Loom's free Starter plan stops at 25 videos per person, 5-minute recordings and 720p, and every video carries Loom branding. Teams that record bug reproductions and code-review walkthroughs hit that ceiling quickly and are pushed onto per-creator Business seats, billed for each person who records rather than each person who watches. Cap's Docker Compose stack lets you point the desktop recorder at your own server URL and write video straight to an S3-compatible bucket, while SendRec runs as a single Go binary that transcribes with whisper.cpp on your own hardware. Agent-Native Clips exposes each recording's transcript and timestamped frames as MCP tools your coding agent can query, and PeerTube adds HLS transcoding, password-protected videos and object-storage offload for a long-lived recording archive.
| Name | Main Category | Sub-Category | Target Alternative | Free Tier Summary | Self-Hostable? | Short Description | Primary Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PeerTube | Project Management & Developer Workspaces | Video Hosting & Streaming | Loom (video hosting) / Vimeo / Wistia | AGPL-3.0 - 100% Free Self-Hosted | Yes - Docker | Federated video hosting platform with HLS transcoding, private and password-protected videos, and object-storage offload. Pair it with any recorder to host long-form walkthroughs under your own domain; it has no built-in screen recorder. | |
Agent-Native Clips | Project Management & Developer Workspaces | Agent-Readable Video & Bug Reports | Loom | MIT - 100% Free Self-Hosted (bring your own S3-compatible storage) | Yes - Docker | Open-source Loom alternative from Builder.io where each share link exposes an agent-readable transcript and timestamped frames. Captures browser console errors and failed network requests for bug recordings and imports existing Loom share URLs. | |
SendRec | Project Management & Developer Workspaces | Async Video Messaging | Loom | AGPL-3.0 - 100% Free Self-Hosted, no seat limits | Yes - Docker | Browser-based async video platform built as a Go binary on PostgreSQL and S3-compatible storage. Includes whisper.cpp transcription, password and expiry share links, viewer analytics and an embeddable player. | |
Cap | Project Management & Developer Workspaces | Screen Recording & Async Video Sharing | Loom | AGPL-3.0 - Free Self-Hosted (Cap Web); the official Cap Desktop binary needs a paid commercial license for work use, or build it from source | Yes - Docker | Loom-style recorder with Instant and Studio modes, share links, comments, transcripts and viewer analytics. Self-host Cap Web, the media server and S3 storage with Docker Compose, then point the desktop app at your own server. |
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