tday vs Loom: which should you use for product demos?
Loom records you explaining something. tday has your coding agent record the product. What each is for, its limits and its price, as of November 10, 2026.
By the tday team Published 5 min read
The short answer
Use Loom when a person needs to explain something once: a bug, a pull request, a decision. Use tday when the product needs a demo that stays correct: a narrated video your coding agent records, records again after a release, and keeps under the same link in your docs. As of November 2026, Loom's free plan allows 25 five-minute videos and Business is $18 per user a month. tday's free plan includes 5 saved demos, and Pro is $39 a month.
Key takeaways
- Loom is a message. tday is documentation. You notice the difference the first time the UI changes.
- A Loom is recorded by a person, and recorded again by a person. A tday demo is recorded by your coding agent, and recorded again with one request.
- Loom carries your voice and face. tday voices each line with an AI voice and adds captions, camera moves and title cards.
- Loom is priced per user: $18 a month on Business, $24 with AI. tday is priced per plan: $39 a month on Pro, with 2 seats and 25 saved demos.
- Plenty of teams need both, because they answer different questions.
Accurate as of . Every fact about Loom was read from its own website that day, and each page is listed under Sources. Prices and plans change, so check the vendor's page before you buy. tday publishes this blog and makes one of the two products compared.
Loom and tday both produce a video of software, so they look like rivals. They mostly are not. Loom answers "can you show me what you mean?" tday answers "where is the demo of this feature?"
One is a message and the other is documentation. A message can be out of date tomorrow and nobody minds. Documentation cannot. Most of the differences below follow from that.
tday vs Loom at a glance
| tday | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| What it makes | A narrated demo of your app in use | A recording of your screen, camera and voice |
| Who records | Your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) | You |
| Voice | An AI voice, one line at a time | Your own |
| Camera moves | Zooms to what each line points at | Automatic zoom is listed as coming soon |
| When the UI changes | The agent records again. Same link, same embeds | You record a new video |
| Runs on | macOS, Linux and Windows (WSL2), with an MCP coding agent | Mac, Windows, Chrome, iOS and Android |
| Free plan | 5 saved demos and 100 credits a month, with a tday badge | 25 videos of up to 5 minutes each, at 720p |
| Paid from | Pro $39 a month | Business $18 per user a month, or $180 a year |
Where Loom is the better choice
When you are the point. A code review, a bug report, feedback on a design. The viewer wants your voice and your reasoning, and an AI narrator would be worse.
One-off videos. Record, stop, paste the link. There is nothing to set up, and nothing to keep.
No repo, no agent. Loom needs a browser or its app. tday needs a coding agent on your machine and the app's code, except on Enterprise, where it can record in the cloud.
Conversation. Signed-in viewers can comment and react on the video, and Loom shows who watched.
Where tday is the better choice
Demos that have to stay right. When the product changes, your agent records the demo again and it becomes a new version of the same demo. The share link and every docs embed play the new take.
A lot of demos. One per feature, one per docs page. Your agent records them in a batch while you do something else.
No performance. Nobody rehearses or does retakes. The narration is text. Change a sentence in the editor and only that line is voiced again.
Clean data. The demo runs on a separate copy of your app with throwaway data, your name and email are swapped for a demo persona in web, Electron and terminal demos, and a possible secret on screen blocks the upload. Loom can blur, but only in its Chrome extension, and its help center says "Information cannot be blurred after recording".
What each one costs
Loom charges per user. Starter is free: 25 videos per person, 5 minutes each, at 720p, and you cannot download them. Business is $18 per user a month and removes those limits. Business + AI is $24 and adds editing by transcript, filler-word removal, and automatic summaries and chapters. Billed yearly, Business is $180 for one user.
tday charges per plan, not per user. Free includes 5 saved demos and 100 credits a month, which is 10 minutes of voiceover, with a tday badge. Pro is $39 a month for 2 seats, 25 saved demos and 500 credits. Growth is $149 for 3 seats and 150 demos. Recording and rendering use no credits.
So five people on Loom Business pay $90 a month. A team on tday Pro pays $39, but only 2 of them have seats.
Can a coding agent use Loom?
Yes, but for a different job. Loom's tools in Atlassian's MCP server let an agent upload and publish a recording that already exists. Record for agent, in open beta on Business + AI, goes the other way: you record up to five minutes, and Loom turns it into a prompt for an agent.
In neither case does the agent do the recording. With tday it does.
Which should you pick
If the video explains something to a person you know, use Loom. If it explains the product to people you do not know, and it has to still be right next quarter, use tday.
The common setup is both: Loom in pull requests, tday in the docs.
Frequently asked questions
Is tday a Loom alternative?
For product demos and docs videos, yes: tday has your coding agent record a narrated demo, and record it again under the same link when the product changes. For quick personal messages to teammates, no. That is what Loom is for.
Is Loom free?
Loom's Starter plan is free. As of November 10, 2026 it allows 25 videos per person, each up to 5 minutes, at up to 720p, and free videos cannot be downloaded. Business is $18 per user a month.
Can Loom update a video when the product changes?
You record a new one. We found nothing on Loom's site about replacing a video while keeping its link. A tday demo is recorded again as a new version of the same demo, so its share link and embeds do not change.
Does Loom have AI voiceover?
Not as full narration. As of November 2026 Loom's site lists AI voices and avatars as coming soon. A text-to-speech feature in beta replaces up to 10 words or phrases per video in your own voice.
More comparisons
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Or see all of them at once: The best demo video tools for developer-led startups in 2026, compared.
Sources
- Loom pricing, Loom
- How long can I record?, Atlassian
- Download your Loom video, Atlassian
- Edit your Loom video, Atlassian
- Blur sensitive information, Atlassian
- Loom video editing, Atlassian
- Loom MCP tools, Atlassian
- Record for agent, Atlassian
- Loom AI, Loom
- tday demos, tday docs
- tday plans and limits, tday docs
Have your coding agent record your first demo
One prompt in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex records a narrated demo of your app. tday voices, styles and renders it, ready for your docs. Free includes 5 saved demos.
