Screen Studio
Loom
Both record your screen, but they are built for different jobs. Screen Studio is a Mac app that makes a recording look professionally edited, with automatic zooms and smooth cursor movement. Loom is for recording quick screen and camera videos and sharing them with a team by link, with comments and viewer insights. Here is how they compare on price and features, and what to use instead when the recording needs to become written documentation.
Pick Screen Studio for polished product demos and launch videos made by one person on a Mac. Pick Loom for fast async video messages shared across a team. If the recording needs to become a written guide or SOP in a knowledge base, use Docsie with either one, or with its own free recorder.
Pricing
Screen Studio and Loom charge per user. Docsie plans include a set number of seats plus monthly AI credits for turning video into docs, and its screen recorder is free. Prices checked 2026-11-15 on each vendor's own pricing page (Screen Studio: screen.studio/#pricing; Loom: www.loom.com/pricing) and docsie.io/pricing.
Which costs less
For one person on monthly billing, Screen Studio is $29 and Loom Business is $18; on yearly billing Screen Studio is $9 and Loom Business is about $15 (a third-party figure; Loom says yearly saves up to 17%). Loom Starter is free if 5-minute screen recordings are enough. For a 10-person team, Loom Business is $180 a month billed monthly, while Screen Studio has no team plan, so each person needs their own subscription.
Recommendation: Choose on the job, not the price. If the output is a finished video for customers or social, Screen Studio. If it is a quick explanation for a teammate, Loom. If it is documentation people will follow, record with either (or Docsie's free recorder) and let Docsie write the guide.
Strengths and Limits
What each tool does well and where it stops, from each vendor's own site, Atlassian's support pages and 2026 reviews.
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Which to Pick
Three tools for three different jobs. Pick by what the recording has to become.
Recordings turned into written guides, published to a knowledge base and translated.
Polished demo videos on a Mac with no editing.
Quick screen and camera videos shared with a team by link.
Screen Studio vs Loom Questions
Q: Is Screen Studio cheaper than Loom?
A: On yearly billing, yes ($9 against about $15 for Loom Business by third-party estimates); on monthly billing, no ($29 against $18). As of November 2026 Screen Studio is $9 a month billed yearly or $29 billed monthly. Loom Business is $18 a user a month billed monthly and Business + AI is $24; Loom says yearly billing saves up to 17%. Loom's free Starter plan costs nothing if 5-minute screen recordings and 25 videos per person are enough.
Q: Does Screen Studio or Loom have a free plan?
A: Loom does. Starter is free for up to 50 members, with 25 videos per person, a 5-minute cap on screen recordings and 720p. Screen Studio shows no free plan. Docsie's screen recorder is free on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Q: Does Screen Studio work on Windows?
A: No. Screen Studio is Mac only, and the vendor says it has no near-term Windows plans. If you need one recorder for a mixed team, Docsie's free screen recorder runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Q: Should I use Screen Studio or Loom for tutorials?
A: For a polished tutorial video published to customers, Screen Studio. For a quick tutorial shared inside a team, Loom. If people need to follow the steps without scrubbing through a video, upload the recording to Docsie and get a written guide with screenshots taken from the video.
Q: Can Loom or Screen Studio turn a video into a written guide?
A: Screen Studio cannot; it exports MP4, GIF and SRT. Loom can on Business + AI or Enterprise, with documents generated in English only and a Confluence-page version in beta. Docsie turns any recording into a step-by-step guide on every plan, publishes it to a knowledge base, with 100+ languages on every plan (DeepL translation on Business).
Q: Can you move my existing recordings into Docsie?
A: Yes. If you switch, we migrate your existing Loom or Screen Studio content into Docsie for you, so your recordings arrive as editable, versioned guides in your knowledge base. Book a demo and bring a few videos; we will show them in Docsie on the call.
Book a demo, bring a few recordings, and we'll show them as step-by-step guides in Docsie on the call. If you switch, our team migrates your existing Loom or Screen Studio content so nothing has to be re-recorded.
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