Is Tango better than Scribe?

It depends on the job. Scribe is the stronger pick for written SOPs that leave the tool, with export to PDF, HTML, Markdown and Microsoft Word from Pro Personal, and it gets cheaper per seat for teams of 5 or more. Tango is cheaper for one to four people, has no team minimum, and leans toward guiding people on screen. Both capture your clicks into a written step-by-step guide.

Is Scribe or Tango free?

Both have a free plan. Scribe Basic captures guides in the browser and shares up to 10 Scribes at a time, with no export. Tango Free covers 5 shared workflows for up to 10 users, captured in the browser, with no PDF, HTML or Markdown export. Prices as listed on November 1, 2026.

Can Scribe make videos?

Scribe Movies, available on every Scribe plan, add motion, voice and visual cues to a guide, watched through a share link or an embed. Pro and Enterprise can also import video recordings in MP4, WebM, MOV and MKV, with 20 imports per team on Pro, for the life of the team. Tango Pro turns a workflow into a video embed with optional AI narration.

Does Tango export to PDF?

Yes, on Pro and Enterprise. Tango Pro includes PDF download and HTML and Markdown exports, at $22 per user per month billed yearly for 1 to 2 users, or $15 from 3 users. Tango Free can only paste, embed or share a workflow by URL.

What is the best free alternative to Scribe and Tango?

For click-capture guides, Dubble's free plan lists unlimited guides with PDF download. If you talk through the process as you record it, Vibrantsnap writes a step-by-step guide from the recording on every plan, the Free plan included, with no AI credits, and turns the same recording into a tutorial or product demo video with an AI voiceover. Exporting that video needs a paid plan.

Scribe vs Tango (2026): Pricing, Exports and Which to Pick

The short answer: pick Scribe for written SOPs that have to leave the tool as PDF, Word or Markdown, especially for a team of 5 or more. Pick Tango for a smaller team, or when you want to guide people on screen rather than send them a document. If you also need a product demo or tutorial video from the same recording, a third option makes both: a video with an AI voiceover and a written guide.

Every price and plan below comes from scribe.com/pricing, tango.ai/pricing and each vendor's help center, checked on November 1, 2026.

Scribe vs Tango at a glance

	Scribe	Tango
Capture	Chrome and Edge extensions on every plan; desktop app on Pro	Chrome and Edge extension on every plan; desktop app for Mac and Windows on Pro
What you get	A written step-by-step guide with screenshots	A written step-by-step workflow with screenshots
On-screen guidance	On-screen walkthroughs listed on every plan	Guide Me in the browser on every plan, per Tango's help center; Pins on Enterprise
Video	Scribe Movies on every plan, watched by link or embed; video import on Pro	Video embeds on Pro, built from the steps with optional AI narration
Export to PDF, HTML, Markdown	From Pro Personal, Microsoft Word too	From Pro; Free pastes, embeds or shares by URL
Free plan	Basic: up to 10 Scribes shared at a time, no export, no desktop	Free: 5 shared workflows, up to 10 users, browser only
Price per seat, billed yearly	Pro Personal $25 ($35 monthly); Pro Team $13 ($17 monthly)	Pro $22 for 1 to 2 users ($30 monthly); $15 from 3 users ($20 monthly)
Team minimum	Pro Team starts at 5 seats	None
Enterprise	Quote; SSO, SCIM, automatic redaction of PII and PHI, Viewer licenses	Custom, plus a platform fee by number of users; SSO, SCIM, Pins, translation into 15 languages

How Scribe and Tango capture a workflow

Both tools work the same way at the start: you install a browser extension for Chrome or Edge, click through the process once, and the tool turns each click into a step with a screenshot and a written instruction. You edit the draft, then share it.

The difference shows up outside the browser. On both, capturing a desktop application needs the desktop app, and on both the desktop app is a paid feature: Scribe's on Pro and Enterprise, Tango's on Pro and Enterprise, for Mac and Windows 10 and 11. If the processes you document live in a desktop tool, the free plans will not cover them.

Guides, walkthroughs and exports

Scribe is built around the document. Pro adds unlimited guide creation, custom branding, customizable screenshots and annotations, Pages, voice transcription, the import of existing process documents and the Confluence integration, and it exports to PDF, HTML, Markdown and Microsoft Word. On Basic, a guide stays in Scribe: you share it by link, embed it or share it as a video.

