Pick what to show
Your whole screen, or a single window. Your camera rides along as a real OS window — a bubble you can drag anywhere, over any other app, including full-screen ones.
Record your screen. Send a link. Nobody pays to watch it.
Spool is a desktop screen-and-camera recorder for people who would rather send two minutes than book thirty. One plan, every feature, $7 a month. Viewers are free forever, and the links you have already sent keep playing even if you stop paying us.
Recording is the macOS app · 7 days, the whole product, no card to start · Viewers free forever · Compare with Loom
Why people leave
Three ways a video tool can ruin your week
Every one of these has happened to somebody this year. Spool is built so that none of them can happen quietly.
“It said uploading, and then it didn't.”
Spool asks for the link before it asks for the video. The moment you hit record, the server hands back a real share URL — it is on your clipboard while you are still talking — and the bytes stream up behind you. Lose your connection at minute nine and the upload resumes from the byte the server actually has, even if you quit the app and came back tomorrow. The take waits on your machine until the server has confirmed every byte of it, and not one moment less.
“Ninety people who only watched showed up on the bill.”
You pay for the people who record. Watching, commenting and reacting cost nothing and need no account, and there is no viewer role in our system that a billing change could promote into a paid seat — because there is no viewer role at all. That is the Viewer Guarantee, and it is a clause in our terms of service.
“We stopped paying and every link in our docs went dark.”
When a Spool trial or subscription ends, exactly one thing stops: making new recordings. Everything you already sent keeps playing for the people you sent it to — their links are not ours to switch off to make a point. If you want the files as well, export any recording and you get a real MP4 or GIF rendered from the edited timeline: the cut people watched, not the raw take.
Thirty seconds, start to sent
It is three steps, and the third one is paste
Talk
The link is already reserved and the bytes are already moving. There is no render bar at the end, because there is no render.
Paste
Slack, a pull request, a ticket, a doc. Spool links unfurl into a real player in anything that speaks oEmbed, and the share page has a copy-the-embed-code button if you would rather have the iframe.
What it's for
Six things faster to say than to type
Two minutes of screen and voice, in place of a paragraph nobody reads or a meeting nobody wanted. Every one of these is a link you paste where the conversation already is.
Code review
Walk the diff with the files open — watched at 1.5×, at midnight, in somebody else's time zone.
Bug report
The click, the console, the moment it breaks. A repro nobody has to reproduce.
Design feedback
Your cursor on the thing you mean, said out loud.
Onboarding
Record the walkthrough once. Send the link to everyone who joins after.
Status update
Three minutes on Monday, watched in four time zones.
Handover
Everything the next person needs, while it is still in your head.
After the takeFix it in the browser.
Fix it in the browser.
Same link, no re-upload.
Every recording opens in an editor on the web — nothing to install, nothing to export and re-share. Cut a sentence out and every viewer's playback skips it: the link you already pasted starts playing the new version.
- A real timeline. Layers you can lock or delete from the track itself, and zoom in and out of it.
- Cuts that close up. Select, delete, and the gap disappears — for you and for everyone you already sent it to.
- Zoom that follows the point. Drop a zoom point where the detail is, or let it follow your clicks.
- Export what people watched. A real MP4 or GIF rendered from the edited timeline — not a link to the raw original.
Motion and zoom
The moves a good demo has, without making them
The app records where your pointer went and what it clicked, alongside the video. The editor then spends that twice: once on a camera that frames what you were doing, and once on a pointer that moves like a hand instead of like a data file. Both are on before you touch anything.
Pricing
One plan. Every feature. Viewers always free.
No tier ladder, no AI upsell, no feature held back to sell you the next plan up. People who record cost money. Watching is free, forever, for everyone.
SpoolThe only plan
$7per user
per month
per month
$84 billed yearly, or $20 a month with no year to commit to.
Both numbers are on this page because hiding one behind a toggle is how people end up surprised by their own invoice.
- Everything in the one plan: recording, the editor, share pages, embeds, exports, analytics
- 7-day trial of the full product — no watermarks, no caps
- Viewers free forever — nobody pays to watch, comment or react
- Stop paying and every link you already sent keeps playing
No card to start the 7 days.
The Viewer Guarantee — viewers are free forever.
A person who watches, comments, or reacts will never appear on your invoice, never need a license, and never be auto-upgraded into a paid seat. Teams on other tools have opened invoices to find their viewers converted into paid seats after a billing-system change. That business model needs a name in the contract, so here it is — the Viewer Guarantee, printed here in full and standing as a clause of ours rather than as a line in our marketing.
Read the termsThe honest comparison
Loom invented this category. Then it changed the terms.
Loom's free plan is 25 videos with a five-minute cap, at 720p, with Loom's branding on them. Business is $15/user/month billed annually. And Atlassian's own documentation says the free “Creator Lite” role — the one your watchers sit in — “will be deprecated for all net new users after February 2026 and for existing users on a rolling basis”, with those users “automatically upgraded to full Creator (paid)”. Spool exists for the people who liked async video and stopped liking the terms.
| Spool | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| Per person who records, billed annually | $7/mo — $84/user/yr | $15/mo — $180/user/yr; $20/mo with AI |
| Per person who only watches | $0 forever, for anyone who only watches | $0 outside your workspace — inside it, the free Creator Lite role is being retired into a paid Creator seat |
| If you stop paying | Every link you already sent keeps playing | Access follows the plan |
Prices and quotes from loom.com/pricing and Atlassian's own Loom roles and billing documentation, checked 10 August 2026, annual against annual. Month to month it goes the other way: Loom Business is $18 and we are $20, so on the monthly cadence they are cheaper than us. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it within a day.
Desktop app
Recording happens in the app.
There is no browser recorder to fall back to, because the app is where the good version lives: a camera bubble that floats over every other app — including full-screen ones — native full-screen capture with no tab picker in the way, and the streaming upload that puts your share link on the clipboard before you have stopped talking. It is macOS 12 or later today, and the download page says so per system rather than making you find out after the click.
Everything that is not capture works in any browser, on any system, with nothing installed: watching, commenting, reacting, importing a video you already have, cutting it in the editor, and the share links themselves. So an account is worth having before there is a build for your machine — and when there is one, it carries over untouched.
Same plan, same links · macOS 12 or later · The download page shows where your system stands
The questions we get
Ask us the awkward ones
Is there a free plan, or just the trial?
Just the trial: 7 days of the entire product — no watermark, no cap, no card to start — and after that it is $7 a month billed yearly, or $20 billed monthly. We would rather charge one honest price than build a tier we have to make painful later.
What actually happens when I stop paying?
You cannot make new recordings. That is the whole list. Your library, your share links, your embeds, the comments on them, your exports and your viewers all keep working — it is enforced in code, in the two routes that make a recording, and nowhere else.
Do the people I send videos to need an account?
Never. No account, no app, no sign-in wall — they press play. And they never appear on your invoice: that is the Viewer Guarantee, and it is a clause in the terms of service.
What does editing change for people who already have the link?
Nothing they have to do. You edit, you save, and the same link starts playing the new cut. No re-upload, no second link to chase around a Slack thread.
Which machines can record?
macOS 12 or later, today. Windows and Linux cannot record yet — we would rather say so here than let you find out after the download. Everything else works in any browser.
Can I bring the videos I already have?
Yes. Import an MP4 or WebM — old downloads from another tool, QuickTime clips, whatever you have — and each one gets a share link and opens in the editor like anything recorded here.
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7 days, the whole product · Viewers free forever · Cancel and your links keep playing