QuickPeek vs Arcade
Arcade records you clicking through your own product. QuickPeek drives the browser itself from a URL and hands back a narrated video. Those are two different artifacts, and the right answer depends on which one you need.
What actually differs
Every demo tool in this category hands you a recorder. You open your own product, click through it yourself, and the tool saves what you did. QuickPeek does not watch you work. You give it a URL and it drives the browser itself.
Arcade has moved since this page was written, and it is worth saying so plainly. Avery, its AI narrator, generates a voiceover from a recording with no script and no human read, and one recording now publishes as both an interactive demo and a 16:9 video. Narration is not the difference between these two tools any more, and if a polished AI voice on an embeddable demo is what you are shopping for, Arcade does that well. What has not changed is where the recording comes from. Arcade still needs you to walk the flow yourself once, and Avery narrates what you captured. QuickPeek is handed a URL and does the walking, so there is no take to perform, and a UI change means re-running a command rather than clicking through the product again.
Point it at your app with "qp yourapp.com" and QuickPeek opens a real browser with Playwright, works out what on the page is interactive, walks through it, narrates it, and burns the captions in. Nobody records anything, and nobody has to be at the keyboard.
The consequence is more useful than the mechanism. Because the demo is a command and a plan.json file rather than a saved recording, it can be re-run, version controlled, diffed, and generated by a script or by an AI assistant over MCP. A recording cannot be any of those things.
The honest flip side is the output. Arcade builds an interactive demo a prospect clicks through in your page. QuickPeek builds an MP4. If the prospect should be driving, a video is the wrong shape and narration does not fix it.
Try it against your own app
npx @spark-apps/quickpeek https://your-app.comSide by side
| QuickPeek | Arcade | |
|---|---|---|
| How a demo gets made | You pass a URL. It drives a real browser. | You click through your product while it captures. |
| What you get out | An MP4, narrated, captions burned in. | A published interactive demo, and published videos. |
| After a UI change | Re-run the same command. | Capture the flow again. |
| Driven by a script or an AI assistant | Yes. CLI, plus an MCP server. | Authored in the hosted editor. |
| Branching and calls to action inside the demo | No. A video plays start to finish. | Yes, on Growth. |
| Analytics on who watched what | No. Whatever your video host reports. | Yes, advanced analytics on Growth. |
| Billing shape | Flat, per account. | Per seat. |
The Arcade column is drawn from its own pricing page, read on 28 September 2026. Where we could not verify whether Arcade does something, it is not a row.
When to choose Arcade instead
These are real reasons, not throat clearing. If one of them describes you, Arcade is the better buy and QuickPeek will waste your afternoon.
You want the prospect to click, not watch
This is the big one. Arcade is built so a visitor drives your product themselves inside an embed, with branching and a call to action at the end. QuickPeek makes a video. If self-guided exploration is the point of the demo, buy Arcade and stop reading here.
The demos belong to someone who does not open a terminal
QuickPeek is a CLI and an MCP server. If marketing owns the demo library and needs to ship one on a Friday without asking an engineer, a hosted editor in a browser is the honest answer to that and we are not it.
Your product is not a page a browser can open
QuickPeek needs a URL, and localhost counts, but it does need to be a web page. A desktop application, a native mobile app, or a flow sitting behind multi-step SSO with an authenticator app is not that. A recorder does not care what it is pointed at, because a human is doing the driving.
You need to know who watched which step
Arcade includes analytics on its paid plan, so you can see where in a demo people drop. A finished MP4 tells you nothing that the host you uploaded it to does not tell you, which is usually a view count and not much else.
When QuickPeek is the right call
The demo goes stale every sprint
A recorded walkthrough is a performance, so a changed button means performing it again. A QuickPeek demo is a command plus an editable plan.json file, so you re-run it and it rebuilds itself against the UI that shipped. That is cheap enough to do on every release instead of once a quarter.
You want it in a pipeline, or driven by an AI assistant
It is a command line tool with an MCP server, so a CI job can build the demo and a model can build one for you without a human opening a browser. There is nothing to click, so there is nothing that needs a person present.
The thing you actually need is a video file
A landing page hero, a Product Hunt or G2 listing, a YouTube short, a video in a sales email. QuickPeek outputs an MP4 with narration in 60+ languages and captions burned into the frames, which is the artifact all of those want.
You would rather not pay per seat
QuickPeek is $12 or $29 a month for the account. Nobody has to be counted, and adding a second person who wants to make a demo does not change the bill.
Pricing
Prices checked 28 September 2026, each one read off the vendor's own pricing page. This category changes its pricing often, so open the links and confirm before you quote a figure.
QuickPeek
- Free at $0
- Ten videos a day once you confirm an email. On the web recorder free videos are capped at 20 seconds and carry a QuickPeek watermark; over the CLI and MCP there is no length cap and only videos longer than 20 seconds are watermarked. Five videos over MCP need no account at all.
- Essentials at $12 a month
- No watermark, no length cap, full composition, 100 videos a day. For the whole account, not per seat.
- Elite at $29 a month
- Everything in Essentials, 300 videos a day and 150 AI auto-cuts. Also flat, not per seat.
Arcade
- Free at $0
- One published demo, one published video, 200 AI credits a month. Shared content carries an Arcade watermark.
- Growth at $50 per seat a month, or $42.50 per seat a month billed yearly
- Unlimited demos and videos, advanced analytics, demo branching, calls to action, 800 AI credits a month.
- Enterprise at Custom
- Everything in Growth, plus dedicated support, SSO, role based access and more brand kits.
Questions
Is QuickPeek an Arcade alternative?
For making a demo video, yes, and it gets there without anyone recording a take. For an interactive demo a prospect clicks through, no. QuickPeek outputs an MP4 and has no embeddable, clickable demo. If that is what you are shopping for, Arcade is built for it and QuickPeek is not.
Do I have to record my screen with QuickPeek?
No. You pass a URL and it drives a real browser itself with Playwright. There is a capture mode if you want to perform a flow by hand, for example something the planner cannot reach on its own, but it is the exception rather than how you normally use it.
What happens to the demo when my UI changes?
Re-run the same command. A QuickPeek demo is a command plus an editable plan.json file rather than a saved recording, so it rebuilds against whatever shipped. That is the practical difference from any recorder: nobody has to perform the walkthrough a second time.
Can I try QuickPeek without signing up or paying?
Yes. Run npx @spark-apps/quickpeek against your URL. The command line asks for an email on the first run so the AI planner can be metered, with no card. Over MCP the first five videos need no account at all.
Is QuickPeek priced per seat like Arcade?
No. Essentials is $12 a month and Elite is $29 a month for the whole account, so a second person making demos does not change the bill. Arcade Growth is billed per seat.
Make one and see
Point it at a URL and watch it drive. Nothing to install first, no card, and localhost works.
npx @spark-apps/quickpeek https://your-app.com