A Loom alternative
Cropped records your screen, cuts the pauses and ums, adds captions and sends a link people can comment on. It does what Loom does for one person, plus a real editor, for less than two months of Loom Business.
Try everything free for 14 days
Core: $24.99 once, yours for life
Mac, Windows and Linux (Beta)
No length limit on recordings
The short answer
Is Cropped a good Loom alternative?
Yes, if you record screen videos yourself and want to edit them before you send them. Cropped records with no length limit, cuts filler words and pauses, makes captions on your computer and shares links people comment on without an account. Loom is still better for teams that live in Jira and Confluence.
record
01
Record
Record
Pick an area or a window and record at 30 or 60 fps, or 120 on a 120 Hz screen, with computer sound, your microphone or both. Pause, restart or discard without starting over, and nothing is uploaded until you choose to share.
Zoom on clicks, made while you record
No 5-minute cap
Cropped doesn’t limit how long a recording can be, on any plan.
Zoom on clicks
Each click zooms in smoothly, and you can move, change or turn off every zoom afterward.
Your camera too
Add a camera bubble to the recording, on Mac for now.
edit
02
Edit
Edit
Jump Cuts finds pauses, restarted takes, filler words and distorted sound in a talking video, and you check every cut before it’s applied. Captions are made on your computer from what you said, and cutting a caption cuts that part of the video.
Jump Cuts on a 55-second walkthrough
Jump Cuts, in Pro
Loom keeps filler-word and silence removal on Business + AI. In Cropped it’s part of Pro, at $24.99 a year.
A bloopers reel
Everything Jump Cuts took out can become its own video.
A real timeline
Join clips and pictures, trim, add music and a recorded voiceover with Pro.
share
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Share
Share
With Pro, Share link uploads the video to Cropped storage and copies the link at once. Viewers open it in any browser with no account and leave a comment, a to-do or a question on the exact moment, and you get an email when they do.
Pins and to-dos on a cropped.pro link
No viewer accounts
Anyone with the link can watch and comment.
Links that expire
Links last 30 days, or as long as you choose, so old videos don’t pile up.
20 GB included
Cropped storage comes with Pro, so there’s nothing to set up.
compare
Cropped and Loom
What each one does for a person recording screen videos, as of November 2026.
Loom
Record
Longest recording on the cheapest plan
No limit
5 minutes on Starter
Record
Recording quality
Up to 120 fps on 120 Hz screens
720p on Starter
Record
Camera bubble
Yes, on Mac
Yes
Record
Records in the browser with nothing to install
No, it’s a desktop app
Yes, Chrome extension
Record
Zoom on clicks
Yes
No
Edit
Cut pauses and filler words
Yes
Business + AI only
Edit
Captions
Yes, made on your computer
Yes
Edit
Timeline with music and voiceover
Yes
Trim and stitch
Edit
Screenshots with arrows, steps and blur
Yes, full Annotate tools
Basic screenshots
Edit
Shrink images, videos and PDFs
Yes
No
Share
Comments on a moment, no viewer account
Yes
Yes
Share
Viewer analytics
View counts
Detailed viewer insights
Share
AI summaries and chapters
No
Business + AI
Share
Jira and Confluence
No
Yes
Price
Price model
Core once, Pro yearly or monthly
Monthly or yearly per person
https://www.loom.com/pricing
2026-11-01
What it costs
Loom charges per person, every month. Cropped Core is paid once, and Pro adds share links and the editing tools for $24.99 a year. Pick a team size and see what it adds up to.
Loom
Business
0
216
$18 a person a month, billed monthly
Business + AI
0
288
$24 a person a month, billed monthly
Loom says yearly billing saves up to 17%.
https://www.loom.com/pricing
2026-11-01
Fair is fair
Your team lives in Atlassian.
Loom is part of Atlassian, with Jira and Confluence built in, and admin controls for big teams.
You want to record from a browser tab.
Loom’s Chrome extension needs no install. Cropped is a desktop app.
You need viewer analytics and AI notes.
Loom shows who watched and for how long, and writes summaries and chapters on Business + AI.
Switching
Is there a time limit on Cropped recordings?
No. Cropped doesn’t limit how long a recording can be, on any plan. Loom’s free Starter plan stops at 5 minutes and 25 videos per person.
Do viewers need an account to watch or comment?
No. Anyone can open a Cropped share link in a browser and leave a comment, a to-do or a question pinned to a moment in the video. Share links are part of Pro.
Can I keep my Loom videos?
Yes. Download them from Loom with its Download button and they’re ordinary MP4 files you can trim, caption and share again from Cropped.
Does Cropped work on Windows and Linux?
Cropped runs on Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 14 or later), 64-bit Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 or later with GNOME (Linux is in Beta). One license covers all three. A few things are Mac only for now, like the camera bubble, Webpage only and Smooth Scroll. See every difference.
What’s in Core and what’s in Pro?
Core is $24.99 once: capture, Annotate, recording, trimming, zoom on clicks and optimizing images, videos and PDFs, with every Core update for life on up to five computers. Pro is $24.99 a year or $3.99 a month and adds Jump Cuts, captions, the timeline editor, guides, background removal and share links with comments and 20 GB of Cropped storage.
Every Core and Pro tool, with no signup or card. Then keep Cropped Core for $24.99 once, and add Pro whenever you want it.
Loom is a trademark of its owner. Cropped isn’t affiliated with Loom, and we use the name only to compare the two products. Atlassian and Jira are trademarks of Atlassian. Facts about Loom were checked on its own site on November 1, 2026; tell us at support if something has changed.