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Loom is a video messaging tool that lets individuals and teams record and share screen and camera videos asynchronously.

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This page reflects public online discussion, collected and scored by automated systems and summarized using AI. It is not a statement of fact, not an audit, and not our own opinion of the product. Automated analysis can be incomplete or wrong, and scores carry the limitations described in our methodology. Companies can respond with their own perspective. See how this is calculated.

Updated June 22, 2026

Overall Pulse Score

37
Pulse Score

-25 over this period

A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 374 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 12 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.

Weekly Sentiment Trend

Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.

This week in public discussion

Recent discussion around Loom leaned heavily negative, with bugs and reliability complaints dominating the conversation by a wide margin across the period. Commenters reported persistent technical frustrations, and mentions of missing features added to the critical tone. A smaller share of posts praised certain features or highlighted ease of use, and a few positive mentions framed Loom as a useful sales outreach tool. Overall sentiment appeared weighed down by the volume of stability-related complaints relative to praise.

AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Sentiment mix by week

How the tone of public discussion splits each week.

PositiveMixedNeutralNegative

Most-discussed praise

Strong features30
Easy to use12
Feature requests9
Compared to rivals7
Good integrations3

Most-discussed complaints

Bugs187
Reliability119
Missing features60
Feature requests45
Performance25

Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.

Sample public mentions

Showing 5 of 374 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.

fui gravar um vídeo pra uma vaga. gravei apertei o botão de parar gravação dei um arrotão absurdo olhei pra câmera assim 😨 e não tinha terminado de gravar o plano gratuito do loom não deixa editar vídeo 15min de crise de riso depois de me ver arrotando e ficando 🫪 até conseguir...

blueskyApr 22, 2026

I just heard someone talking about Loom & how it is Crappy, and I thought "what an odd name for something ostensibly about video" and then I had to use the platform and let me tell you, that cleared nothing up at all

blueskyJun 11, 2026

I am convinced that Loom has UX engineers who are actively trying to make their users’ lives worse lmao Give me another full page dialog ok Plsplspls more popups I beg of thee to auto-play the video even though the play button is right there and I did not click it

bluesky4 days ago

Loom video from your “customer success” agent when you have a question as the only form of documentation happens way more often than you’d think.

blueskyMay 23, 2026

Cold emailing is dead. Use the 2-Minute Loom Video Outreach framework instead. Send a quick, hyper-personalized video breaking down exactly how you can improve a prospect's conversion rates. It gets high-ticket clients excited to jump on a call. #ClientAcquisition #Sales

blueskyJun 7, 2026

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Deeper analysis

  • Bugs and reliability problems dominated the conversation and accounted for the large majority of all complaint mentions across the window.
  • Sentiment fell sharply in early June as mention volume surged, and the score continued declining through the end of the tracked period.
  • Opinion was divided between commenters who valued Loom's async video concept and those who found the actual experience unstable or inferior to alternatives.
  • Praise existed but was sparse and largely drowned out by the scale of technical frustration in the discussion.
Praise themeMentions
Strong features30
Easy to use12
Feature requests9
Compared to rivals7
Good integrations3
Complaint themeMentions
Bugs187
Reliability119
Missing features60
Feature requests45
Performance25

Discussion around Loom over the past four weeks has been dominated by frustration, with bugs and reliability problems accounting for the overwhelming majority of complaint-side mentions. Commenters described a product that felt unstable in day-to-day use, and the sheer volume of those signals, bugs drawing 183 mentions and reliability concerns drawing 117, suggests these are not isolated gripes but a persistent pattern that shaped nearly the entire conversation window.

The score trajectory tells a clear story of deterioration after an early period of relative calm. Sentiment held in the mid-to-upper sixties through the first two weekly intervals, then climbed briefly to its highest point in the window before dropping sharply and continuing downward. The most dramatic shift came in early June when mention volume surged dramatically, from single digits to the high sixties and then into the hundreds, and sentiment fell in lockstep. The timing implies that a wave of users encountered problems around the same period, amplifying negative tone precisely as the conversation grew loudest.

Praise was present but thin. Feature appreciation and ease-of-use comments appeared in a small cluster of mentions, and a few discussions framed Loom favorably in competitor comparisons or touched on AI-related qualities. However, these positive threads were easily outnumbered and seemed to carry little weight against the volume of technical dissatisfaction.

Opinion was most divided around the product's core value proposition. Several mentions pointed to Loom's async video format as genuinely useful for replacing meetings or enabling personalized outreach, while others characterized the experience as unreliable or described competing tools as more conversational and meeting-like by design. This tension between the idea of the product and the lived experience of using it ran through much of the discussion.

By the final week of the window, mentions had reached their highest volume and sentiment had leveled at a low point. Discussion suggested that stability concerns were still unresolved in the eyes of the community, and the flatness of the score between the penultimate and final intervals offered little sign that tone was recovering.

AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Member perspectives

Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.

Data summary

Total mentions analyzed (all time)
537
Mentions in selected period
374
Weeks in range
12
Pricing
Free tier; paid plans available
Sources
GitHub (345), bluesky (20), Hacker News (9)

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