Airtable vs Loom
Pricing
Airtable: Free tier, paid from $20/seat/mo (billed annually)
Loom: Free tier, paid from $18/user/mo
Description
Airtable: Spreadsheet-database hybrid for everything
Loom: Quick video messages instead of meetings
Pros
- Flexible as a spreadsheet
- Powerful as a database
- Great templates
- Record screen + face video and share a link in under 60 seconds
- Free tier gives you 25 videos up to 5 minutes each
- Replaces meetings that should have been an email (or a video)
Cons
- Gets expensive with team size
- Can become unwieldy
- Owned by Atlassian since 2023. Some features are being gated to paid plans
- Videos longer than 5 minutes or more than 25 videos require Business ($18/user/month)
Details
Airtable is what spreadsheets should have been. Part spreadsheet, part database, all flexible. Founded by Howie Liu who noticed 90% of spreadsheets don’t even use formulas: people just organize stuff. Great for tracking anything from content calendars to customer lists to inventory. Bending Spoons, the Italian software company, completed its purchase of Airtable on 4 September 2026.
Loom lets you record quick screen + face videos instead of scheduling meetings. Insanely useful for async teams. Started bootstrapped on maxed credit cards, grew to 10M+ users, sold to Atlassian for $975M in 2023. The free tier is still generous enough for most solo use. Business costs $18 per user per month and removes the video and length limits, and Business + AI costs $24 with AI editing; paying annually saves up to 17%.
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