The best alternatives to Loom
Loom might not be the right fit: the price, a missing feature or a payment model you don't like. These are the closest alternatives in our catalog, ordered by rating, with the full review of each one.
Why look for a Loom alternative
Since the August 3 sweep the recording and sharing product has not changed, it still scores about the same (4.6 out of 528 on Capterra, 4.8 out of 162 on Product Hunt, 4.8 with eighteen thousand ratings on the App Store), what changed is the fine print of the bill, confirmed by independent adversarial verification. Atlassian has removed the free Creator Lite seat on accounts integrated with its systems and converts them into paid seats, and a real thread on the Atlassian Community forum from May 2026 shows what that means in practice, an invoice that jumped from $24 to $96 for seats nobody had used, fixed only after the user escalated the case. The second update qualifies a con from the previous sweep, the $18 Business plan is no longer completely free of AI, Atlassian's own documentation confirms auto-titles reached every plan, though summaries, chapters, tasks and filler-word removal stay locked to the $24 tier. The pricing page still never states the currency in visible text.
What its own users repeat in the August 10, 2026 sweep:
- The $18 plan is no longer completely empty of AI because auto-titles reached every plan, confirmed in Atlassian's official documentation, but summaries, chapters, auto-tasks and filler-word removal stay locked to the $24 plan (strong theme)
- The free plan still caps at 25 videos and five minutes per recording, and on accounts integrated with Atlassian the creator limit drops to 10 versus 50 on legacy accounts (strong theme)
- Atlassian removed the free Creator Lite seat on accounts integrated with its systems and converts them into paid seats, a change confirmed in its official documentation that has already produced bills that jump without warning: a user documented on the Atlassian Community forum that their Business + AI invoice went from $24 to $96 for seats added without authorization, and only got refunded after escalating the case (strong theme)
- The pricing page still never states the currency in visible text: the symbol is a dollar sign and the USD code only appears in the site's embedded data (present theme)
- Atlassian applied its first price increase to existing customers from 30 November 2025, and this sweep's removal of the free Creator Lite seat is a second effective increase on the bill in under a year (present theme)
Best alternatives to Loom
Records screen and webcam and edits the whole video in one window, with no professional timeline to learn.
Edit video and audio by deleting words from the transcript, like in a document.
Records screen and camera and returns a video that looks edited without you editing anything.
What the internet says about each alternative
ScreenPal 4/5 · Free + from $4
ScreenPal keeps leaning on continuity rather than novelty, and this week brings no dated fact that moves any of the five axes: the latest desktop version is still 3.26.0 from 13 July 2026, with nothing published since. The entry price, $4 a month on annual billing, is reconfirmed today in the served HTML of the plans page, with the same notice that the figures shown are the annual ones and each plan has to be opened to see the month-to-month price. The objections stay the same: the free plan caps at fifteen minutes and comes without automated captions, the «No watermark» row in the pricing table stays quiet about the three-second branded outro on free exports, and the audio tools fall short of a full editor.
Where it wins: Records screen, webcam or both and edits the whole video in the same tool, without demanding an editing suite Where it slips: The free plan caps desktop recordings at fifteen minutes and comes without automated captions
Descript 3.9/5 · Free + from $16
People making spoken content keep repeating what prior sweeps found: editing by deleting transcript words is the biggest time saver they've found. The negative counterweight sharpens slightly this round: beyond the known AI-credits complaint, 2026 reviews describe lost edits in saved projects, plus a case where a support-promised $545.48 refund in writing was never issued.
Where it wins: Text-based editing removes the timeline learning curve, you delete the word and the cut happens in audio and video Where it slips: The 2025 move to AI credits left a bad taste, the assistant can spend the monthly allowance in one short session
Tella 3.8/5 · Free trial · from $13
Tella keeps doing the same thing well, a video that looks edited without editing anything thanks to automatic zooms and trimming by transcript, and this week adds the sweep's only structural fact: on 6 August 2026 it joined Claude's Connector Directory, with no MCP URL to copy and no config file to touch, and the following day it added public API access to the entire media library. The price, 13 dollars a month on annual billing with no free plan, is reconfirmed today in its pricing page's JSON-LD. What hasn't changed is the serious part: the verified Capterra review reporting it records the wrong screen more than half the time on the first video remains one of only two reviews that platform has gathered in six years, and the team is still six people with $3.5M raised.
Where it wins: You get a video that looks edited without editing anything, with automatic zooms, backgrounds and split-screen layouts Where it slips: A verified review reports it records the wrong screen more than half the time on the first video, and that some segments come out corrupt
Comparison table
| Tool | Price | Free trial | Platforms | Rating | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loom | Free + from $18 | Yes | Web, Chrome, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android | VisitLoom (opens in a new tab) | |
| ScreenPal | Free + from $4 | No | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome | VisitScreenPal (opens in a new tab) | |
| Descript | Free + from $16 | Yes | Web, macOS, Windows | VisitDescript (opens in a new tab) | |
| Tella | Free trial · from $13 | Yes | Web, macOS, Windows, Chrome | VisitTella (opens in a new tab) |
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