12 Best Loom Alternatives and Competitors [2024]

Movavi Screen Recorder is one of the best Loom alternatives on the market today. If you’re an online gamer, a podcaster, a newbie video creator, an entrepreneur, or you just want to capture webcasts to watch them later, Movavi Screen Recorder makes it easy. With features like webcam recording, simultaneous microphone and system audio capture, live drawing and annotations, video-editing tools, and scheduled recordings, you can do everything you need for your video project in a single application. And, when you’re done recording, you can easily polish and finalize your video without downloading an external app. In other words, if you’re looking for the best all-in-one screen recorder, you’ll find it with Movavi Screen Recorder.

Key features:

• Easily record and edit screen activity for more effective and efficient tutorials, presentations, and messages
• Enhance screen-recorded videos by capturing keystrokes and mouse clicks
• Record part or all of your screen to draw attention to specific actions
• Capture online presentations and podcasts with or without system audio
• Get creative with live drawing and annotations on screen recordings
• Automate screen recordings with scheduling features
• Easily grab microphone and/or system audio on the fly
• Save screen recorded videos in all of your favorite video file formats
• Upload videos to social media directly from the program

Sendspark is a video-recording and sharing program that’s designed specifically to help sales teams communicate with prospects and customers. If you’re recording your screen to demo a product and show customers how you can bring value to them, you’ll probably enjoy this program. If you’re looking for a collaborative tool or if you need to edit your videos without downloading a third-party app, Sendspark might not be the best choice for you.

Key features:

• Multiple templates for easy video creation
• Video sharing via multiple channels, including link sharing, embedded links, email, and SMS
• Analytics features to help you improve your videos and get more engagement
• Branding features, like color themes, custom domain names, and logos

While a lot of Loom competitors are primarily screen recorders, Usersnap was designed as a collaboration, feedback, and quality assurance tool. To help software development teams improve their products’ interfaces and functionality, Usersnap offers a tool with voice and visual feedback, as well as several tools that enable testers to better communicate issues and challenges. It’s not the most intuitive screen recorder, and some of its tools and features won’t be the most useful for you if you’re not in the software development world.

Key features:

• Voice feedback on screen recordings
• User testing and quality assurance tools
• Integrates with multiple development tools, including Jira and ClickUp

In reviewing apps like Loom, we try to keep in mind what each program is designed to do and how it can help you. Jumpshare is great for grabbing a quick screenshot or screen recording and sharing it with collaborators, coworkers, and/or customers. It includes security features, which you might find helpful if you’re working on confidential content. We ran into some playback issues, though, which can be really frustrating.

Key features:

• Save videos, GIFs, and screenshots of your screen activity
• Safely share video content with secure links
• Track views and engagement in the app

Vidyard is a screen-recording app and Chrome browser extension. If you’re looking for a free Loom alternative, Vidyard might not be the best option for you. It was designed to assist sales teams, and integrates with apps like LinkedIn, SalesForce, and Marketo. So, if you’re on a sales team, and you have a budget for sales enablement, Vidyard might be a good option.

Key features:

• Video sharing directly from the app via embedded link, email, and social platforms
• Engagement notifications to track video views
• Automatic captions and metadata

ScreenRec is an easy-to-use, open-source recording program. This free alternative to Loom facilitates quick video messages and tutorials with the ability to capture recordings in up to 4K resolution. While it’s completely free, with no watermark, it lacks some functions and features that you’ll find in other Loom alternatives. Free screen recordings are great if that’s all you need to do, but if you need to edit your videos or pause and restart while recording, you may want to look at another option. 

Key features:

• Screen recording in up to 4K
• Simple video annotation capabilities
• Automated sharing via video link

Soapbox is another Loom free alternative with basic (free) and premium (paid) subscriptions. Its multi-tier pricing makes it attractive to a wider range of audiences than some of the other video alternatives we’ve reviewed. If you want to share your videos to social media and message boards like Reddit, you’ll probably like Soapbox’s customizable sharing page. At the same time, Soapbox doesn’t have a lot of video-editing features, and there’s no way to monitor your webcam feed while recording. Those two factors could lead you to a lot of re-shoots if you make a mistake while recording.

Key features:

• Collaborative video production tools
• Analytics tools to use data to improve engagement
• Easy video distribution via customizable sharing pages
• Live camera-switching capability (e.g., move between sharing your screen, recording from your webcam, and recording your screen without pausing)

If you’re on a budget, and you don’t need to record a ton of videos, you might like Tella. Of the Loom alternatives with free subscriptions for mobile devices, Tella stands out for its strengths in creating tutorials, online presentations, and product demos. It includes video-editing tools with a lot of customizability. But, if you need to make more than 10 videos per month, it’ll cost you at least $19/month to use Tella.

Key features:

• Multi-clip recording on a single video project (like Instagram or TikTok)
• Multiple custom backgrounds and layouts to choose from
• Re-recording capabilities on individual clips

Zight is a mobile and desktop screen-recording app with an emphasis on quick communication between team members. Its developers created Zight to enable collaboration, which is why you’ll be limited to 90-second recordings with the free subscription. If the point is to tell your coworker exactly what’s going on with the project you’re working on together, without a lot of extraneous information, Zight does a great job. But be warned: the free subscription won’t let you crop, rotate and scale, fine tune, or add annotations to your videos. All of the paid licenses include those features and up to 4K video exports.

Key features:

• Basic video-editing tools, e.g., crop, rotate, scale (not available for free version)
• Live annotations (only for paid versions)
• Mobile and desktop screen-recording capabilities

Scribe is a great Loom substitute if your project involves creating step-by-step instructional videos. Scribe’s developers designed it to help you easily turn any process on your desktop into a series of steps with text instructions. What it lacks in other features, Scribe makes up for with its time-saving capabilities – but only if you’re using it to create guides through software workflows. If you’re recording gameplay or hosting a video podcast, Scribe probably isn’t the right software for you. Likewise, while the finished product is a video, it’s essentially just a slideshow of screenshots, not a live video with audio and other enhancements.

Key features:

• Auto-generated step-by-step tutorials with text steps and screenshots
• Easy sharing via embeddable code and shareable links

VIDIZMO is a video creation, streaming, sharing, and storage platform. While it includes screen-recording features, this program feels more like YouTube than a screen recorder or video editor. If you’re working with a large team, and you want to share streaming or on-demand videos, VIDIZMO is a great tool. At the same time, if you’re a content creator, you might be frustrated by the lack of creative and editing tools included with the platform. Plus, with subscriptions starting at $85/month, VIDIZMO isn’t the most budget-friendly option on the market today.

Key features:

• Streaming and on-demand video sharing in one platform
• High-quality video security measures, including end-to-end encryption
• Automatic transcriptions in 50+ languages

VEED.IO is an online screen recorder and video-editing program. Without downloading any software, VEED.IO allows you to capture your screen and webcam simultaneously. Plus, you can choose between different display options, like split screen or picture-in-picture. The paid versions of VEED.IO are on the more expensive side, but you can record up to 10 minutes of video footage for free with the basic package. VEED.IO’s collaboration and branding workspace is really hand if you’re building a cohesive brand, but it’s only available for top-tier subscriptions.

Key features:

• Split-screen and picture-in-picture recording
• Green screen capabilities
• Basic online video editing, including background removal, subtitles, and effects
• Collaboration and organization tools in a centralized workspace