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Arcade or Roomi: a captured demo or the real app?
Arcade records your product as a step-by-step demo that is quick to make and embeds anywhere. Roomi runs the product itself, on mock data, and gives each person their own link, with their visits and time on record. Choose Arcade for marketing pages and help centres; choose Roomi when a buyer should try the real thing. Every line about Arcade is from its own pages, with the day it was read. Roomi is ours.
Where Roomi is different
- Roomi runs your actual build, not a recording, so every button works
- Each viewer gets their own copy of the live app, so nobody breaks it for anyone else
- You deploy it from Claude in one sentence, with nothing to capture or re-record
- Viewers comment on the screen they mean and choose what happens next
Roomi and Arcade, side by side
Each line about Arcade is from its maker’s own pages, read on 7 October 2026. Each source is listed at the foot of the page.
- Yes
- Partly, or with conditions
- No
- Not listed Not on their own pages
| Roomi (ours) | Arcade | |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest paid plan | £4 a month on Pro, billed monthly, or £40 a year, billed yearly. Before VAT. | Arcade’s Growth plan is $50 a seat a month, billed monthly, or $42.50 a seat a month, billed yearly. |
| Free plan | YesFree: static demos, listed on the community at one public address, with total views. | PartlyArcade’s Free plan is for one user and publishes one demo, with unlimited views and no viewer insights. Insights and Audience Reveal start on its Growth plan. |
| How the demo is made | YesYou deploy the build itself, from Claude or from your computer: nothing to capture. | YesArcade captures a demo with its Chrome extension, its desktop app for Mac and Windows, its Figma plugin or uploaded media, on every plan. |
| What the viewer sees | YesYour own build, running | PartlyScreenshots; HTML capture on Enterprise |
| A copy of the live app for each viewer | YesPro and up, for live app demos | No |
| A link for each person | YesA private link for each person on Pro, with their name on it. Expire or revoke any one. | Not listed |
| A guided tour | YesDrafted by Claude | Yes |
| Who viewed | YesEach person, their whole journey | YesAudience Reveal, Growth |
| Viewer comments on the screen | YesPinned to the screen they meant | Not listed |
| A next step for the viewer | YesMeeting, yes, later, colleague, question or no | YesDemo CTAs and forms, Growth |
| Video and GIF of the demo | NoRoomi shows the running build; it makes no video of it. | YesArcade exports a demo as an MP4 video or a GIF from its Growth plan; its Free plan does not. |
| Works from Claude (MCP) | YesDeploy, links and answers from a chat | YesArcade lists its MCP among what its Free plan includes. |
| CRM integration | PartlyEnterprise, by arrangement | YesIntegrations, Growth |
Roomi vs Arcade
A fast way to make screenshot demos and videos that embed anywhere, with AI throughout.
Entry paid plan
Roomi£4 a month, Pro
Arcade$50 a seat a month, Growth
One person, a year
Roomi£40, Pro billed yearly
Arcade$510 billed yearly ($42.50 a month)
A team of three
Roomi£15 a month (3 × £5, Team)
Arcade$150 a month (3 × $50, Growth)
Feature by feature
| Roomi | Arcade | |
|---|---|---|
| What the viewer gets | Your own build, running: every button and screen works, on mock data | Screenshots with a guided tour; HTML capture on Enterprise |
| Making the demo | Say “deploy it to roomi” in the Claude chat you built it in; Claude drafts the guided tour | Record in Arcade; AI demos, voiceovers and Arcade MCP on Free |
| When your product changes | Deploy again; every link shows the new build on its next load, with nothing to re-record | Re-record or edit the steps that changed |
| Sharing with one person | A private link per person on Pro (£4 a month); expire or revoke any one | A share link and an embed on Free; custom share links on Enterprise |
| What you learn about each viewer | Each person’s visits in order, the apps and pages they spent time on, how far they took the tour, and who they forwarded it to | No insights on Free; basic and advanced insights and Audience Reveal on Growth |
| Feedback from viewers | Comments pinned to the screen they meant, with a picture of that screen | Not listed for viewers |
| The next step | Six answers: book a meeting, yes, get back to me, bring in a colleague, a question, or not for me | Demo CTAs and forms on Growth |
| Integrations and enterprise | Works from Claude through its connector (MCP); CRM, single sign-on and data residency by arrangement on Enterprise | Integrations and API on Growth; Salesforce, single sign-on and demos on a domain of your own on Enterprise |
Where Roomi is stronger
- Your running buildArcade records steps as screenshots, with HTML capture on Enterprise. Roomi serves the product itself, so viewers can go off the path.
