The best Loom alternative

Loom stores everything on their servers. That's the trade-off for convenience — your recordings live in Loom's cloud, governed by their storage limits, their retention policies, and their pricing tiers. Delete your account and your content goes with it.

Dina keeps recordings on your Mac. Every project is saved locally as an encrypted, self-contained .phia file. You decide where it lives — your local drive, an external SSD, or your own cloud storage provider. Bring your own S3 bucket, Vercel Blob, or any storage you already trust.

No vendor lock-in. No storage caps based on your subscription tier. No surprise "your workspace has exceeded its video limit" notifications. Your recordings belong to you, stored wherever you choose.

Loom captures your screen and shares it quickly. That's its strength — speed. But the result looks exactly like what it is: a raw screen recording with a floating webcam bubble.

Dina produces recordings that look like they were edited in a professional suite. Automatic zoom follows your cursor, wallpaper backgrounds frame your content, shadows and rounded corners give depth, and cursor animations add polish — all applied automatically during capture or fine-tuned in post-production.

The difference is visible immediately. A Dina recording looks like a product demo you'd put on your homepage. A Loom recording looks like an internal message. Both have their place, but when presentation matters, Dina delivers.

Loom offers basic trimming — cut the start, cut the end, maybe splice out a section. For anything more, you download and open a separate editor.

Dina is a full recording editor. After capture, you work in a timeline workspace with:

• Clip splitting, merging, and per-slice speed adjustment
• 5 caption styles (Classic, Minimal, Karaoke, Word Pop, Cinematic) with full customization
• Text, image, video, and slide overlays with enter/exit transitions
• Masking for blurring sensitive content — emails, passwords, notifications, Slack DMs
• Microphone voiceover recording directly in the timeline
• Keystroke visualization so viewers can follow along with shortcuts

Everything from capture to polished export happens in one window. No round-tripping between apps.

When you record with Loom, your video uploads to their cloud automatically. Your audio is processed on their servers for transcription. Your content passes through infrastructure you don't control.

Dina works entirely offline. Your screen capture, your audio, your webcam — it all stays on your Mac. AI transcription runs locally using downloadable Whisper models. AI voice generation runs on-device with Qwen TTS. Nothing leaves your machine unless you explicitly choose to share it.

For teams recording proprietary software, confidential client workflows, or internal processes, this isn't a feature — it's a requirement.

Loom's pricing scales with your team: free tier with limits, Business at $12.50/user/month, Enterprise with custom pricing. Add a team member and your bill goes up. Hit a storage limit and you upgrade or delete old recordings.

Dina is a one-time purchase. Pay once, own it forever. No per-seat pricing, no monthly invoices, no tier-gating. Every feature is available to every user. A team of one pays the same as a team of fifty.

We also offer a 7-day free trial with no credit card required and no export limitations during the trial. What you see is what you get.

Loom uses cloud-based AI for transcription, summaries, and its AI-powered features. Your audio travels to external servers, gets processed, and results come back. It's fast, but it's not private.

Dina includes downloadable Whisper models (Small, Medium, Large, and Large Turbo) that run entirely on your Mac. Generate accurate transcriptions in seconds without any network request.

Need a voiceover? On-device Qwen text-to-speech generates natural voices with 8 emotion styles — calm, excited, authoritative, playful, and more — directly on your hardware. Or connect ElevenLabs when you want premium cloud voices. The choice is yours.

Loom recently added basic drawing tools. Dina goes further with timeline-aware masking — add pixelation regions that appear and disappear at specific moments in your recording. Blur a notification that popped up at 0:23, mask a password field from 1:05 to 1:12, hide a client's email throughout.

Each mask region has its own fade-in and fade-out, and timing is adjusted directly on the timeline. This is post-production masking, not just a drawing overlay — you can refine it after recording, reposition it, and layer multiple masks.

Loom's sharing model is simple: every recording gets a Loom URL hosted on their platform. Convenient, but you're locked into their ecosystem for distribution, analytics, and access control.

Dina lets you generate shareable links for your recordings with full control over who can access them. Share with your team, collect feedback, and manage permissions — all without uploading to a third-party platform. When you need quick file sharing, export and upload to the storage provider you already use.

Loom caps export quality based on your plan. Free users get 720p. Business users get 4K. Everyone gets MP4.

Dina exports up to 4K at 60fps for every user, with three quality presets (Studio, Social Media, Web), 7 aspect ratio options, and frame rates up to 60fps. For advanced workflows, Dina's layer/stem export lets you export the composition without cursor and the cursor as a separate transparency layer — essential for motion designers and compositing workflows.

You also get thumbnail export from any frame and .srt transcript export — a complete content pipeline in one app.