Record your screen and camera across desktop, Chrome, or mobile, and share instantly with a click. Loom transforms video messages and meetings into clear context and next steps for your teammates and AI tools.
Record your screen, a meeting, yourself and now…record for agents. No more typing out prompts to explain what's on your screen to agents. Capture video, audio, and on-screen actions, turning everyday walkthroughs into agent-ready prompts any AI tool can act on. Built natively into the reimagined, faster Loom for Mac app with precision area recording, new cam shapes, filters, backgrounds, and 4K capture by default. Give your AI agents the full picture. Also available in the Chrome extension.
Reviewers mostly see Loom as a simple, effective way to replace meetings, long emails, and vague bug reports with quick walkthrough videos. They repeatedly praise the fast record-and-share flow, link-based sharing, comments, and its usefulness for demos, onboarding, feedback, remote work, and teaching. Founders of products like Fundraisly and MentalHappy say it helps run async demos, testing, and customer interviews across time zones. The main complaints are rising prices, basic editing, buggy or laggy extensions, auto-start annoyances, file issues, and occasional upload or playback problems.
I’m Briana Ings from the Loom team at Atlassian, and we couldn’t be more excited to introduce Record for agents, built directly into our brand new Loom for Mac desktop app!
The Problem: Prompting AI is time consuming & misses the mark AI agents are incredible, but prompting them with text alone can be time consuming. Typing out complex multi-step workflows or comparing Figma specs for a design review can take forever, and key context can easily get lost. When agents miss those visual details, they often build the wrong thing, leaving you stuck re-prompting and redoing the work. Because of this, we found ourselves spending more time typing walls of instructions and taking screenshots than actually getting work done.
Show, Don’t Type: How Record for agents works
Instead of writing endless text prompts, you can simply record your screen and talk through what you want done.
Loom captures your voice, actions, URLs, and key visual moments (using native desktop tools like the Magic pen and Selection tool), then transforms the walkthrough into a clean, structured prompt ready for AI agents like Rovo, Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT to run with.
To power this, we completely rebuilt Loom for Mac for macOS 15+. It’s faster, has an 80% smaller footprint, and brings new camera styles, area-specific recording, teleprompter style Speaker Notes, and so much more.
Record for agents turns spoken intent and on-screen context (clicks, element selections, keyframes, console/network logs, and links) into structured, multimodal instructions for AI agents (Rovo, Claude, Cursor, JCA, etc.).
Where Record for agents shines:
When a task is tedious or slow to explain in text, just hit record:
Slide decks & presentations: Talk through an all-hands or monthly review while pointing to live dashboards and source docs—let your agent draft the slide copy and pull the visuals.
UI tweaks & bug fixes: Point directly to visual bugs, layout quirks, or styling changes so your coding agent knows exactly what to fix without guesswork.
Docs, briefs & summaries: Flip through multiple tabs, project boards, and data sources to generate a structured brief or status report in seconds.
Prototypes & user flows: Walk through a desired user journey across apps to give agents full end-to-end context.
Feature specs & PRDs: Brainstorm and narrate your idea out loud while referencing existing tools to produce a comprehensive spec.
fast performance (5)user-friendly interface (25)time-saving (33)screen and webcam recording (42)asynchronous communication (46)video sharing (35)
Loom replaced about half my meetings. Instead of booking 30 minutes to walk someone through a bug or a design change, I hit record, click through it, and paste the link.
They watch on 1.5x when it suits them, drop a comment on the exact frame, and we're done.
The time-zone tax just disappears.
What needs improvement
expensive pricing (2)limited free version (3)video editing (3)video quality (4)
Pricing has crept up since the Atlassian acquisition and the gap between free and Business is wider than it used to be. Solo founders and small teams feel that.
In-app editing is still basic. Trimming works but anything beyond that moving sections around, cleaning up filler words, tightening pauses sends me back into Descript or CapCut, which defeats the point of recording in Loom in the first place.
Mobile playback can stutter on longer videos over patchy connections. Worth a pass.
Tried Vidyard and CleanShot X's recording mode. Vidyard is fine but the free tier is tight and the player feels heavier.
CleanShot is brilliant for stills and short clips but isn't built for the share-and-comment workflow Loom nails. Stuck with Loom because the share-link experience is still the best in this category.
Atlassian acquired Loom... There were already plenty of issues (unreliable file management, constantly increasing prices, app disconnections), and especially considering the price, I can no longer recommend Loom as I did a few years ago. The shift to AI was an opportunity to add even more fees. I believe we can find better alternatives than this product, which is now a shadow of its former self.
Loom was a game-changer for us when working with multiple agencies spread across different timezones during our projects. Instead of scheduling endless calls or juggling calendars, we recorded clear, concise video updates and walkthroughs that agencies could watch on their own time. This asynchronous communication saved everyone hours and kept feedback loops moving smoothly.
Using Loom allowed us to explain design decisions, demonstrate workflows, and highlight key points visually—something that’s often lost in emails or chat messages.
If you’re managing cross-timezone teams or external partners, Loom is an essential tool to keep communication transparent and efficient without the headache of constant live meetings. (I also love that you get notified when someone watches your video so you have full transparency into how things are moving)
What's great
time-saving (33)remote collaboration (25)screen and webcam recording (42)asynchronous communication (46)video sharing (35)
Hi Product Hunters!
I’m Briana Ings from the Loom team at Atlassian, and we couldn’t be more excited to introduce Record for agents, built directly into our brand new Loom for Mac desktop app!
The Problem: Prompting AI is time consuming & misses the mark
AI agents are incredible, but prompting them with text alone can be time consuming. Typing out complex multi-step workflows or comparing Figma specs for a design review can take forever, and key context can easily get lost. When agents miss those visual details, they often build the wrong thing, leaving you stuck re-prompting and redoing the work. Because of this, we found ourselves spending more time typing walls of instructions and taking screenshots than actually getting work done.
Show, Don’t Type: How Record for agents works
Instead of writing endless text prompts, you can simply record your screen and talk through what you want done.
Loom captures your voice, actions, URLs, and key visual moments (using native desktop tools like the Magic pen and Selection tool), then transforms the walkthrough into a clean, structured prompt ready for AI agents like Rovo, Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT to run with.
To power this, we completely rebuilt Loom for Mac for macOS 15+. It’s faster, has an 80% smaller footprint, and brings new camera styles, area-specific recording, teleprompter style Speaker Notes, and so much more.
Record for agents turns spoken intent and on-screen context (clicks, element selections, keyframes, console/network logs, and links) into structured, multimodal instructions for AI agents (Rovo, Claude, Cursor, JCA, etc.).
Where Record for agents shines:
When a task is tedious or slow to explain in text, just hit record:
Slide decks & presentations: Talk through an all-hands or monthly review while pointing to live dashboards and source docs—let your agent draft the slide copy and pull the visuals.
UI tweaks & bug fixes: Point directly to visual bugs, layout quirks, or styling changes so your coding agent knows exactly what to fix without guesswork.
Docs, briefs & summaries: Flip through multiple tabs, project boards, and data sources to generate a structured brief or status report in seconds.
Prototypes & user flows: Walk through a desired user journey across apps to give agents full end-to-end context.
Feature specs & PRDs: Brainstorm and narrate your idea out loud while referencing existing tools to produce a comprehensive spec.