Async Video Messaging Software

The category-defining async video product, now an Atlassian product following the $975M October 2023 acquisition.

Loom defined the async video messaging category and remains the volume leader in 2026. Founded 2015 in San Francisco, acquired by Atlassian in October 2023 for $975M, and reset through 2024 and 2025 as an Atlassian Cloud product alongside Jira, Confluence, and Trello. The product covers browser and desktop screen-plus-camera recording, instant share links, transcripts, comments on the timeline, viewer signal, and Loom AI (summaries, action-item extraction, silent-segment removal) introduced post-acquisition. Strengths: fastest record-to-share UX in the market, the deepest Atlassian Cloud integration in the category, broad bottom-up adoption inside engineering and product teams, mature transcript and comment workflow, and Atlassian-parent stability that eliminates startup-stage vendor risk. The honest negative: Atlassian closed the acquisition in October 2023 and the product reset in 2024-2025 added AI features but also reduced free-tier limits (creator-class users on G2 and Reddit cite roughly 50% video-count caps on the free tier as material); previously-included AI features moved to higher-priced tiers; post-acquisition departures from the Loom team in 2024 were widely reported; and standalone product velocity has visibly slowed in favor of Atlassian Cloud integration. Best fit for Atlassian-anchored organizations (50 to 50,000 employees) where async video is part of how engineering, product, and customer-success teams already work. Standalone non-Atlassian buyers should weigh whether Loom is the right strategic bet versus the modern challengers.

Sales-led async video with the deepest CRM signal capture and a bundled video hosting offering.

Vidyard is the sales-led async video reference in 2026, with the deepest CRM and revenue-tool integration in the category. Founded 2010 in Kitchener (Ontario, Canada), Vidyard has raised over $80M (Bessemer, Battery, OMERS Ventures, BDC) and stayed focused on B2B revenue use cases rather than chasing the creator market. The async product covers screen and webcam recording (browser and desktop), branded share pages, in-video CTAs, AI script and personalization features, and the differentiating capability: per-prospect watch signal flowing into Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, and Gong. Strengths: deepest CRM and revenue-tool integration in the category, mature per-prospect watch analytics, strong fit for outbound SDR and AE workflows, AI Avatar and AI script personalization shipped through 2024-2025, and a culture of incremental product velocity rather than feature churn. Best fit for B2B sales and revenue teams (50 to 5,000 employees) that anchor on Salesforce or HubSpot and run async video at meaningful volume. Trade-offs: the async-only experience is less polished than Loom for one-off internal recordings; pricing is opaque above the SMB Pro tier; AI features are increasingly gated as add-ons; seat economics get expensive once large revenue teams roll out company-wide; and the marketing-led brand-video story is thinner than Wistia for buyers who need that as well.

Modern async video product that bets meeting-replacement as the core job-to-be-done.

Bubbles is the modern challenger that has bet most clearly on meeting-replacement as the defining job-to-be-done. Founded 2020 and raised a $4M Seed in 2023, Bubbles is built around the workflow where a team substitutes a synchronous meeting (standup, design review, decision thread, status update) with a recorded async video plus threaded async comments. The product covers screen-plus-camera recording, branched threaded comments per video, async-meeting workspaces, AI summaries and action items, and integrations with Slack, Notion, Linear, and Google Calendar. Strengths: the cleanest async-meeting workflow in the category (record video, share to thread, comments are timestamped to the moment in the video, AI synthesizes decisions), modern UX, founder-led product velocity, price-positioned below Loom Business + AI for comparable AI features, and a clear opinion about what the product is for. Best fit for product, engineering, design, and operations teams (10 to 500 employees) that want to actively reduce meeting load and are willing to change workflow to do so. Trade-offs: smaller deployed base than Loom or Vidyard, CRM signal capture not the focus, enterprise security and admin posture less mature than Loom or Vidyard, brand recognition still building outside async-work communities, and the meeting-replacement bet works best for teams that already buy into the philosophy.

