Vidocu vs Loom

Vidocu vs Loom: the Loom alternative for teams that need documentation, not just a video link

Loom is the fastest way to send a screen recording to a colleague. Vidocu is what you use when that recording has to become something people can follow later: a step-by-step help article with screenshots, subtitles, an AI voiceover, translations into 70+ languages, and a hosted knowledge base. It also records for you: describe the workflow and an AI agent clicks through it while recording.

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Keep Loom if what you send is a message: a quick update, a bug walkthrough, a reply that is easier to show than to write. Loom's viewer, reactions, comments, and its Jira and Confluence hooks are built for that and Vidocu does not try to replace them. Switch to Vidocu, or add it next to Loom, when a recording has to outlive the conversation. One Vidocu run turns a video into a written help article with a screenshot per step, subtitles, an AI voiceover, and translations, and can publish the result to a searchable knowledge base, a training module with a quiz, or a course. Loom's AI workflows can turn a video into a text document, but the document has no screenshots, the feature sits on the $24 per user Business + AI plan, and the video still has to be recorded by a person. Vidocu's AI Recorder performs the workflow itself.

Loom's deliverable is a video link. Vidocu's deliverable is the video plus a help article with annotated step screenshots, subtitles, voiceover, and translations, all editable and all from one upload

Every Loom is recorded by a person. Vidocu's AI Recorder takes a plain-language description, opens a real browser, performs the steps itself, and records the run, returning video, screenshots, and an article

Loom transcribes in 50+ languages. Vidocu translates subtitles, the voiceover, and the written article into 70+ languages from the same source video

Loom stores videos in a library. Vidocu publishes to a hosted, searchable knowledge base, and adds training modules with quizzes and pass tracking, courses, approvals, and workspace roles

Your existing Looms are not wasted: download the MP4 and Vidocu turns each one into documentation. There is a dedicated Loom video to documentation workflow for exactly this

Where Loom is genuinely stronger: async messaging, viewer engagement, meeting recording with no length cap, and native Jira, Confluence, and Slack workflows inside Atlassian

