About Loom
Loom made recording a quick screen video as easy as sending a message. You click record, talk over your screen and camera, and get a link as soon as you stop. Viewers can comment and react with emoji, and Loom notifies you when someone watches. It is built for asynchronous work: updates, bug reports, walkthroughs and feedback that would otherwise take a meeting.
Atlassian bought Loom, completing the deal in late November 2023, and its integrations show it: Slack, Jira, Confluence, GitHub and Gmail. The Chrome extension runs on Manifest V3 and was updated in October 2026. The free Starter plan allows up to 25 videos of five minutes each, at up to 720p, and paid plans lift those limits.
The trade-offs are real. Videos are saved automatically to Loom's cloud, so this is not a local-first tool. The Chrome listing discloses collecting personal, financial, authentication, location and activity data, and the extension requests access to all sites plus scripts on several workplace tools. Its Chrome rating is a low 2.7. It suits teams already in Atlassian's world. If you want files to stay on your own device, choose Screenity.
Pros and cons
- Record screen and camera, then share a link at once
- Comments, emoji reactions and viewer notifications
- Slack, Jira, GitHub and Gmail integrations
- Widely used and actively updated
- Chrome rating is only 2.7 from about 10,000 ratings
- Free plan: 25 videos, five minutes each
- Videos are saved to Loom's cloud, and permissions are broad
Permissions
It asks for access to all websites, tab and desktop capture, cookies, web requests and system information, so it can record and show its controls. It also runs scripts on a list of workplace sites such as Gmail, Slack and Notion.
