Loom alternatives: where to go and how to move your videos cleanly
Six destinations, one for each reason to leave, plus an eight-step exit plan.
The short answer: Tella if you want the smoothest exit, since it is the only tool here that pulls in your Loom library and discounts teams coming from Loom. Cap if price matters most or you want to self-host. Zight if your team lives on screenshots and short clips for support. Vidyard if your videos are there to sell. ScreenPal if you need the cheapest paid plan for one person. Descript if you edit before you share. One warning before you pick: Loom has no bulk export. MP4s come out one at a time, without chapters or captions, and a deleted video turns into a 404 everywhere it was embedded. We compared all six tools and checked their pricing for 2026.
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored spot is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a rating.
Why teams are leaving Loom, and why it takes longer than expected
Loom made the quick screen video a normal way to skip a meeting, and its browser extension is still fast to fire up. People don't leave over recording quality. They leave over a free plan that fills up, a bill that changed once Loom became part of Atlassian, and an exit path nobody designed. These six reasons come up again and again.
The free plan runs out fast
Starter caps you at 25 videos per person, 5 minutes per screen recording, in 720p. The catch most people miss: archived videos still count toward the 25. Hit the cap and Loom doesn't delete anything, it just stops you from recording. Only recorded meetings skip the time limit. At three videos a week, the free plan lasts about two months.
Atlassian pricing replaced your old deal
As Loom accounts move onto Atlassian billing, they switch to list price, and asking to keep your old rate gets a flat "No." Annual plans are now billed in fixed user tiers: user number 201 puts you in the 201 to 300 tier, and you pay for all of it. One small team in public reviews says it was charged almost 400 dollars for four seats.
Free Creator Lite seats are gone
Creator Lite used to let occasional recorders make a few videos without a paid seat. That role was removed and those users were converted to paid seats. You get a grace period until your next invoice to deactivate the ones you don't need. On a 20-person team where five people actually record, that's fifteen extra seats at $18, or $270 a month on monthly billing.
AI costs extra
Business is $18 per user per month. Auto titles and summaries, chapters, filler-word and silence removal, and meeting notes require Business + AI at $24. Paying yearly saves up to about 17%, but Loom doesn't publish the exact annual figure. The 14-day trial covers Business + AI only.
There is no real way out
You can't download your whole library. A public request for bulk download has been sitting in Atlassian's tracker since 2025 with a handful of votes. MP4s download one by one, and not at all on the free plan. The file leaves behind chapters, captions, call-to-action buttons and silence removal. Anything over 20 GB won't download.
Your links are everywhere
The true switching cost is years of Loom links pasted into Notion, Confluence, help centers, tickets and email templates. Delete a video and every embed shows a 404. Loom can't even export a list of your library's share URLs. Add complaints about crashes, login loops and support that feels automated: on one large consumer review site, Loom sits at 1.4 out of 5.
You're leaving because… go to…
The best Loom alternative depends on what's pushing you out. Usually one row fits. Each card jumps to the full write-up below.
Built-in Loom importer, free desktop app for private videos, 30% off year one.
You want the lowest billCapPro at $8.16 a month billed yearly, open source, self-hostable.
You mostly send screenshots and quick clipsZightScreenshots and 4K video for $12 a month billed yearly.
Your videos are for prospectsVidyardBuilt for sales outreach, free for 5 videos a month.
You're one person on a tight budgetScreenPalPaid plans from $4 a month billed yearly.
You edit before you hit sendDescriptEdit video by editing the transcript, free plan, Hobbyist from $16.
Loom alternatives, tool by tool
For each tool: why move to it, who it fits and who it doesn't, its main limit, how to bring your Loom videos over, and what it costs. Prices are what each vendor lists for 2026, in US dollars.
Tella: the easiest exit, library and all
Easiest migrationWhy move to Tella. No other tool has put as much work into catching Loom refugees. Paste a public Loom folder link into Settings, then Migrate, and Tella pulls in the videos with their titles and folder structure. For private videos, Spaces or an entire library, there's a free desktop app, Tella Transfer, for Mac, Windows and Linux. Clips can run up to 6 hours in 4K, so a full training session fits in one take.
Who it's for. Product, support and enablement teams that record polished demos and want to keep their library when they leave.
Who it isn't for. Anyone after a free plan they can stay on: Tella only has a 7-day trial.
The limit. Not everything makes the trip. Comments, reactions, view stats, edited transcripts, chapters, passwords, thumbnails and CTAs stay behind in Loom. Monthly prices aren't listed on the pricing page.
How to migrate. Teams under 20 seats can use code LOOM30 for 30% off for 12 months. From 20 Loom seats up, Tella offers to buy out the rest of your Loom contract if you sign an annual plan. Tip: Tella Transfer is free even if you end up somewhere else, which makes it the simplest way to grab your private MP4s in one go.
