tldraw vs Scribe

tldraw is a free, browser-based collaborative whiteboard you can open instantly without creating an account. Open the site and you land on a full canvas for drawing, diagramming, and visual thinking with others online.

The product is built around speed and low friction. There is no signup wall before you start sketching, and the interface keeps the canvas front and center. Sign in when you want to share a board so teammates can join the same session.

tldraw runs on mobile, tablets, and desktop in the browser, which makes it useful for quick brainstorms, workshops, and async visual notes. The homepage also points builders to the tldraw SDK at tldraw.dev for embedding the same canvas technology in custom apps.

Scribe captures how work actually gets done and turns it into step-by-step guides your team and AI agents can follow. It records workflows as people perform them in the browser, desktop, or mobile apps, then generates documentation without manual screenshots or write-ups. Teams use it for SOPs, training, onboarding, and feeding workflow context to AI tools.

Where most documentation tools expect you to write guides from memory or schedule walkthroughs, Scribe watches real workflows and documents them automatically. Capture surfaces the processes teams run most often and turns them into shareable guides, while Optimize maps inefficiencies across approved apps and recommends where to automate or invest in AI.

Operations, IT, HR, and enablement teams rely on Scribe to share tribal knowledge before someone goes on PTO. Companies rolling out new software or building AI agent roadmaps use it to give bots accurate workflow context through MCP and enterprise search APIs.