6 Free Loom Alternatives That Don't Watermark (2026)

Loom invented a habit: record your screen, get a link, paste it in Slack. Then the pricing department got involved. In 2026 the free Starter plan sits at 25 videos per person, five minutes per recording, 720p, and the paid seats start at $18 a month, which is a lot of habit tax for a team that records daily. The good news is that the record-and-share loop stopped being special years ago. Below are six free Loom alternatives that don't watermark your video, each checked in August 2026, with the catch on every one stated plainly, starting with ours so you can apply the right skepticism.

1. ClipCraft Screen Recorder

Ours, and built for exactly this migration: it runs in a browser tab, records your screen, window, tab or a cropped region with a camera bubble and mic plus system audio, and the finished take offers both halves of the Loom loop: download the MP4 free, or save it and get a share link at a clean watch page with views and a download button. Links can be public, unlisted or private. Recording quality is 1080p, there's no watermark anywhere, and no five-minute ceiling. I recorded, saved and shared a take while writing this post without leaving the browser; the whole run is the two screenshots below.

The honest catch is storage, because hosted video has to live somewhere. Downloads are unlimited, but saved share links draw from your account's storage: 100 MB on the free plan, which at my test take's rate (423 KB for five seconds of screen content) holds roughly twenty minutes of hosted video; camera-heavy takes run bigger. The $1.99 plan raises it to 2 GB. Compare shapes: Loom counts videos, we count megabytes, and both are honest as long as they're stated. The full tool tour lives in our screen recorder guide.

2. OBS Studio

The free-forever power tool. OBS records anything (multiple monitors, game capture, scene layouts, overlays) at any quality your machine can handle, with no watermark, no caps, and no account, and it's the streaming standard for a reason. What it lacks is the loop: there's no share link, so pair it with YouTube unlisted uploads or a drive folder, and budget an evening for the settings. For daily quick explainers it's overkill; for anything cinematic it's the ceiling.

3. ShareX

Windows-only, open source, and beloved by power users. ShareX started as a screenshot tool and grew screen recording plus an absurd list of upload destinations, so you can wire your own share-link pipeline if you enjoy plumbing. No watermark, no cost, no cap. The catch is that it looks and feels like the engineering tool it is, and the first recording prompts you to fetch its encoder. Tinkerers thrive; everyone else should pick something gentler.

4. Clipchamp

Microsoft's editor ships with Windows and includes a screen-and-camera recorder with free 1080p exports and no watermark. Its superpower is that the recording lands directly in an editor, so trim-title-export is one sitting. The catches: it wants a Microsoft account, the recorder is basic (no region crop, no layered sources), and sharing means exporting a file and putting it somewhere yourself.

5. macOS built-in (Shift-Cmd-5)

Mac people already own a clean screen recorder: the system capture bar records full screen or a selection with no watermark and no time limit, and drops a file on the desktop. AirDrop or iCloud links cover the sharing. It's Mac-only, camera bubbles and mic mixing are on you, and the output is a .mov that some Windows recipients grumble about, but as a zero-install baseline it's honestly good.

6. Xbox Game Bar

The Windows counterpart hiding in plain sight: Win+Alt+R records the active app with system audio, free and unwatermarked. It was built for game clips, so it records one app window at a time (no desktop, no file explorer), and there's no editing or sharing attached. As the "I need this exact window recorded in the next ten seconds" tool, it earns its spot.

Side by side

Which Loom replacement fits you?

If the link-in-Slack loop is the whole point, the browser recorder at the top does it free with layered sources and no caps on recording length, and the take lands one click from an editor and a dead-air cleanup when the explainer runs long. If you record rarely and share by file, your OS already has you covered with Game Bar or Shift-Cmd-5. And if production value is the goal, learn OBS once and never look back. A free account gets the links and the library; recording itself doesn't even need one on the public tool page.