Berrycast vs Loom
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentBerrycast compared with Loom
Loom is the better-known product with a stronger recorder, a much larger integration ecosystem, and more mature library management, at a higher per-seat price and with free recordings capped at five minutes. Berrycast is cheaper, adds AI summaries as standard, and offers a reported self-hosted enterprise option Loom does not. Most teams will default to Loom; teams that care about multilingual transcripts, branding on a budget, or self-hosting should look at Berrycast first.
Choose Berrycast if
Small businesses, agencies, and support or professional services teams on Windows and Mac who need recorded explanations to be searchable and summarized, especially where recipients speak different languages, and who want a low-cost tool that lives next to their email and project management stack.
Choose Loom if
Distributed teams that want to replace status meetings, code walkthroughs, design feedback, and support explanations with recordings, especially teams already inside Atlassian tools, plus solo operators and small companies who can live inside the free 25-video allowance.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Berrycast | Loom |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Video | Video |
| Starting price | Reported between $4 and $9.99 per user per month depending on plan and source (free plan available) | $0 (Starter), then $18 per user per month billed monthly (Business) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-user subscription with a capped free plan and a quoted enterprise tier. Published figures vary between sources and should be verified with the vendor. | Freemium per-seat subscription with three published tiers and a quote-only Enterprise tier, discounted roughly 17 percent for annual billing. |
| Free plan | Around 10 videos per month, including annotation and trimming, with Berrycast branding retained. | Starter includes 25 videos per person, a hard five-minute cap per recording, 720p, transcriptions, comments, and emoji reactions, for workspaces of up to 50 members. |
| Free trial | 14 days of full features, extendable by a further 14 days, with no credit card required | Free Starter plan serves as the evaluation path; paid tiers can be trialed from within the product |
| Best for | Small businesses, agencies, and support or professional services teams on Windows and Mac who need recorded explanations to be searchable and summarized, especially where recipients speak different languages, and who want a low-cost tool that lives next to their email and project management stack. | Distributed teams that want to replace status meetings, code walkthroughs, design feedback, and support explanations with recordings, especially teams already inside Atlassian tools, plus solo operators and small companies who can live inside the free 25-video allowance. |
| Setup time | Fifteen minutes. Install the Windows or Mac desktop recorder or the browser extension, sign in, grant screen recording permission, and record. Connecting Gmail or Outlook and setting up a custom URL on a paid plan adds a further half hour. | Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension or desktop app, sign in with Google or your work account, grant screen and microphone permissions, and record. There is nothing to configure before the first useful video. |
| Learning curve | Very low. The product does recording, transcription, trimming, annotation, and sharing, and does not attempt anything that requires learning. The only habit worth establishing is naming and foldering recordings early, because a searchable transcript helps only if the library has some structure around it. | Near zero for recording. The part teams get wrong is cultural rather than technical: async video only replaces meetings if people agree to watch recordings instead of asking for a call, and that convention has to be set explicitly. |
| Platforms | Windows desktop application, macOS desktop application, Browser extension, Web viewing pages, Mobile access to recordings | Chrome extension, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web |
| Compliance | No SOC 2 or ISO certification publicly marketed | SOC 2, GDPR, Covered by Atlassian's enterprise security and compliance program |
| Founded | 2019 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Canada | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held, no disclosed venture funding | Owned by Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) |
Strengths and limitations
Berrycast
Strengths
- Automatic transcription and AI summaries across 60 or more languages come standard rather than as a premium add-on, which makes a video library searchable and skippable.
- Native applications for both Windows and Mac plus a browser extension, so mixed teams can standardize on it where macOS-only tools cannot be used.
- Custom branding, custom URLs, and password protection at a low per-user price make client-facing sharing look professional.
- Gmail and Outlook integration puts recording where the message is being written rather than in a separate application.
Limitations
- Published pricing is genuinely unreliable, with third-party sources reporting five different figures for the paid tiers and the vendor page not surfacing them to automated readers.
- No polish features at all: no automatic zoom, no transcript-based editing, no filler word removal, no visual framing.
- The free plan's ten videos a month is small, and it is a count limit rather than a length or storage limit, which penalizes exactly the frequent-use habit a video tool is meant to build.
- No published SOC 2 or ISO certification and very little disclosed corporate information, which a formal security review will notice.
