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Verified Free / Business

Is Loom actually free?

Free-ish
How free55/100
Value6/10
How these scores work
Free Score (0–100) follows a fixed rubric: cards up front, auto-billing, hard time cutoffs, withheld core features, and paying with your data or attention all deduct points. 90–100 truly free · 70–89 free forever · 45–69 squeezed · 15–44 trial mechanics · under 15 fake or gone. Value (0–10) is editorial: real-world worth of the free offering measured against its paid equivalent. Full rubric on the methodology page.

Sort of. Free Loom records your screen and camera with one click and hosts the share link — but recordings cap at five minutes and your library holds 25 videos before old ones must go.

What it’s worth

Paid screen recorders and Loom's own tier run $8–15/month; free covers the casual habit.

What you get free

  • One-click screen and camera recording
  • Instant share links, viewable without an account
  • Up to 25 videos in your library
  • 5 minutes per recording

In practice: quick how-to clips and feedback videos work beautifully free; anything resembling a course or archive hits both walls fast.

Drawbacks

  • The 5-minute wall cuts explanations mid-thought
  • The 25-video cap forces regular deleting
  • Videos live on their servers — links die if the account does

Also paywalled

  • Recordings longer than 5 minutes
  • A library beyond 25 videos
  • Editing, transcripts depth, and engagement analytics

Free facts

VerdictFree-ish
Card requiredNo
Auto-bills—
AccountRequired
Limits25-video library, 5-minute recording cap
The real costAn account, a 5-minute clock, and a 25-video shelf.

The catch

Five minutes is the squeeze that teaches concision; twenty-five videos is the shelf that fills. Both limits are placed exactly where a habit becomes dependence — which is, of course, the design.

The smart play

  • Script the first sentence before recording — 5 minutes is enough when you don't ramble
  • Download videos you care about; the 25-slot shelf shouldn't be your only copy
  • For long recordings, free OBS has no time cap — Loom's convenience is what's metered, not the capability

More info — tap to expand

Why the limits sit exactly there
Five minutes covers a quick answer but not a demo; twenty-five videos covers a month of habit but not a library. The free tier is engineered to make Loom your reflex, then charge for the reflex. Knowing that, use it for what it's genuinely great at — fast, disposable clips.
The OBS escape valve
Everything Loom meters — length, storage, ownership — is unmetered in free OBS Studio, at the cost of convenience: you host and share the file yourself. Loom sells the frictionlessness; the recording itself was never the scarce part.

Last checked: August 2026 · Verdict: Free-ish — a free tier exists, but it's shaped to squeeze you toward paying.

Ratings elsewhereG2 4.7/5Live scores from the sources named — not ours. Store counts rounded.

What users actually say

G2 4.7/5 from business users — very highly rated for what it does.

What they praiseReviewers describe it replacing meetings outright: record the screen, send the link, done — with transcripts and viewer notifications that make async work feel accountable.
What they complain aboutThe five-minute recording cap and the 25-video library are the complaints, and they arrive exactly when the habit forms. Since Atlassian's acquisition, reviewers watch the free tier's terms nervously.

Both free limits are placed where dependence begins, which is the design rather than an oversight. Download anything you'd hate to lose — a video library you don't control is not an archive.

Our reading of the public review record — patterns, not quotes. Scores link to their sources above.

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