Communication & CollaborationLoom
Record your screen and face once, skip the meeting entirely.
Loom is an asynchronous video messaging tool that lets anyone on a software team record their screen, camera, or both and share a link instead of scheduling a meeting. It falls in the communication and collaboration category and is used heavily by product managers, engineers, designers, and founders at remote-first and hybrid teams of all sizes. The primary problem Loom solves is meeting overload: when explaining a bug, walking through a design, or giving code review feedback all require a live call, calendars fill up with short synchronization meetings that fragment focus time. Loom replaces those calls with a shareable video that recipients watch on their own schedule. What sets it apart from simple screen recording is its viewer experience: videos are hosted, auto-transcribed, and equipped with comments, emoji reactions, and chapter navigation, making async video feel as interactive as a live conversation.
Loom is used by product managers, engineers, designers, and team leads at remote-first or distributed software teams, typically at companies between 5 and 500 employees. The clearest indicator it is time to adopt Loom is when the team's calendar is full of short synchronization meetings, when written Slack messages consistently lack the context to be actionable, or when cross-time-zone collaboration is causing noticeable delays waiting for the other party to be online.
Free forever for up to 10 users
Subject to partner eligibility criteria. Savings estimates reflect maximum potential value.
Loomin depth.
One-Click Screen and Camera Recording
The Loom desktop app or Chrome extension lets anyone start recording in under five seconds with no encoding or upload step. Engineers can record a bug walkthrough or a code explanation without breaking their flow to open a calendar and find a time that works for four people.
Auto-Generated Transcripts
Every Loom video is automatically transcribed after recording. Recipients can read instead of watching, search across the transcript, and share specific quotes, which is especially useful for international teams working across time zones.
Viewer Comments and Reactions
Viewers can leave timestamped comments, emoji reactions, and @mentions directly on a Loom without needing a Loom account. This creates a feedback thread attached to the exact moment in the video rather than a separate Slack thread that loses context.
Video Editing and Trim
Loom includes basic in-browser editing: trim dead time at the start and end, remove filler moments, and add a call-to-action link. Teams avoid the back-and-forth of re-recording a video just to cut out a 10-second mistake at the beginning.
Workspace Library and Folders
All videos in an organization are stored in a shared workspace with folders and permissions. Product walkthroughs, onboarding videos, and design feedback sessions stay findable rather than disappearing into Slack history.
Loom integrates with Slack, Notion, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Linear, Figma, and Google Workspace, and videos can be embedded anywhere a URL is accepted. In a typical software team stack, Loom sits alongside a project tracker like Jira or Linear and a communication tool like Slack, filling the gap for rich context that text alone cannot carry.
Commonuse cases.
Giving detailed code review feedback without a pair programming call
Reviewers record a Loom walking through a pull request, pointing at specific lines and explaining their reasoning out loud. Authors get richer feedback than a written comment and can re-watch sections they find confusing, all without needing to align calendars.
Walking a client or stakeholder through a new feature before a demo
A product manager records a five-minute Loom of a staging build with narration explaining the intended behavior and open questions. Stakeholders watch it before the review meeting, reducing the time spent on basic orientation and making the live session more productive.
Documenting a bug report with full reproduction steps
A QA engineer or customer success rep records the exact steps to reproduce a bug, including the browser console output and network tab, and drops the link into a Jira ticket. Engineers reproduce the issue in minutes instead of spending three back-and-forth messages trying to understand what happened.
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Once approved by the partner, credits are deployed to your account. Timelines vary by partner.
BearPlex maintains partnerships with leading technology providers to facilitate access to exclusive programs for our clients. All offers are subject to each partner's independent eligibility requirements, approval processes, and terms of service. Savings figures represent maximum potential value and may vary based on qualification, usage, and partner-specific criteria. BearPlex acts as a facilitation partner and does not guarantee approval or specific credit amounts. Offer availability and terms may change at the partner's discretion.