Tango puts more weight on guiding people while they work. Its pricing card lists "Pins, Guide Me, and Automations" under Enterprise, but its help center says Guide Me, which walks someone through a workflow on screen, works in the browser on every plan, with 3 trials for guests. Pro adds unlimited workflows, branded workflows and exports, blur of sensitive data while capturing, screenshot annotation and redaction, comments, viewership and completion insights, and on-screen guidance for anyone in the workspace. Pins, automations and translation into 15 languages are Enterprise. On Free, there is no download: you paste, embed or share a workflow by URL, and PDF download and HTML and Markdown exports start on Pro.

Limits: Scribe's free plan keeps only 10 Scribes shared at a time. Tango's free plan stops at 5 shared workflows; past that, you can still capture drafts but not publish them.

Video in Scribe and Tango

Neither tool is a video editor, but both make something you can watch.

Scribe Movies, on every Scribe plan, add motion, voice and visual cues to a guide. Scribe's help center describes them as watched through a share link or an embed, and does not mention downloading a video file. Scribe Pro and Enterprise can also import video recordings in MP4, WebM, MOV and MKV, with 20 imports per team on Pro, for the life of the team.
Tango video embeds, on Pro and Enterprise, turn a workflow into a video built from its steps, with optional AI narration in one of two AI voices. Tango's help center describes an embed you paste into another tool, and does not mention downloading a video file.

Limits: on both, the video is built from the guide's steps and screenshots, and the help centers describe it as watched by link or embed rather than downloaded.

Scribe vs Tango pricing

Scribe prices Pro per seat, with a 5-seat minimum on Pro Team. Tango prices Pro per user, with a lower rate that applies automatically once the workspace has 3 or more members, and no minimum. Derived from the list prices, before tax:

Team	Scribe, billed yearly	Tango, billed yearly	Scribe, billed monthly	Tango, billed monthly
1 person	$25/mo (Pro Personal)	$22/mo	$35/mo	$30/mo
3 people	$65/mo (Pro Team, 5-seat minimum)	3 × $15 = $45/mo	$85/mo	3 × $20 = $60/mo
5 people	5 × $13 = $65/mo	5 × $15 = $75/mo	5 × $17 = $85/mo	5 × $20 = $100/mo
10 people	10 × $13 = $130/mo	10 × $15 = $150/mo	10 × $17 = $170/mo	10 × $20 = $200/mo

Tango is cheaper up to 4 people; from 5, Scribe Pro Team costs less per seat. On both, every member of the workspace moves to the paid plan: Scribe does not let you mix paid and free seats, and Tango does not allow Free users in a Pro workspace. Tango Enterprise adds a platform fee based on the number of users. The full Scribe breakdown, with the costs the plan cards don't show, is in our Scribe pricing guide.

Which should you pick?

Internal SOPs and compliance documents: Scribe. Word and PDF export from Pro Personal, unlimited version history and automatic redaction of PII and PHI on Enterprise, and a lower per-seat price from 5 people.
A small team documenting browser tools: Tango. It costs less for 1 to 4 people, has no team minimum, and its free plan covers 5 shared workflows for up to 10 users.
Guiding employees on screen while they work: Tango, with Guide Me in the browser and Pins on Enterprise.
Customer onboarding and support content that people watch: look beyond both. A guide built from clicks tells someone what to press; a short tutorial video in a clear voice shows them why.

For the wider field, see our Scribe alternatives and process documentation software comparisons.

A third option when you also need a video

Vibrantsnap starts where Scribe and Tango don't: a recording in which you talk through the workflow. You record a tab, a window or the whole screen with the Chrome extension, or import a video you already have. The AI rewrites your narration into a clean script, reads it in a studio voice in one of 10 languages, retimes the video and adds zooms and captions, so the result is a tutorial or a product demo your customers can follow. From the same narration, it writes a step-by-step guide with a screenshot for each step, which you copy as HTML and Markdown into Google Docs, Notion or Confluence, or download as a PDF, on every plan, the Free plan included, with no AI credits. The AI voiceover and the guide take recordings up to 25 minutes.

	Input	Written guide	Video	Paid plan
Vibrantsnap	A narrated recording, or an imported video	Copy or PDF on every plan, Free included	AI voiceover video, MP4 export from Pro	Pro, $40/mo billed yearly, with unlimited 4K exports

Recording, editing and previewing the video are free, with 3 AI credits a month (1 AI credit = 1 AI voiceover); exporting the video needs a paid plan. Every plan is on our pricing page.

How we compared them

We read scribe.com/pricing and tango.ai/pricing on November 1, 2026, along with each vendor's help-center articles on billing, seats, free-plan limits, desktop capture, exports, video and on-screen guidance. Scribe and Tango are described from those pages, not from a hands-on test. Where a pricing page and a help center disagree, as on which Tango plan includes Guide Me, we say so. Team totals are our own arithmetic from the list prices. Both vendors change their plans, so check the pricing pages before you buy.