customer-facing guides that stay current

What Scribe is, in its own words

Scribe’s headline is “The best teams & AI agents run on Scribe,” with the subhead “Automatically capture how work gets done. Give your teams and AI agents the context to do their best work.” It sells to the people who document internal processes: operations, IT, finance, HR and training. Its newest capture mode, Autocapture, “learns from how you work and documents it.”

When this page applies

Most people searching for a Scribe alternative want another way to write internal SOPs. Stagewright isn’t that. This page is for teams using Scribe, or something like it, to publish customer-facing guides for a product they build and ship often, who find those guides falling behind the product.

Writers we’ve read describe the same thing: the screenshot is easy to retake, but the procedure around it changed too. Stagewright records the steps, the screenshots and the narration from one run of the product, so they change together and are checked together.

Side by side

Guides that stay current

Guides that stay current: Stagewright and Scribe
Capability	Stagewright	Scribe	Source
Re-records when the product changes	On every pull request the change can affect	No. Not documented, per their public docs as of October 2026	source
Text and screenshots from the same run	Steps, screenshots and video from one recording	Partial. Captured together once; updated by recapturing	source
Approve intended changes, file regressions	Yes	Partial. "Guide verification workflow" on Enterprise	source

Last verified 2026-10-11 against Scribe's public pages, linked in each row.

Making and sharing guides

Making and sharing guides: Stagewright and Scribe
Capability	Stagewright	Scribe	Source
Capture	A YAML script run against your app	Browser capture, plus Autocapture ("Scribe learns from how you work and documents it")	source
Platforms	Web apps	"Works with web, mobile & desktop apps" on Pro	source
Narrated video	Yes	Partial. "Share as video"	source
Exports	MP4, GIF, step screenshots, PDF, Markdown	PDF, HTML, Markdown and Word on Pro; GIF and slides on its capture page	source
Help-center and wiki destinations	Productlane, Intercom, Zendesk (articles written back as drafts)	Salesforce Knowledge, Zendesk, HubSpot, Help Scout, Confluence, SharePoint, Notion, 13 LMSs, mostly as embeds	source
Languages	Each locale recorded from the product in that language	15 languages, Enterprise only	source
SSO, SCIM, SOC 2, HIPAA	No. Not yet	SAML, SCIM and RBAC on Enterprise; SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA	source

Last verified 2026-10-11 against Scribe's public pages, linked in each row.

Where Scribe is better

Documenting any process, in any tool. Scribe captures work across web, desktop and mobile apps you don’t own. Stagewright only records a web product you can point it at.
No setup per guide. Click through once and the guide exists. A Stagewright walkthrough is a script, written by an engineer, a coding agent, or drafted from the feature’s code.
Enterprise readiness. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, SAML and SCIM.
Many destinations, including 13 LMSs.

Choose Scribe if

You document internal processes, or tools you don’t build.
Speed of capture matters more than whether the guide is still right in three months.

Choose Stagewright if

You publish guides for your own product’s customers and ship weekly or faster.
You want a guide that no longer matches the product to show up on the pull request that changed it.
You want the help-center article, its screenshots and its video to update together when you approve the change.

Using both

Many teams will keep Scribe for internal SOPs and use Stagewright for the product walkthroughs customers read. They don’t overlap much.

FAQ

Can Stagewright import my Scribe guides? Not as walkthroughs. Stagewright’s repo scan finds Scribe and other embedded guides and videos in your docs and lists them as a course of lessons to re-record, which a coding agent can draft from the feature’s code.

Is there a free way to try it? npx stagewright init and npx stagewright record work offline with no account, and npx stagewright ci reports pass or fail on a pull request without one. Comparing frames against an approved baseline, approving and publishing need the private beta.