Price. Pro is $13 per user per month billed yearly, Premium $19 with a custom domain and white labeling, Enterprise on quote.
- Free
- 7-day trial
- Paid
- Pro $13/mo billed yearly
- Migration
- Loom folder import
- Limit
- comments and chapters lost
Cap: the budget pick, and it's open source
BudgetWhy move to Cap. Cap copies the Loom flow (hit a shortcut, record, share a link) for a fraction of the price. The code is open source, so a technical team can run it on its own servers and keep the videos in-house.
Who it's for. Freelancers, small teams and developers who want a fast recorder without a heavy subscription.
Who it isn't for. Large companies that need an admin console, SSO and an account manager.
The limit. The free tier is for personal use, with shareable links capped at 5 minutes. The Desktop license ($29 a year, or $58 lifetime) covers commercial use but limits you to 20 shareable links a month. The Loom importer is a Cap Pro feature only.
How to migrate. Get Cap Pro for at least the migration month. Its importer brings videos over from a Loom link or a CSV file. Run it before you downgrade Loom, while your current permissions still let you reach every video.
Price. Cap Pro is $12 a month, or $8.16 a month billed yearly, with unlimited links, AI features and a custom domain.
- Free
- personal use, 5-min links
- Paid
- Pro $8.16/mo billed yearly
- Plus
- open source, self-host
- Limit
- Loom importer on Pro only
Zight: screenshots and short clips for support
Support and how-tosWhy move to Zight. Zight puts screen capture and screen video in one app. If your support or product team answers "look, it's right here" twenty times a day, a marked-up screenshot often beats a two-minute video. Loom only does video.
Who it's for. Support agents, QA teams filing bugs, and anyone who switches between screenshots and quick clips all day.
Who it isn't for. Teams recording long, polished training: the editor stays basic.
The limit. The free Share plan caps videos at 5 minutes, 1 GB of storage and 720p, close to Loom Starter. You need Create for unlimited recording, 4K and 5 GB per user.
How to migrate. There's no Loom importer. Download your MP4s from Loom (or with Tella Transfer) and upload the ones you still need. Be ruthless: an annotated screenshot can replace a lot of old 40-second clips.
Price. Create is $9.95 per user per month billed yearly and Collaborate $12, covering up to 100 users. Annual billing saves 20%. Scale, on quote, stores files in your own Amazon S3.
- Free
- 5 min, 1 GB, 720p
- Paid
- Create $9.95/mo billed yearly
- Plus
- screenshots and video
- Limit
- no Loom importer
Vidyard: video for selling
SalesWhy move to Vidyard. Loom is mostly for talking to coworkers. Vidyard is built for reps: a personal video dropped into a cold email, a demo recap after a call, a pitch the buyer watches on their own time. If most of your Loom videos went to customers, this is Vidyard's home turf.
Who it's for. Sales teams and SDRs who prospect by email and LinkedIn.
Who it isn't for. An internal team that wants a cheap meeting replacement: it's the priciest tool on this page.
The limit. The free plan gives you 5 videos a month, 30 minutes max, with no library hosting. Starter is $59 per seat per month billed yearly, $89 monthly, more than three times Loom Business. Teams and Enterprise are quote-only.
How to migrate. Don't move your whole Loom library. Bring over only the sales videos still in use (product demos, offer walkthroughs) and re-record personal messages, which go stale quickly anyway.
Price. Free at $0, Starter at $59 per seat per month billed yearly.
- Free
- 5 videos/mo, 30 min
- Paid
- Starter $59/mo billed yearly
- Best for
- video prospecting
- Limit
- high per-seat price
ScreenPal: the cheapest paid plan for one person
Cheapest paidWhy move to ScreenPal. If you're a solo creator, teacher or consultant who just needs longer recordings than Loom Starter allows, ScreenPal's paid plans start at $4 a month billed yearly. That's less than a quarter of a Loom Business seat.
Who it's for. Individuals and small teams on a strict budget: teachers, trainers, freelancers recording client walkthroughs.
Who it isn't for. A company that wants Loom-style workspaces, admin controls and a bulk importer.
The limit. The free plan allows 15-minute recordings but hosts only 10 videos. Monthly billing exists but the price isn't listed on the plans page, so the headline numbers all assume a yearly commitment. Team Business needs at least 3 users.
How to migrate. No Loom importer: download your MP4s and upload the ones you want to keep. With a 10-video cap on free, pick a paid plan before you start uploading.
Price. Deluxe $4 a month, Max $10 a month, Team Business $8 per user per month, all billed yearly.
- Free
- 15 min, 10 hosted videos
- Paid
- Deluxe $4/mo billed yearly
- Best for
- solo, tight budget
- Limit
- monthly price not listed
Descript: when you edit before you share
EditingWhy move to Descript. Loom is built for sending fast, not for polishing. Descript transcribes your recording and lets you edit the video by editing the text: delete a sentence and the clip is cut. It also records screen and camera, strips filler words and cleans up audio. If your Loom recordings used to end up in a separate editor, Descript does both jobs.