Vidocu vs Loom: Feature Comparison

See how Vidocu compares to Loom across key features

Feature	Vidocu	Loom	Notes
What the tool is for	Turning recordings and documents into knowledge: help articles, SOPs, training, subtitles, voiceover, translations, and a hosted knowledge base	Async video messaging: record, share a link, get comments and reactions, and hand the video to Jira or Confluence	This is the whole decision. A message tool and a documentation tool overlap on the record button and nowhere else.
Who does the recording	You, with the Chrome recorder or any upload, or the AI Recorder: describe the workflow in plain language and an agent performs it in a real browser while recording	You, with the desktop app or Chrome extension	Vidocu's agent needs credentials for the account being recorded and pauses to ask for a one-time code when a login requires one, as every tool in this category does.
Written documentation from a video	Structured step-by-step help article with a screenshot captured at each step, editable, exportable as HTML or Markdown, or published to a knowledge base	AI workflows convert a video into a text document, message, or Jira bug report. Text only, no step screenshots. Business + AI and Enterprise plans	Loom's document is a transcript reshaped into prose. Vidocu's article is built from what happened on screen, with the image for each step.
Screenshots and annotations	Auto-captured step screenshots with a screenshot editor for callouts, blur, and arrows; AI annotations on Business	Overlays (text, arrows, boxes) drawn on the video itself, on Business + AI and Enterprise	Loom annotates the video. Vidocu produces still images you can drop into a help center or PDF.
Auto-zoom and click highlights	Applied from the real interaction timeline: the recorder watches the DOM, so zooms and highlights land on the element that was clicked	Not offered as an automatic feature; zoom is a manual edit	Applies to recordings made with Vidocu's recorder or the AI Recorder, not to footage uploaded from elsewhere.
Subtitles and captions	Auto-generated, editable, exported as SRT or VTT or burned in; word-level captions on Pro	Closed captions and transcripts in 50+ languages	Both handle captions. Vidocu's are tied to the same edit as the voiceover and the article.
AI voiceover	50+ AI voices in 70+ languages, with a glossary to lock pronunciation of product names	Not offered. Narration is whatever the recorder said into the microphone	Matters when you re-record often, or when the person who knows the workflow is not the person who should narrate it.
Translation	Subtitles, voiceover, and the written article translated together into 70+ languages, in batch	Transcripts in 50+ languages; the spoken video stays in its original language	Loom localizes the transcript. Vidocu localizes the deliverable.
AI summaries, titles, and chapters	AI-written article, title, and step structure from the recording; video summaries via the free video summary tool	Auto titles on every plan; auto summaries, chapters, filler-word and silence removal on Business + AI and Enterprise	Loom is strong here for the viewer of a message. For documentation, chapters are less useful than a written step list.
Editing after recording	Video editor with zoom, pan, annotations and music, a subtitle editor, a voiceover editor, an article editor, and Studio, a multi-track timeline with an AI editing assistant	Trim, stitch, edit by transcript, filler-word removal, backgrounds, and overlays, with the advanced options on Business + AI	Loom edits one video. Vidocu edits every artifact the video produced.
Where finished content lives	Hosted, searchable knowledge base with AI search, deep links to video timestamps, custom branding and domain, plus share and embed pages	Loom library and workspace; embeds and links into Confluence, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace and others	Loom distributes videos into tools you already use. Vidocu hosts documentation as a destination.
Training, quizzes, and courses	Training modules with quizzes, scoring, pass tracking and per-person qualification, and a course builder	No quizzes, scoring, or completion tracking; Loom shows view analytics	If you need proof that someone was trained, a view count is not it.
Review, approvals, and roles	Comments, approval requests with a decision trail, locked approved versions, workspace roles	Comments, emoji reactions, and viewer insights on each video	Loom's collaboration is around the conversation. Vidocu's is around what gets published.
Works with videos recorded elsewhere	Upload anything: Loom MP4 downloads, Zoom, OBS, phone recordings, plus PDF, PPTX, Keynote and Google Slides for narrated video	Records with its own apps; uploads are supported into the library but the AI features assume a Loom recording	Vidocu is upload-first, which is why an existing Loom library is an input, not a loss.
API and automation	Public REST API, webhooks, and an MCP server so scripts and AI agents can upload, process, and publish	Loom SDK and embed API for recording and playback inside your product; Atlassian integrations	Loom's API is about capturing and embedding video. Vidocu's is about producing documentation without a person in the app.
Security and compliance	SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant, encrypted in transit and at rest, no customer data used to train models, Trust Center at trust.vidocu.ai	Enterprise plan adds SSO (SAML), SCIM provisioning, custom retention, and privacy controls under Atlassian	If SSO and SCIM are hard requirements today, confirm them with Vidocu's team before committing.
Free plan	200 credits (about 4 minutes of AI video), 1 help article, 1 video export, no limit on video length	Starter: up to 25 videos per person, 5 minutes per recording, unlimited meeting length	Loom's free plan is more generous for messaging. Vidocu's is a trial of the documentation pipeline.
Pricing in 2026	Pro $39/month for 820 credits (about 16 minutes of AI video), Business $149/month for 4,000 credits (about 80 minutes) with a team workspace and 3 editors; Enterprise custom	Business $18 per user/month, Business + AI $24 per user/month, both billed monthly with up to 17% off annually; Enterprise custom	Loom is priced per seat. Vidocu is priced per output volume, so a five-person team pays the same whether one person or all five produce.

What Vidocu Does Differently

While Loom focuses on video communication, Vidocu transforms videos into complete content ecosystems

The recording is an input, not the deliverable

Loom stops when the video is uploaded. Vidocu starts there: the same upload comes back as a help article with a screenshot at every step, subtitles, an AI voiceover, and translations, and each of those has an editor so you can publish it rather than just generate it.

An AI agent that does the clicking

Vidocu's AI Recorder takes a plain-language description of a workflow, opens a real browser, performs the steps, and records itself doing it. One run returns the video, a screenshot per step, and a written article. Loom always needs a person to record. The agent needs credentials for the account it records, and pauses for a one-time code when a login asks for one.

Zooms that know what was clicked

Because Vidocu's recorder watches the interface as you interact, auto-zoom and highlights are placed from the element that was actually clicked, not guessed from cursor movement afterwards. The recording arrives already polished, before any editing.

70+ languages, for the whole package

Loom transcribes in 50+ languages but the video stays in the language it was recorded in. Vidocu translates subtitles, regenerates the voiceover, and translates the written article in batch, so a French or Japanese version of a tutorial is one click, not a re-record.

A knowledge base, not a video library

Vidocu publishes articles and videos to a hosted, searchable knowledge base with AI search and deep links to the exact moment in the video, on your own subdomain and branding. Loom's library is a place to find videos, not a place customers go for answers.

Training you can prove happened

Turn a workflow into a training module with a quiz, scoring, pass tracking, and per-person qualification, then group modules into a course. Loom can tell you who watched. It cannot tell you who understood.

Your old Looms become documentation

Download a Loom as MP4, upload it, and Vidocu produces the article, screenshots, subtitles, and translations from it. Teams with hundreds of explanatory Looms recover that library instead of re-recording it.

