You recorded something in Loom and now you want the file. Maybe you are moving tools, maybe you want it in a deck, maybe you just do not want a video you made living only on somebody else's servers.
There are three ways to do it, and which one you need depends on one thing: is the video yours, and is the link public. Start at the top and stop as soon as one works.
1. Loom's own download button
Try this first. It is the official route, it gives you the best quality available, and it takes two clicks.
Open the video while signed in to the account that owns it. In the share or options menu you will find a Download option. Pick it, and the MP4 saves to your machine.
That is the whole job for your own recordings. If the option is there, use it and stop reading.
2. A free browser tool, for a public link
The download button is not always there. The usual reasons:
- You are not signed in, and you do not want to make an account to keep a video somebody sent you.
- You are a viewer rather than the owner, and the owner left downloads switched off.
- You are on a borrowed laptop, or a locked-down work machine, and signing in is more trouble than the video is worth.
For a publicly shared link, a browser tool solves this. Paste the link, get the MP4. Ours is here: free Loom video downloader. No account, no watermark, and no cap on how many you save.
One thing worth knowing about how it works, because most tools in this category do not tell you. The video does not pass through our servers. Your link is used once to ask Loom where the file lives, then your own browser fetches it from Loom directly. We never hold a copy, which is the answer to "what are you doing with my video" being nothing, structurally, rather than as a promise.
Copy the link from the Share button rather than the address bar if you can. Both usually work, but the share link is the one guaranteed to be the public one.
3. When the video is private, you cannot
This is the part other guides are vague about, so here it is plainly.
If a Loom video is password-protected, locked to a workspace, restricted to a company email domain, or shared with named people only, then a link on its own is not enough to open it. No tool changes that. Anything promising to download a private Loom is either lying or is asking you to hand over your Loom login, which is worse.
The fix is not technical. Ask the person who owns it to send you the file, or to turn the download option on. It takes them ten seconds.
Same answer for a video that has been deleted. If Loom does not have it, nobody does.
Moving a whole library out
If the reason you are here is that you are leaving Loom, do not do it one link at a time. Loom has a bulk export in workspace settings that gives you everything at once. A link-by-link tool is the wrong shape for two hundred recordings, and you will lose an afternoon to it.
Downloading on a phone
It works, mostly. The download runs in your browser, and mobile browsers are stricter about writing large files to disk than a laptop is. A two-minute recording is fine. A forty-minute screen share is where it starts to fail, and the fix is to do it on a computer.
One thing to think about before you send it anywhere
Most people downloading a Loom are about to send it to somebody. Often to a lot of somebodies.
That is where the file stops being enough. One recording says one opening line, and everyone who watches it hears the same one. Send it to five prospects and it lands as a personal message. Send it to two hundred and it lands as a mailshot, because it is one. Recording it again per person is the obvious answer and it is also the thing nobody does twice.
That gap is what we build for. One recording, and the opening line gets re-spoken for each lead with their name in it, in your own voice, lip-synced onto your real footage. The demo never changes. Only the greeting does, and the words stay yours.
If that is the problem you actually have, the honest comparison is on the Loom alternative page, and you can see what a lead would open without giving us an email.
If you just wanted the file, the downloader is up there and it is free. Go and get it.
Common questions
Can I download a Loom video that is not mine? Only if it is shared publicly and the owner has left downloads on. A video locked to a workspace, restricted to certain people, or protected with a password needs permission the link does not carry, and no tool can create that permission.
How do I download a Loom video without an account? Use a browser tool that takes the share link, like the free Loom video downloader on this site. It works on public links and does not ask you to sign up. Loom's own download button needs you signed in.
What format does a downloaded Loom video come in? MP4, which plays on anything. Loom keeps some recordings as a stream rather than a finished file, and those cannot be saved as an MP4 without being rebuilt first.
Can I download a Loom video on my phone? Usually yes, but a long recording is more reliable on a laptop. Mobile browsers are stricter about saving large files, and iOS in particular is fussy about where a video download lands.
How do I download my whole Loom library at once? Use Loom's own bulk export from workspace settings. Link-by-link tools are the wrong shape for hundreds of videos, and an export gives you everything in one go.