2 min readFreemium

Loom

Most meetings could have been a two-minute Loom. Instead of dragging five people into a 30-minute call, record your screen, camera, or both, and share a link that the team watches on their own time, with AI-generated titles, summaries, and chapters that make it easy to skim and find what matters.

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Is Loom free?
Freemium. Partly. Loom has a free plan, with paid plans for more features or usage.
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#Productivity
Website
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Most meetings could have been a two-minute Loom. Instead of dragging five people into a 30-minute call, record your screen, camera, or both, and share a link that the team watches on their own time, with AI-generated titles, summaries, and chapters that make it easy to skim and find what matters.

Main Features

  • Instant Screen Recording: Capture your screen, camera, or both with one click. Choose a window, tab, or full desktop. No rendering, no export step, the link is ready the moment you stop recording.
  • AI Titles and Summaries: Loom auto-generates a descriptive title, written summary, and chapter markers so viewers can jump straight to the section they need instead of scrubbing through the whole thing.
  • Viewer Analytics: See exactly who watched, how much they watched, and where they dropped off. Know whether the team actually saw your walkthrough or just claimed they did.
  • Rich Reactions: Viewers can leave emoji reactions and time-stamped comments right on the video. No separate thread, no slide-4-clarification email.
  • Embeds and Sharing: Drop a Loom into Slack, Notion, Linear, or any tool that supports rich embeds. It plays inline with a thumbnail, play button, and transcript.
  • Chrome Extension and Desktop App: Record from anywhere without switching context. The Chrome extension captures browser tabs perfectly; the desktop app handles everything else.
  • Draw and Annotate: Circle things, draw arrows, and highlight areas while recording. Perfect for design feedback, bug reports, and onboarding walkthroughs that need visual emphasis.
  • Team Library: Organise recordings by project, topic, or team. Set permissions and keep your async knowledge base searchable, not scattered across DMs.

Who Should Use It?

  • Remote and Hybrid Teams: Replace status meetings with async video updates. Everyone stays informed without blocking their calendar for 30-minute syncs.
  • Designers and Developers: Give visual feedback on mockups and code without writing a novel. Show the bug, the layout issue, or the animation you mean, directly on screen.
  • Product Managers: Walk through feature specs, stakeholder updates, and UX flows in three minutes instead of scheduling a cross-timezone call.
  • Customer Support: Send personalised troubleshooting videos instead of typing 12-step instructions. Customers see exactly which buttons to click and which menus to open.
  • Sales Teams: Record personalised demos and follow-ups that prospects can watch on their own time. Track who engaged and follow up with precision.
  • Educators and Trainers: Build a library of short tutorial videos that new team members or students can search and replay at their own pace.
  • Anyone Drowning in Meetings: If you have more than three internal status meetings per week, replacing even half of them with Looms will give you back hours.