Can Sceed make interactive demos?

No. Sceed makes video. Arcade, Supademo and Storylane make click-through demos.

Can Arcade export a video?

Yes, as a by-product. Sceed is built around the video, with an editor for cursor, zoom, camera, effects and sections.

Arcade has a free tier with limits. Sceed has a free plan, and Pro is $25 a month or $115 a year.

Does Arcade work on Windows?

Arcade runs on: Chrome, browser. It does not run on Windows, which is the gap Sceed fills. Sceed runs on Windows 10 (64-bit) and Windows 11 only.

Arcade: Free tier, then subscription. Sceed has a free plan (exports up to three minutes, with a small mark), and Sceed Pro is $25 a month or $115 a year.

Where do Arcade and Sceed keep recordings?

Arcade: Arcade cloud. Sceed: on your own disk, in a folder you choose. Sceed never uploads a recording.

Can Arcade change the cursor after recording?

Arcade: Synthetic. Sceed records without the cursor and draws its own afterwards, so it can be smoothed, restyled, recoloured or hidden at any time.

What does Arcade do that Sceed does not?

From this comparison: share link.

What does Sceed do that Arcade does not?

From this comparison: webcam, camera looks, keystroke overlay and 4K export.

Can Sceed replace Arcade?

No. They make different things: Arcade makes click-through demos, Sceed makes video. Teams often use both.

How was this comparison made?

From each product’s public pages and documentation, checked in September 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, write to hello@sceed.io and it will be corrected. Arcade is a trademark of its owner, and this page is not affiliated with it.

Sceed vs Arcade

Arcade captures a flow and turns it into an interactive demo: hotspots, chapters and callouts that the viewer clicks through in the browser, with a video or GIF export as a by-product. It is for embedding on landing pages. Sceed makes the video itself, watched rather than clicked.

Interactive demo tools · checked September 2026

The short answer

Sceed is a screen recorder and editor for Windows that finishes the video for you. Arcade runs on: Chrome, browser. Its recordings live: Arcade cloud. Sceed has webcam, camera looks, keystroke overlay and 4K export, which Arcade does not. Arcade has share link, which Sceed does not.

Key facts

Key facts about Sceed and Arcade
	Sceed	Arcade
Runs on	Windows 10 and 11	Chrome, browser
Price	Free plan; Pro monthly or yearly	Free tier, then subscription
Recordings live	On your disk	Arcade cloud
Works without an account	Free account	No

Where each one is ahead

Of the 19 features compared, Sceed has 16 and Arcade has 13. They share 12.

Only in Sceed4

Webcam
Camera looks
Keystroke overlay
4K export

Only in Arcade1

Share link

In both12

Window, area or monitor
System audio and mic
Editor built in
Cursor redrawn after recording
Cursor smoothing and looks
Zooms
Frames and backgrounds
Region effects
Sections between clips
Text and lower thirds
Privacy blur
GIF export

At a glance

Feature comparison of Sceed and Arcade
	Sceed	Arcade
Basics
Runs on	Windows 10 and 11	Chrome, browser
Price	Free plan; Pro monthly or yearly	Free tier, then subscription
Recordings live	On your disk	Arcade cloud
Works without an account	Free account
Capture
Window, area or monitor		Browser flows
System audio and mic		Voiceover
Webcam
Live streaming
Editing
Editor built in		Step editor, online
Cursor redrawn after recording		Synthetic
Cursor smoothing and looks		Synthetic
Zooms	Numbered points, eased	Pan and zoom per step
Camera looks	Many looks
Frames and backgrounds	Frames and backgrounds
Region effects	Many kinds	Hotspots and callouts
Sections between clips	Many styles	Chapters
Text and lower thirds
Captions made on the machine
Privacy blur		Blur tool
Keystroke overlay
Output
4K export	4K at 60 fps
GIF export
Share link

Checked September 2026.

Sceed and Arcade, feature by feature

Basics

Runs on

Differs

The operating systems the app runs on.

Sceed. Sceed is a native Windows app for Windows 10 (64-bit) and Windows 11. It does not run on Mac, Linux, phones or in a browser.

Arcade. Chrome, browser.

Price

Differs

What it costs, and how it is charged.

Sceed. Sceed is free to download and use. Free exports run up to three minutes and carry a small mark. Sceed Pro removes both and unlocks every effect for $25 a month or $115 a year, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Arcade. Free tier, then subscription.

Recordings live

Differs

Where a recording is stored once you stop.

Sceed. Sceed writes every recording and every export to a folder on your own disk. Nothing is uploaded.

Arcade. Arcade cloud.

Works without an account

Differs

Whether you can use it without signing up.

Sceed. Sceed needs a free account. You sign in once through the browser, and that carries your plan to the machine. No card is asked for.

Arcade does not have this.

Capture

Window, area or monitor

Both

Recording one window, a dragged area, or a whole monitor.

Sceed. Sceed records a window, an area or a whole monitor at up to 60 frames a second, with a countdown.

Arcade. Browser flows.

System audio and mic

Both

Recording the computer’s sound and a microphone.

Sceed. Sceed records system sound and the microphone as separate lanes, with a noise gate and levelling on the mic.

Arcade. Voiceover.

Webcam

Sceed

Recording your camera along with the screen.

Sceed. Sceed records the webcam as its own layer, so its shape, size and position can change after the take.

Arcade does not have this.

Live streaming

Neither

Broadcasting live to a streaming service.

Sceed. Sceed does not stream. It records, edits and exports files.

Arcade does not have this.

Editing

Editor built in

Both

Editing the recording in the same app that made it.

Sceed. Every take opens in Sceed’s own editor: cuts, speed, zooms, effects, sections and export in one window.

