Guidde vs iorad in 30 seconds
These two compete for the same buyer, not opposite ones. Guidde leads with “The #1 AI platform to capture knowledge and train teams.” iorad leads with “Your tools are ready. Your team isn’t.” Both aim at internal SOPs, documentation, and software-adoption training. Same job, same shortlist.
What differs is the shape of the output. Guidde produces a narrated video and a synced written document from every capture, with its own Document Editor. iorad auto-renders one capture into six learner-selectable modes (Watch, Try, Scroll, Slide, Quiz, Do), so the same recording is a video, a written step list, and a simulated environment where a learner performs the steps and gets quizzed on them. So the real question isn’t “video or docs.” It’s whether your people learn by watching a narrated walkthrough or by doing the steps and being tested on them.
Price decides the rest, and the gap is wide. Guidde starts at $29/creator/mo and puts AI text-to-voice on Business; iorad’s floor is $200/mo for a single creator, and you cannot export or brand anything until the $500/mo Team plan. The full table and pricing math are below. There’s also a third option worth a look, since neither tool hosts your library on a branded help center at your own domain, and neither has an MCP server.
Four differences that decide it
Both capture a workflow from a browser extension and both produce a written step-by-step guide. From there, they diverge.
Output shape
Narrated video vs six interactive learning modes
Guidde turns a capture into a branded narrated video and, at the same time, a written article with its own Document Editor, where you hide steps, crop or replace images, and add ALT text and headings independent of the video. iorad turns the same capture into six modes the learner switches between: Watch is the video, Scroll is the written step list, and Try, Do, and Quiz drop the learner into a simulation of the real screen. Both hand you a written guide and a watchable version. Only Guidde produces a downloadable narrated video. Only iorad lets a learner practice the steps and prove they can do them.
Assessment
Documentation you read vs training you have to pass
This is iorad’s real edge. Quiz mode makes the learner perform the correct on-screen action to advance, and Try and Do modes build muscle memory in a safe simulation of the live app. For an L&D or enablement team, “did they actually learn it” is the requirement, and iorad is built for it on every plan including Free. Guidde’s closest answer is Generative Quiz, and that sits on Enterprise, sales-led. If assessment matters, iorad reaches it far cheaper.
Pricing shape
A $29 start against a $200 floor
Guidde starts at $29/creator/mo billed monthly ($19 annually), and only creator roles pay, so read-only viewers join free. iorad has no cheap way in: Individual is $200/mo for a single creator with no exports and no branding, and you need the $500/mo Team plan before you can export an MP4 or brand a library. The two do share one honest trait: neither charges per learner or viewer. iorad’s extra creator seats are only $50/mo and learners are always unlimited, so for a large author team the gap narrows. For a small one, Guidde is dramatically cheaper to start.
Where it publishes
Export into a knowledge base vs publish straight into one
iorad publishes finished articles directly into Zendesk Guide, Freshdesk, Salesforce Knowledge, HubSpot Knowledge, Guru, Help Scout, and Confluence through real authenticated connectors, and the connector row is available on the free plan. Its LMS bench (Canvas, Docebo, Litmos, Seismic Learning) is unusually deep. Guidde reaches a similar list, but most of it is format-optimised clipboard copy, with genuine two-way connectors reserved for Enterprise. If your job is to feed an existing helpdesk or LMS rather than host your own site, iorad’s delivery layer is deeper and lands on cheaper tiers.
Feature-by-feature comparison
Same job, different output shape and different gating. Grouped and side by side.
