Scribe vs Loom in November 2026, step-by-step guides or videos
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Scribe and Loom answer the same question in different forms: Scribe watches your clicks and writes a step-by-step guide with a screenshot of each step, while Loom records a video of your screen with your voice. Use Scribe for procedures people follow step by step; use Loom when the explanation is easier said than written.
Every price below comes from each company's own pricing page, read on 10 November 2026. Tellscreen, the third option on this page, is ours.
Prices
| Scribe | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Basic: guides from your browser, shareable by link | Starter: 25 videos per person, 5 minutes each, 720p |
| One person | Pro Personal: $25 a seat a month | Business: $18 a user a month |
| Teams | Pro Team: $13 a seat a month, from 5 seats | Business: $18 a user; Business + AI $24 |
| Yearly saving | 20% | Up to 17% |
| Enterprise | Custom: SSO, PII redaction, roles | Custom: SSO, SCIM, Salesforce |
What you get
Scribe captures each click and keystroke while you do a task, then writes a guide: numbered steps, a screenshot of each, and text you can edit. Paid plans work in desktop and mobile apps as well as the browser, add your branding, redact screenshots and export to PDF, HTML and Markdown.
Loom records your screen, camera and voice. Viewers get a video link with comments and reactions; Business + AI adds an AI summary, chapters and titles.
Which to choose
- Repeatable procedures (how to file an expense, set up an account): Scribe. People skim steps faster than they scrub through a video, and the guide is searchable.
- Feedback, context, anything with nuance: Loom. Tone and reasoning don't survive as numbered steps.
- Handing work to an AI agent: a Scribe guide's Markdown export is readable by an AI as is. A Loom video isn't: AI coding agents can't watch video, and without the sound they miss what you asked for.
A third option for recordings an AI should act on
Tellscreen records like Loom and writes like Scribe: you talk through what should change, and it returns a numbered change list with your exact words and a screenshot of each moment, as Markdown your AI can act on. Free for 25 videos of up to 10 minutes; Pro is $8 a month. How it works with Claude Code and Codex.
Sources
- Scribe pricing, read 10 November 2026
- Loom pricing, read 10 November 2026