Calendly vs Loom
Pricing
Calendly: Free tier, paid from $10/mo
Loom: Free tier, paid from $18/user/mo
Description
Calendly: The scheduling link everyone knows
Loom: Quick video messages instead of meetings
Pros
- Universal recognition
- Solid free tier
- Just works
- 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
- Basic customization
- Feels corporate
- 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
Calendly is THE scheduling link. Tope Awotona bootstrapped it for 8 years with $200k of his own money before taking investment in 2021. Now has 20M+ users. Not the most innovative anymore, but it just works and everyone recognizes it.
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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