Hi Product Hunt!
Shahed from Loom here. 👋
Today, we're excited to unveil Loom for Desktop, the world’s most powerful video recorder, now on both Mac & Windows.
Loom is a new kind of work communication tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable video.
With Loom, you can capture your screen, record your front-facing camera, and narrate your video all at once — no switching apps or upload required. Whether it’s training new teammates or replying to a customer inquiry, Loom enhances the way people communicate at work by allowing them to send the next best thing to being there.
What's included in Loom Desktop:
- HD Recordings
- Click Highlighting
- Drawing Tool
- Record Custom Dimensions
- Capture Internal Audio
- & many more surprises!
Sign up to get early access. We're rolling out invites starting today 😎🚀
@_shahedk Congrats! Are you doing anything special for the PH community with this launch? Just signed up and there are over 24,000 people ahead of me. At what point can people expect to get access?
@_shahedk@abadesi Great question! I'm stepping in here while Shahed gets some rest back in SF. We 💖 the PH community and will for sure take that into consideration when giving access to the app in the coming weeks 😇
@_shahedk Heyo 👋 just wondering if there is any update on when this is rolling out more broadly? I'm number 26k 💔 I use Loom daily and I'm so stoked for the desktop version
I do site development meaning I design sewers and set the finished grade. Sometimes the client wants to see what things will look like as we’re working. Autocad doesn’t allow you to export your object viewer (where you see things in 3D) so we used to export to sketch-up and it took hours to tinker and get things to look how they did before exporting. We rarely did it because of how long it took. Now we do it often to show clients that want to be more involved in the design but cant visualize what we put in paper as well. Slowly becoming a powerful tool to help us serve our clients.
Before Loom, sharing a video of a product bug was a daunting tasks. You would need to either use Quicktime on Mac or some other complicated software to record your screen (maybe if your lucky the audio would work) and that would give you a big old 500+ MB video file for a decent sized video. At this point you lose faith since you need to share this and it's not getting any smaller even if you try all the compression tricks. You end up uploading it for a half hour to G Drive and send a link to your co-worker... Now you can literally click the Chrome extension, click start, record and then share. DONE.
Pros:
It just works and the sharing and commenting functionalities are flawless.
Cons:
Sometimes there are bugs when recording on Chrome but this might have been resolved with the new releases.
@shreyaa_ratra At this stage, loom is currently a free to use product, in the near future we will be presenting premium features. Feel free to send me a message and we can chat!
this is what i asked Santa for, I guess I'll need to ask for a new Christmas present!
absolutely love Loom. have used it to walk Commaful users through so many things and show little tricks. I've used Loom to give instructions to people, demo things, and show bugs. It's incredible and the desktop version will make this even easier
@susanacigano@vhmth I am no developer. Been on Linux as desktop since 2002 & nearly tried all :) Now on Elementary OS as it just works. Currently on Juno (based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
Looks amazing! I've been using CloudApp for their desktop client and am looking forward to making the full switch over to Loom once this is rolled out 👍🏼
@michael_copley Thanks for the support! So happy to hear you're thinking of making the switch. Is there anything in particular about the Desktop App for Loom that you're looking forward to, so much so that you're thinking about moving away from CloupApp? Always curious to learn!
@ian_russell I've just worked with CloudApp for a bit and they always seem to upload incomplete recordings, especially when they get above a couple minutes. I haven't run into that issue yet with Loom.
i.e. - I recorded a walkthrough of our codebase that was 18 minutes long and CloudApp only uploaded ~16. It's almost unusable because it misses so much information.
I use Loom most days for bug reporting. Super super useful and much easier than writing out trying to explain a bug. Just video, link, bam, engineers understand the bug exactly.
@productpearson so awesome to hear your workflow. Its such an incredible time saver for bug reporting. Not to mention clarity of communication when you're replicating the bug! Do you use Loom mostly for reporting or do you use it for anything else? Always curious to learn more :)
@ian_russell At the moment I am only using it for bug reporting, but I am planning to use it to demo new products and features we have launched to staff so they fully understand how it works.
Wow, this is actually...freaking amazing. I have been looking for something like this to help me during my design breakdown process in front of my client! I wish this can be used in more places, especially in the business where explanation is mandatory. 10/10!
@joshua_yap so happy Loom crossed paths with you! Loom can definitely be used in multiple places as you mention. Lots of users are exploring all kinds of use cases for loom, everything from team training, to product updates, sales demos, internal team communication (especially when your team is distributed across time zones). The use cases are really limitless in the workplace.
I'm curious to know more about how you envision using it outside of design breakdown. Would your team be interested in using it as well?
@chrisbuttenham@ian_russell Hi Ian Russell how are you today? You want to hire Customer Success Manager? I live in France just please let me know if you are interested
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What to tell about this product, which is self-explanatory the world's most powerful video recorder. :)
Pros:Have greater control over what you can record in HD
Cons:No regret for using this product. No cons.
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I do site development meaning I design sewers and set the finished grade. Sometimes the client wants to see what things will look like as we’re working. Autocad doesn’t allow you to export your object viewer (where you see things in 3D) so we used to export to sketch-up and it took hours to tinker and get things to look how they did before exporting. We rarely did it because of how long it took. Now we do it often to show clients that want to be more involved in the design but cant visualize what we put in paper as well. Slowly becoming a powerful tool to help us serve our clients.
Pros:Sleek & bloody easy to use
Cons:No outlook integration
I love loom. I have used Quicktime to record my screen for years, but the whole post production to upload to dropbox to share was a hassle.
Loom has saved me time and with its' comments and notification when someone has watched my video is a fantastic add on
I love Loom
Pros:Fantastic way to record my screen and share
Cons:That it has taken this long to get to a desktop app =)
Before Loom, sharing a video of a product bug was a daunting tasks. You would need to either use Quicktime on Mac or some other complicated software to record your screen (maybe if your lucky the audio would work) and that would give you a big old 500+ MB video file for a decent sized video. At this point you lose faith since you need to share this and it's not getting any smaller even if you try all the compression tricks. You end up uploading it for a half hour to G Drive and send a link to your co-worker... Now you can literally click the Chrome extension, click start, record and then share. DONE.
Pros:It just works and the sharing and commenting functionalities are flawless.
Cons:Sometimes there are bugs when recording on Chrome but this might have been resolved with the new releases.
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