Loom video to text

What you are transcribing

The transcript covers what is said, not what is on screen. If you click through a bug and say 'this button here', the text says exactly that and nothing about which button. For walkthroughs, that is the reason to read the transcript with the video open, or to rewrite phrases like 'here' and 'this one' as you edit.

Getting the video, step by step

1. Open your Loom video in a browser while signed in to your Loom account.
2. Look in the video's menu for a download option. Whether you see it depends on your plan and on whether you own the video or it was shared with you.
3. Save the MP4, then upload it in the box above.

Menu names and where options live change between app versions, plans and operating systems, so treat the steps as the general route and check the app's own help page for the current wording.

Whose recording is it

A Loom you recorded is yours. One a colleague or client recorded is theirs, and a screen recording often shows private data: names, emails, dashboards, customer records. Check you are allowed to share it with a third-party service before uploading. Uploading sends the file, including its audio, to our server; if the screen content is confidential, leave it out by uploading only the audio you extract, or look at self-hosting.

Length and size

Without an account one file can be up to 15 minutes and 25 MB. A free account lifts those per-file limits and keeps your transcripts in a library, so for anything longer than a short clip, create one rather than cutting the file up. Most Looms are a few minutes long and fit the guest limit easily. A recorded training session or walkthrough can run much longer.

What to do with the text

Turn it into written documentation: copy the text into your wiki, trim the umms, and add screenshots where you said 'here'. Export plain text for the doc or SRT and VTT if the video will be captioned elsewhere. For the same job on a screen-recorded meeting see meeting to text, or read the video-to-notes guide.