RecordlyPro vs Loom
Loom is the quick async message tool. RecordlyPro is for tutorials you publish.
Loom and RecordlyPro look alike for the first ten seconds: both record your screen from the browser, both give you a link the moment you stop. The difference is what happens between those two moments and what you are trying to make.
Loom is built for the message you send instead of a meeting. You talk over your screen, you share the link, the recipient watches once and replies. Nothing about that workflow asks for zooms, captions in a chosen style or a chapter list, and Loom sensibly does not insist on them. RecordlyPro is built for the video that gets watched hundreds of times: a lesson in a course, an onboarding walkthrough, a help-centre answer. Those videos pay back every second of polish, and RecordlyPro does the polishing without you opening an editor.
Polish
Loom records, lets you trim, edit by transcript, remove filler words and add a background; automatic zoom is on its roadmap but not shipped. RecordlyPro adds auto-zoom on every click, cursor ripples, a padded background and captions by itself, and keeps the editor for when you want to go further.
Captions and chapters
Loom transcribes in its cloud. RecordlyPro runs speech to text on its own server in Frankfurt, picks a caption style from twelve presets and drafts an AI title and chapters from the transcript.
Publishing
Loom gives you a link and an embed. RecordlyPro gives you a link with chapters, transcript search and a lead form, plus publishing to YouTube from the app, with more platforms as each connection is approved, and a blog post or step guide from the same recording.
Where Loom shines
Loom is excellent for a 90-second message to a colleague when no editing is wanted, and its desktop app records outside the browser. If that is most of your recording, Loom is the better fit.
Data
Loom stores recordings in the US. RecordlyPro stores them on its own server in Frankfurt, Germany, under EU data-protection law, and deletes them when you delete the video or your account.
Price
Both have a free plan. Loom’s free plan caps recording length and video count; RecordlyPro’s free plan gives 60 minutes a month with a watermark. RecordlyPro Basic is 16.99 € a month.
Verdict
Choose Loom if most of what you record is a quick message that will be watched once. Choose RecordlyPro if you make tutorials, courses or product walkthroughs that should look edited, carry captions and chapters, and live in the EU. Many teams keep Loom for messages and use RecordlyPro for everything that goes public.
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| RecordlyPro | Loom | Screen Studio | Tella | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs in the browser, nothing to install | Yes | Browser + desktop app | macOS app | Yes |
| Automatic zoom on clicks | Yes, also for whole-screen recordings | Announced, not shipped | Yes | Yes |
| Speech to text on the vendor’s own server | Yes | Cloud API | On device | Cloud API |
| Publish to social platforms from the app | YouTube now; 8 more as approved | No | No | YouTube, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook |
| Vertical clips from the long video | Yes | No | No | Yes (Shorts, Reels) |
| Blog post and step guide from a video | Yes | No | No | No |
| Share page with lead form and analytics | Yes | Analytics, no lead form | Share link | Share page with analytics |
| Data hosted in the EU | Frankfurt, Germany | US | Local file; share links uploaded | US |
| Price for one person | Free plan; Basic 16.99 €/month | Free plan; paid tiers | One-off licence | Free plan; paid tiers |
Based on the vendors’ public documentation as of October 2026. Features and prices change; check before you decide.
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