Automation through an API and MCP

A release script or an AI agent can upload a recording and receive subtitles, a translated voiceover, and a finished article back through Vidocu's REST API, webhooks, or MCP server. Loom's SDK is for recording and embedding video inside your own product, a different job.

Best For

Vidocu is perfect for teams that need to turn videos into comprehensive content

Help centers and customer support

Turn the walkthroughs support already records into searchable help articles with screenshots, published where customers look before they open a ticket.

One recording becomes the video and the article

Publish to a hosted knowledge base or export HTML and Markdown

Feature Deep Dive

Explore how Vidocu's features work and why they matter

Messaging versus documentation: why the two tools rarely compete

Loom is optimized for a viewer who watches once: fast recording, instant link, reactions, comments, and AI summaries and chapters so a busy colleague can skim. That is a good product for that job. Documentation has the opposite shape: it is read many times, by people who need step four right now, often in another language, and it has to be corrected when the interface changes. Vidocu is built around that second job, which is why it produces written steps with screenshots instead of chapters, and why it hosts the result instead of only sharing it.

Loom: watch once, react, move on
Vidocu: find the step, follow it, translate it, keep it current
Many teams keep Loom for messages and use Vidocu for anything that has to be found later

What Loom's AI workflows produce, and what they leave out

On the Business + AI and Enterprise plans, Loom can transform a video into a text document, a message, or a Jira bug report. This is useful for engineering handoffs. For customer-facing documentation it falls short in two ways: the document is built from the transcript, so it contains no screenshots of what was on screen, and it is only as good as what the presenter said out loud. Vidocu's article is generated from the recording itself, with an image captured at each step, and its editor lets you fix a step without touching the video.

Loom: transcript to prose, no images, $24 per user plan
Vidocu: steps with screenshots from the screen itself, on every plan
Both let you edit the text afterwards

Recording without a person: the AI Recorder

The most expensive part of documentation is the calendar time of the person who knows the workflow. Vidocu's AI Recorder removes that dependency for browser-based products. Describe the task, and an agent performs it in a real browser, on a desktop or mobile viewport, while recording. It captures a timeline of every click, so auto-zoom and highlights are placed on the real control, and it stops and explains itself when a task is impossible. Runs are metered at 50 credits per minute of finished video. Loom has nothing comparable; every Loom is a person at a screen.

Describe the workflow in plain language
Video, step screenshots, and article from one run
Needs credentials for the account being recorded, and pauses for OTP or 2FA codes

Languages: transcribing is not localizing

Loom's 50+ language transcription means a Spanish speaker can read what an English presenter said. Vidocu goes further in three ways: the subtitles are translated, the voiceover is regenerated in the target language by an AI voice, and the written article is translated as well, all in one batch from the same source. Product names stay consistent through a glossary that locks spelling and pronunciation.

70+ languages across subtitles, voiceover, and article
Batch translation from one source video
Glossary and pronunciation control on Pro

Pricing: per seat or per output

Loom charges per user: $18 per user per month for Business and $24 for Business + AI, billed monthly, with up to 17% off on annual billing. A team of five on Business + AI spends $120 a month before anyone has recorded anything. Vidocu charges for what is produced: Pro at $39 a month includes 820 credits, roughly 16 minutes of AI video, and Business at $149 includes 4,000 credits, roughly 80 minutes, with a team workspace and three editors. If two people produce and eight people watch, Vidocu's model is usually cheaper. If all ten people record messages every day, Loom's is.

Loom: $18 or $24 per user per month
Vidocu: $39 or $149 per month, credit-based, not per viewer
Vidocu's Knowledge Center hosting is a $100 per month add-on on paid plans

How to switch from Loom to Vidocu

Switching to Vidocu is straightforward. Here's how to get started.

Sort your Looms into messages and documentation

Most Loom libraries are 80% one-time messages that can stay where they are. Pull out the recordings people keep re-sharing: onboarding walkthroughs, how-to answers, feature demos. Those are documentation.

Download the documentation Looms as MP4

Loom lets you download each video. Vidocu is upload-first, so nothing needs re-recording. The Loom video to documentation workflow is built for this batch.

Upload and generate the article, screenshots, and subtitles

Each upload comes back as a step-by-step article with a screenshot per step, plus subtitles. Review the steps in the article editor and fix terminology once with the glossary.

Replace narration where it helps

Where the original audio is rough or in the wrong language, generate an AI voiceover. This is also how you localize: pick the target languages and Vidocu produces subtitles, voiceover, and the translated article together.

Record new workflows with the AI Recorder or the Chrome recorder

For browser products, describe the flow and let the agent record it. For anything else, record with Vidocu's Chrome recorder so auto-zoom and highlights are applied from the real clicks.

