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To download a Loom video to MP4, paste the public Loom share URL into Clipy's free Loom downloader, click Get Video, then Download. The file saves as MP4 at the original resolution. No Loom account, no signup, and no watermark — works for any Loom video the owner has set to public or shared with you.

Loom is great for sending a quick walkthrough, but the second you want a copy of that walkthrough — to archive it, to edit it, to drop it into a Slack thread, or to keep it after a free-plan video gets auto-deleted — the friction starts. Loom's own download button only shows up if you're signed in, on a paid plan, or if the recorder explicitly enabled downloads. For everyone else, the share page is read-only by design.

This guide covers the cleanest way to download any public Loom video as an MP4 without an account, what the limits actually are, what to do for private videos, and how to convert the resulting MP4 into a GIF or audio-only file when you don't need the full video. We'll also be honest about the legal layer, because "can I" and "should I" are different questions.

Can you download Loom videos without an account?

Yes — for any Loom video that has a working public share link, you can download an MP4 copy without logging into Loom. The catch is that Loom's own UI hides this. The native "Download" button on a Loom share page is gated behind being signed in, and even then it sometimes requires the recorder to have toggled downloads on. If either condition isn't met, the button disappears.

The reason it's still possible without an account is that Loom serves the actual video file from a public CDN whenever the share link itself is public. Anyone the link is shared with can already play the video; downloading the MP4 is mechanically the same request, just saved to disk instead of streamed to a player. Tools like Clipy's Loom downloader resolve the share URL to that underlying MP4 and hand it to your browser as a save dialog.

The boundaries that do matter:

  • Public or shared-with-you only. If a Loom video is set to "members-only" inside a workspace, or password-protected, or has been deleted/expired, no third-party downloader can grab it. The CDN simply won't serve the file to a request that isn't authenticated.
  • Free-plan auto-deletion. Loom's free plan deletes videos older than 45 days under current limits. If you want to archive a video before that happens, downloading it now is the only safe move.
  • The video has to still exist. If the original recorder deleted the video, there's nothing to download — the share URL will return a 404 or a "this video isn't available" page.

Beyond those, you're fine. Pasting a public Loom URL into a downloader is no different from right-clicking "Save Video As…" on any other public video on the open web — the file is already being delivered to your browser; you're just keeping the bytes.

How do I download a Loom video as MP4 (step-by-step)?

The whole flow is three clicks once you have the share link. Here's the exact sequence for the free Clipy tool:

  1. Copy the Loom share URL. On the Loom video page, click the Share button and copy the public link. It usually looks like https://www.loom.com/share/<long-id>. You can also paste a URL straight from your browser's address bar if you're already viewing the video.
  2. Open Clipy's Loom downloader. Go to clipy.online/tools/loom-downloader. There's no signup, no email gate, no "verify you're human and watch this ad" pop-up. The page loads and the input field is right there.
  3. Paste and click Get Video. The tool resolves the share URL to the underlying MP4. Within a second or two you'll see a preview and a download button.
  4. Click Download. Your browser saves the MP4 to your default downloads folder. The file is the original-resolution MP4 that Loom hosts on its CDN — no re-encoding, no quality loss, no Clipy watermark stamped on top.

That's it. Total time, assuming the video is small, is under thirty seconds. For longer videos (45+ minutes), most of the wait is your own browser pulling the bytes from Loom's CDN, not anything the tool is doing.

Where the file ends up. Browsers default to ~/Downloads on Mac and C:\Users\<you>\Downloads on Windows. The filename usually carries the Loom video ID; rename it before you forget which video it was. If you're going to edit the file or repost it, drop it into a project folder so it doesn't get swept up by a Downloads cleanup script.

What format you actually get. Loom encodes uploads as H.264 video + AAC audio inside an MP4 container. That's the most universal format on the open web — every major editor (Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, iMovie, Clipchamp), every player (QuickTime, VLC, Windows Media Player), every social platform, and every messaging app accepts it without conversion. If you need a different container or codec, see the GIF/MP3 section further down, or use Clipy's MOV-to-MP4 converter for QuickTime exports going the other direction.

How do I download a private Loom video?

This is where most other guides get sloppy. The honest answer is: it depends on what "private" means for that specific video.

