Bubbles

1. 1

   You record from the Chrome extension or the desktop app: screen, camera, both, or a full-page screenshot. Free users get unlimited screen recordings at up to 30 minutes each, which is a far higher ceiling than most free tiers.

2. 2

   The recording lands in a channel rather than only in your clipboard. Channels organize by project, team, or topic, so a video is filed where the conversation about it belongs instead of vanishing into a link somebody pasted three weeks ago.

3. 3

   Teammates respond with video replies and comments anchored to a moment on the screen. That threading is the core mechanic: a five-message video thread replaces a thirty-minute call and preserves the reasoning in a searchable place.

4. 4

   Separately, the AI notetaker joins your Google Meet or Zoom calls from Google Calendar or Outlook, records and transcribes them, and produces a summary and action items delivered by email and written back to the calendar event. On Pro you control which meetings it joins and who receives the recording.

5. 5

   Everything is searchable and shareable with teammates or external guests, and integrations flow through native Google Meet and Zoom support, 200-plus Zapier connections, and AI chat connectors for ChatGPT and Claude.

Freemium per-member subscription with pricing that adjusts automatically based on team size, discounted for yearly billing.

Value assessment: Bubbles at $12 per member per month billed yearly is the cheapest capable team tier in this category and it bundles two products. You get unlimited async recording with threaded video replies plus unlimited AI-notetaken meetings with transcripts and summaries, for less than Loom Business at $15 which does only the first and less than most standalone meeting notetakers which do only the second. The free tier is genuinely usable, with unlimited screen recordings at 30 minutes and a notetaker on every meeting, constrained only by a two-week lock. The value case fails for exactly one reason: none of this helps you sell anything. Judged as internal team infrastructure it is the best price-to-capability ratio here; judged as a sales tool it scores zero because it is not one.

Setup time

Fifteen minutes. Install the Chrome extension or desktop app, connect Google Calendar or Outlook if you want the notetaker, create a channel, and record. The free tier means the first month costs nothing and proves whether the habit forms.

Learning curve

Low mechanically, moderate culturally. Recording and replying are obvious. The change that has to be agreed explicitly is that a video reply is an acceptable answer, because if half the team responds by asking for a call the threading model never engages and you have bought an expensive recorder.

Onboarding

Fully self-serve on Basic and both Pro tiers, with a 14-day trial and pro-rata credits when changing tier. Enterprise arrangements exist for advanced security but are handled through conversation rather than a published plan.

Migration notes

There is no bulk importer from another recorder, so historical Loom archives stay where they are. Coming out of Bubbles, recordings can be downloaded but the threaded conversation structure has no equivalent elsewhere, so the discussion context is what you lose rather than the video. Free-tier users should note the two-week lock applies while you are evaluating.

Platforms

Chrome extensionDesktop applicationWeb

API

200-plus integrations via Zapier plus AI chat connectors for ChatGPT and Claude; native Google Meet and Zoom support. No general-purpose public API is published on self-serve tiers.

Compliance

GDPRAdvanced security features available for enterprise customers on request

Data residency

Not published as a self-serve option.

SSO

Not published on self-serve tiers; handled as part of enterprise arrangements.

Security notes

Pro adds control over which meetings the notetaker joins and who receives a recording, which is the most meaningful privacy control in the product given that the notetaker is a participant in live calls. Enterprise security features are available on request rather than documented on the pricing page.

Channels

Email and in-app supportHelp centerEnterprise support arrangements on request

Documentation

Help documentation covering recording, channels, video replies, the AI notetaker, calendar connection, and integrations.

Community

Founder-led content presence around async work and Zoom fatigue; no large standalone user forum.

Founded

2018

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Ownership

Venture-backed, private

Founders

Tom Medema

Employees

Small team, not disclosed

Funding

$8.5M raised in a round led by Khosla Ventures with Craft Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, 468 Ventures, and Bain Capital participating, plus angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Morris Jr.

Bubbles is the best value in async video for a team that talks to itself, and the threading is the reason. When the reply to a recording is another recording in the same channel, async video stops being a broadcast and starts actually replacing meetings, which is the thing every tool in this category claims and few structurally support. At $12 per member per month billed yearly you also get an AI notetaker with transcripts and summaries, which is a second product most teams would otherwise buy separately, and the free tier with unlimited 30-minute screen recordings is the most usable one here. Two caveats. Free recordings lock after two weeks, so the archive is not free, and the notetaker is a bot that shows up in your calls whether or not everyone is comfortable with that. And understand what you are not buying: Bubbles does nothing for sales, has no CRM writeback, and embeds in far fewer places than Loom. For a distributed team of three to thirty that wants fewer calls, it is the first thing to try.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.