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Superscreen vs Loom.

A recorder wrapped around a share link. You stop recording and the video is already uploading, with a URL and a viewer count waiting for you.

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Free, or from $15 a person a month

Matches 5 of 16 features

The honest read

Where Loom is the better answer, and where it is not.

What Loom does well

The link is the product. Nothing to export, nothing to upload, and the person you sent it to can reply on the timeline.
Transcripts, summaries and viewer analytics come with the account rather than the app.
Everyone on the team sees the same library, on any machine, without moving files around.

Where it runs out of road

It needs an account, and the recording lives on their servers rather than on your disk.
The free tier caps you at short videos and a fixed number of them.
You get a download, not a master. There is no local .mov at full quality to hand to an editor.
The editing is trims and stitches in a browser tab, not a timeline with assets on it.

If the recording exists to be watched once by three colleagues, Loom is hard to beat and Superscreen is not trying to. If the recording is a file you keep, edit and publish somewhere else, a local recorder is the right shape.

Feature by feature

The whole list, both ways.

Every row opens that feature in full, with the panel that shows it running.

Every Superscreen feature, against Loom
Feature	Superscreen	Loom
CountdownThree seconds before the first frame	Included	Included
Frame rateSixty for motion, thirty for size	Included	Partly
QualityHalf the file, the same picture	Included	Not included
CursorKeep the pointer in or out	Included	Included
Click highlightsA ring blooms at every click	Included	Not included
Camera bubbleA round camera in any corner	Included	Included
AudioYour voice and the Mac, separately	Included	Partly
Trim and cutTrim the ends, cut the middle	Included	Partly
AssetsDrop in sounds, images and screens	Included	Not included
CaptionsSubtitles written on the device	Included	Included
KeystrokesShortcuts drawn as real keycaps	Included	Not included
Export formatsExport .mov, .mp4, .webm or .gif	Included	Partly
PerformanceA few percent of one core	Included	Partly
File namesTemplates that sort recordings for you	Included	Not included
Cursor zoomZoom that follows the cursor	Included	Not included
ProjectsEvery recording in one library	Included	Included

IncludedIncluded
PartlyPartly
Not includedNot included

Checked August 2026. Prices and features move — worth a look at the source before you decide.