Polish-and-edit async video for creators, design-led teams, and small B2B who want production quality without a video editor.

Tella is the polish-focused async video product, founder-led from London. The bet is workflow specificity: instead of competing with Loom on record-to-share speed or with Vidyard on CRM signal, Tella optimizes for the recorded video being good enough to ship without editing. The product covers multi-camera and multi-screen recording with automatic layout switching, background customization, captions and auto-generated chapters, basic editing (trim, cut, zoom), and modern share pages. Strengths: modern editing UX that produces broadcast-quality output without a separate editor, multi-camera and multi-layout recording, polish-first philosophy that wins creator and design-led buyers, founder-led product velocity, and price-positioned reasonably for the value. Best fit for creator-led teams, design agencies, small B2B marketing and content teams (5 to 100 employees) who want production quality and are willing to pay for polish. Trade-offs: feature breadth narrower than Loom or Vidyard by design, CRM signal capture intentionally not the focus, enterprise security posture less mature than Loom Enterprise, brand recognition still building outside creator and design circles, and the polish bet is wrong for teams that prioritize record-to-share speed above output quality.

Y Combinator outbound async video with AI personalization at moderate to high volume.

Sendspark is the modern outbound async video product, Y Combinator W21 alum from Miami. The bet is sales-focused workflow specificity: instead of competing with Vidyard on full CRM signal capture, Sendspark optimizes for the outbound SDR motion (record one base video, AI personalizes into dozens of variants, send through sequencer). The product covers screen and webcam recording, AI personalization (dynamic backgrounds, AI-generated intros, name-stitching), branded landing pages, CRM signal capture, and integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft, and the SDR stack. Strengths: modern UX targeted explicitly at outbound SDRs, AI personalization features that turn one base video into many personalized variants, fast product velocity, founder-led culture, price-positioned below Vidyard for similar use cases, and integrations with the SDR-native stack. Best fit for outbound SDR teams (5 to 500 employees) running personalized async video at moderate to high volume who want a modern AI-anchored alternative to Vidyard. Trade-offs: smaller deployed base than Vidyard, CRM signal capture decent but not as deep as Vidyard, enterprise security and compliance posture less mature, feature breadth narrower than Vidyard by design, and brand recognition still building outside SDR communities.

Australian specialist for personalized one-to-one async video at SMB volume.

Bonjoro is the SMB-focused personalized one-to-one async video specialist, founded 2017 in Sydney (Australia). The product is narrower than Vidyard or Loom by design, built specifically for sales, customer success, and onboarding teams that ship volume of short personalized videos to a customer or prospect. Strengths: deepest workflow for personalized one-to-one video (send via CRM trigger, follow up on the same thread, see watch signal in CRM), strong SMB and mid-market fit, founder-led culture with consistent product direction since 2017, integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, and the SMB revenue stack, and price-positioned below Vidyard for similar use cases. Best fit for SMB and mid-market sales, customer success, and onboarding teams (5 to 500 employees) that ship 50 to 500 personalized async videos per rep per month. Trade-offs: feature breadth narrower than Vidyard (Bonjoro chose this), CRM signal capture decent but not as deep as Vidyard, enterprise rollout coverage thinner, brand recognition outside ANZ and SMB e-commerce circles limited, and the platform is intentionally not for internal-team async.

Screen recording, GIFs, annotated screenshots, and async video clips in one product, rebranded from CloudApp.

