Guidejar vs Arcade

Arcade’s self-serve paid plan is Growth at $50 per seat per month billed monthly, or $42.50 per seat per month billed annually, which their docs list as $510 per seat per year. Growth is capped at 10 seats; past that you talk to sales about Enterprise, which is custom-priced. Guidejar Pro is $19 per seat per month, or $16 billed yearly.

It’s gone. Arcade’s current lineup is Free, Growth, and Enterprise only. Pricing changed at least twice during 2026. Their own docs carry grandfathered pages for “Growth Plan Pre March 2026” and “Growth Plan Pre May 2026”, so any Arcade price you find that’s more than a few months old is probably wrong. A few stale references to Pro still linger in their documentation; the pricing page is the authoritative one.

There’s a real free plan, but it’s narrow. One user gets 1 published interactive demo and 1 published AI video, 200 AI credits a month, one Brand Kit, and unlimited views. Capture is generous on Free, covering the Chrome extension, desktop app, Figma plugin, AI voiceover, and the Arcade MCP server. What’s excluded: watermark removal, custom branding, blur, pan & zoom, branching, CTAs, forms, variables, translations, GIF and MP4 export, Step-by-Step Guides, and all analytics. Guidejar’s free plan is 5 guides with browser capture, PDF export, sharing, embedding, and manual blurring.

Yes, and it’s better than people assume. The Step-by-Step Guide converts an interactive Arcade into a static scroll-through where each step becomes an image with your hotspot title and text as its header. You can share it as a link, copy all the steps into Notion or Google Docs, or download a PDF. It’s a Growth feature, and it has real limits Arcade documents plainly: it doesn’t auto-update, so you re-generate it after every edit; it isn’t embeddable; it produces no view analytics; and it drops video steps entirely. Guidejar’s Scroll View is the same capture rendered live, so it’s always current, embeddable, and tracked.

All three, on Growth and above. GIF and MP4 come out of the export modal with presets for email, social, and presentation, capped at 720p and 24 FPS, with limits of 100 steps or 59 minutes. PDF comes out of the Step-by-Step Guide instead. There’s no HTML or Markdown export. Guidejar exports PDF on the free plan, HTML and Markdown on Pro, and MP4 up to 30 minutes on Plus.

It’s pre-recording HTML editing, and it’s Arcade’s best feature. In the Chrome extension’s capture settings you enable Edit Page, then click any visible text or element on the live webpage and rewrite it before you start recording. The changes persist across clicks and page reloads for the whole capture. Teams use it to clean up test data, anonymise real customer names and numbers without a scrubbed staging environment, and demo copy the product hasn’t shipped yet. It’s on the Growth plan, and Guidejar has no equivalent.

No. Arcade’s docs state it outright: Safari isn’t supported, and the workaround is the desktop app or a manual upload. The Chrome extension works in Chromium browsers, so Chrome, Arc, and Brave are fine. The desktop app covers Mac and Windows and is included even on the free plan, which is more generous than most tools in this category.

For most demo teams, yes, mostly on cost and reach. Guidejar builds the same interactive demos at $19 a seat against Arcade’s $50 billed monthly, translates into 30+ languages from the entry plan, and puts a custom domain on a $25 plan rather than an Enterprise contract. The same capture also publishes as a written guide in a branded help center, which Arcade has no equivalent for. Arcade is ahead on Page Morph, the Figma plugin, viewer de-anonymisation through Audience Reveal, and prompt-to-video AI generation. If those are why you’re buying, buy Arcade.