Loom has several visibility states, and they behave very differently:

  • Public link (anyone with the link can view). Treat as public — any downloader works. This is the default for individual recordings on most plans.
  • Workspace-only. Only signed-in members of the recorder's Loom workspace can play the video. The CDN authenticates the request, so third-party downloaders can't reach the underlying MP4. You'd need to either be added to the workspace, or have the recorder switch the video to public.
  • Password-protected. Loom asks viewers to enter a password before serving the video. Until you enter the password in your own browser, the file isn't streamed.
  • Email-gated / restricted to specific emails. Only the listed email addresses can view, after Loom verifies them. Same dynamic as workspace-only.

For anything past the first bullet, the right move isn't to find a sneakier downloader — it's to ask the recorder to either (a) flip the share setting to public temporarily, (b) add you to the relevant workspace, or (c) export the video on their end and send you the MP4 directly. Loom Pro/Business users can export in a couple of clicks; it's a five-minute ask.

If you're the recorder and you want to archive your own private videos, the cleanest path is usually the built-in download button while you're signed in. If you don't have it (older account, free tier), you can flip the video to public for ten seconds, run it through the Clipy downloader, and flip it back. That's not a workaround — it's literally what "download my own video" looks like when the platform makes it harder than it should be.

And if you're picking a recorder going forward and you don't want this dance, that's the whole point of Clipy: every recording you make in Clipy is yours to download as MP4 by default, with no plan to upgrade and no toggle to flip. If Loom's friction is annoying you, see our roundup of free Loom alternatives with no signup for the bigger comparison.

How do I convert a Loom video to GIF or MP3?

Once you have the MP4, the rest is plumbing. The two most common asks after "give me the file" are:

  • Loom → GIF, usually for embedding a short demo into docs, README files, support tickets, or Slack messages where autoplay video is overkill.
  • Loom → MP3, usually for transcribing a meeting recording, sending audio to a podcast editor, or archiving the spoken portion of a long walkthrough.

For GIF, drop the downloaded MP4 into Clipy's MP4-to-GIF converter. Pick the start and end timestamps (GIFs over ~15 seconds get heavy fast — keep it short), and download the resulting GIF. Conversion runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your device. Watch the file size: a 1080p GIF will balloon to tens of megabytes; for embedding, drop the resolution and frame rate first.

For MP3, you'll want a video-to-audio converter. The pattern is the same — load the MP4, pick MP3 as the output, download. The ten-minute Loom that was 80MB as MP4 typically lands around 8–10MB as a 128kbps MP3, which is small enough to drop into a transcription tool or share over email. If you're going to feed it to a transcription model, 64kbps mono is plenty — speech doesn't need stereo or audiophile bitrates.

One gotcha worth flagging. Loom's audio is mixed at the encoder, so the system audio (whatever was playing on the recorder's screen) and the microphone are baked into a single track. You can't split them back out from the downloaded MP4. If you need separate tracks, you need to capture the original recording with a tool that writes them separately — that's actually a deliberate Clipy desktop-app feature on the roadmap, but it's not something any post-hoc downloader can do.

If you find yourself doing this conversion dance often, it's a sign the original tool isn't doing the job. Recording with a no-watermark, owned-asset tool from the start saves you the round-trip. Clipy's free screen recorder writes MP4 directly and gives you the share link and the download in one go.

Short version: downloading a Loom video that the owner has chosen to share publicly with you is fine for personal use in essentially every jurisdiction. Redistributing it, claiming it as your own, or using it commercially without the owner's permission is not.

The longer version is the boring lawyerly one, but it's worth getting right because "is it legal" is the most-asked question on this topic and most articles handwave it.

Copyright belongs to the recorder. The person who hit Record on the Loom video owns the copyright in the recording (and, depending on what's on screen, potentially also has rights questions about whatever software, slides, or footage they captured). Public sharing is an implicit license to view, not an explicit license to redistribute. If a colleague sends you a Loom of a feature walkthrough, downloading a copy for yourself is fine; reuploading it to YouTube and monetizing it is not.

Loom's Terms of Service. Loom's TOS prohibit "scraping" their service in an automated, large-scale way. Downloading a single video that was shared with you — pasting one URL into one tool, once — is categorically not what those clauses are aimed at. Bulk-scraping every Loom URL you can find is. If you're tempted to write a script that loops over a thousand Loom IDs, don't. It's a TOS issue at minimum and a copyright issue at worst.