Zight, formerly CloudApp, is the screen recording plus async video product founded 2013 in San Francisco. The product covers screen recording, annotated screenshots, GIF capture, async video clips, instant share links, and a desktop-first capture workflow. The CloudApp brand was widely used by engineering, product, and customer-support teams in the late 2010s; the 2023 rebrand to Zight refocused the product around a unified visual-communication workflow. Strengths: the most complete capture workflow in the category (screen recording, screenshots, GIFs, async video, all in one app), strong desktop-first capture UX, mature in engineering and customer-support workflows, broad integrations with Slack, Jira, GitHub, and the dev-tool stack, and price-positioned reasonably. Best fit for engineering, product, and customer-support teams (10 to 1,000 employees) who want async clips alongside annotated screenshots in one tool. Trade-offs: brand transition from CloudApp to Zight created some confusion in 2023-2024, async video is one workflow among several rather than the central product focus, AI features less mature than Loom AI, enterprise admin posture less mature than Loom Enterprise, and recent product velocity has been quieter than Bubbles or Tella.

Clean simple async video without account friction for individuals and small teams.

Berrycast is the no-friction async video product, founded 2019 in Vancouver (Canada). The bet is simplicity: instead of competing on feature breadth or enterprise admin, Berrycast optimizes for the individual or small team that wants record-and-share without platform overhead. The product covers browser-first screen recording, instant share links without recipient account requirements, basic transcripts, and minimal integrations. Strengths: cleanest no-account-friction share experience in the category (recipients do not need accounts to watch), browser-first recording with no desktop install required, minimal product surface that loads fast, founder-led with consistent direction, and price-positioned at the value end. Best fit for individuals, freelancers, and small teams (1 to 50 employees) who want Loom-style record-and-share without the platform overhead and without team admin complexity. Trade-offs: feature breadth narrower than every other product on this list, enterprise admin and SSO not the focus, CRM signal capture not the focus, brand recognition limited outside Canadian and small-team circles, and the no-friction bet is wrong for teams that want richer collaboration around the video.

Async clipping from longer recordings, the Riverside.fm async distribution layer for podcast and interview content.

Riverside Magic Clips is the async clipping feature inside Riverside.fm, founded 2019 in Tel Aviv. While Riverside.fm is best known as a remote podcast and interview recording platform, the Magic Clips feature is genuinely a distinct async distribution layer: AI-generated short clips from longer source recordings, designed for marketing and content teams that need async distribution of interview-driven content. The product covers AI clip suggestions from full-length recordings, captions and chapter generation, social-ready aspect ratios (9:16, 1:1, 16:9), branding overlays, and shareable clip pages. Strengths: best-in-class AI clip generation from longer source recordings (the source-to-clip workflow is the differentiator), Riverside.fm parent provides the recording infrastructure if needed, social-ready aspect ratios out of the box, founder-led product with consistent direction, and price-positioned reasonably for content teams. Best fit for podcast teams, marketing teams, and interview-driven content teams (5 to 500 employees) who produce longer source recordings and need async clips for distribution. Trade-offs: the product is async-distribution-from-source-recording, not record-and-share like Loom (different workflow); requires a source recording to clip from; brand recognition outside podcast and content circles is limited; CRM signal capture not the focus; and the async clipping use case is narrower than general async video.

Browser-extension async video and screen recording layered on top of the VEED.IO editing platform.

VEED Async is the async-recording layer of VEED.IO, founded 2018 in London. VEED.IO is best known as a browser-based video editor, but the async-video extension and screen-recording features are genuinely distinct: browser-extension screen and webcam recording, instant share links, basic transcripts, and the unified workflow into the VEED editing platform for post-recording edits. Strengths: the integrated record-then-edit workflow is the differentiator (record async, edit in VEED, share final), browser-extension recording with no desktop install, founder-led growth, strong UK presence, and price-positioned reasonably for content and marketing teams already using VEED. Best fit for marketing and content teams (5 to 500 employees) already using VEED for video editing who want a unified async recording-plus-editing workflow in one product. Trade-offs: VEED is primarily an editing tool with async-video as a secondary workflow, not async-first like Loom or Bubbles; CRM signal capture not the focus; enterprise admin posture less mature; the async-only experience is less polished than Loom; and brand recognition for the async use case specifically is still building.