Loom made a simple idea popular: instead of booking a meeting, record your screen, talk through it, and send a link. For remote teams that one habit can replace a surprising number of calls. But the free plan now stops you at five minutes per video and 25 videos in total, and the paid plans have climbed to around $15–18 per person per month. So it’s fair to ask whether you still need Loom at all.
The good news is that the best Loom alternatives are cheaper, more generous, or simply better at one specific job. This guide compares the ones worth knowing, explains who each is for, and covers the free options most people overlook.
What Loom Costs Right Now
Prices in this guide were checked on each provider’s official pricing pages and recent pricing reviews in October 2026. Screen recording tools change their plans often, so confirm the price before you subscribe.
- Starter (free): up to 25 videos per person, 5 minutes per recording, up to 720p.
- Business: about $15 per user per month billed annually, or $18 month to month. Unlimited videos and recording time.
- Business + AI: about $20 per user per month billed annually, or $24 month to month, adding AI titles, summaries and messages.
See Loom’s current pricing. If you only send a few short videos a week, the free plan may still be enough. If you hit the limits or pay for a whole team, the alternatives below are worth a look.
Ask This Before You Switch
“Loom alternative” can mean three different things, and the right tool depends on which one you need:
- Quick video messages. Record, get a link, send it. This is classic Loom, and Cap, Screencastify and Zoom Clips cover it.
- Polished videos. Demos, tutorials and onboarding videos you’ll reuse for months. Tella and Supercut are built for this.
- Explaining a process. Sometimes a step-by-step guide with screenshots works better than a video. That’s what Scribe does.
The Best Loom Alternatives Worth Considering
Cap: The Closest Match to Loom, for Less
Cap works the way Loom does: record your screen and camera, and share a link instantly. It runs as a native app on Mac and Windows, and it’s open source, so technical teams can even host it on their own servers. It also includes a Loom importer, which makes moving an existing video library less painful.
- Price: free for personal use, with shareable links up to 5 minutes; a Desktop License for commercial use costs $29 per year or $58 once; Cap Pro is $8.16 per user per month billed annually ($12 month to month) for unlimited sharing and AI summaries. See Cap’s pricing.
- Best for: anyone who likes Loom and just wants to pay less for it.
Tella: Best for Polished Demos and Tutorials
Tella is built for videos that need to look good: product demos, course lessons, onboarding walkthroughs. You record in clips, rearrange them, and Tella handles layouts and backgrounds, so the result looks edited without you learning a video editor.
- Price: no free plan, only a 7-day trial; Pro is about $13 per user per month billed annually, Premium about $19. Monthly billing costs noticeably more. See Tella’s pricing.
- Best for: creators and teams who make videos people will watch more than once.
Vidyard: Best for Sales Teams
Vidyard is a video tool designed around selling: personalized video messages to prospects, tracking who watched and for how long, and connections to CRM systems. Its newer plans also add AI-generated videos and avatars. If your videos go to clients rather than colleagues, it’s built for you. If not, you’ll be paying for features you won’t use.
- Price: a free plan with a small monthly allowance of recorded videos; Starter costs $59 per seat per month billed annually, or $89 month to month. See Vidyard’s pricing.
- Best for: salespeople and account managers who need to know when a prospect watched.
Scribe: Best When a Guide Beats a Video
Scribe isn’t a video recorder at all, and that’s the point. You click through a process once, and it automatically creates a step-by-step guide with screenshots and written instructions. For “how do I submit an expense report” questions, a guide people can skim is often faster than a three-minute video they have to sit through.
- Price: free for unlimited guides captured in the browser; Pro Personal is $25 per month billed annually ($35 monthly) and adds desktop capture, exports and branding; Pro Team starts at $13 per seat per month billed annually, with a five-seat minimum. See Scribe’s pricing.
- Best for: documenting repeatable processes and onboarding new teammates.
Screencastify: The Simplest Chrome Option
Screencastify runs as a Chrome extension, so there’s nothing to install beyond your browser. It’s especially popular in education, but it works just as well for quick work updates.
- Price: a limited free plan with a small number of videos; paid plans start at about $7 per user per month. See Screencastify’s pricing.
- Best for: people who work mostly in Chrome and want the lightest possible setup.
Supercut: Best for Clean, Auto-Edited Recordings
Supercut records in 4K on Mac and Windows and automatically removes mistakes, silences and filler words, then adds chapters, titles and summaries. If you redo a recording five times because of one “um”, this solves that.
- Price: no free plan, but a 14-day trial; Pro is $15 per seat per month billed annually ($180 per year), or $18 month to month.
- Best for: people who record often and want them to sound clean without editing.
The Best Free Loom Alternatives
Before paying for anything, check what you already have. For many people, one of these covers most needs:
- Zoom Clips. If your company already uses Zoom, Zoom Clips lets you record short async videos inside the app you already have. Free accounts are limited in how many clips they can keep, so it works best for occasional use.
- OBS Studio. OBS is free and open source on Mac, Windows and Linux, with no time limits or watermarks. The trade-off: it saves a video file instead of giving you a share link, and it takes some time to learn.
- Cap’s free plan. Free personal use with unlimited local recording and share links up to five minutes, the most Loom-like free option.
- Your computer’s built-in recorder. Windows 11’s Snipping Tool can record the screen, and on a Mac you can press Shift + Command + 5. Upload the file to Google Drive or Dropbox, share the link, and you’ve built a basic Loom for free.
Loom Alternatives for Mac
Mac users have the widest choice. Cap, Tella and Supercut all run natively on macOS, and the built-in Screenshot toolbar (Shift + Command + 5) records your screen for free. For quick messages, Cap is the most natural replacement; for polished demos, Tella; for free, the built-in recorder plus a shared link.
Quick Comparison
| Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loom | Yes, 25 videos, 5 min each | About $15/user/mo (annual) | The original, widely used |
| Cap | Yes, personal use, 5-min links | $29/year license or $8.16/mo Pro (annual) | Loom-style videos for less |
| Tella | No, 7-day trial | About $13/user/mo (annual) | Polished demos and tutorials |
| Vidyard | Yes, limited | $59/seat/mo (annual) | Sales videos with tracking |
| Scribe | Yes, browser guides | $25/mo (annual) | Step-by-step guides |
| Screencastify | Yes, limited | About $7/user/mo | Chrome users |
| Supercut | No, 14-day trial | $15/seat/mo (annual) | Auto-edited recordings |
| OBS Studio | Free, open source | — | Full control, no limits |
Our Pick
For most remote professionals, Cap is the best Loom alternative: it does the same job, works on Mac and Windows, and costs a fraction of Loom’s price, with a useful free plan to start. If your videos need to look polished and get reused, choose Tella. If you mainly explain processes, try Scribe’s free plan before recording another video. And if you only record a few times a month, the free built-in tools may be all you need.
Fewer Meetings, Not More Videos
The point of async video was never to record everything. It was to give people back the time a meeting would have taken. Pick one tool, use it when a video really explains something faster than text, and don’t let a new app become another inbox to manage.
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