Recording-of-meetings law. If the Loom video is a recording of a Zoom/Meet/Teams call, the underlying recording itself may be subject to two-party consent laws in some U.S. states (CA, FL, IL, MD, MA, MT, NH, PA, WA) and in much of Europe. That's the recorder's problem at the moment of recording, not yours at the moment of downloading — but if you're the one who recorded the meeting, the consent question is real. See our companion piece on Loom's free-plan limits for the broader "what can I record at all" framing.

Practical rules of thumb. Personal archive of something shared with you: yes. Sending the MP4 to one other person who was already supposed to see it: yes. Embedding it in your own product marketing, scrubbing the watermark, and pretending you made it: no. When in doubt, ask the recorder — it's almost always faster than the legal research.

Why not just screen record the Loom video?

You can. It's a perfectly legitimate fallback if the downloader path doesn't work — for example, if a Loom is so old its share link has been rotated, or if you specifically need the version with the recorder's reactions overlaid (Loom's overlays are baked into the player, not the underlying MP4).

The trade-off is quality. Screen-recording a video that's already a video means you're re-encoding what's already encoded, and you're capped at your own monitor's resolution and frame rate. A 4K Loom recorded back at 1080p loses detail; a 60fps Loom recorded at 30fps loses motion smoothness. The downloader path keeps the original MP4 byte-for-byte, so nothing degrades.

If you do want to go the screen-record route — say, because you want to add your own commentary on top, or trim the video as you record — open the Loom in Chrome, start Clipy's Chrome screen recorder, choose the Loom tab as the capture target, and hit play in Loom while recording. You'll get an MP4 of your own with no watermark, and you can post-process it however you like. For Mac users, the Clipy menu-bar app does the same thing with system audio captured cleanly.

How do I stop needing Loom downloaders in the first place?

This is the philosophical question hidden underneath the technical one. People search for "how to download a Loom video" because Loom has decided that owning your own recording is a paid feature, and that the free plan's job is to be lossy enough that you upgrade. That's a perfectly fine business model — it's just not the only one.

The opposite model is: every recording is a file on your machine that you own from the moment it's made. No "download" button needed because the file was always yours. No 5-minute or 25-video cap. No watermark. No share link that expires when an account lapses. That's how Clipy works on the desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and that's also how the Chrome extension works — the MP4 lands in your downloads folder by default, and you also get a clipy.online share link if you want one.

If you find yourself running through a downloader more than once a month, that's a signal to switch the recording side, not just keep getting better at the rescue side. If you're the recipient of someone else's Loom and you don't control the recording side, downloaders are the right tool — that's exactly what they're for.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Loom account to download a Loom video?

No. If the Loom share link is public, you can paste it into Clipy's Loom downloader and save the MP4 without signing in to Loom or to Clipy. You only need a Loom account to download videos that are restricted to a workspace or password-protected.

Does the downloaded MP4 have a watermark?

No. The downloader returns the original MP4 that Loom serves from its CDN. There's no Clipy watermark and no third-party logo overlaid on the video. The only "watermark" possible is one Loom itself baked into the recording at upload time, which is rare on standard recordings.

What resolution and quality do I get?

You get the original resolution and bitrate the recorder uploaded — typically 1080p H.264 with AAC audio, sometimes 4K for high-resolution recordings. The downloader doesn't re-encode the file, so quality is identical to playing the video on Loom's site.

Can I download Loom videos on my phone?

Yes. The Clipy Loom downloader runs entirely in your mobile browser. Open the page in Safari (iOS) or Chrome (Android), paste the Loom URL, and tap Download — the MP4 saves to Files on iOS or Downloads on Android. There's no app to install.

Is there a file size or length limit?

The downloader itself imposes no length limit. The practical ceiling is your browser and disk: a 4-hour 1080p Loom is roughly 3–6 GB, which most browsers will handle but a phone with limited storage will not. For very long Looms, download on a desktop or laptop.

Will the recorder know I downloaded their video?

No. The downloader makes the same kind of request your browser already makes when you press play. Loom counts a view either way; it doesn't have a separate "downloaded" event surfaced to the recorder. There's no notification.

What if the downloader says the video can't be fetched?

Either the video is private (workspace-only, password-protected, or restricted), it's been deleted, or its public share toggle has been turned off. There's no third-party downloader that can fetch a Loom that Loom itself isn't serving publicly. Ask the recorder to share a public link or to send you the MP4 directly.