Arcade. Step editor, online.

Cursor redrawn after recording

Both

Whether the pointer is drawn after the fact, so it can be changed.

Sceed. Sceed records the screen without the cursor and draws its own afterwards. That is what lets the cursor be smoothed, restyled, recoloured or hidden once the take is done.

Arcade. Synthetic.

Cursor smoothing and looks

Both

Smoothing the pointer’s path and choosing how it looks.

Sceed. Sceed smooths the cursor’s path, offers several pointer looks in any colour, and adds click effects.

Arcade. Synthetic.

Zooms

Both

Zooming in on part of the screen during the video.

Sceed. Zooms are blocks on the timeline aimed at numbered points or at the cursor. The camera eases in, can pan from point to point, and eases out. There are two kinds: crop in, or move the whole window closer.

Arcade. Pan and zoom per step.

Camera looks

Sceed

Ready-made ways to show the webcam.

Sceed. One-click camera looks: a corner bubble, a hero card, side by side, full screen and more, changeable for each part of the video.

Arcade does not have this.

Frames and backgrounds

Both

A frame round the recording and a background behind it.

Sceed. Window frames (Mac, browser, Windows and device frames) on gradient, solid, picture or video backgrounds, with padding, corners and shadow.

Arcade has this.

Region effects

Both

Effects placed on a region of the screen.

Sceed. Region effects are dragged straight onto the preview: callouts, pop-outs, focus, reveals, arrows and many more, each a block on the timeline.

Arcade. Hotspots and callouts.

Sections between clips

Both

Cards that play between or over clips.

Sceed. Sections play between clips or over them: titles, numbers, charts, steps, quotes and end cards, in matching themes.

Arcade. Chapters.

Text and lower thirds

Both

Text on screen, and name plates.

Sceed. Animated text overlays and lower thirds, by word or by letter.

Arcade has this.

Captions made on the machine

Neither

Subtitles made from the audio, on your own machine.

Sceed. Sceed does not make captions.

Arcade does not have this.

Privacy blur

Both

Hiding private information in the picture.

Sceed. Privacy blur: drag a box over anything that should not be seen, for any stretch of the video.

Arcade. Blur tool.

Keystroke overlay

Sceed

Showing the keys you press.

Sceed. A keystroke overlay shows the shortcuts you press, in a pill on the frame.

Arcade does not have this.

Output

4K export

Sceed

Exporting at 4K resolution.

Sceed. Sceed exports H.264 MP4 at up to 4K and 60 frames a second, straight to disk, using the graphics card’s encoder.

Arcade does not have this.

GIF export

Both

Exporting an animated GIF.

Sceed. Sceed exports GIFs from 480 to 1080 pixels wide, as well as MP4.

Arcade has this.

Share link

Arcade

A hosted link to send instead of a file.

Sceed. Sceed does not host videos. It writes a file, and you share it wherever you already share video.

Arcade has this.

Price

Arcade. Free tier, then subscription. Prices change; check Arcade's own site for today's.

Sceed pricing in full →

Privacy, and where recordings live

Sceed. Sceed writes every recording and every export to a folder on your own disk. Nothing is uploaded. Exports are written straight to disk, so a recording of a private screen never leaves the machine unless you send it somewhere.

Arcade. Recordings live: Arcade cloud. Works without an account: No.

Choose Arcade if

You want an embeddable, clickable demo on a landing page.
Hotspots and branching matter more than motion.
Hosting and analytics are part of the product.

Choose Sceed if

You want a video with a smooth cursor, zooms and a camera.
It goes on YouTube, in a changelog or a deck.
Nothing should be uploaded.

Switching from Arcade to Sceed

1Download Sceed on a Windows 10 or 11 PC and sign in with a free account. No card is asked for.
2Record the same window, area or monitor you would have recorded with Arcade. Sceed adds a frame, a background and a smoothed cursor by default.
3Add zoom points where the detail is, then any callouts, sections or a camera look. Each is a block on the timeline.
4Export an MP4 at up to 4K. Where you used to send a Arcade link, upload the file to wherever your team already watches video.
5Before you switch, note what you would give up: share link.

Questions

Can Sceed make interactive demos?: No. Sceed makes video. Arcade, Supademo and Storylane make click-through demos.
Can Arcade export a video?: Yes, as a by-product. Sceed is built around the video, with an editor for cursor, zoom, camera, effects and sections.
Which is free?: Arcade has a free tier with limits. Sceed has a free plan, and Pro is $25 a month or $115 a year.
Does Arcade work on Windows?: Arcade runs on: Chrome, browser. It does not run on Windows, which is the gap Sceed fills. Sceed runs on Windows 10 (64-bit) and Windows 11 only.
Is Arcade free?: Arcade: Free tier, then subscription. Sceed has a free plan (exports up to three minutes, with a small mark), and Sceed Pro is $25 a month or $115 a year.
Where do Arcade and Sceed keep recordings?: Arcade: Arcade cloud. Sceed: on your own disk, in a folder you choose. Sceed never uploads a recording.
Can Arcade change the cursor after recording?: Arcade: Synthetic. Sceed records without the cursor and draws its own afterwards, so it can be smoothed, restyled, recoloured or hidden at any time.
What does Arcade do that Sceed does not?: From this comparison: share link.
What does Sceed do that Arcade does not?: From this comparison: webcam, camera looks, keystroke overlay and 4K export.
Can Sceed replace Arcade?: No. They make different things: Arcade makes click-through demos, Sceed makes video. Teams often use both.
How was this comparison made?: From each product’s public pages and documentation, checked in September 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, write to hello@sceed.io and it will be corrected. Arcade is a trademark of its owner, and this page is not affiliated with it.

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