$5/mo
Pro, billed annually
$15/mo
Loom Business, per user
Loom is a polished async-video platform built for large teams on Atlassian. If you mostly want to record something, get a link, and move on, QuickSnip does that for $5 a month with AI transcriptions included and a free tier that isn't capped at 25 videos.
Record on macOS, Windows, or straight from your browser.
What Loom users are actually saying
Verbatim, from r/atlassian and r/SaaS. We didn't write any of this.
80% at renewal — 19↑ · 22 comments
“We also use Loom, and now we will move from 40 USD per month to 72 USD.”
— r/atlassian, "Loom increasing prices nearly a 100%"
They already left — same thread
“We also used loom, are basically off it now”
— r/atlassian
Nobody used it — same thread
“We pushed for Loom and then had essentially zero adoption.”
— r/atlassian
What the recordings look like — 7 comments
“Every time I recorded a Loom to pitch a feature or close a customer, I'd watch it back and cringe. No zoom on the important click. Sensitive data exposed.”
— r/SaaS, "Loom is great. Loom recordings look terrible."
We could keep going. One reply in the same thread puts the whole category in a sentence: "it's not about the recording, it's the hosting and sharing, I still use OBS to record my screen but I upload into loom." Search r/atlassian and r/SaaS for Loom. The threads are easy to find.
Loom bills per user and keeps its best AI on a $20 tier. QuickSnip includes AI on Pro and adds a free plan with unlimited videos.
billed annually · $6 monthly
per user, billed annually · $18 monthly
per user, billed annually · $24 monthly
Loom pricing as of July 2026, from loom.com/pricing: Business is $18/user/mo billed monthly or $15 annually; Business + AI is $24 monthly or $20 annually. QuickSnip Pro is $6 monthly or $5 annually; Team is $10 monthly or $8 annually.
Where the two line up, and where they don't.
| QuickSnip | Loom | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Pro | Team | Starter | Business | Business + AI | |
| Price (billed annually) | $0 | $5/mo | $8/mo | $0 | $15/mo | $20/mo |
| Price at renewal | Flat | Flat | Flat | Increases reported | Increases reported | Increases reported |
| Max resolution | 720p | 4K | 4K | 720p | 4K | 4K |
| Recording length | 5 min | Unlimited | Unlimited | 5 min | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Videos | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | 25 total | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI transcriptions and summaries | Captions only | Yes | Yes | No | Basic transcript | Yes |
| Instant link on stop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Brief wait | Brief wait | Brief wait |
| Offline recording (Studio Mode) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Screenshot capture and annotation | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Password-protected links | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Viewer insights | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Team workspace | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Atlassian, Jira and Confluence | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | Mac, Win, web | Mac, Win, web | Mac, Win, web | Mac, Win, web, ext | Mac, Win, web, ext | Mac, Win, web, ext |
Reflects publicly listed plans as of July 2026. QuickSnip prices billed annually (Pro $6, Team $10 monthly). Loom prices are per user. "Increases reported" is what Loom customers describe at renewal rather than a published rate: r/atlassian users report hikes of up to 80%, one team going from 40 to 72 USD a month.
Their words, with the subreddit named. Go and read the threads.
The price after the acquisition
“we will move from 40 USD per month to 72 USD”
r/atlassian19 upvotes, 22 comments
The thread is titled "Loom increasing prices nearly a 100%". In the same thread another team says they are "basically off it now", and a third says their rollout got "essentially zero adoption". Worth noting the counterargument raised there too: a commenter points out their own plan rose far less, and that Loom has shipped AI features that cost real money to run.
QuickSnip
QuickSnip is $5 a month for Pro, or $6 billed monthly, and there is a free plan that records and shares without a card. What you sign up at is what it stays.
You are paying for the link, not the recorder
“it's not about the recording, it's the hosting and sharing, I still use OBS to record my screen but I upload into loom”
r/atlassiansame thread
This came up when someone argued there are plenty of free ways to record a screen, so Loom does not justify the price. The reply is the sharpest description of the category we have read: recording is free and solved, hosting a link that works is the part people pay for. A founder giving away a free Screen Studio alternative in r/macapps concedes the same thing, that everything is free in his tool except shareable links, "which has server costs".
QuickSnip
That is exactly what QuickSnip is built to be. Record or snap, and the link is on your clipboard before the window closes, at a price that assumes the link is the product.
An honest read, not a sales pitch.
Record, share, and transcribe on the free plan. Upgrade to Pro for 4K and AI when you're ready.