The Scribe Alternative That Captures More Than Just Clicks for Your Training Guides

Scribe’s Guide Me is an interactive walkthrough feature that works in your browser. While it provides real-time guidance directly on the product, it comes with significant limitations that can make it challenging for customer training.

1. Requires Extension Downloads

   To use Scribe’s Guide Me, your customers need to download Scribe's browser extension and log in.

   • The Problem: Imagine creating a great guide, but your customers can only access it if they download the Scribe extension. For training at scale, this becomes a major hurdle, as not all customers are willing—or able—to install an extension.

   Trainn’s Solution: No downloads, no extensions—just a simple shareable link. Your customers can access our interactive guides instantly, without any extra steps.

2. Limited to Browser Mode

   Scribe’s Guide Me only works in a browser and in real-time. If the guide leads to a product behind a login wall, customers will need to log in to view it.

   • The Problem: If your customers don’t already have access to the application you’re showcasing, the guide becomes useless.

   Trainn’s Solution: Our interactive guides are hosted in a dedicated player. They work seamlessly without requiring real-time product access, ensuring your training is accessible to all customers—login or no login.

3. No Shareable Links for “Guide Me”

   Scribe does not let you share Guide Me as a standalone link—it’s bundled with their static guides.

   • The Problem: You lose the flexibility to share interactive guides separately, limiting how you deliver training.

   Trainn’s Solution: Share your interactive guides however you like—individually or with documentation—giving you full control over how your customers experience your training.

4. Complex Setup and Restrictions

   Using Scribe's Guide Me requires manual adjustments to match screen layouts. For example, if menus or navigation bars are minimized, the guide may not work unless they’re restored.

   • The Problem: This adds unnecessary complexity to the process, frustrating users and creating inconsistencies.

   Trainn’s Solution: With Trainn, you create guides that are intuitive, consistent, and hassle-free—no special setups needed.

Yes, Trainn offers a 14-day free trial with full feature access. For a customized experience, you can also schedule a demo with our experts.

Scribe is a documentation tool, while Trainn is a complete customer education platform built for SaaS companies.

The key difference is in content creation efficiency. With Scribe, you record your screen to create static documentation. With Trainn, one recording automatically generates three formats:

• Professional video tutorials

• Step-by-step Guides

• Interactive Guides

While Scribe charges $29/month for documentation features, Trainn offers its complete authoring tools at $49/month. This $20 difference delivers significant value:

• Video creation features comparable to Trainn, typically cost $100-$200/month

• Multi-format content from single recordings

• Built-in no-code knowledge base

• No-code LMS platform

For SaaS companies, this means creating better training content while saving money compared to purchasing multiple standalone tools.

Absolutely! With Trainn, a single screen recording can be transformed into a video tutorial, step-by-step guide and interactive walkthrough, saving time and streamlining content creation.

Yes! Trainn supports guide translation in 25+ languages. You can record or clone guides with just one click, making it easy to cater to a global audience. Scribe only supports English guides.