Press record, send the link, keep the file.
Spool turns your screen and camera into a shareable link in seconds — while the full-quality original stays on your machine. Unlimited free recordings. Viewers free forever. No take ever lost to a failed upload.
Show, don't type
Four reasons teams are switching their screen recordings to Spool.
Link-in-their-Slack in seconds
Hit record, talk through your screen, hit stop. The link is on your clipboard the moment you finish — paste it into Slack, a PR, a ticket, an email. No exports, no render bars, no "processing your video…" purgatory.
Wi-Fi died at minute nine? You lost nothing.
Cloud-first recorders stream your take to their servers while you talk — drop the connection and the take drops with it. Spool records to your device first, always. Even a browser crash can't eat your recording: we restore it on your next visit.
No caps, no watermark, no seat games.
No 25-video cap and no watermark on any plan — recording is unlimited, and anyone can watch without creating an account. Self-host it and it is free outright. We charge for the hosted service, never for the act of watching.
Your recordings are files, not hostages
Every recording exists on your machine before it exists anywhere else. Download is always free. Teams that need more control can self-host Spool entirely — your storage, your domain, your rules.
One plan. Every feature. Viewers always free.
No tier ladder, no AI upsell, no feature held back to sell you the next plan up. Creators on paid teams cost money. Watching is free, forever, for everyone.
- Everything, always: recording, AI editor, captions, sharing
- 14-day trial of the full product — no watermarks, no caps
- Viewers free forever, in writing
- Self-host it instead, if you would rather
The Viewer Guarantee — viewers are free forever. In writing.
A person who watches, comments, or reacts will never appear on your invoice, never need a license, and never be auto-upgraded into a paid seat. Teams on other tools have opened invoices to find their viewers converted into paid seats after a billing-system change. That business model needs a name in the contract, so here it is — the Viewer Guarantee, part of our terms, not our marketing.
Loom asked you to trust the cloud. Spool hands you the file.
Loom defined async video, and it's still a good product. But its free tier caps you at 25 videos of 5 minutes, Business runs $18–24/user/month, and billing changes have converted free seats into paid ones. Spool was built for the people who loved the idea and got tired of the terms.
| Spool | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| Free recordings | Unlimited | 25 videos, 5 min each |
| Viewers | Free forever — guaranteed in our terms | Seat model; free seats have been auto-upgraded to paid |
| If upload fails mid-recording | Take is safe on your device; syncs later | Cloud-first; interrupted uploads can mean lost takes |
| Your originals | Files on your machine, always | In Atlassian's cloud |
| Self-hosting | Yes | No |
| Paid team price | $7/creator/mo yearly — viewers never count | $18–24/user/mo |
Sourced from loom.com/pricing and atlassian.com/software/loom/pricing, July 2026. Tell us if anything's out of date — we'll fix it within a day.
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