Loom made the async video message normal: hit record, stop, paste a link. That convenience is built on its cloud, so the recording is uploaded to Loom, hosted there, and watched through a link on its servers. Supercut captures the same three sources, screen, microphone and camera, and keeps every one of them on your device. There is no upload and no hosted copy, which also means you end up with a file you can put wherever you want.
| Supercut | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the recording lives | On your device only | Uploaded to Loom and hosted there |
| How you share | Export the file and share it however you like | A share link on Loom, with viewer analytics |
| Editing after the take | Multitrack timeline: zooms, captions, crop, other footage | Light editing built around the recording |
| Captions | Transcribed on your device | Cloud transcription |
| Where it runs | Browser, plus Mac and Windows apps | Browser, desktop apps and mobile |
| Account to start | None for your first export | Account based |
| Best for | Demos and product videos you want to keep and edit | Fast async messages your team watches in one place |
With Loom, recording and hosting are the same act: the video goes to its servers so it can be watched at a link. Supercut records to your own disk and edits and exports there too. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no server copy of a screen that may have had your inbox, a dashboard or a customer's data on it.
Loom's share link is the product, and it is a good one. It is also the only copy unless you download it. Supercut hands you a finished 4K mp4 or a GIF at the end, so the recording goes into your own drive, your docs, your help centre or an upload to YouTube, on your terms.
Loom keeps editing deliberately light so recording stays fast. In Supercut the take lands on a multitrack timeline: trim it, add zooms, burn in captions, crop, drop in other footage, swap the audio, then export. The recording is the start of the edit rather than the whole of it.
Supercut records the screen, the microphone and the camera as three separate tracks and never composites the bubble into the picture. That is what lets you move it, resize it or delete it after the take, instead of deciding its position before you have seen the recording.
The macOS app samples the cursor and captures clicks while you record, so it can put a push-in on the thing you just clicked, and you can edit or remove any of them afterwards. Captions are transcribed on your machine with a local model, so your audio is not sent anywhere to be turned into text.
Supercut is free to try your first export. One flat unlock removes watermarks and opens every tool: 4.99 per month billed yearly (59.88 per year), 9.99 per month monthly, or 199 once for lifetime access. Cancel anytime.
Loom is genuinely excellent at what it was built for. Recording to a link that plays instantly, viewer analytics, comments and reactions pinned to the timeline, embeds that work in the docs and tickets teams already live in, plus mobile apps, shared libraries and admin controls. If the point of the video is that a colleague watches it today and replies on it, Loom's hosted model is the reason it works so well.
Record your screen, mic and camera in the browser, then polish the result. Backdrop, rounded corners and zooms, all local. Nothing is uploaded, no watermark.
Record your screen with sound: audio from your machine, your microphone, or both. Capture and edit on your device, nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Record your screen and webcam together in the browser. The camera stays a separate layer, so you can move, resize or remove the bubble after the take.
Add auto-captions to any video in your browser. On-device transcription with viral caption styles, no upload, your footage and audio stay private.
It depends what you want the video to do. Loom is built around a hosted link your team watches and comments on. Supercut is built around a recording you keep and edit: it captures screen, mic and camera on your device, drops the take onto a timeline with zooms, captions and a framed look, and exports a file. If you need hosting, analytics and comments, Loom does that and Supercut does not.
Neither. Recording, editing and export all run on your device, so there is no server copy and no link to expire or leak. You export the finished file and decide where it goes.
Yes, as three separate tracks. Because the camera is never composited into the picture during capture, you can move, resize or remove the bubble after you have watched the take back.
The browser recorder works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc with nothing to install, and it can capture the audio of a shared tab. The Mac and Windows apps add audio from the whole machine and cursor-driven zooms, which a browser cannot do because it cannot see your cursor outside the page.
Free to try your first export, then 4.99 per month billed yearly (59.88 per year), 9.99 per month monthly, or 199 once for lifetime access. Cancel anytime.
Drop a clip and describe the edit. It runs right here in your browser.
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