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EchoRecorder vs Loom

An honest comparison for teams who've looked at the Loom bill and thought "there has to be a better way."

Last updated: March 2026

The cost difference is not subtle

Loom Business costs $15 per user per month, billed annually. That's the plan most teams actually need — it removes recording limits and adds analytics. At 25 people, that's $375/month or $4,500/year. EchoRecorder Team is $29/month flat. The entire team. No per-seat math.

Team size
Loom Business
EchoRecorder Team
You save
5 users
$75/mo
$29/mo
$552/yr
10 users
$150/mo
$29/mo
$1,452/yr
25 users
$375/mo
$29/mo
$4,152/yr
50 users
$750/mo
$29/mo
$8,652/yr

Loom also removed Creator Lite free seats in 2026. Users who previously had 10 paid seats + dozens of free viewers now pay per head for everyone. Teams that thought they were paying $240/year discovered they owed $1,500+.

Loom pricing per loom.com, March 2026. EchoRecorder pricing per getechorecorder.com.

Feature by feature

We've tried to be accurate and fair here, including rows where Loom wins or ties. If anything is wrong, email us and we'll fix it.

Feature
EchoRecorder
Loom
Pricing
Free plan
✓ Forever free
✓ 25 videos, 5 min limit
Paid team plan
✓ $29/mo flat
~ $15/user/mo
AI features in base plan
✓ Transcription on all plans
~ Business+AI tier ($20/user)
10-day free trial
✓
~ 14-day (Business+AI only)
Recording
Screen + webcam + mic
✓
✓
System audio
✓
✓
Chrome extension
✓
✓
Desktop app (Win + Mac)
✓
✓
Mobile app
✗
✓ iOS + Android
Noise suppression
✗
✓
Virtual backgrounds
✗
✓
AI Features
Auto transcription (50+ langs)
✓ All plans
✓ All plans
Auto title generation
✓
✓ Business+AI
Filler word removal
✗
✓ Business+AI
AI docs (step-by-step guides)
✓ GPT-4o Vision + frames
✗
AI docs use screen frames
✓ Unique feature
✗
Doc templates (SOP, bug, training)
✓ 5 templates
✗
Export docs (.md / .docx)
✓
✗
Editing
Trim / cut
✓
✓ Business
Crop
✓
✗
Speed zones (2×/4×/8×)
✓
✗
Blur / redact regions
✓
✓ Business
Annotations (burn-in)
✓
✗
Transcript-based editing
✗
✓ Business+AI
Video download
✓ Personal+
✓ Business
Branding
Remove vendor branding
✓ All paid plans
✓ Business
Custom logo on viewer
✓ All plans incl. Free
✓ Business
Custom colors (6 fields)
✓
~ Player color only
Branding on dashboard too
✓
✗
Full white-label (resellable)
✓
✗
Analytics
Per-recording view stats
✓
✓
Engagement drop-off heatmap
✗
✓
Sharing & Access
Password-protected links
✓
✓ Business
Link expiry dates
✓
✗
Click event capture + frames
✓ Unique
✗
Integrations
Slack
✓ Business
✓
Jira / Confluence
✓ Business
✓ Native (Atlassian)
Gmail
✗
✓
Google Auth / SSO login
✓
✓
Enterprise / Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2
✗
✓
SSO / SAML
✗
✓ Enterprise
Bring Your Own S3
✓ Business
✗
Bring Your Own OpenAI key
✓ Business
✗

When Loom is the better choice

  • •Your team lives inside the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira, Confluence) and the native integration matters more than price.
  • •You need mobile recording apps — iOS and Android.
  • •Background noise suppression and virtual backgrounds are table-stakes for your team.
  • •You need SOC 2 compliance or SCIM provisioning today — we don't have these yet.
  • •You need transcript-based editing (cut by editing text) — Loom has this, we don't.

When EchoRecorder is the better choice

  • •Your team has more than 10 people and you don't want to do per-seat math.
  • •You need recordings to live under your brand, not Loom's — especially for customer-facing content.
  • •You want AI documentation that generates step-by-step guides from what's actually on screen — not just a text summary.
  • •Your QA or CS team needs click event capture with DOM context — no other tool does this.
  • •You want to bring your own S3 bucket and OpenAI key (Business plan) — data stays on your infrastructure.
  • •You're evaluating after Atlassian's 2026 pricing changes removed Creator Lite free seats and your bill tripled.

Try EchoRecorder free for 10 days

Every new account gets a 10-day trial with all AI features fully unlocked. No credit card. If it's not for you, the Free plan continues indefinitely with 3 AI doc generations per month.

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