The 10 best Loom alternatives in 2026
Loom is the default for async video, but its free limits, pricing and lack of screenshots send people looking. Here are the alternatives worth trying, with what each does best and what it costs.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the best free Loom alternative? For a free, no-install screen recorder with AI voice-over and captions, takeascreen.com. For polished Mac demos, Screen Studio. For a no-frills open-source recorder, OBS Studio. It depends on whether you want polish, speed or automation.
- Why look for a Loom alternative? Common reasons: the free plan’s 5-minute and 25-video limits, the price per creator, wanting vertical video for social, needing annotated screenshots as well, or wanting AI to do the recording and narration instead of you.
- Which Loom alternatives have AI features? takeascreen.com (AI records, narrates and annotates), Tella (AI clips and captions), Descript (AI editing and voices), Synthesia and HeyGen (AI avatars). Loom itself has AI titles, summaries and filler-word removal on paid plans.
- Can I switch from Loom without losing my videos? Yes. Download your Loom videos as MP4 and upload them to your takeascreen.com library: they get the same styling, voice-over, captions and share links as native recordings.
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