A roundup, not a sales pitch

Loom alternatives worth your time.

Yes, Rekkko is one of them, and I will tell you where the others are the better answer. Pricing changes constantly, so check each site before you decide.

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Why people go looking

Most people leave Loom for one of three reasons. The free plan stops recording at five minutes, which lands right in the middle of the part that needed explaining. The free library keeps only your most recent 25 videos. Or the install itself is the problem, because a desktop app on a managed work laptop needs approval you are not going to get today.

The good news is that async video is a crowded category now, and several of these tools do one thing better than Loom does. The bad news is that most comparison pages are written by whoever wants your signup. So here is the shape of each one, including the cases where you should not pick mine.

The six, and who each one is for

Ordered by how different they are from Loom, not by which I like most. Pricing is deliberately not quoted here because it moves.

  1. 1

    Rekkko

    Best for: recording something quickly on any laptop, including a locked-down one

    Records in your desktop browser with no app and no extension. No five-minute cap, no library count, a transcript for every recording, and a timeline where you can trim, remove silences and filler words, or cut a section by deleting words from the transcript. Links open for anyone without an account, and you can add a password or an expiry. It is free today. What it does not have: a desktop app, team workspaces with seats and roles, or integrations. Recording needs a desktop browser and each recording caps at 2 GB.

  2. 2

    Tella

    Best for: recordings that need to look designed

    Tella leans into presentation. Backgrounds, layouts, zooms and camera framing are the point, so a product demo or a launch video comes out looking deliberate rather than like a screen share. That polish costs setup time, which is exactly what you do not want when you are answering a question in ninety seconds. If your recordings are shown to customers rather than teammates, this is the one to look at.

    Visit their site
  3. 3

    Screenity

    Best for: a free local recorder with no account at all

    An open source Chrome extension that records and annotates locally. Nothing to sign up for, and the recording stays on your machine, which some people strongly prefer. The flip side is that there is no hosting and no link: you get a file, and sharing it is your problem, whether that means Drive, WeTransfer or an attachment. It also needs the extension installed, which is the thing many work laptops block.

    Visit their site
  4. 4

    Vidyard

    Best for: sales teams who need video inside a CRM

    Built around selling. Viewer tracking, calls to action inside the player, landing pages and CRM integrations are the reason people buy it. If your video is part of a pipeline and someone reports on it, that plumbing is worth paying for. If you just want to explain a bug to a developer, it is a lot of machinery around a ninety-second clip.

    Visit their site
  5. 5

    Claap

    Best for: teams drowning in meetings

    Claap treats video as a team workspace: meeting recordings, notes and async updates living together with comments and search across them. If your problem is that half your calls could have been a video and nobody can find anything afterwards, that is the pitch. If you are one person who needs a link, it is more product than you need.

    Visit their site
  6. 6

    Zight

    Best for: people who mostly need screenshots and only sometimes video

    Formerly CloudApp. Screenshots, annotation, GIFs and screen recording in one desktop tool, with instant uploads and links. If most of your day is marking up screens and the occasional recording, having both in one place is genuinely useful. It is a desktop app, so the install question comes back.

    Visit their site

How to pick without trying all six

Start with the thing that blocks you. If you cannot install software, you are choosing between browser recorders, which rules out the desktop apps and the extension. If your recording is customer-facing, polish wins and Tella is the obvious look. If it needs to sit in a sales pipeline, Vidyard exists for that and nothing here replaces it. If the video is for a colleague and needs to exist in the next two minutes, the fastest recorder wins, and speed is the whole reason Rekkko is plain.

The second question is who watches. Anything that asks the viewer to sign in loses you people, especially clients and candidates. Check that before you commit, because it is the part nobody mentions in a feature table.

Where Rekkko honestly loses

If you want backgrounds, zoom effects and a designed look, Tella is better at that and I am not going to pretend otherwise. If you need seats, admin roles and workspace permissions for a large team, Rekkko does not have them yet. If you want everything to stay on your own machine with no account, Screenity fits that better. If you need CRM tracking, Vidyard is built for it.

Rekkko is for the everyday case: something needs explaining, typing it would take four paragraphs, and you want a link in the chat before you lose the thread. No install, no timer, no cost, and nothing for the other person to sign into.

The honest limits

Better you read this here than find out halfway through a recording.

  • A single recording can be up to 2 GB. Long recordings at high resolution get there faster than you would think.
  • Recording works in desktop browsers only. Phones and tablets can watch, but not record.
  • You need a free account to record. The people you send the link to need nothing at all.
  • Rekkko is free today and I cover the hosting myself, so limits may change as it grows. Nothing gets deleted without telling you.

FAQ

Questions about the alternatives

Which Loom alternative is free?

Rekkko is free to record, share and watch with no card. Screenity is free and open source but records locally, so hosting and sharing are up to you. The others have paid plans, so check their sites for current terms.

Which one works without installing anything?

Rekkko records in a desktop browser with no app and no extension. Screenity needs a Chrome extension, and Zight is a desktop app.

Which has no time limit?

Rekkko has no timer. The practical ceiling is 2 GB per recording. For the others, check the limits on the plan you are on.

Do you quote their prices here?

No, on purpose. Pricing pages change and a stale number is worse than none. Every entry links to the tool so you can read the current terms.

Can viewers watch without an account?

With Rekkko, yes. Anyone with the link can watch in a browser. Other tools vary, so test it with someone outside your team before you rely on it.

Can I move my Loom videos across?

Not automatically with Rekkko. You can download from Loom, keep your existing links working there, and record new ones here.

Is this list ranked?

No. It is ordered by how different each tool is from Loom. The right pick depends on whether your recording is for a colleague, a customer or a CRM.

Compare them one by one

Rekkko vs Tella

A polished studio recorder against a plain one that gets the link out fast.

Rekkko vs Screenity

A free Chrome extension against a browser recorder with hosting and links built in.

Rekkko vs Vidyard

A sales video platform against a simple recorder for everyday explaining.

Rekkko vs Claap

A team workspace for meetings and videos against a single-purpose recorder.

Free Loom alternative

How Rekkko compares to Loom, limit by limit, with no five-minute cap.

Pricing

Why Rekkko is free today, what I pay for, and what would change if that changes.

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