A fair comparison
vidspawn vs Loom
Same job, opposite architecture: Loom keeps your recordings in its cloud, vidspawn keeps them on your disk. Every Loom claim below is sourced from loom.com or a linked public review.
 vidspawn | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| Custody | ||
| Where recordings live | Your disk, plus your own cloud when you share | Loom's cloud |
| Account required | None to record; your own cloud account to share | Loom account |
| Open source | AGPL-3.0, full source | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| A dropped connection mid-take | Harmless: nothing uploads during capture | Cloud-dependent upload and processing |
| Transcription | On-device with whisper, included free | Cloud-side; AI features sit on the $24 tier |
| Agent surface | 35 MCP tools over local HTTP, 6 headless over stdio | None advertised |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | The complete individual product: no caps, no watermarks | 25 videos · 5-minute cap · 720p |
| Team pricing | Teams $12/seat/mo annual, in your company's own cloud (waitlist) | Business $18/user/mo · Business + AI $24/user/mo |
Loom facts fetched from loom.com/pricing on 2026-08-07. If anything here goes stale, open an issue on GitHub and we will fix it.
vidspawn holds the edge Loom holds the edge
From public reviews of other recorders
"The app performance is very poor that i 've to restart my recording alot."
Loom user · Capterra ↗"free version you hit limits fast, and can't really store much before needing to upgrade"
Loom user · Capterra ↗"Currently, I am unable to view or access my past library when logging into my account."
Loom user · Atlassian Community ↗Public reviews by users of other products, quoted verbatim and linked. They describe those products, not vidspawn.
When Loom is the better fit
You need Windows, web or mobile capture today: vidspawn is macOS-only.You want a managed team library right now: vidspawn Teams is a waitlist, not a product yet.You lean on deep Slack, Jira and Salesforce integrations.You want viewer analytics on shared videos.
Same job. Opposite architecture. Your recordings, or theirs.
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