Who it's for. Trainers, marketing teams and creators who publish tutorials and demos meant to last.
Who it isn't for. Someone who wants to fire off a 90-second update in two clicks: it's an editor, with a steeper learning curve.
The limit. AI features run on credits, and heavy users find the metering hard to predict. Our review gives Descript 3.4 out of 5, with stability as a recurring complaint.
How to migrate. Download your Loom MP4s and drop them into a Descript project. Transcription starts fresh, which makes up for the transcripts Loom keeps. Read our full Descript review before you pick a plan.
Price. Free at $0, Hobbyist $16 a month billed yearly ($24 monthly), Creator $24 ($35), Business $50 ($65) per seat.
- Free
- yes, Free plan
- Paid
- Hobbyist $16/mo billed yearly
- Plus
- text-based editing
- Limit
- watch your AI credits
Loom and 6 alternatives side by side
Our default picks: Tella if you want to take your library with you, Cap if cost comes first. For a 10-person team where everyone records, Loom Business runs $180 a month on monthly billing, $240 with AI. On yearly billing, Tella Pro comes to $130, Zight Create just under $100, and Cap Pro just under $82. The left column shows the free plan, the right one the first paid price and how your videos get there.
| Free plan | First paid plan and migration | |
|---|---|---|
| LoomWhere you're starting | 25 videos per person (archived included), 5 min, 720p, no downloads | Business $18, Business + AI $24 per user per month |
| TellaEasiest migration | 7-day trial | Pro $13 billed yearly; Loom folder import and Tella Transfer |
| CapBudget | Personal use, 5-min links | Pro $8.16 billed yearly ($12 monthly); Loom importer on Pro |
| ZightScreenshots and clips | 5 min, 1 GB, 720p | Create $9.95 billed yearly; upload MP4s |
| VidyardSales | 5 videos a month, 30 min | Starter $59 billed yearly ($89 monthly); upload MP4s |
| ScreenPalCheapest paid | 15 min, 10 hosted videos | Deluxe $4 billed yearly; upload MP4s |
| DescriptEditing | Free plan | Hobbyist $16 billed yearly ($24 monthly); upload MP4s |
Entry prices per user per month, before tax, subject to change. Yearly figures assume annual billing.
Leave Loom in eight steps
Leaving Loom is closer to moving a library than swapping an app. Order matters: find out what you have, save what doesn't export, and fix your links before you switch anything off.
Map your videos and every place they're embedded
Day 1Loom can't export a list of your library's share URLs. The one export you do get is engagement insights, under Settings, Workspace, Data: titles and view counts, which is enough to start sorting.
Then search for "loom.com/share" and "loom.com/embed" across Notion, Confluence, your help center, your ticketing tool and your email templates. Log each page in a sheet with the video it contains. That sheet is what saves you from broken pages later.
- Time
- half a day
- If you skip it
- dead links in your docs
Triage: keep, re-record or let go
Saves moneyWith view counts in hand, sort every video into three piles. Recent, still-accurate videos move. Videos showing an old interface get re-recorded in the new tool, which is often faster than you'd think. Everything else (one-off updates, answers to closed questions) can stay where it is.
The fewer videos you move, the shorter the project and the less storage you pay for on the other side.
- Gain
- fewer videos to move
Deactivate unused seats during the grace period
Before the invoiceIf former Creator Lite users were turned into paid seats, Atlassian gives you until your next invoice to deactivate the ones who don't record. Do this first: it's money saved for the whole transition.
On a tiered annual plan, check where you sit. Going from 201 members back to 200 drops you a full tier.
- Gain
- lower bill during the switch
Download the keepers while you're still on a paid plan
CriticalEach video downloads as an MP4 from the library, one at a time. Do it while you're still paying: on Starter, admins and creators can't download at all. Creator Lite and Viewer roles can't either, and for recorded meetings only the organizer can.
For large volumes, Tella Transfer pulls private videos in bulk for free. Save everything in a shared folder and use the Loom title as the file name.
- Limit
- no downloads on free
- Max size
- 20 GB per video
Save what the MP4 leaves behind
The downloaded file has no chapters, no captions, no CTA buttons and no silence cuts. For videos that matter, copy the transcript and chapter list into a doc saved next to the file.
Comments and reactions don't move anywhere. If a thread under a video holds a decision, copy it into your project tool.
- If you skip it
- chapters and captions lost
Import into the new tool and redo the settings
In Tella, import public folders through Settings, Migrate, and the rest with Tella Transfer. In Cap Pro, run the importer with a link or a CSV. Everywhere else, upload the MP4s.
