Peutly vs Scribe

Both are good. Here is when each one wins.

Scribe is a process-documentation tool: you perform a task, it writes the guide. It is very good at that, it is cheap, and it is in a different category from Peutly. The reason the two get compared is that a Scribe guide and a Peutly demo both start with a browser capture. What comes out the other end is a document in one case and a working replay of your product in the other.

What they charge

Scribe pricing, as Scribe publishes it

Every figure below is copied from their own pricing page, last read on 22 September 2026. Where they publish no number, we say so instead of estimating one.

PlanMonthlySeats and what is included
BasicFreeUnlimited seats
Web capture only. No custom branding.
Pro Personal$35 per seatFrom 1 seat
Adds custom branding, desktop and mobile capture.
Pro Team$17 per seatFrom 5 seats
Adds comments and collaboration, advanced analytics and insights.
EnterpriseCustomCustom
Adds SAML SSO, auto-redaction of PII and PHI, language translations, an enterprise search API and multiple workspaces.

The seat maths. Scribe Pro Team is $17 per seat per month, $13 annually, from five seats. Ten seats is $170 a month, just under Peutly Starter at $175. Again, the bill is not the interesting part: what you get for it is a library of written guides in one case and interactive demos in the other.

What each price buys. Peutly captures the real DOM on every plan, from $175 a month, so the demo is your actual interface and stays editable afterwards. Scribe does not offer DOM capture on any plan, Screenshot-based guides. No DOM capture on any plan.. The two prices buy different kinds of product.

Feature-by-feature

The matrix

Scribe is a process documentation tool. Rows marked missing for Peutly are things we genuinely do not do, not things we are about to ship.

FeaturePeutlyScribe
What the viewer getsA demo they click throughA guide they read
Captured output stays editable HTML
Scribe captures annotated screenshots. Peutly captures the DOM, so text and images inside the captured product remain editable.
Free plan
Scribe Basic is free with unlimited seats, limited to web capture and without custom branding.
Unlimited seats
Pricing modelPer workspace, flatPer seat
Custom branding
Peutly applies your workspace theme on every plan, with per-demo and per-collection overrides on Pro.
Pro Personal+
Desktop and mobile capture
Peutly captures in Chrome only.
Pro Personal+
Lead capture forms in the flow
Custom share domainPro+
Per-step drop-off analytics
Scribe reports on guide engagement. Peutly reports which step of a demo a viewer abandoned, labelled by chapter.
Pro+Pro Team+
AI narration13 voices, 20 languages
SAML SSOEnterprise
Automatic PII/PHI redaction
Peutly lets you blur or remove elements by hand. It does not detect sensitive data automatically.
Enterprise
Public APIEnterprise search API

Where Peutly wins

  • A prospect will finish a demo they can drive

    Scribe produces a document. Documents are excellent for someone who has already bought and now needs to do the thing. They are a poor fit for someone deciding whether your product is worth a meeting. Peutly hands that person the product and lets them move through it themselves.

  • Capture leads where the interest actually is

    Peutly puts a form at any step in the demo, and the analytics tell you which step the viewer reached before submitting. Scribe has no reason to do this and does not. If the goal is pipeline rather than enablement, that mechanism is the whole point.

  • Narration in 20 languages without re-recording

    Write the script, pick one of thirteen voices and one of twenty languages, and Peutly synthesises the audio. Scribe lists language translations on Enterprise for the written guide; there is no narration layer.

  • Flat pricing, unlimited users

    Scribe Pro Team is $17 per seat from five seats. Peutly is $175 or $450 for the workspace. Past ten people the flat plan wins, and past twenty it is not close.

Where Scribe wins

  • It is the right tool for documentation, and it is cheap

    Scribe Basic is free with unlimited seats. Pro Team is $13 per seat annually. If what you need is a searchable library of internal how-to guides, Scribe does that better than we ever will, for a fraction of the price.

  • The guide writes itself

    Scribe generates the written steps from what you did, automatically. Peutly captures the flow, but any narration script is something you write. For teams producing dozens of process documents a week, that difference compounds.

  • Desktop and mobile capture

    Scribe captures desktop and mobile from Pro Personal. Peutly is a Chrome extension and captures browser flows only.

  • Enterprise compliance features we do not have

    SAML SSO, automatic redaction of PII and PHI, multiple workspaces and an enterprise search API are all on Scribe Enterprise. If you work in healthcare or finance and auto-redaction is a requirement, that is a genuine reason to pick them and it is not close.

The honest summary

Choose Scribe if you are documenting processes, especially at volume or under a compliance requirement. Choose Peutly if the artefact needs to convince someone who has not bought yet. These are different jobs, and running both is a perfectly sensible outcome.

Questions, answered

Peutly and Scribe, the short answers

If we got a fact about their product wrong, email founders@peutly.com and we will correct it.

Not really. Scribe writes step-by-step documentation from a browser capture. Peutly replays the captured product as something a viewer clicks through. They overlap at the capture step and nowhere else. Teams commonly use Scribe for internal SOPs and Peutly for buyer-facing demos.

No. Peutly captures the flow and you write any narration yourself. Scribe generates the written guide for you, which is the core of what it does.

Per seat, yes, considerably. Scribe Pro Team is $17 a seat monthly, $13 annually, from five seats; ten seats is $170, just under Peutly Starter at $175 flat. From the eleventh person Peutly is cheaper, and unlimited users means it stays there.

No. You blur or remove elements by hand in the editor, which works well when you know what to hide and not at all as a compliance control. Scribe lists automatic PII and PHI redaction on Enterprise.

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