Scribe vs Userflow
Scribe and Userflow are both product adoption & onboarding tools. Scribe is aimed at small businesses and enterprise, while Userflow is aimed at small businesses and developers. Scribe costs less, from $17/mo versus $300/mo for Userflow. Only Scribe has a free plan.
Auto-generated step-by-step guides and SOPs from screen activity
No-code product tours, checklists and in-app surveys for SaaS
| Pricing | Freemium · $17 | Paid · $300 |
| Starting price | $17/mo | $300/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Free trial | — | 14 days |
| Built for | Small businesses, Enterprise, Freelancers | Small businesses, Developers |
| Platforms | web, windows, macos | web |
| Country | US · 2019 | — |
| Rating | — | — |
Choose Scribe if
Operations, IT and enablement teams that need accurate screenshot-based SOPs and training guides without writing them by hand.
- Turns a ten-minute documentation task into a quick recording
- Guides are consistent and easy to update after UI changes
- Embeds cleanly in Confluence, Notion, SharePoint and help centers
Look elsewhere if: Teams that want narrated video explainers or in-app guided tours inside their product (Loom, Whatfix).
Choose Userflow if
B2B SaaS teams that want to ship polished onboarding flows and checklists quickly without engineering help.
- Fast, intuitive builder that non-engineers learn quickly
- Unlimited team seats on every plan
- Multiple environments for safe staging and testing
Look elsewhere if: Mobile-first apps or companies needing a full analytics and roadmap suite (Pendo) or the lowest possible price (UserGuiding).
Scribe vs Userflow pricing
Scribe
- Basic$0Browser extension for web apps; share by link or embed
- Pro Personal$35/seat/mo$25 billed annually; desktop app, branding, redaction
- Pro Team$17/seat/mo$13 billed annually; 5-seat minimum, comments
- EnterpriseCustomSSO, auto PII/PHI redaction, roles, translations
Userflow
- Essentials$300/mo$240/mo billed annually; 1,000 MAUs, 2 environments
- Studio$500/mo$400/mo billed annually; 1,000 MAUs, Adoption Agent, CSM
- EnterpriseCustomBilled annually; custom MAUs, SLA, security review
- Extra MAUs$40/1,000 MAUs/moFalls to $10 per 1,000 at scale; 20% off annually
Scribe · Key features
- Records clicks and keystrokes and writes each step automatically
- Annotated screenshots with manual editing and blur redaction
- Browser extension for Chrome and Edge plus Windows and Mac desktop app
- Combine multiple recordings into longer SOP documents
- Export to PDF, HTML and Markdown or embed in wikis
- Company branding on shared guides on Pro plans
Cons
- Desktop app recording requires a paid plan
- Pro Team needs at least five seats
- Whole team must be on the same plan
Userflow · Key features
- Visual flow builder for product tours, tooltips and modals
- Onboarding checklists that track task completion
- In-app resource center with search and help content
- NPS, CSAT and custom in-app surveys
- Attribute and event-based targeting with segmentation
- Flow analytics, localization and version history
Cons
- MAU-based pricing grows quickly for large free-user bases
- No free plan
- Product analytics lighter than Userpilot or Pendo
Scribe vs Userflow: FAQ
Which is cheaper, Scribe or Userflow?
Scribe starts at $17/mo and Userflow at $300/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.
Do Scribe and Userflow have a free plan?
Scribe has a free plan. Userflow has no free plan, a 14-day free trial.