
It is also a more advanced alternative to Loom, but not cross-platform. It is a swiss-army knife for taking screenshots and recording screen videos screencasting. If you prefer using open-source tools and use Windows, then ShareX is recommended. So let’s enjoy the party while it lasts, shall we? If easy and free are the main criteria, this is the best screen recording tool in 2017. Here is our guess: Loom received two rounds of funding, and seems to focus on increasing its user base by providing a useful service for free. How can such a great tool be free? After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch (see our report last year about the WOT browser extension). And the easy, built-in uploading makes it easy to share links to the created videos (hosted by Loom). We like it because it is easy to learn and free to use. You can install it as Chrome extension from the Chrome store And now it is our recommendation for casual screen recording. Loom calls itself “The ultra-flexible communication tool with endless use cases” and indeed, we learned about it when we received more and more links to Loom-recorded screencasts in our inbox. The more advanced tools do provide live-capture enhancements, post-capture video editing options and more. record the ongoing activities on the screen. Screen recorders are handy tools used to record the computer’s screen, i.e.
#Loom screencast movie
The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot whereas screenshot generates a single picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on a computer screen, often enhanced with audio narration. This post is about our favorite screen recording (“screencasting”) tools. It is the start of a new series that covers the “tools we use”. Today we look at automation from a different angle.
