Comparison

InstaGuide vs Scribe

Both auto-generate step-by-step guides from your clicks. Here's how they differ on capture surface, Visual Process Flow, AI, and team licensing.

Captures browser workflows

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

✓

Captures native desktop apps (Excel, Outlook, SAP, internal tools)

InstaGuide

Yes — full Desktop App

Scribe

Limited

Voice narration captured + transcribed per step

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

—

Meeting Mode — turn a saved meeting recording into a guide

InstaGuide

Yes — upload video, get structured guide back

Scribe

—

Split one recording into multiple guides via segment review

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

—

AI-generated step descriptions

InstaGuide

Multi-provider: Claude, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Snowflake

Scribe

Single provider

BYO AI key / org-level provider choice

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

—

Auto-applies improvements on capture (dedupe, generic-text rewrite, voice)

InstaGuide

Yes — silent fixes + review panel for judgment calls

Scribe

Manual editing only

In-product AI chat over your guide library (Ask Insta)

InstaGuide

Yes — natural-language search + answer with cited guides

Scribe

—

Visual Process Flow diagram (auto-generated)

InstaGuide

Yes — Minimized, Domain, Vertical, Horizontal layouts

Scribe

—

AI-detected app changes between steps

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

—

Insert step mid-guide without re-recording

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

Limited

Edit step text + annotations inline

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

✓

Annotations (circles, arrows, blur / redact)

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

✓

Step-specific comments for collaboration

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

—

Public iframe embed (Notion, Confluence, SharePoint, Zendesk)

InstaGuide

Enterprise

Scribe

Yes — Pro+

Custom branding inside the embed (logo + primary color)

InstaGuide

Yes — Enterprise

Scribe

Limited

Project folders + custom roles (RBAC)

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

Limited

Guide change audit log

InstaGuide

Yes — Pro+

Scribe

Limited

Team licensing model

InstaGuide

Builder + Viewer split (Enterprise)

Scribe

Per-seat

2FA mandatory for all users

InstaGuide

✓

Scribe

Optional

SSO / SAML

InstaGuide

Yes — Enterprise

Scribe

Yes — Enterprise

Bring your own cloud storage (S3 / Azure Blob / GCS)

InstaGuide

Yes — Enterprise

Scribe

—

Export to PDF + HTML

InstaGuide

Both, plus searchable text

Scribe

PDF (paid)

Free tier

InstaGuide

10 guides forever

Scribe

Unlimited guides, limited features

Starter plan

InstaGuide

$13/mo — 25 guides

Scribe

$23/mo — Pro
Meet Insta

Insta writes every guide. Then reviews it. Then answers questions about it.

Three things our AI assistant does on every guide that other tools leave to you.

Writes

Captures every click — across browser and desktop apps — and writes the step description, action label, and guide summary from the screenshot. No manual narration, no template-filling.

Reviews

Re-reads the guide after capture. Merges duplicate clicks, rewrites boilerplate descriptions, normalizes voice, proposes section breaks at app transitions. High-confidence fixes apply silently; judgment calls land in a review panel.

Answers

Lives on the right edge of the dashboard as a chat panel. Ask “how do I process a refund?” in plain English; Insta searches across your library and answers with cited guides you can click to open.

When InstaGuide is the better fit

Meeting Mode is category-defining and unique to InstaGuide. Upload a Zoom / Teams / Google Meet / Loom recording — InstaGuide reverse-engineers the workflow into a structured, editable step-by-step guide. Or record live from the extension while you present. Scribe waits for you to click through your workflow again; InstaGuide accepts the meeting you already had as input.

Visual Process Flow is the differentiator most teams miss when comparing tools. InstaGuide auto-generates a flowchart of your captured workflow — domain-grouped, color-coded by event type, with app-change indicators — so process owners can see the shape of a workflow at a glance instead of scrolling through 30 screenshots.

Insta cleans up the capture before you see it. Adjacent duplicate clicks merge automatically. Boilerplate "Click on the element" descriptions get rewritten with real workflow context. Casing and punctuation get fixed in place. Subjective changes — section breaks, voice normalization, context-aware rewrites — surface in a review panel where you accept or reject each card before publishing. Scribe captures the workflow; the post-capture cleanup is manual.

InstaGuide captures across both web and desktop apps. Most real workflows span tools — Salesforce, then Outlook, then Excel — and a browser-only capture leaves the desktop steps undocumented.

Choose your AI provider per organization. InstaGuide supports Claude, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Snowflake Cortex side-by-side — useful when your security team has approved certain providers, or when you want descriptions generated by a model you've already procured.

Builder + Viewer licensing keeps team costs sane. Most orgs have a handful of people who CREATE guides and dozens who CONSUME them. InstaGuide prices those separately on Enterprise — viewer seats cost a fraction of builder seats — so onboarding 100 viewers isn't 100× the bill.

Try InstaGuide free

10 guides on the free tier. No credit card.