Best Loom Alternatives in 2026: 10 Async Video Tools for Teams That Communicate Visually

Loom popularized a simple idea: instead of writing a long Slack message or scheduling a 30-minute meeting, you record a quick screen video and send the link. That idea worked. Millions of teams adopted it, and Loom became the default shorthand for async video communication.

Then Atlassian bought it. And things got complicated.

The Business plan jumped to $12.50 per seat per month. AI features (transcription editing, filler word removal, auto-chapters) moved behind higher-tier paywalls. The free tier now caps storage at 25 videos. Teams using Loom for customer-facing content, sales demos, or large-scale async comms started hitting limits they hadn't planned for. And with Loom's roadmap now subject to Atlassian's broader enterprise priorities, smaller teams are asking a fair question: is there something better suited to how we actually work?

This guide covers 10 honest alternatives. Each one takes a different angle on async video: some lean into sales, some into education, some into pure simplicity. The right pick depends on your team size, use case, and how much you're willing to pay.

If your team is also reconsidering its broader visual communication stack, the best Canva alternatives guide covers design and content creation tools that often pair with async video for sales and marketing teams. For collaborative whiteboarding alongside async updates, see best Miro alternatives.

Quick Comparison Table

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Why Teams Are Leaving Loom in 2026

Before getting into alternatives, it helps to name what specifically has changed.

The broader question of meeting culture matters here too. If your team is switching to async video because you want fewer meetings, the meeting audit guide covers how to systematically identify which meetings should become async updates.

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Stage Fit Matrix

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Sizing and Persona Table

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1. Vidyard: Sales-First Video with Deep Analytics

Vidyard's philosophy is that video shouldn't just communicate. It should sell. Where Loom built a general-purpose async tool, Vidyard built specifically around the sales workflow: send a personalized video to a prospect, see exactly when they watched it and how long they stayed, trigger a follow-up based on engagement data.

That sales-native angle shapes everything. Vidyard integrates directly with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, and Salesloft. You can embed video in email sequences, track view analytics per recipient, and route hot prospects to your CRM automatically. The free tier includes unlimited video recording, which is generous. The paid tiers unlock analytics depth, team sharing libraries, and the AI script assistant.

For internal async comms (the thing most teams use Loom for), Vidyard works fine but feels over-engineered. You don't need per-viewer analytics to share a product update with your team. But if your primary use case is sales prospecting or customer success outreach, Vidyard is the strongest tool in this list.

Pricing: Free tier (unlimited videos, basic analytics); Pro at $19/mo per user; Teams pricing on request. See Vidyard pricing for current plans.

Best for: Sales teams doing outbound prospecting and customer-facing video at scale

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2. Berrycast: Clean Async Updates for Small Teams

Berrycast takes the opposite approach from Vidyard. It's designed for simplicity: record, annotate on-screen while you talk, share a link. No dashboard to configure, no integrations to wire up, no feature bloat to navigate around.

The standout feature is live annotation. While recording, you can draw directly on your screen: circle an element, highlight a number, sketch a flow — all without stopping the recording or switching tools. For design reviews, budget walkthroughs, or any situation where you're pointing at specific items on screen, it makes the video significantly more useful than a plain recording.

Berrycast sits comfortably in the 1-to-30-person range. It's used by consultants, small agencies, and internal ops teams who want something lighter than Loom but more polished than a raw QuickTime file. The free tier is functional. The paid tier adds longer recording limits and team management.

Pricing: Free tier; paid plans from $10/seat/month. See Berrycast pricing for current options.

Best for: Small teams, consultants, and agencies doing design feedback and internal async updates

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3. Tella: Polished Product Videos Without a Video Editor

Tella's philosophy is that your recordings should look as good as your product. While most screen recorders capture raw footage and call it done, Tella adds a production layer: custom backgrounds, branded layouts, animated transitions between scenes, and a post-recording editor that lets you restructure the video without reshooting.

The result is recordings that look like they were made by someone who knows video, even if you've never touched an editing timeline. That makes Tella the strongest option in this list for product demos sent to prospects, feature walkthroughs shared with customers, and tutorial content that will be watched by more than just your internal team.

The ICP is product managers, designers, and founders who want customer-facing recordings to represent the quality of what they've built. It's not the fastest tool for quick internal updates — the production layer adds friction if you just want to fire off a 2-minute team message.

Pricing: Free tier (limited storage); Pro at $19/month; Business at $45/month. See Tella pricing for current plans.

