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Common Questions
Q: Does ScribeHow offer audit logs for enterprise compliance?
A: No. ScribeHow's Enterprise tier includes SAML, SCIM, IP whitelisting, and AI PHI redaction, but audit logs are not listed as a feature. Docsie's platform provides audit logs as part of its enterprise boundary, which is important for compliance frameworks that require an activity record of who accessed or modified documentation. If audit trails are a procurement requirement, ScribeHow will not satisfy that control.
Q: Can Docsie Recorder be deployed on-premises or in an air-gapped environment?
A: Yes. The Docsie Recorder's open-source core runs entirely locally on the user's machine—no cloud connection is required to capture and export video. For the downstream Docsie platform, an air-gap and on-premises deployment path is available for enterprise customers in regulated industries. ScribeHow has no on-premises option; all captures and guides are stored in Scribe's hosted cloud environment.
Q: Which tool is better for HIPAA-regulated healthcare enterprises?
A: ScribeHow's Enterprise plan includes AI PII/PHI redaction, which is a meaningful control for healthcare screenshot documentation. Docsie's platform is HIPAA-ready with broader controls including audit logs, RBAC, SSO, and air-gap deployment. The right answer depends on use case—if you only need to document browser-based clinical software workflows with PHI redaction, ScribeHow's Enterprise tier is relevant. If you also need video capture, versioned knowledge bases, and customer-facing portal delivery, Docsie covers the wider healthcare documentation surface.
Q: How does per-user pricing compare at enterprise scale between the two tools?
A: ScribeHow charges per user with a reported Enterprise range of $18,000+ per year or $39/user/year, on top of a Pro Team minimum of $75/month for five seats. Docsie uses workspace-based pricing with AI credits for Video-to-Docs conversion rather than per-seat fees for documentation consumption. For large teams or organizations delivering documentation to external audiences, Docsie's model avoids the per-seat inflation that makes ScribeHow expensive at scale.
Q: Can ScribeHow deliver documentation to external customers or multiple client portals?
A: No. ScribeHow is designed for internal documentation distribution—guides are shared internally or embedded into tools like Confluence or Notion. There is no multi-tenant portal architecture, no custom domain support, and no mechanism to deliver branded documentation portals to separate client organizations. Docsie's platform supports multi-tenant portals with custom domains and per-portal branding, making it the correct choice for agencies, SaaS vendors, or enterprises serving external audiences.
Q: Is Docsie Recorder safe to approve for enterprise endpoint deployment given it is open source?
A: Open-source is an enterprise security advantage here, not a risk. Docsie Recorder's MIT-licensed core is based on OpenScreen, which means your security team can review the exact code running on employee machines before approving deployment—something no closed-source SaaS recorder allows. The main caveats to confirm before broad rollout are the current Apple notarization status and the desktop auth handoff for the Video-to-Docs bridge, both of which should be checked against the latest release before enterprise provisioning.
Enterprise Deep Dive
Enterprise buyers evaluate tools across security, scalability, administration, and support. Here is how Docsie Recorder and ScribeHow stack up across each dimension—going beyond surface feature checkboxes.
Docsie Recorder's open-source core gives enterprise security teams full visibility into what runs on the endpoint—no black-box capture agent. The downstream Docsie platform delivers SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA-ready compliance with audit logs, granular RBAC, and an air-gap deployment path for regulated industries. ScribeHow offers SOC 2 and GDPR certification plus AI PHI redaction at Enterprise tier, which is valuable for healthcare. However, it lacks audit logs, data residency options, and on-premises deployment—leaving security teams with less control over where captured workflow data lives and who accessed it.
Docsie Recorder captures locally and exports video without a server dependency, meaning recording quality and performance scale with the user's machine rather than a cloud queue. Video-to-Docs conversion uses Docsie's API with credit-based throughput that enterprise teams can pre-estimate before submission. The downstream Docsie knowledge base is built for multi-tenant delivery—one content set serving unlimited branded portals simultaneously. ScribeHow is a cloud-dependent capture tool; every guide lives in Scribe's hosted environment. There is no multi-tenant portal architecture, no versioned content delivery, and no mechanism to scale documentation output to external audiences or multiple client organizations.
Docsie's enterprise boundary provides SSO via SAML and SCIM provisioning, role-based access control, audit logs, and API access for programmatic administration. Teams can automate documentation routing, version promotion, and portal publishing through Docsie's API and webhook layer. ScribeHow offers SAML and SCIM at Enterprise tier alongside approval workflows and team workspaces—solid for internal SOP governance. However, the absence of audit logs, API access, and multi-tenant administration means enterprise admins have limited programmatic control and no way to automate documentation delivery beyond Scribe's own sharing UI. Docsie gives administrators a full control plane; ScribeHow gives a managed SaaS workspace.
ScribeHow provides a dedicated support tier and an enterprise SLA at its top contract level—appropriate for large internal deployments. Docsie similarly provides enterprise SLA, dedicated support, and onboarding for platform customers. The structural difference is in what the SLA covers: Docsie's SLA backs a documentation platform that includes recording, conversion, publishing, versioning, and portal delivery as one workflow. ScribeHow's SLA covers a screenshot-capture and guide-hosting product. For enterprise buyers whose documentation workflow spans creation through customer-facing delivery, Docsie's supported scope is meaningfully broader than what ScribeHow's enterprise contract can guarantee end-to-end.
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