Agent-readable Loom alternative

A Loom alternative your agents can understand.

Loom added a special agent mode. Clipy makes every processed recording agent-ready: one link for people to watch, structured evidence for agents to act on, and a CLI agents can use to record their own verification.

QUICK ANSWER

Clipy makes every processed recording agent-readable on Mac, Chrome, and the web. Loom's Video Prompt beta adds agent-ready action plans to a special five-minute Chrome mode on Business + AI and Enterprise. Clipy keeps the normal recording flow and gives people a video while agents receive the transcript, visual evidence, and requested changes.

  • Agent-readable recordings
  • Agents record their own screen
  • AI Q&A included
  • Unlimited length
  • Public links play without viewer signup
  • No watermark
  • Free core plan

Need a local copy of an existing Loom? Download public Loom videos as MP4. Then see what shipped recently on the Clipy changelog.

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Loom

Coming from Loom? Bring the library with you.

Every recording moves across with its Loom title intact. What you gain on the other side is a share link your agents can read.

LOOM STARTER LIMITS

What are Loom's current free-plan limits?

Loom's official pricing lists a five-minute recording limit and 25 videos per person on Starter. Atlassian's support documentation also says MP4 downloads require Business, Business + AI, or Enterprise.

5 min
per Starter recording

Loom's official Starter plan limits each screen recording to five minutes.

25
videos per person

Starter includes up to 25 videos per person before a paid plan is required.

$18
Business per user / month

Loom lists Business at $18 per user per month on monthly billing.

Paid
MP4 downloads

Atlassian documents video downloads as a Business, Business + AI, or Enterprise feature.

Those limits make local backup and migration harder. Clipy keeps public Loom MP4 downloads separate from its agent-readable recording workflow.

What Loom has no answer to

The recorder is the easy half.

Loom records your screen and so does everything else. The difference starts after you press stop, with what the recording turns into and whether anything other than a human can use it.

Give your agent a video

Point Claude Code at a YouTube link. It reads the video.

One command compiles any YouTube video, or a local file, into a markdown bundle your agent can actually work from: a timestamped transcript, the frames that carry information the words don't, and an honest score for where the transcript goes vague.

How video import works
YouTube → agent contextclipy context import turns any YouTube URL into an AREC bundle your agent can read: a timestamped transcript plus the frames that matter.
Read this video

Tell your agent to watch it, and it lands in your library.

Your agent runs the import, reads the result, and the video stays in Clipy afterwards, not a one-off paste into a context window that vanishes when the session ends.

The Clipy CLI
Tell your agent to read a videoPaste a recording into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. The agent pulls the summary, transcript and key moments through Clipy's CLI and MCP server, and keeps the recording in your library.
Video memory

Nothing you give it is ever thrown away.

Every Clipy recording and every YouTube video you import is kept in your knowledge base permanently, and your agent can call any of it back at any time. Ask Claude Code which recording covered the pricing discussion and it searches every transcript you have ever added, then answers with the moment and the timestamp rather than a list of files.

Search across your library
Ask your agent what you said six months agoEvery recording you make and every video you import is kept in your Clipy knowledge base for good. Claude Code searches all of it with one search_memory call and answers with the moment, not a list of files: the recording, the timestamp, the sentence.
Bring Loom in

Paste one link, or hand over the whole library.

Paste a public Loom share link into the importer and the recording lands in your Clipy library under your own share link, no watermark. Got years of them? Upload the CSV export and we migrate the lot. Single imports are free; bulk migration is part of the paid plans.

Migrating a whole Loom library
Two ways to bring Loom inPaste one Loom share link, or hand over your whole Loom export. Either way the recording ends up in your Clipy library with your own share link. Single imports are free; bulk migration is part of the paid plans.
One link, two faces

The same share link your team watches, your agent reads.

Add .arec to any Clipy URL and the video becomes an action document: intent, a draft plan, key moments with the frame and click target, capture gaps, and the full transcript. No export step, no second artifact to keep in sync.

The AREC format
Every share link has AREC contextAdd .arec to any clipy.online/video link and the recording becomes actionable Markdown: requests, a draft plan, key moments, diagnostics, capture gaps, and transcript.
Clipy vs Loom

Same flow. Different bill.

Apples-to-apples comparison of what you actually pay for, and what you don't.

Feature
clipy
Loom
Entry plan
$0 core plan
$0 Starter
Recording length on free
Unlimited
5 min cap
Number of recordings on free
Unlimited
25 lifetime
Watermark on free plan
Never
Signup required to watch a public link
Public link, just play
Public links can play without an account
MP4 download on the free plan
Included
Business or above
Mac native + Chrome extension shipping today
Both live
Slack link unfurl
Plays on mobile (no app install)

Loom plan limits and download permissions verified against Loom pricing and Atlassian's download documentation.

WHY CLIPY IS DIFFERENT

What makes Clipy agent-native rather than an agent mode?

Agents can read every recording

Loom Video Prompts are a separate five-minute Chrome mode on Business + AI and Enterprise. Clipy creates agent context from every processed recording across Mac, Chrome, and the web: requested changes, transcript, and key moments with frames and click targets.

Agents record their own screen

One command wires Clipy into your coding agent through the CLI, so it can record a walkthrough itself and read it back. Loom has no agent to hand the keys to.

AI Q&A on every recording

Ask "what did we decide about pricing?" and get an answer with clickable timestamps that jump the player to the exact moment.

Polished playback

Chapters, reactions, comments, transcript. Your viewers get a player that respects them: no ads, no upsells, no login wall.

Slack-native unfurl

Paste a Clipy link in Slack. Playable card. Thumbnail. Duration. No paid integration tier required.

Setup in 30 seconds

Install. Click record. Get a link. No IT ticket, no SSO setup, no email-verify dance to start sending clips.

Switch in an afternoon

Coming from Loom?

We built Clipy for the muscle memory you already have. Same flow. No retraining.

01

Install Clipy

Chrome extension or Mac app. 30 seconds. No credit card.

02

Record like normal

Same hotkey muscle memory. Same share-link flow. No new habits to learn.

03

Cancel Loom

Save what you were paying. Send the savings to your team, or to yourself.

Questions, answered

The short answers.

Actually free. Core recording, sharing, and viewing stay free with no watermark, no viewer signup, and no trial clock. Pro (from $6 a month billed yearly) and Enterprise cover newer power-user, migration, and assisted-rollout capabilities.

Still reading? Hit record.

The fastest way to explain something is to show it. Clipy has been ready this whole time.

Start recordingNo sign-up to watch · Free to start, no card