Three tools. Three different things come out the other end.
These are not three versions of the same product. Loom makes a video you watch. Scribe makes a step by step document you skim. Moonshot makes a recording plus the written work that follows it. Pick by the artifact you actually need, not the marketing category.
Run one real task through each tool
Choose a job on the left and a tool below. The panel shows the exact artifact you would hand off, including the honest caveat for that combination.
Best when the point is the video itself: a face, a tone, a walkthrough people watch. Owned by Atlassian, cross platform, deep viewer analytics. The output is a link, not a written record. See the deeper Moonshot vs Loom breakdown.
Not a video tool at all. It watches your clicks and writes a numbered guide with screenshots. Unbeatable for repeatable how to docs and SOPs. It cannot show motion, timing, console output, or your spoken reasoning.
Capabilities, without the spin
Read this as a map of jobs, not a scoreboard. A row where a tool says No is often a job that tool was never built to do. If your recordings are spoken code tours, see how teams use Moonshot for code walkthroughs.
The honest edges, including ours
- The video is the deliverable and people will watch it
- You need cross platform capture and mobile
- You care about detailed viewer engagement data
- Your company already standardizes on it
- You need a repeatable how to that people follow at their own pace
- Screenshots of each click beat a video to scrub through
- The process is stable and worth documenting once
- Readers want to copy exact steps, not interpret narration
- A recording needs to become a ticket, summary, or action list
- You want video nuance and a written artifact from one take
- Your team lives in Slack, Jira, and Linear
- You are on macOS and want the follow up done for you
If the deliverable is a printable how to guide, Scribe wins outright: Moonshot does not auto capture a numbered screenshot walkthrough, so a reader cannot follow along click by click without watching the recording. Moonshot is also macOS only today, while Scribe and Loom run on Windows and in the browser. If half your team is on Windows, that alone can decide it.
Pick by the artifact
Straight answers
Is Scribe a video tool like the other two?
No. Scribe captures your clicks and generates a written guide with screenshots. There is no video to watch. That is its strength for stable processes and its limit for anything that depends on motion or spoken context.
Can Moonshot produce a step by step guide?
Not in the numbered screenshot format Scribe is built for. Moonshot writes summaries, bug reports, and tickets from a recording. If a click by click printable SOP is the deliverable, Scribe is the better fit today.
Could a team use two of these together?
Often yes. Scribe for stable how to documentation, and Moonshot for recordings that need to become tickets and updates through your integrations. They overlap less than they look because the artifacts differ.
Which is cheapest?
All three have a free tier. Compare paid plans on the day you decide, and check whether AI features and team controls sit behind a higher tier for each.
Read the head to head with Loom, or the full Loom alternative page. Every comparison is honest about where each tool wins.