Best for: Founders, product managers, and designers creating customer-facing demo and tutorial content

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4. Screenpal: Budget-First Screen Recording with Real Editing

Screenpal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic) has been around longer than most tools in this list. It's not the sleekest product, but it covers more ground for less money than any alternative here: screen recording, webcam recording, video editing, a stock library, and cloud hosting, all in one plan that starts at $4 per month.

The editing tools are the headline. Unlike Loom and most async-focused tools, Screenpal gives you a real timeline editor: cut, splice, add captions, insert images, layer in music, apply blur to sensitive content. For L&D teams, trainers, and educators building course content, this matters. You don't want to pay for a separate video editor when the recorder already has one built in.

The UI is dated by 2026 standards. The UX doesn't feel as fluid as Tella or Berrycast. But at $4/month for the Deluxe plan, it's hard to argue with the value — especially for teams where cost is a real constraint.

Pricing: Free tier; Deluxe at $4/mo; Business plans from $10/seat/mo. See Screenpal pricing for current options.

Best for: Budget-conscious teams, L&D managers, and educators who need real editing without a separate tool

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5. Zight: One Tool for Screenshots, GIFs, and Screen Video

Zight (formerly CloudApp) handles all visual communication, not just video. You can capture a screenshot, annotate it, and share a link in under 10 seconds. Or record a short GIF for a quick how-to. Or make a full video with audio. Everything goes to one link, one library, one team account.

That breadth is the point. Many teams use three separate tools (a screenshot tool, a GIF maker, a screen recorder) when Zight does all three. For customer support teams, designers giving feedback, or ops managers documenting processes, collapsing that stack into one tool has a real workflow payoff.

Video-specific features are less mature than dedicated recorders like Tella or Berrycast. If video is your primary use case, you'll notice the gap. But if you want a single visual communication tool that covers most daily needs without switching apps, Zight is the strongest consolidator in this list.

Pricing: Free tier (limited uploads); Pro at $9.95/mo; Team plans from $8/seat/mo. See Zight pricing for current plans.

Best for: Support teams, designers, and ops managers who share screenshots and short clips more often than long recordings

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6. Komodo Decks: Screen Recording That Organizes Into Decks

Komodo Decks rethinks the output format. Where every other tool in this list produces a video file and a share link, Komodo produces a "deck": a structured document where screen recordings, slides, and camera footage are organized into navigable sections. Viewers don't just watch — they skip to the relevant section, leave timestamped comments, and follow the content at their own pace.

That structure matters for onboarding, enablement, and knowledge base content: the kind of material that gets recorded once and watched repeatedly. A new hire watching a 40-minute product onboarding deck can skip to the sections relevant to their role. A CS team watching a feature walkthrough can jump to the integration section. It's a better format than a flat video file for anything meant to be reused.

Komodo is an early-stage product by 2026 standards. The integrations are thinner than established tools and the feature roadmap is still catching up. But for teams building internal knowledge libraries, it's a genuine category innovation.

Pricing: Free tier; paid plans from $8/seat/mo. See Komodo Decks pricing for current options.

Best for: Ops teams, CS enablement, and people ops building reusable onboarding and training libraries

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7. Sendspark: Personalized Video at Scale for Customer-Facing Teams

Sendspark is built for one specific use case: sending personalized videos to customers and prospects at scale. Not recording a quick team update, not building a training library. Sending a video to a prospect where the opening screen shows their name and company logo, without recording a separate video for each person.

The merge variable feature is the differentiator. You record one base video and Sendspark dynamically inserts personalized intro frames, pulling the recipient's name and company from your CRM — so each viewer sees a video that feels made just for them. This is used by sales teams for cold outreach, CS teams for onboarding, and marketing teams for account-based campaigns.

For internal async communication, Sendspark is the wrong tool. There's no team messaging focus, no internal library, no annotation layer for feedback. But for any team doing customer-facing video at scale, it's the most purpose-built option here.

Pricing: Free tier (limited videos); Growth at $15/mo; Scale plans for larger teams. See Sendspark pricing for current plans.

Best for: SDR and AE teams doing outbound prospecting, CS teams running personalized onboarding at scale

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8. Mmhmm: The Most Creative Presentation Layer in Async Video

Mmhmm is harder to categorize than every other tool here. It's part virtual background tool, part presentation software, part async recorder. The core idea is that the presenter shouldn't be a small floating head in the corner. They should be integrated into the content, appearing inside slides, behind data visualizations, or against animated virtual stages.

That visual-first philosophy makes Mmhmm the strongest option for anyone who presents regularly and wants their recordings to be genuinely engaging rather than just informative. Founders doing investor updates, trainers running courses, marketers making campaign explanations: the production quality difference over a plain screen recorder is significant.

