Open Source Alternatives
Open Source Screen Recording Alternatives to Loom
Async video messaging for teams. Record your screen and camera, get an instant share link, and see who watched and where they stopped. Owned by Atlassian since 2023.
Loom is a trademark of its respective owner.
Updated Aug 2026
What you gain
- ✓No 25-video lifetime cap or 5-minute recording limit like Loom's free Starter plan
- ✓No $18 per user per month, which is what unlimited recording length costs on Business
- ✓Video files and transcripts sit on your own storage instead of Atlassian's cloud
- ✓No Enterprise upgrade plus Atlassian Guard just to turn on SSO and SCIM
What you give up
- △No instant share link the second you stop recording, with the upload already finished in the background
- △No engagement insights showing who watched, how far they got, and where they dropped off
- △No Loom AI auto titles, summaries, chapters, filler-word removal, or auto-meeting recaps
- △No record button living inside Jira, Confluence, Slack, Gmail, and GitHub
Switching Cost
Loom's lock-in is the links, not the files. You can bulk export the library, but every Loom URL already pasted into a Jira ticket, a Confluence page, or a customer email still points at Loom, and those die when the subscription lapses. A solo dev with a few dozen videos moves in an afternoon by rehosting what still matters and letting the rest go; a 20-person team with two years of embedded links should budget a week to export, rehost, and chase down replacements. The cost nobody prices in is the habit, because Loom's record-and-paste is one click and people quietly stop making videos when it becomes three.
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Drop-in Replacements
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Building Blocks
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