Hi Product Hunt! Shahed from Loom here 👋 Today, we're *thrilled* to publicly release Loom PRO & Desktop to everyone. 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. The team has been heads down for the past 8 months perfecting our native desktop recorder. What's included in today's launch: - Ultra HD/4K recordings with Loom Desktop - Call-To-Action buttons within your videos - Mouse Emphasis, Drawing, and Custom Recording Dimensions - and much more! You can download the new desktop app here: https://useloom.com/desktop

I've been using Loom's desktop app for both Windows and Mac (I use it on both platforms) while it's been in early access. The team has been diligently improving the product and I'm a daily user of it. Super excited for this to go live with PRO as well!

Love it! A tool that i use almost everyday for almost everything <3 I hope one day, Loom is equipped with everything Wistia can currently do.

Pros:

1. Super easy to use and minimal setup 2. Brilliant 4k quality 3. Love the CTA 4. Unlimited video hosting? Hell yeah!

Cons:

Would love to see the following : 1. Enter email to play ( lead gen ) 2. CC - closed captions

Congrats on the big milestone @joethomas_x and team! 🎉 Excited to give Pro a try.. I'm already a Loom power user 😄

Loom is fantastic! Very versatile from video FAQs for your companies issues to sending a quick message when you don't want to type. I especially like the trimming capabilities 🙌

Try it.

Pros:

Life changing if you are managing teams or clients remotely

Cons:

It's getting better everyday.

Been waiting for this to come out. I have a backlog of how-to's I've been meaning to do, and now I can get going with a lot of them for YouTube. Plan on using and reporting back on how it goes. 😄

Loom became one of the best tools for me and the Pro version gives you even more power to your communication needs. Congratulations to the team on the launch! 🎉

There are times I need to show someone how I do something, and this is simply the fastest and easiest way to do that!

love this product and use it daily!! Their PRO product is worth every penny in our experience

Loom PRO is going to change the way product demos work. Huge upgrade. Congrats team 👍

Loom is fab. Works without a huge learning curve. Even made my customers relax about learning how to work online using Loom. Congrats on your launch.

I had tried Loom a while back, and it wasn't a fit then. Just tried a trial of the new Pro version and it seems really nice, and the workflow to record a quick information video, bug, support video, or product feedback is fast and slick. The only items that keep it from being perfect for me (and will probably keep me from buying long term) 1. Way too much branding on the video playback page, including a call to action popup and the end of playback. This is going to be confusing to some of the non-tech people I send videos to, and I'm going to spend more time explaining this to them and telling them they didn't really need to create a Loom account than what the product saves me in time. For a free product, brand the heck out of it - but a paid version should allow you to hide most or all of this. I looked in the KB for a way to disable this, but couldn't find it. Sent a message to the team, so hopefully they will come back with something to help. 2. The default "Dock - Dock" video name for every video. Why not at least make this a time / date. I'd probably change this 80% of the time, but it would be nice if the other 20% didn't all have the same video name

Pros:

Great video quality, easy to use, uploads are automatic and fast

Cons:

Even with the Pro account there seems to be a lot of forced Loom Branding and call to actions on the video playback URL

We use Zendesk for our support inbox and would like to have the option like gmail for adding videos

Pros:

Easily to use, great interface

Cons:

Wish it has an app with in Zendesk

Just gave it a try. Nice flow and great functionalities. +1 to let users display or not the toolbox on left side of the screen in the final output

Using it every day now at my job. Great tool for customer communication and onboarding.

Hi @_shahedk ! I have been using Loom free for about a year now (and I love it!) but I have to say I am disappointed that you guys did not include the Linux community during the release of Loom PRO . Specially since now it is easier than ever to build for Linux using Snaps and distribute to multiple Linux distrios with just one build. Can you guys please add this as a request?

This really does make communication so much easier and quicker. Great for communicating with remote workers and also clients

Pros:

So easy to use and pro version is well worth the $

Cons:

Desktop version takes too long to open (but we're only talking like 5 seconds so not much of a con!)

Great audio and video quality. Love the emojis and # view tracking. Very grateful for the Loom PRO invitation. Just downloaded it and can't wait to use the advanced features. Thank You Thank You 🙏🙏🙏

Pros:

I am a Happy Loom user for about two months now. Extremely easy to use and no watermark for this free tool - Awesome!

Cons:

For the regular version, Trim feature has room for improvement. Not a big deal. It may no longer be applicable to the PRO one.

Been using Loom for ~2 years and continually impressed by the use cases - design/ux/ui recordings, communicating with remote peers, video notes for team knowledge base and so much more! The ubiquity on slack, trello, chrome, and desktop is so appreciated. Work life is easier and happier thanks to Loom.

Pros:

Fantastic product. Works flawlessly. Amazing team.

Cons:

None. Loom is a dream come true.