But Mmhmm's UX is genuinely polarizing. Teams that want a tool where you open it, press record, and send a link often find the setup and customization layer to be more work than the communication problem it's solving. It's a tool for people who care about their presentation style, not for teams that just need fast async updates.

Pricing: Free tier; Individual at $10/mo; Business pricing on request. See Mmhmm pricing for current plans.

Best for: Founders, trainers, and marketers who present regularly and care about visual production quality

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9. Vimeo Record: Backed by Mature Video Hosting

Vimeo is the most established name in professional video hosting. Vimeo Record is their screen recording extension, built on top of that hosting infrastructure, giving you the clean Vimeo player, the reliable CDN, and the access controls that Vimeo has spent years refining.

For teams already paying for Vimeo for marketing video, product videos, or customer-facing content, Record is a natural add-on. The recordings look great in the player, the privacy controls are flexible, and you get basic viewer analytics without adding another tool to the stack.

The core limitation is focus. Vimeo's primary business is video hosting, not screen recording. Record is a feature, not a product. The recording UX is less polished than dedicated tools like Tella or Berrycast, editing is minimal, and the async communication workflow doesn't have the quick-share speed of newer tools. But if your team is video-forward and already in the Vimeo ecosystem, it's worth evaluating before paying for a separate tool.

Pricing: Free tier (limited storage); Standard at $20/mo; Advanced plans for larger orgs. See Vimeo pricing for current plans.

Best for: Video-forward marketing and content teams already on Vimeo who want to unify hosting and recording

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10. OBS Studio: The Free Open-Source Option With No Limits

OBS Studio is the standard for anyone who wants total control over their recording setup and doesn't want to pay for it. It's free, open-source, and used by everyone from streamers to broadcast professionals to individual content creators.

OBS records video in any format, at any resolution, from any combination of sources: screen, webcam, external camera, audio input, browser window. You can layer multiple sources, add scenes, switch between layouts mid-recording, and export to any format you need. There are no storage limits, no paywalls, no seats. If you can configure it, you can do it.

The configuration requirement is exactly the catch. OBS has no hand-holding. Initial setup for a first-time user takes real time. There's no share link workflow — you export a file and send it yourself. There's no team library, no viewer analytics, no CRM integration. OBS is the right answer for a technically confident individual who wants unlimited capability at zero cost. It's the wrong answer for a team that needs a shared workflow and a fast share link.

Pricing: Free (open source). Download at obsproject.com.

Best for: Individual power users, developers, and content creators who want unlimited capability and are comfortable with configuration

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How to Choose: Decision Framework

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Feature Coverage by Use Case

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Pricing Comparison

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Integration Ecosystem

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What to Do Next

Run a 2-week pilot with your top two picks before committing to any annual plan. If sales video is your primary use case, it's worth reading about best Typeform alternatives too — many sales teams use video alongside conversational forms to increase lead qualification rates.

Most tools in this list have free tiers that are functional enough for a real evaluation. Pick the two that match your primary use case from the decision framework above, run them alongside each other for two weeks, using actual workflows and real content. You'll know quickly which one your team actually reaches for, and which one sits unused.

If your main use case is sales, start with Vidyard. If it's internal async, start with Berrycast or Komodo Decks. If you're building customer-facing content, Tella is worth 10 minutes of setup time to see what the output looks like. And if budget is the actual constraint, Screenpal at $4/month or OBS at $0 will get the job done.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Loom still worth using in 2026? For many teams, yes — especially if you're already integrated into the Atlassian ecosystem. The product still works well for quick async updates. The case for switching is strongest if you're on the free tier hitting the 25-video cap, if you need AI features without paying Business pricing, or if your primary use case is sales or customer-facing video where specialist tools like Vidyard or Sendspark add meaningful value.

Which Loom alternative is best for sales teams? Vidyard is the strongest sales-specific option. It has the deepest CRM integrations, per-viewer analytics, and a free tier that includes unlimited video recording. Sendspark is the better choice if personalization at scale (sending videos where each prospect sees their own name and company) is the core use case.

What's the best free Loom alternative? Vidyard offers the most generous free tier (unlimited video recording). OBS Studio is free with no limits but requires setup effort. Screenpal, Zight, Berrycast, and most others offer functional free tiers with storage or feature restrictions.

Which alternative is easiest to set up for a non-technical team? Berrycast and Tella have the fastest onboarding. Both can be used within minutes of installing the extension. Screenpal and Zight are also straightforward. OBS Studio is the hardest to set up and is not recommended for teams without a technical owner.