Then rebuild what never transfers: passwords, thumbnails, CTAs and folder permissions. Spot-check three random videos for sound and picture.
- Time
- a few hours to a few days
Swap Loom links page by page
Before cutoverGo back to your step 1 sheet and replace each link or embed with the new URL. Start with the most-read pages: help center articles, new-hire onboarding, sales email templates.
Change habits too. The keyboard shortcut, the browser extension and the Slack or Jira integration should all point to the new tool, or people will keep recording in Loom out of muscle memory.
- If you skip it
- 404s in front of customers
Downgrade Loom to free instead of deleting the account
Last dayCanceling a paid plan drops you to Starter: your videos stay online, you just can't record past the limit. Any link you missed keeps working.
Deleting the account wipes every video, transcript and view stat and breaks every link at once. Wait several months and do a final pass on your link sheet before you even consider it.
- Tip
- keep Starter for a few months
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What makes a Loom exit go wrong
The same mistakes show up in Atlassian community threads and in write-ups from teams that already left. None of them are technical. They're sequencing mistakes, and each one costs you dead links or lost videos.
Canceling before downloading
Once you're back on Starter, downloads are off. Plenty of teams find out after they've canceled. Grab everything that matters during your last paid month, or use Tella Transfer.
Deleting videos that are still embedded
A deleted video doesn't vanish quietly. It leaves a 404 frame on every page that embedded it. Before you delete anything, check your link sheet to confirm it isn't used anywhere.
Paying for seats twice
During the switch both tools run in parallel. Anyone who no longer records in Loom should be deactivated, or you pay twice. On a tiered annual plan, one extra member can cost you an entire tier.
Assuming the transcript comes along
The MP4 comes out bare. Captions, chapters, AI titles and hand-edited transcripts stay in Loom. For customer-facing tutorials, save them separately or pick a destination that transcribes on import.
Moving the whole library on principle
Migrating a thousand videos when nine in ten get no views means paying in storage and hours for nothing. Sort first with engagement insights. High-traffic but outdated videos are usually quicker to re-record than to migrate.
Comparing prices without counting seats
Loom, Tella, Zight and Vidyard all bill per user. Count only the people who actually record: viewers watch free almost everywhere. For more options, our async video ranking covers other tools, our Descript alternatives page covers editing, and our guides to leaving Zoom and Vimeo handle meetings and hosting.
- Loom links found in docs, tickets, help center and emails
- Engagement insights exported for sorting
- Videos sorted: keep, re-record, leave
- Unused seats deactivated before the next invoice
- MP4s downloaded while still on a paid plan
- Key transcripts and chapters saved separately
- Videos imported and checked in the new tool
- Passwords, thumbnails and permissions rebuilt
- Every Loom link replaced, busiest pages first
- Loom downgraded to Starter, not deleted
Loom alternatives: frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest Loom alternative for a team?
Cap Pro at $8.16 per user per month billed yearly, less than half of Loom Business at $18. ScreenPal Team Business costs $8 per user billed yearly but needs at least 3 users. Zight Collaborate is $12 billed yearly and covers up to 100 users.
Is there a free Loom alternative?
Yes, with limits. Cap is free for personal use with 5-minute links. Vidyard Free gives you 5 videos a month up to 30 minutes, and ScreenPal Free records up to 15 minutes with 10 hosted videos. If you don't need a share link, OBS Studio is free and open source and records to your computer. Schools often use Screencastify Free: 10 videos, 30 minutes, with a watermark.
Is there an open source Loom alternative?
Cap. Its code is open and you can self-host it, which keeps videos on your own servers. The hosted Cap Pro plan adds unlimited links, AI features, a custom domain and the Loom importer.
Will my Loom videos be deleted if I downgrade?
No. Canceling a paid plan moves you to Starter and your links keep working. You just can't record beyond 25 videos (archived ones count) and you can no longer download. Only deleting the account removes your videos.
How do I move my Loom library without breaking links?
You can't redirect loom.com links, so plan around it. Keep the account on Starter so old links still play, swap every embed in your docs for the new URL, and only then think about deleting anything. Tella and Cap Pro import the videos; the links are your job.
What is the best Loom alternative for sales?
Vidyard, which is built around prospecting by video. It costs more: Starter is $59 per seat per month billed yearly. If your reps only send a few videos, try Vidyard Free (5 a month) before buying seats.
Loom or Snagit for tutorials?
Snagit if you mostly make annotated screenshots plus the odd video: it's $39 per user per year and hosts up to 25 videos on Screencast. Loom if you send lots of link-shared videos. Zight sits in between, with screenshots and video in one app.
Can I edit my Loom recordings somewhere else?
Yes. Download the MP4 and open it in an editor like Descript, which lets you cut video by editing the transcript. If you're weighing editors, see our Descript pricing breakdown and our guide to switching from CapCut.
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