Spake and Loom

If the recording is for someone else to watch, use Loom. It makes a link, the other person clicks it, and it plays in a browser. Spake has no links and hosts nothing.¹

Updated 13 November 2026
Sources, with the day each was read

What Spake is for

The other kind of recording: the one that's for you, or for your files. The bug you talked through, the review you did out loud, the thing you were explaining to yourself.

Side by side

Compared	Loom	Spake
Where the recording lives	Loom's servers, in your account¹	A folder on your Mac
Account	Required¹	None
Transcript	Beside the hosted video¹	`note.md`, Markdown, next to the video
Text that was on screen	Not described on Loom's pricing page¹	Recognized and searchable
Share link	Yes¹	No
Price	Starter $0 (25 recordings, 5 minutes each); Business $18 per user per month; Business + AI $24¹Checked on 13 November 2026	$29 once, up to 3 Macs
Platforms	Mac, Windows, Chrome extension, iPhone and Android²	Mac only (Apple silicon, macOS 15+)

For agents

Loom has Record for agent: it turns a recording into a prompt for an AI agent, kept in your Loom account, and Loom offers MCP tools. Spake keeps the recording, transcript and screen text as files on your Mac, and an agent reads those directly, or through the spake command, which answers in JSON.³

What you give up with Spake

A link. Comments from viewers. View counts. Recording on Windows or a phone. If any of those is the point, Loom is the better tool for it.^1,2

What you get

A note per recording, in a folder you choose, that opens without Spake: Markdown, WAV, MP4, captions, and stills with the text recognized on them. Transcribed on the Mac in 100 languages. Recordings never leave your Mac.

Try it

$29 once, up to 3 Macs. 14-day trial with everything on. 30-day refunds. Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later.

Download for Mac More about Spake

What a note is on disk: the note format. What Spake sends over the network, and when: privacy.

Sources

Facts about other products, and the day each was read.

Loom. Plans are per user: Starter $0 (25 recordings, 5 minutes each), Business $18 and Business + AI $24 per user per month. Recordings are hosted in a Loom account. The page does not describe searching on-screen text.
atlassian.com/software/loom/pricing · Read 13 November 2026
Loom. Records on macOS, Windows and Chrome, with apps for iOS 15 and later and Android 8.0 and later.
atlassian.com/software/loom/screen-recorder · atlassian.com/software/loom/download · Read 13 November 2026
Loom. Record for agent (desktop 2.0 and later, Chrome extension) turns a recording into a prompt for an AI agent; Loom offers MCP tools.
atlassian.com/software/loom/agents · Read 12 November 2026