Scribe

Scribe is a documentation tool built around a simple idea: nobody wants to write a tutorial from scratch. Instead of typing out numbered steps and pasting screenshots, you let Scribe watch you do the task. It records your clicks, crops each screenshot, and writes a short instruction for every step. What used to take an afternoon of screenshotting and captioning takes about as long as the task itself.

The tool is made by Scribe (formerly ScribeHow), a San Francisco company founded in 2019. It targets the everyday bottleneck every team hits: one person knows how to do something, and everyone else keeps asking them how. Scribe turns that person's screen into a shareable guide, which is handy for support teams, HR, IT, and anyone who trains new hires.

The biggest limitation is scope. Scribe documents what's visible on a screen, so it's not a fit for processes that live in your head, on paper, or across physical steps. The free Basic plan only captures web apps, and mobile and desktop capture sit behind paid tiers. There's also the usual caveat with any AI tool: it drafts clean text, but you still need to review it, since it can misread a button label or skip context a human would add. Most of the time, the draft is close.

Getting Started

1. Sign up at scribe.com and install the Chrome or Edge extension.
2. Press the capture button, then walk through your process as you normally would.
3. Let Scribe generate the screenshots, steps, and titles, then clean up any wording it got wrong.
4. Redact sensitive info, add branding, and adjust screenshots if you're on a paid plan.
5. Share the guide with a link, export it, or embed it where your team works.