| Capability | Guidde | iorad |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | ||
| Browser capture | Yes — all plans | Yes — free plan |
| Desktop capture | Business plan | Yes — free plan |
| Sensitive data redaction | Blur on Pro, manual PII on Business | Mask Data — Individual plan |
| Automatic PII detection | Enterprise — Magic redaction | No — one-click manual masking only |
| Output | ||
| Written step-by-step document | Yes — all plans, with a Document Editor | Yes — Scroll mode, free plan |
| Watchable video playback | Yes — every capture becomes a video | Watch mode — free plan |
| Downloadable MP4 file | Pro plan | Team plan — $500/mo |
| Interactive practice (Try / Do) | No — linear video + document | Yes — Try & Do modes, free plan |
| Knowledge check / quiz | Generative Quiz — Enterprise | Yes — Quiz mode, free plan |
| AI text-to-voice narration | Business plan — 50+ languages | Individual (basic); Team adds neural voices |
| Record your own voiceover | Yes — all plans | Individual plan |
| AI voice cloning | Enterprise — paid add-on | Not available |
| Interactive branching | In-video Interactions — single all plans, multiple on Business | No — linear step sequences |
| Dynamic variables | Not available | Not available |
| Multi-language translation | Enterprise add-on — 50+ languages | Enterprise only — 100+ languages |
| Import & export | ||
| Video-to-guide import | Business plan | No — capture only |
| PDF export | Copy on Free, download on Pro | Individual plan — one-click |
| HTML export | Free plan — copy | Enterprise only |
| Markdown export | Free plan — copy | Not available |
| SCORM / LMS package | Enterprise | Enterprise — SCORM 1.2 |
| Publish-to-knowledge-base connectors | Formatted copy; native connectors on Enterprise | Authenticated connectors — free plan |
| Publishing, AI & security | ||
| Hosted branded library | Enterprise portal; otherwise export into a KB you own | Web Library — Team plan, capped at 10 |
| Custom domain | Not available | No — stays on iorad.com |
| In-app contextual delivery | Broadcast — Enterprise, sales-led | Widget & Extension Library on Team; Live Guidance on Enterprise |
| MCP server (AI tool access) | Not available | Not available |
| Lead-capture forms | Not available | Not available |
| SAML SSO | Enterprise | Team plan |
| Analytics | All plans; 30-day retention on Business, 180-day on Enterprise | Dashboard on Individual; per-tutorial analytics on Team |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | 25 guiddes, watermarked, copy-export only | Unlimited tutorials, all six modes, but every tutorial is public |
| Entry paid plan (billed monthly) | $29/creator — Pro | $200/mo — Individual, one creator |
| Entry paid plan (billed annually) | $19/creator — Pro | ~$183/mo — Individual |
| Team plan (billed monthly) | $59/creator — Business, self-serve up to 5 creators | $500/mo — Team, 1 seat + $50 per extra |
| Paid seats charged for viewers | No — viewers are free | No — unlimited learners, creator-only pricing |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom — for 20+ creators |
Both produce a written step-by-step guide, so that part is a tie. Guidde adds a narrated video, a downloadable MP4 from Pro, and AI voiceover; iorad adds interactive Try, Do, and Quiz modes on its free plan, plus free desktop capture and a deeper publish-to-knowledge-base connector bench. Price cuts hard toward Guidde on the way in: $29/creator against iorad’s $200/mo floor and $500 before you can export anything. But both share the same two ceilings: no library hosted on your own branded domain, and no MCP server.
Verified against both vendors’ public pricing and documentation, July 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we’ll correct it.
Pricing compared
Every number below states its billing interval. Mixing them is how comparisons mislead.
$29/creator/mo
Guidde Pro billed monthly — $19/creator/mo billed annually; viewers are free
$200/mo
iorad Individual, one creator, no exports. Team is $500/mo before you can export or brand
$19/seat/mo
Guidejar Pro billed monthly — $16/seat/mo billed annually
Bottom line: Guidde is far cheaper to start. Pro is $29/creator/mo billed monthly ($19 annually) against iorad’s $200/mo floor for a single creator, and iorad locks exports and branding behind the $500/mo Team plan. iorad wins it back only at scale: it never charges per learner, extra creator seats are just $50/mo, and views are unlimited, so a 20-author training org has flat, predictable costs. What neither one gives you is a library on your own domain or an MCP server. Five seats of Guidejar Business is $75/month billed monthly, or $59/month billed annually.
Prices as of July 2026. Guidde bills per creator; iorad Team is $500/mo plus $50 per extra creator; Guidejar Business bundles 5 seats.
Where each one genuinely wins
Neither tool is a strictly better version of the other. These are the real, checkable advantages.
Guidde: narrated video, Magic Mic, and a real Document Editor
Every Guidde capture yields a narrated video and a written article kept in sync, and the Document Editor lets you tune the written half on its own: hide steps, crop or replace images, add headings and a table of contents. With Magic Mic on Business you talk through the workflow while you capture, and Guidde transcribes it, cleans up the ums, and turns it into narration for each step. iorad has text-to-speech too, but polished narrated video is Guidde’s home turf.
