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Welcome to Loom

In this guide, we’ll help you learn how to use Loom to communicate faster and more effectively. Whether you’ve used Loom before or you’re discovering it for the first time, you’ll find everything you need to choose the right recording mode, get set up, and master best practices for recordings that save time and make moving work forward a breeze for you and your team.

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What is Loom?

Loom is a video communication tool that helps individuals, teams, and businesses communicate faster and more effectively through instantly shareable recordings. Loom makes it easy to increase productivity, align your team, and collaborate asynchronously—no matter where or when you work.

With Loom, you can record your camera, microphone, and desktop screen simultaneously, or automatically record your meetings for recaps with summaries and action items. Your recording is then instantly available to share, making it simple to keep everyone in the loop and drive action across your team. Built for collaboration, Loom makes it easy to increase productivity, align your team, and keep work moving—no matter where you are.

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This video shows how to get started with the desktop app, Chrome extension, and mobile app, plus tips for recording, editing, and sharing securely. Want to start using Loom but not sure where to begin? Check out this short video on the basics, or learn more about how to use Loom from more video tutorials below.


Who uses Loom

Teams from startups to global enterprises use Loom to move work forward with video communication that replaces slow, text-heavy workflows with rich async updates and empowers you to hold fewer, better meetings. Product and engineering teams rely on Loom for product demos, aligning on product roadmaps, sharing user insights, gathering details on technical issues, and squashing bugs. Marketing, design, and operations teams turn to Loom for creative reviews and content approval workflows. And across every function, Loom powers day-to-day rituals like weekly standups, meeting recaps, internal training and communications, and managing their projects – so work keeps moving, even when teammates aren’t online at the same time. Loom enables all teams to work together, including:

How to use Loom

Explore the cards below for a high-level overview of how to use Loom across your team, plus quick Loom video tutorials you can watch in just a few minutes. Want to dive deeper? Visit our Getting Started Guide for step-by-step instructions, best practices, and example workflows to help you confidently use Loom in your daily work.

Recording Platforms

Choose and download the recording option that works for you.

Videos

Communicate faster, provide visual context, and build culture with async videos.

Meetings

Automatically capture key topics, decisions, and action items without taking notes.

Editing

Create polished, impactful videos with Loom’s editing suite and AI features.

Sharing

Share videos internally, externally, and on any platform you use.

Insights

Measure the impact of your videos with Viewer and Engagement Insights.

Loom is helps you and your team work smarter, communicate visually, and get more done, faster.

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