About
Why Voom exists.
Screen recording shouldn't require a subscription, a cloud upload, or a closed binary.
The idea
A tool that belongs to you.
Loom solved a real problem. Async screen recordings are genuinely useful for teams, documentation, and handoffs. But Loom is a closed, cloud-first product that costs $18 per user per month, sends your recordings to their servers, and runs as a 200 MB Electron app. None of that is necessary for the recording workflow itself.
Voom is the answer to that question: what does a screen recorder look like when it has no business model to protect? It's free, MIT-licensed, and built as a native Swift app. Recording, editing, and transcription all happen on your Mac — none of it leaves the machine unless you explicitly generate a share link. When you do share, the video goes to your own Cloudflare account, not ours. There are no Voom servers.
The goal is a tool that fits into your workflow without asking anything in return — no account, no trial, no telemetry, no lock-in. Just a fast, capable recorder that treats your screen and your voice as yours.
Principles
What Voom is built on.
Open by default
Every line of code is public under the MIT license. Fork it, audit it, ship it — no permission needed.
Private by design
Recording, editing, and transcription happen on your Mac. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, and no telemetry of any kind.
Native, not Electron
Voom is a ~5 MB Swift app built on Apple's own frameworks. Not a web page wrapped in a 200 MB runtime.
You own your data
When you share a recording, it goes to your own Cloudflare account — your R2 bucket, your domain, your Workers. Nothing touches infrastructure we operate.
Built in the open
Everything is on GitHub.
The source code, the releases, the issue tracker — all public. If something is broken or missing, open an issue. If you want to fix it, open a pull request.
Maintained by @aritropaul
Questions or ideas? Reach out at voom@aritro.xyz
Yours to keep, use, and change.
Download the app, read the code, or open a pull request. Voom is free, MIT-licensed, and built to stay that way.
Free forever · macOS 15+ · No account required