The Loom alternative that records any meeting with no bot

Loom's free Starter plan caps each screen recording at 5 minutes and keeps up to 25 videos per person, at up to 720p. Longer videos, downloads and removing Loom branding start on the Business plan.

Loom's AI features (auto titles, summaries, chapters and edit by transcript) sit on the Business + AI plan, which Loom lists at $24 per user a month on monthly billing. Loom says annual billing saves up to 17%.

If those limits are why you are looking, Viddy's free plan records without a per-video time limit and includes transcripts, auto titles, the transcript editor and share links.

Viddy records the call on your Mac: your screen, your microphone, and the sound your Mac plays, which includes the other people's voices. Nobody joins the call, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any other meeting app.

For a call, choose Screen (not Window) as the source so the call's sound is in the recording.

Loom's Notetaker takes a different route: a bot joins your scheduled Zoom, Google Meet or Teams meetings from your calendar. If you want an automatic recorder that shows up on its own, Loom does that and Viddy does not.

Whichever you use, tell the other people on the call that you are recording.

Yes. Ask your assistant something like "tighten this demo and cut the pauses" and it proposes cuts, each with a reason. It opens a live page where the cuts appear on the timeline, and you can undo any cut or move its edges.

Nothing changes until you press Apply on that page. You choose to edit the video itself or make a separate copy, and the original recording is kept so Restore original brings it back.

You can also cut by hand in the editor, by selecting words in the transcript or on the timeline, with no AI involved.

Press Cmd+Shift+I to mark an important moment, or Control+N to write a note pinned to that second. The moment is captured when you press the key, not when you finish typing.

Marks and notes show up as dots on the video's timeline, so you and your assistant can jump straight to them.

You ask in Claude, Claude Code or Cursor, not in a chat box inside Viddy. Connect Viddy once from the MCP install page and it works with your own Claude or Cursor account, reading your videos, transcripts, notes and task lists.

Then you ask in plain words, for example "find the demo where I walked through onboarding" or "what did the customer ask for on yesterday's call?". The assistant searches what was said and answers with the video and the second it came up.

Loom also offers this through Atlassian MCP, which needs an Atlassian Cloud site. Viddy's connection needs no Atlassian site.

A connected assistant cannot record, delete or overwrite your videos, and it only sees recordings you own. You can revoke it any time in Settings under Connected apps.

Recordings from the Mac app are transcribed on your own Mac, and the audio is not sent anywhere for transcription. You can also keep a recording only on your Mac, and nothing uploads until you press Upload.

Titles, summaries and task lists are written by Claude from the transcript text only, never the audio or video.

Loom is the better pick if you need any of these today. Viddy does not have them.

Install Viddy, sign in with Google and record your first video. Your link and transcript are ready when you stop.