Loom feeling slower since the Atlassian move? A faster free option

If your Loom has been glitchy lately — uploads stalling at 60% on a fast connection, audio drifting out of sync with the screen, the login flow looping back to SSO that won’t accept your email — you are not alone and you are not imagining it. Since Atlassian finished migrating Loom onto its account and billing stack in 2025/2026, users have reported upload lag, audio-sync issues, failed uploads, and login friction across the Loom help center and various social platforms. We are stating these as user reports, not Loom facts — read the linked thread for the source signal.

The practical question this post answers: if the demo you have at 3pm is going to be a screen recording and Loom isn’t behaving for you this morning, what’s the fastest free bridge to the next 30 days? Loom plan details reflect Loom’s public pricing pages as of July 2026.

A note on freshness: Loom’s behaviour this week and Atlassian’s product roadmap change, so this post’s “how to bridge” advice is dated July 2026. If you’re reading this in 2027 the Loom-specific parts may be stale but the general pattern (browser-based recorder as a fallback) still holds.

What’s actually being reported

Pulling from the Loom community and a few Reddit threads (not endorsements — sources): users have called out:

• Long upload queues — a 7-minute recording taking 25+ minutes to upload, sometimes failing and requiring a retry.
• Audio drifting out of sync by a second or two from the screen video.
• Failed uploads with a vague “Upload failed. Please try again” message that succeeds on retry without explanation.
• Login flows that bounce between personal and workspace logins, especially after an Atlassian-domain migration.
• SSO requirements being added where they weren’t before.
• Higher frequency of “your recording failed to save” when the recorder window loses focus mid-record.

We have no Loom-side statement to link to because, at the time of writing, Loom’s status page hasn’t been updated to reflect the bulk of these. Treat them as user reports — sufficient signal to choose a backup, not sufficient to predict Loom’s reliability next month.

The pragmatic question

You don’t have the time or the political capital to argue about whether this is going to last. You need a screen recording by 3pm. You’re not signing up for a new paid product. You don’t want to learn OBS. You want something that:

• Runs in a browser tab you already have open
• Doesn’t ask you to sign up
• Records screen + audio
• Saves the file locally on your device
• Lets you share the result with a link

That’s the bar. Three tools meet it that we know of in July 2026:

The bridge: a browser-based recorder (Pullsy)

Pullsy is a screen recorder that runs in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. No install. Open pullsy.online/record, grant screen capture permission, hit record. When you’re done, the file lands in your downloads and you can either drag it into Slack/email or click “Upload to share” for a free hosted link (30-day retention on the free tier).

The thing that makes Pullsy a useful Loom-bridge (and not just another recorder) is that it covers both jobs you might do with a Loom today:

• Quick share link: Upload to share, send the URL. Loom-shaped workflow.
• Send the file: pull the local MP4 out of your Downloads folder, attach it where it needs to go. The cloud isn’t in the critical path.

If the recorded file never needs to leave your device (say, you’re embedding in a Slide deck, attaching to an internal Confluence, or pasting into an email draft), Pullsy’s local-first means the work doesn’t depend on anyone else’s infrastructure this morning.

Other browser-based screen recorders in this category include Screencastify, Loom’s own web-based extension, and a few emerging ones. The reasons we’d pick Pullsy specifically for this situation: no watermark on the free output (Screencastify watermarks free recordings), no required login to share (Loom web still requires login), and a 5-min cap on free (matches Loom Starter).

For a side-by-side with Loom, see pullsy-vs-loom.

What we recommend doing while Loom is shaky

Concretely, for the next 30 days:

1. Keep your Loom account active. If your team uses Loom for shared video libraries, don’t quit. The recordings are there.
2. Make a list of which Loom workflows matter most. Are you primarily a sender (you record and share) or a viewer (you watch what others send)? Senders benefit most from a browser-based backup.
3. Add a browser recorder to your toolkit. Open Pullsy (or your choice) on your machine. Try it on one non-critical recording this week — get the muscle memory before you need it under pressure.
4. Don’t churn your existing Loom recordings. If they’re hosted there and viewers have the links, leave them. Use our Loom to MP4 tool only when you specifically want a local copy of one.
5. Watch the Loom status page for any official recovery announcements. If they fix the issue, the Loom-shaped workflow resumes for you and you’ve paid nothing.

When Loom is back to normal for you, the backup is still useful

A browser-based recorder as a permanent second tier is genuinely useful even when Loom is fine, because:

• It works on devices where Loom isn’t installed (a borrowed machine, a locked-down work laptop, an iPad-only colleague’s device).
• It’s the only way to record an interview where the other person is in the room.
• It’s the only way to record an iPhone or iPad demo by pairing through a desktop browser.

The Atlassian situation is a moment to add the backup, not a permanent break with Loom.

What we don’t know

A few things this post isn’t claiming:

• We don’t claim Loom is broken globally. The reported issues are user reports, not Atlassian statements, and there are plenty of users who aren’t seeing issues.
• We don’t claim Pullsy is “faster than Loom” in absolute terms. Both tools upload through their own CDN. Pullsy’s local-first option just doesn’t go through a CDN for the work that doesn’t need to.
• We don’t claim Pullsy is a permanent replacement. If your team uses Loom for shared libraries, comments, Q&A, and workspace management, Pullsy is a different shape — it’s a per-recording tool, not a team workspace.

The honest read: if Loom is glitchy for you this week, the right move is to make today’s recording on something that isn’t Loom, and then wait a week and see if Loom’s behaviour improves. This post is the second half of that move.

Frequently asked questions

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→ pullsy.online/record

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Loom is a trademark of Atlassian. Pullsy is not affiliated with or endorsed by Loom. Loom plan details reflect Loom’s public pricing pages as of July 2026.