Loom
Strengths
- The recording experience is still the best in the category: parallel upload means the link is ready instantly, and the extension and desktop app are both genuinely reliable under load.
- Embedding is unmatched, with the player unfurling natively across more than 400 tools including the entire Atlassian suite, Notion, Slack, Figma, and GitHub.
- Transcription and closed captions in more than 50 languages are included on the free tier rather than paywalled.
- Atlassian ownership means real security engineering, SSO and SCIM, custom retention policies, and an uptime SLA, which is more compliance surface than any independent vendor in this category offers.
Limitations
- Zero dynamic personalization: no per-prospect backgrounds, no animated GIF thumbnails generated per contact, no bulk generation from a CSV, and no per-prospect landing pages.
- CRM logging is minimal, and the only first-party CRM connector is Salesforce on the quote-only Enterprise tier, so HubSpot users get nothing native.
- The free tier's five-minute recording cap is much tighter than Vidyard's 30 minutes or Bubbles' unlimited screen recordings, and it stops most real use cases dead.
- Editing is shallow: trim, stitch, text, arrows, and boxes. No multi-track timeline, no zoom and pan, no b-roll.
Pricing compared
Berrycast
Per-user subscription with a capped free plan and a quoted enterprise tier. Published figures vary between sources and should be verified with the vendor.
- Free$0
- Personal$4
- Pro$9.99
- Team$21
- EnterpriseCustom
If the reported figures are accurate, Berrycast is one of the better-value tools here: unlimited recordings with automatic transcription, AI summaries across 60-plus languages, custom branding, custom URLs, password protection, and viewing analytics at around $10 a user is more capability per dollar than Loom Business, and considerably more than Zight at a similar price. The transcript and summary layer alone justifies the gap over a plain capture tool. The value judgement carries an asterisk, because pricing that cannot be confirmed from the vendor's own page is a risk in itself, and because you get none of the modern polish features that make a video pleasant to watch.
Loom
Freemium per-seat subscription with three published tiers and a quote-only Enterprise tier, discounted roughly 17 percent for annual billing.
- Starter$0
- Business$18
- Business plus AI$24
- EnterpriseCustom
Business at $18 monthly is priced as the category default rather than as a bargain, and after the Atlassian acquisition it stopped being cheap. What you get for it is the most reliable recorder in the category, the best embedding story anywhere, transcription in 50-plus languages, and no usage meter to model. For an internal communication use case that is good value, particularly if you already run Jira and Confluence and can use the bug report flow. For a sales use case it is poor value, because the personalization and CRM machinery that justifies a higher price elsewhere simply is not here, and the one CRM connector Loom does ship is locked behind a quote. Buy it for the team, not for the pipeline.
Editorial verdict on each
Berrycast
Berrycast is a sensible, unglamorous choice that does more than its price suggests. Automatic transcription and AI summaries across 60-plus languages turn a folder of recordings into something searchable and skimmable, custom branding and custom URLs make client-facing sharing look professional, and native Windows and Mac apps plus Gmail and Outlook integration mean it fits a mixed team's existing habits. The 14 day trial that extends to 28 is the right way to evaluate it. Two things should give you pause. Its published pricing genuinely cannot be pinned down from public sources, which is a bad sign for a tool you are asking a finance team to approve, and there is no polish layer at all, so the video itself will never look better than a plain screen recording. Buy it for internal async communication and client explanation where searchability matters more than production value. Look elsewhere entirely if the video is going in front of prospects.
Read the full Berrycast profileLoom
Category LeaderLoom is still the best pure recorder in async video, and the reason is unglamorous engineering: it uploads while you talk, so the link is always ready. Add transcription in 50-plus languages on the free tier, embedding across more than 400 tools, and Atlassian's security program behind it, and it remains the safe default for a team that wants to stop holding meetings. Buy it for internal communication, support explanations, and design and code review, ideally on Business plus AI where filler word removal quietly makes every recording watchable. Do not buy it for sales. There is no dynamic personalization, no per-prospect landing page, and the only CRM connector is Salesforce behind an Enterprise quote. The five-minute free cap and post-acquisition price increases also mean Loom is no longer the cheap option it once was, and buyers who care mainly about price should look hard at Bubbles.
Read the full Loom profileBerrycast profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Loom last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.