Export and formatsSharing1 November 2026·4 min read

How to get your videos out of Loom

There is no bulk download: Loom's bulk actions are move, archive, delete and change access. Downloads are one at a time, paid-only and role-gated, captions do not come with the file, and Loom documents no window to collect them after you cancel.

Musthaq Ahamad

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There is no bulk download. Loom's own page on bulk actions lists all four it offers, and they are Move, Archive, Delete and Change access. Taking your videos with you means saving them one at a time, on a paid plan, before you stop paying.

Loom's own pages, read in November 2026.

One video at a time, as MP4

Loom's only download page is per-video: open the video in your library and pick Download. "When you download a Loom, it is downloaded in the .MP4 format."

Some of the video does not come with it. "While all video trims will be retained in the mp4-downloaded format, it's important to note that other Loom features, including CTAs, Filler Word + Silence removal, Chapters, and Closed Captions, will not be included in the downloaded file." Trims survive. Captions do not. How to download a Loom video as an MP4 walks through the single-video route.

Downloading is a paid feature

"The download feature is only available on Business, Business+ AI, or Enterprise plans. Users on the Starter Free plan can't download videos." And by role: "Creator Lite and Viewer roles don't have download permissions on any plan."

Three more refusals Loom documents: a video using Variables cannot be downloaded at all, a meeting recording can only be downloaded by the organiser, and "you won't be able to download Loom videos over 20GB". An admin on the top plans can also switch downloads off for the whole workspace, covering "videos and transcripts".

There is no account-level export. The only thing Loom calls an export is an engagement analytics CSV, which is numbers about your videos and not the videos.

The order matters more than people expect

Loom documents what downgrading does: a five-minute recording limit, a 25-video limit, and "if your video count exceeds 25 you will still have access to all your videos" without being able to record new ones. Premium features last "until the end of your billing cycle".

Put that beside the gating above. Downloading needs a paid plan. Downgrading leaves you on Starter, where downloads are not available. Loom documents both halves on separate pages and never joins them up, and Loom documents no window at all in which somebody who has left may collect their files.

So save first, cancel second. How to cancel Loom covers the exit, and do not reach for delete on the way: a deleted Loom video is gone immediately, with no trash to fish it out of.

Moving between workspaces is not an escape route either. Loom's transfer tool works only out of a legacy Loom workspace, moves your personal library and not the workspace, does not recreate your Spaces, and does not redirect the links you already sent. On transferring between accounts Loom is flat: "We don't currently have a way to transfer content from one account to another."

Plenty of people meet all of this at renewal, which is when a price rise sends them looking.

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Files you already have

Every Prequel recording is a folder under ~/Movies/Prequel on your Mac, and every export is a file in the place you picked. There is nothing to retrieve, no plan that gates saving your own video, and no size at which saving stops working. Where files live lists what a session holds and export covers the formats.

Captions are drawn into the export, so they are in the picture and travel with the file.

Record the next one somewhere you can still reach it next year.

Prequel needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later. Download Prequel for Mac and try it free for 7 days, with no watermark on anything you export. After that it is $9 a month or $39 once. See what it costs.