Loom

Loom is an async video messaging tool that lets you record your screen and camera in seconds and share the result as a link anyone can watch on their own time. It was built around a simple insight about modern work: an enormous number of meetings and long back-and-forth message threads exist only because something is easier to show than to type. Loom replaces those with a quick recorded video — you talk through the screen, point at what matters, and send a link — capturing tone, context, and visual detail that text loses, without forcing everyone onto a call at the same moment.

The magic is in the speed and the receiving experience. Recording is one click; when you stop, the video is instantly processed and the shareable link is already on your clipboard. Viewers can watch at their own pace, speed it up, comment at specific timestamps, and react — turning a monologue into a lightweight conversation. Loom automatically transcribes videos and can generate summaries and chapters, so recipients can skim or jump to the part they need. For teams, it integrates with the tools where work already happens, so a Loom can live inside a ticket, a doc, a pull request, or a message thread.

Loom is a favourite of remote and distributed teams, but its uses are everywhere: walking a colleague through a bug, giving design feedback, onboarding a new hire, recording a product demo, answering a customer's question, or explaining a process once instead of repeating it ten times. The deeper payoff is cultural — it lets teams shift from synchronous, calendar-clogging communication to thoughtful async updates, reclaiming focus time and respecting people across time zones. For anyone who has ever thought "this would take three paragraphs to write but thirty seconds to show," Loom is the tool that makes showing the default.