Guidde: a far lower entry price, and free viewer seats
Guidde Pro is $29/creator/mo billed monthly, $19 annually, and only creator roles consume a seat, so read-only viewers join at no cost. iorad’s cheapest paid plan is $200/mo for a single creator with no exports, and $500/mo before you can brand or export anything. For a small documentation team, that difference is not a rounding error, it is the whole budget.
iorad: practice and assessment, not just documentation
iorad’s signature is six learning modes from one capture, and three of them are interactive: Try and Do put the learner into a safe simulation of the live app, and Quiz makes them perform the correct on-screen action to advance. That is genuine pedagogy for an L&D team, and it ships on every plan including Free. Guidde and Guidejar both document a process well, but neither tests whether someone actually learned it.
iorad: free desktop capture, deep connectors, and a decade of history
iorad includes native Mac and Windows desktop capture on the free plan, publishes finished articles into Zendesk Guide, Freshdesk, Salesforce Knowledge, Guru, and a long LMS bench through real authenticated connectors, and puts SSO on its Team plan rather than gating it to Enterprise. It has been shipping for over a decade with SOC 2 Type 2 audits and strong current review scores (G2 4.7/5, Capterra 4.7/5), which reassures a procurement team.
Which tool is right for you?
Same job, different shape. Honest recommendations based on how your team actually learns.
Choose Guidde if
- Your team learns better from a narrated video than from a wall of screenshots, and you still want the written doc alongside it
- You need a downloadable MP4, GIF, PPTX, or SCORM package to hand to a stakeholder or an LMS
- You want AI voiceover and Magic Mic narration without a $200/mo floor to get started
- Your documentation team is small but your read-only audience is large, since viewer seats are free and unlimited
- Budget is tight and a $29 entry point matters more than interactive practice
Choose iorad if
- You need learners to practice and be tested, since Try, Do, and Quiz modes make them perform the real steps to pass
- You document native desktop software and want to trial it properly before paying, since desktop capture is free
- You publish into an existing helpdesk or LMS, and want authenticated connectors into Zendesk, Salesforce Knowledge, Docebo, and Litmos
- Your learner audience is enormous relative to your author count, since learners are always unlimited and extra seats are $50/mo
- Procurement wants a decade-old vendor with SOC 2 Type 2 and custom contract support
Video-first documentation teams pick Guidde. Training teams that need practice and assessment pick iorad.
They compete for the same job, so the choice comes down to how your people learn and what you can spend. Guidde is a narrated video plus a written doc from $29/creator, with free viewers. iorad is interactive practice and quizzes from one capture, deeper connectors, and free desktop capture, but its floor is $200/mo and real exports start at $500. What neither one does is host your whole library on a branded help center at your own domain, or answer questions through an MCP server. That is the gap the third option below fills.
Both keep your library on someone else’s domain
Guidde exports into a knowledge base you already own; iorad hosts your tutorials on iorad.com. Neither puts the library on a branded help center at your own domain, and neither has an MCP server. If that is fine for your team, either tool will serve you. If it isn’t, here’s the third option.
Guidejar
Guidejar takes one capture and publishes it as a Scroll View that reads like a written SOP, as a Walkthrough View people click through with hotspots and branching, or as an MP4 export with AI voiceover. The whole library then lives in a searchable, branded help center at your own domain, with Ask AI to deflect tickets. From $19/seat/mo billed monthly.
- One capture, published as a written SOP or a clickable walkthrough, chosen per guide
- MP4 export on the Plus plan, with AI voiceover from the Pro plan
- Searchable branded help center on your own custom domain, with Ask AI
- Guidejar MCP lets an AI agent build your SOP library and lets the team self-serve answers in ChatGPT or Claude, from the Plus plan
Starting at
$19/mo
per seat, billed monthly ($16 billed annually)
vs Guidde $29/creator/movs iorad $200/mo
Try Guidejar freeAI voiceover from $19
Pick a voice on Pro and clone your own on Business, no jump to a $59 or Enterprise tier just to narrate
Translate into 30+ languages
From the Pro plan, not an Enterprise-only 100-language add-on
Take it offline
Export as PDF, HTML, Markdown, or MP4 video. PDF works on the free plan
Trusted by teams worldwide
How Guidejar stacks up
The rows that actually separate them, with the third column filled in.
| Capability | Guidde | iorad | Guidejar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Written step-by-step document | Yes — all plans | Yes — Scroll mode, free plan | Yes — Scroll View, all plans |
| Interactive click-through walkthrough | No — linear video | Yes — Try & Do modes | Yes — Walkthrough View, Pro plan |
| Knowledge check / quiz | Enterprise — Generative Quiz | Yes — Quiz mode, free plan | Not available |
| Downloadable MP4 export | Yes — Pro plan | Team plan — $500/mo | Yes — Plus plan |
| AI voiceover entry plan | Business — $59/creator/mo | Individual — $200/mo (basic) | Pro — $19/seat/mo |
| Branded help center on your domain | No — export into a KB you own | No — Web Library stays on iorad.com | Yes — Plus plan, your custom domain |
| Desktop capture | Business plan | Yes — free plan | Plus plan |
| Multi-language translation | Enterprise add-on — 50+ languages | Enterprise only — 100+ languages | Pro plan — 30+ languages |
| MCP server | Not available | Not available | Plus plan |
| Entry paid price (billed monthly) | $29/creator — Pro | $200/mo — Individual | $19/seat — Pro |
Switching to Guidejar
From either tool, most teams finish the move in 1–2 weeks.
