Scribe vs Userpilot
Scribe and Userpilot are both product adoption & onboarding tools aimed at small businesses and enterprise. Scribe costs less, from $17/mo versus $299/mo for Userpilot. Only Scribe has a free plan.
Auto-generated step-by-step guides and SOPs from screen activity
Onboarding, analytics and surveys for product teams
| Pricing | Freemium · $17 | Paid · $299 |
| Starting price | $17/mo | $299/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Free trial | — | 14 days |
| Built for | Small businesses, Enterprise, Freelancers | Small businesses, Enterprise |
| Platforms | web, windows, macos | web |
| Country | US · 2019 | US · 2018 |
| 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 Userpilot if
SaaS product teams.
- Analytics + engagement
- No-code
- Good segmentation
Look elsewhere if: Early startups on budget.
Scribe vs Userpilot 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
Userpilot
- Starter$299/moUp to 2,000 MAUs
- Growthfrom $849/moIncludes 2k MAU, scales to 100k
- EnterpriseCustomIncludes 10k MAU, custom range
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
Userpilot · Key features
- Flows and checklists
- Resource center
- Product analytics
- Surveys
- Segmentation
- Session replay
Cons
- Expensive
- Web-first
- Annual billing
Scribe vs Userpilot: FAQ
Which is cheaper, Scribe or Userpilot?
Scribe starts at $17/mo and Userpilot at $299/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.
Do Scribe and Userpilot have a free plan?
Scribe has a free plan. Userpilot has no free plan, a 14-day free trial.