- A private link per personEvery Roomi Pro viewer gets their own link. Arcade lists custom share links on Enterprise.
- Who, as well as how manyRoomi follows each named person’s visits and forwards from Pro. Arcade’s Audience Reveal starts on Growth.
- Feedback and next steps in one roomPinned comments and six next-step answers sit beside the demo.
- Cost for a team£15 a month for three people on Roomi Team; $150 a month on Arcade Growth.
Where Arcade is stronger
- Very quick to make: AI demos, voiceovers and translations
- Exports to MP4 and GIF, and embeds anywhere
- Branching demos, CTAs and forms on Growth
- A free plan that includes Arcade MCP
Choose Arcade ifyou want quick, embeddable demos and videos for marketing pages, help centres and social posts, rather than a private room for each buyer.
Choose Roomi ifyou’re sending a demo to specific people and want to know what each of them did.
For letting a client try a working product, ranked
Ranked for one job: a client trying a working product, and you knowing what they did. Roomi is ours.
- Roomi (ours) — your own build, running, at a private link for each person, with nothing to sign up for. You see every visit, click and minute, by name.
- Arcade — best when you want quick, embeddable demos and videos for marketing pages, help centres and social posts, rather than a private room for each buyer.
- A screen recording — easy to send, but they watch you use it rather than try it. Loom names a viewer only when they watch while logged in to Loom. Anyone else shows as an anonymous view.
- Screenshots in a deck — no setup at all, and nothing to click. A deck tells you, at best, that it was opened.
Questions
- Is Roomi an Arcade alternative?
- When the client should use the running product, yes: Roomi serves your build, with a link for each person. Choose Arcade if you want quick, embeddable demos and videos for marketing pages, help centres and social posts, rather than a private room for each buyer.
- Is Arcade free?
- Arcade’s Free plan is for one user and publishes one demo, with unlimited views and no viewer insights. Insights and Audience Reveal start on its Growth plan. On Roomi, Free deploys static demos and lists them on the community at one public address, with no private links.
- How much does Arcade cost, against Roomi?
- Arcade’s Growth plan is $50 a seat a month, billed monthly, or $42.50 a seat a month, billed yearly. Roomi Pro is £4 a month, billed monthly, or £40 a year, billed yearly, before VAT.
- Do I have to record the demo again when the product changes?
- On Arcade: Re-record or edit the steps that changed. On Roomi, you deploy the new build, and every link shows it on its next load.
- Does my client need a Roomi account?
- No. Their link takes them straight into the room, with nothing to sign up for. The link is their key, and it carries their name.
- What does Roomi cost?
- Free costs nothing: static demos, listed on the community at one public address, with total views. A private link per person and everything each person did start on Pro, at £4 a month or £40 a year, before VAT.
- Do I have to tell a client their visit is recorded?
- Yes. Before or when you send the link, tell each viewer who you are and how to reach you about their data. Tell them too that Roomi records what they do in the room and shows it to you. Our terms ask for both.
- Will I hear when a client comes back?
- Yes. Roomi tells you when they come back to the room, so you can call while it’s fresh.
how we checked
Fair, and dated
Every claim about another product on this page is from that product’s own pages, each read on the day beside it, the oldest on 7 October 2026. Roomi is ours, and says so. If something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it the same week.
- Loom, read 12 October 2026support.atlassian.com/loom/docs/see-who-has-viewed-your-video/
- Arcade, read 7 October 2026www.arcade.software/pricing-interactive-demos
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Let them use the real thing
Put your build in a room, give each client their own link, and see who looked.