The best Loom alternatives for Mac in 2026

Cap describes itself as the open-source alternative to Loom, and the source is on GitHub. The free tier includes Studio Mode with the full editor, 4K/60fps export and shareable links capped at five minutes each, for personal use. The Desktop License adds commercial rights, unlimited local recording and 20 cloud links a month; Cap Pro is the hosted plan with AI titles, transcripts and team features.

It is the closest thing on this list to Loom’s instant-link model with an escape hatch: you can point it at your own S3-compatible storage. Being cross-platform is a genuine advantage over the Mac-only entries if your team is mixed. The free tier’s personal-use restriction and five-minute link limit are the things to read before adopting it at work.

Tella is a recorder built around presentation — layouts that put your camera and screen together, backgrounds, and an editor that leans on AI to tidy the take. It records natively on Mac and Windows or in the browser, and every account starts with a seven-day trial of the full Pro plan.

It is a subscription, and there is no free plan once the trial ends, which is the main reason it appears on a Loom-alternatives list rather than replacing Loom outright for occasional users. If you record a lot and care how the result looks on a landing page, it is a strong choice.

Screen Studio is a native Mac recorder known for its automatic zoom, smoothed cursor and finished look. It is not a Loom clone — the emphasis is on the video looking cinematic rather than on team libraries — but it does offer shareable links, and for a lot of people the recording they were making in Loom was really a demo that deserved this treatment.

It is subscription-only at the time of writing, at $20 a month or $9 a month on a yearly plan. If you want the same category of tool without the renewal, OwnClip and Cap are the buy-once-or-free options here; if you want the most polished result of its kind, this is it.

Zight, formerly CloudApp, is the closest match to Loom’s shape: capture a video, a screenshot or a GIF, and it is in the cloud with a link on your clipboard. The free Share plan gives you one gigabyte and five-minute recordings, which is enough to try it on real work.

Everything lives on Zight’s servers, so it does not solve the privacy or ownership concern — it trades Loom’s cloud for another cloud. It is on this list because it covers stills and GIFs in the same tool, which Loom does not, and because the entry price per seat is lower.

Droplr is a lightweight capture-and-share tool: screenshots, screen recordings with an optional webcam, GIFs and file drops, each turned into a link the moment it is captured. It is cheaper per month than Loom’s paid plans and simpler than most of the tools here.

It is cloud-hosted and subscription-based, and the editor is basic — there is no timeline, no automatic zoom and no on-device transcription. Pick it if what you want is a faster, cheaper Loom for short clips rather than a different kind of tool.

Descript records your screen and camera, but the reason to choose it is the editor: the video is edited by editing its transcript, with filler-word removal, studio-style sound processing and a growing set of AI tools. It is a full production suite that happens to include a recorder.

It is overkill for a two-minute update, and the free plan watermarks exports and caps you at 720p. If Loom’s editing was the thing you kept running out of, Descript is the direction to look; if you just wanted a link, it is too much tool.

Vidyard is Loom’s neighbour in the sales-video market: record from a Chrome extension, host on Vidyard, and see who watched what. The free plan allows five videos a month, and the paid tiers are aimed at teams that want the video data inside their CRM.

It is not a Mac app in any meaningful sense, and it does not compete on editing or privacy. It is here because if your reason for leaving Loom is that you want deeper sales analytics rather than less cloud, this is the honest answer.