Publish to a knowledge base and training

Push finished articles and videos to a hosted Vidocu knowledge base, or export HTML and Markdown to your existing help center. Turn the workflows people must learn into training modules with quizzes.

Keep Loom for messages

Nothing about this switch requires cancelling Loom. Keep it for async updates and bug walkthroughs, and route anything that has to be found later through Vidocu.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Vidocu vs Loom

Is Vidocu a Loom alternative or a Loom replacement?

It depends on what you use Loom for. If you use Loom to send quick video messages, Vidocu is not trying to replace that; Loom's viewer, reactions, and Atlassian integrations are better for it. If you use Loom to explain the same workflows repeatedly, onboard people, or answer customer questions, Vidocu replaces that use entirely and adds what Loom cannot produce: a written help article with step screenshots, subtitles, an AI voiceover, translations into 70+ languages, a hosted knowledge base, and training modules with quizzes.

What does Vidocu produce from a single video that Loom does not?

From one upload Vidocu returns a step-by-step help article with a screenshot captured at each step, editable subtitles exportable as SRT or VTT, an AI voiceover in any of 70+ languages, translated versions of all three, and the video itself with subtitles burned in if you want them. Loom returns the video with a transcript, and on its Business + AI plan an AI-written text document without screenshots.

Does Loom generate documentation?

Partly. Loom's AI workflows, available on Business + AI at $24 per user per month and on Enterprise, can turn a video into a text document, a message, or a Jira bug report. The output is text derived from the transcript and contains no screenshots of the interface. Vidocu generates the article from the recording with an image per step, on every plan including the free one.

Can Vidocu record the screen for me?

Yes, in two ways. Vidocu's Chrome recorder records as you work and applies auto-zoom and click highlights from the real interaction. The AI Recorder goes further: describe a workflow in plain language and an AI agent opens a real browser, performs the steps, and records itself doing it, returning the video, step screenshots, and an article from one run. It needs credentials for the account being recorded and pauses to ask for a one-time code when a login requires one. Loom always needs a person to record.

How do Loom and Vidocu compare on languages?

Loom provides transcriptions and captions in 50+ languages; the spoken video stays in its original language. Vidocu supports 70+ languages and translates the subtitles, regenerates the voiceover in the target language with an AI voice, and translates the written article, all from the same source video in one batch.

What is Loom's pricing in 2026?

Loom publishes four plans: Starter is free with up to 25 videos per person and 5 minutes per recording, Business is $18 per user per month, Business + AI is $24 per user per month, and Enterprise is custom. Annual billing saves up to 17%. The AI features, including auto summaries, chapters, filler-word removal, and AI workflows, sit on Business + AI and Enterprise; auto titles are on every plan. Vidocu's Pro plan is $39 per month with 820 credits, about 16 minutes of AI video, and Business is $149 per month with 4,000 credits, about 80 minutes, priced per output rather than per seat.

Can I turn my existing Loom videos into documentation?

Yes. Download the Loom as an MP4, upload it to Vidocu, and it produces the step-by-step article with screenshots, subtitles, and any translations you choose. Vidocu has a dedicated Loom video to documentation workflow for this. Auto-zoom and highlights apply only to recordings made with Vidocu's own recorder, so an imported Loom keeps its original framing.

Which tool is better for training and onboarding?

Vidocu, if you need to know whether the training worked. It turns a workflow into a training module with a quiz, scoring, pass tracking, and per-person qualification, and groups modules into courses, with the same content localized into 70+ languages. Loom can show you who viewed a video and for how long, which is engagement data rather than training data.

Does Vidocu support SSO, SCIM, and enterprise security?

Vidocu is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant, encrypts data in transit and at rest, does not use customer content to train models, and publishes its controls on a public Trust Center. Enterprise plans include signed DPAs and retention controls. If SAML SSO or SCIM provisioning is a hard requirement, confirm current availability with the Vidocu team before you commit; Loom offers both on its Enterprise plan under Atlassian.

Can I still share and embed videos like I do with Loom?

Yes. Every Vidocu video and article has a share page and an embed, and articles can be exported as HTML or Markdown. Loom's advantage is native placement inside Confluence, Jira, Slack, and Notion; if that distribution is the main reason you use Loom, keep it for messages and use Vidocu for the content that has to be found later.

When should I choose Loom over Vidocu?

Choose Loom when the recording is a message that will be watched once: status updates, code reviews, bug reports headed to Jira, sales follow-ups. Its free plan is generous for that, the viewer experience is excellent, and AI summaries and chapters help a busy recipient skim. Choose Vidocu when the recording has to become documentation, training, or support content, when it needs to exist in more than one language, or when you would rather an AI agent recorded the workflow than a person.

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