- 1
Export what you have
Guidde exports PDF, MP4, PPTX, HTML, and Markdown from Pro, with copy-based exports on its free plan. iorad is stricter: there is no export at all on Free or Individual, MP4, Word, and PDF arrive only on the $500/mo Team plan, and HTML and SCORM are Enterprise, so a leaving iorad customer often has to upgrade just to get content out.
- 2
Import into Guidejar
Turn exported PDFs, Word docs, or existing screenshots into guides with our importer, or point our AI Video-to-Guide Maker at a recording, with no all-time import cap. Anything else takes a couple of minutes to re-capture with our browser extension or desktop app.
- 3
Publish it properly
Choose Scroll View or Walkthrough View or both per guide, add AI voiceover, translate into 30+ languages, and put the whole library on a branded help center at your own domain.
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Frequently asked questions
The questions people actually search before picking one of the two.
Something else on your mind? Talk to us
Neither, in the abstract. They compete for the same job, internal SOPs and training, so it comes down to how your team learns and what you can spend. Guidde wins if your people learn by watching: every capture becomes a narrated video plus a synced written document, downloadable as MP4, and it starts at $29/creator with free viewer seats. iorad wins if your people learn by doing: Try, Do, and Quiz modes make learners perform the real steps and pass a check, and desktop capture is free. Its catch is price, a $200/mo floor and $500 before you can export. Neither hosts your library on a branded help center at your own domain, which is where Guidejar comes in.
iorad’s cheapest paid plan is Individual at $200/mo for a single creator, and it has no exports and no custom branding. The Team plan is $500/mo (one seat included, $50/mo per extra creator) and is where MP4 export, branding, libraries, analytics, and SSO unlock. Enterprise is a custom quote for 20+ creators. The model is a high flat platform fee rather than a per-seat rate, so it only makes sense once you have many creators. Guidde starts at $29/creator/mo, and Guidejar at $19/seat/mo billed monthly.
Yes, but the AI voice sits on Business at $59/creator/mo, with 200+ voices and 50+ languages. On the Pro plan you can record your own voiceover, but there is no AI text-to-voice at all. iorad includes basic text-to-speech from its Individual plan and neural voices on Team. Guidejar puts AI voiceover on its Pro plan at $19/seat/mo billed monthly.
iorad auto-generates six modes from a single capture: Watch (video), Scroll (written step list), Slide (a deck), Try (a simulation where the learner performs the steps), Do (guidance through the real application), and Quiz (the learner must complete the correct on-screen action to advance). The learner picks the mode and the creator does no extra work. Try, Do, and Quiz are what make iorad a training tool rather than only a documentation tool, and they are on every plan including Free. Guidde and Guidejar produce a video and a clickable walkthrough respectively, but neither tests the learner.
Both create it. Every Guidde capture generates a narrated video and a written step-by-step document, on every plan, with a dedicated Document Editor for the written half. iorad’s Scroll mode turns the same capture into a written step list, also on the free plan. So neither is video-only; Guidde pairs the doc with a narrated video, and iorad pairs it with five other modes including interactive practice.
Both can, at very different prices. Guidde downloads a real MP4 on Pro ($29/creator/mo) and above, though not during the free Business trial or while a guidde sits in Draft mode. iorad only exports MP4 on the Team plan at $500/mo, along with GIF and a YouTube auto-upload. Guidejar exports MP4 on its Plus plan, with AI voiceover baked in.
No, and this is the one place their pricing agrees. Guidde charges only for Admin, Content Manager, and Creator roles, so viewers are free and unlimited. iorad does not charge per learner at any tier, including Free, and never caps views. Both bill by the number of people who create content, which makes either one cheap for a large read-only audience. Guidejar bills per seat and covers external sharing free on every plan.
Both have a permanent free plan, and both are capped where it counts. Guidde’s free plan allows up to 25 guiddes, watermarks them, is web-capture only, and supports copy-based export alone. iorad’s free plan is more generous on creation (unlimited tutorials, all six modes, even desktop capture) but every tutorial is public and search-indexed, with no privacy, no exports, no analytics, and no data masking, so it rules out anything internal or confidential. Guidejar’s free plan gives you 5 guides with browser capture, PDF export, sharing, and embedding.
