stepkeep compared with the tools you are weighing

The pages below put stepkeep next to one other tool, or look at one situation, and say where the other choice is better. Further down, four head-to-head comparisons cover tools that are not stepkeep. The short version: stepkeep records a browser task and turns it into a guide with screenshots. The guide stays on your machine, and stepkeep costs $59 once.

Instead of another tool

Scribe alternative
For guides whose screenshots must not leave your machine.
Scribe pricing
For what Scribe's plans add up to over three years, next to a price paid once.
Guidde pricing
For what a downloadable Guidde PDF costs per creator over three years.
Tango pricing
For what Tango's per-seat plans cost a team of five over three years.
Tango alternative
For guides without a subscription, an account or a cloud workspace.
Guidde alternatives
For when you need a written document with screenshots, not a video.
Microsoft Steps Recorder alternative
For the browser tasks you used to record with psr.exe.

Two other tools, side by side

If you are choosing between two tools that are not stepkeep, here is where each one is better. Every figure comes from that company's own pages, with the date we checked it. If one is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Scribe vs Tango

Pick Scribe if…

You need Word export, or your team works in Edge.

Pick Tango if…

You want Guide Me to walk people through the task on the live page.

Scribe and Tango compared across three rows
Feature	Scribe	Tango
What both do	Record a browser task as written steps with screenshots and keep the guide in its cloud	Record a browser task as written steps with screenshots and keep the guide in its cloud
Five people	Pro Team is 13 USD per seat a month billed yearly: 780 USD a year	Current Pro prices are on Tango’s own pricing page
Where data is processed	In the United States and other countries, per its privacy policy	Hosted in the United States, per its privacy policy

Checked on each company’s own pages on 27 September 2026. They change. If a figure is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Scribe vs Whale

Pick Scribe if…

A recorder with a share link and a few seats covers everyone who writes guides.

Pick Whale if…

You assign guides to new hires and need to see who completed them.

Scribe and Whale compared across three rows
Feature	Scribe	Whale
What it is	A step recorder	A platform for SOPs and training with a step recorder inside, plus training flows, AI-generated quizzes and a record of who finished what
Cost	Pro Team is 13 USD per seat with five seats minimum: 780 USD a year	Scale is 249 USD a month billed annually: 2,988 USD a year, for three creators
Where data is processed	In the United States and other countries, per its privacy policy	Whale BV is Belgian, but its privacy policy allows processing outside the EEA where its sub-processors operate

Checked on each company’s own pages on 27 September 2026. They change. If a figure is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Loom vs Scribe

Pick Loom if…

The viewer needs your voice and the reason behind each step.

Pick Scribe if…

Someone has to repeat the task click by click.

Loom and Scribe compared across three rows
Feature	Loom	Scribe
Format	A video walkthrough	A written guide with a screenshot per step
On the free plan	Loom Starter cannot download videos	Scribe Basic has no export
Download starts at	Loom Business, 18 USD per user a month billed monthly	Pro Personal, 25 USD a month billed yearly, for PDF, HTML and Markdown export

Many teams use both.

Checked on each company’s own pages on 27 September 2026. They change. If a figure is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Guidde vs Scribe

Pick Guidde if…

People need to see the task done once.

Pick Scribe if…

People follow the steps while they work, and a written guide is quicker to scan.

Guidde and Scribe compared across four rows
Feature	Guidde	Scribe
Format	A how-to video with an AI voice	A written guide with screenshots
On the free plan	A link, not a file: download is on Pro, Business and Enterprise only	A link, not a file: Scribe Basic has no export
One person	Pro is 19 USD a month billed yearly	Pro Personal is 25 USD a month
Five people	Five Pro creators come to 1,140 USD a year	Pro Team comes to 780 USD a year

Checked on each company’s own pages on 27 and 28 September 2026. They change. If a figure is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

stepkeep does the written-guide half of all four without the cloud. It records a task in Chrome, you blur what should not be seen, and it exports a PDF, a single HTML file or Markdown that stays on your machine. It does less than any of them: no share link, no video, no desktop capture, no training flows. It costs $59 once.

For one job or one constraint

Offline SOP tool
An SOP and guide maker with no cloud, no server and no account.
SOP software
SOP software that writes the steps and files them in the wiki you already use.
Step-by-step guides on a Chromebook
A steps recorder that runs in Chrome, where the desktop recorders do not.
Work instruction template
The fields a work instruction needs, and a filled-in example with a screenshot for every step.

Record one task today and read the steps it wrote

Free keeps five guides at a time, which is enough to know. $59 once removes the limit and the watermark.

Install free for Chrome Buy Personal, $59

14 days to change your mind, no reason needed.