Loom Record for agents vs Tellscreen (November 2026)
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Loom's Record for agents turns a screen recording into a prompt for an AI agent, with the transcript, keyframes, your clicks and, from the Chrome extension, console and network logs. It is in open beta, needs Loom Business + AI ($24 a user a month) and stops at 5 minutes. Tellscreen does the same job from any plan, including free, for recordings up to 4 hours and for videos you already have.
Tellscreen is ours. Loom's details come from Atlassian's help article on Record for AI agents and Loom's pricing page, read on 10 November 2026.
Side by side
| Loom Record for agents | Tellscreen | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan needed | Business + AI ($24 a user a month) or Enterprise | Free (5 change lists a month) or Pro ($8 a month, 200 a month) |
| Status | Open beta | Generally available |
| Longest recording | 5 minutes | 10 minutes free, 4 hours on Pro |
| Camera | Turned off in this mode | On or off, your choice |
| Where you record | Loom Chrome extension or desktop app 2.0+ | Any browser, Mac and Windows app, Claude Code button, or a link from any agent |
| Videos you already have | No; only recordings made in this mode | Yes: upload a file, send a link, or curl -T video.mp4 |
| What the agent gets | Tasks with instructions, transcript quotes, keyframes and timestamps | A numbered change list: your exact words, where on screen, how to check it's done, and a screenshot of each moment, then the timed transcript |
| Clicks, visited links | Yes | No |
| Console and network logs | Yes, from the Chrome extension | No |
| Sending it to the agent | Opens Rovo or Claude with the prompt filled in, copies it, or makes a Jira work item | Pasted into Claude Code or Codex automatically when they asked for it; copied otherwise; MCP server for Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop |
Where Loom is the better choice
- Bugs in a web app. Console and network logs from the Chrome extension tell an agent what failed, not only what it looked like.
- Teams already on Jira and Loom Business + AI. A recording becomes a Jira work item in one step.
Where Tellscreen is the better choice
- Any length. Reviews and walkthroughs often run past five minutes.
- Price. No $24-per-user plan is needed; the free plan includes 5 change lists a month.
- Videos you already recorded. A QuickTime file, a phone video or a downloaded Loom goes through the same pipeline. How to send a video to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
- From inside your agent. Claude Code and Codex can ask for a recording and get the change list back as the prompt, without you copying anything. Tellscreen for Claude Code and Codex.
Why a recording needs converting at all
Claude, GPT and the models behind Codex and Cursor can't take a video file, and without the sound they can't tell what you asked for. We measured it: given only frames, none of them named a single change.
Sources
- Loom help, record for AI agents, read 10 November 2026
- Loom pricing, read 10 November 2026