A free Loom alternative for Mac with no limits

Why people look for Loom alternatives

Loom made async video normal at work: record your screen and face, get a link, paste it into Slack. It’s good at that. People start looking for Loom alternatives for four reasons.

• Pricing. The free Starter plan allows 25 videos per person and 5 minutes per recording, at up to 720p. Removing those limits means a paid seat: Business is $18 per user per month billed monthly.
• Local recording. Loom is cloud-first; your videos live in its workspace. Many people want a file they own and can post anywhere.
• Privacy. Some teams aren’t allowed to upload screen recordings of internal tools or customer data to a third-party cloud.
• Quality and polish. Videos for a website, YouTube or a launch need more than 720p and a raw screen: zooms, a smooth cursor, a clean frame.

How Skrimo works as a Loom alternative on Mac

Skrimo lives in your menu bar, like Loom’s desktop app. Click the icon, choose your screen, a window or an area, switch on your microphone, camera and internal audio, and press Start. Your webcam shows as a round bubble you can drag anywhere while you record.

When you stop, the editor opens with the polish already applied: zooms where you clicked and typed, a smoothed cursor, padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow. Trim the start, cut a mistake, then export MP4 at 1080p or 4K, or a GIF. Upload that file to Slack, Google Drive, Notion, YouTube or your help center, wherever your team already shares things.

Because Skrimo is a mac screen recorder that works entirely on your computer, there’s no account to create, no seats to manage and no video limit.

Best Loom alternatives compared

Skrimo isn’t the only option. Here’s how the main Loom alternatives differ, so you can pick the right one for your team.

• Skrimo (Mac, free): local recordings with automatic zoom, internal audio and 4K export. Best for demos and tutorials you’ll publish.
• Cap (Mac and Windows, open source): the closest to Loom’s instant-share flow, with free local recording and paid cloud. Best if you want share links and open source.
• CleanShot X (Mac, one-time purchase): screenshots plus recordings with computer audio and an optional cloud. Best for screenshot-heavy work.
• Screen Studio (Mac, paid subscription): polished, zoomed recordings with share links. Best if you’ll pay for polish plus links.
• QuickTime (Mac, free): built in, but no internal audio, webcam bubble or sharing.

Free Loom alternatives: what you give up and what you get

Free Loom alternatives usually trade cloud features for freedom. With Skrimo you don’t get a link the moment you stop recording, comments under the video, or a view count. You do get unlimited recordings of any length, higher quality, files you own, and nothing leaving your Mac until you decide to share it.

For many teams the simplest setup is both: keep Loom (or Cap) for quick replies, and use Skrimo for the videos that represent your product in public.

Recording quality: 720p versus 4K

Quality matters more than people expect. A 720p recording of a Retina screen makes interface text soft and small, which is fine for a quick reply to a teammate but not for a product page, a YouTube tutorial or a sales demo. Skrimo records at your display’s full resolution, caps the longest side at 4K so files stay manageable, and exports MP4 at 1080p or 4K.

Automatic zoom helps too: when Skrimo zooms in on the button you clicked, the text in that area is shown at the pixels it was captured at, so it stays sharp even on a phone.

Privacy: where your recordings live

With Loom, recordings are uploaded as you record and stored in Loom’s cloud workspace, which is what makes instant links possible. With Skrimo, recordings are saved as projects in your Movies folder and nothing leaves your Mac unless you export and share it yourself. There’s no account, so there’s no workspace for an admin to audit and nothing to delete when someone leaves the team.

If you record internal dashboards, customer data or unreleased features, keeping the raw recording local is often the simplest way to stay within your company’s rules.

Who should pick which

• Pick Skrimo if you record demos, tutorials, onboarding or launch videos on a Mac and want them polished, private and unlimited.
• Pick Loom if your team lives on share links, comments and view analytics across Mac, Windows and phones.
• Pick Cap if you want a Loom competitor with share links that’s open source and can be self-hosted.
• Pick CleanShot X if screenshots are most of your work and recordings are occasional.

Switching from Loom to Skrimo

1. Download any Loom videos you want to keep from your Loom library.
2. Install Skrimo and allow Screen Recording once in System Settings.
3. Pick a background and style in Settings; every new recording uses it.
4. Record your next update in Skrimo and share the exported MP4 in the channel where you used to paste Loom links.

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