00:00:00:00 Slate
Same recording. Same instant link. Same transcript. None of the AI upsell, the seat games, or the $18 a month. Slate is $7 a seat, always half of Loom whatever they charge, and free forever if it is just you.
Free forever for individuals · No card · Teams $7/seat/mo, 14 days free · Always half the price of Loom
00:00:11:04 Why we built this
Cory Doctorow's word for it: a platform is good to its users, then it squeezes them, and the product gets worse while the invoice gets bigger. We watched it happen to a tool we genuinely liked.
Atlassian bought Loom in 2023. Since then: Business at $18 a seat a month. An AI tier at $24 for summaries and filler-word removal, priced as an upgrade, sold as a revolution, asked for by nobody. And the free Creator Lite seats a lot of teams quietly built their workflow around, converted into seats you pay for. Teams have watched a few hundred dollars a year become a few thousand without a single new thing they wanted.
Not one of those changes made recording a video better. Every one of them made it cost more.
The promise
Always half the price of Loom.
$7 a seat against their $15 to $18. Half or better however you pay them, not just on the plan that flatters us. If they cut their price, we cut ours. That is the entire pricing strategy, and it is not a launch promotion.
A team of 10, one year
Free stays free for individuals. Not a trial, not a funnel, not degraded later.
Loom prices are Atlassian's published list prices ($15/seat/mo billed annually, $18 billed monthly), checked August 2026. Slate is not affiliated with Atlassian or Loom.
00:00:12:16 How we built it
Everyone else is using AI as a reason to charge you more. A summary button turns up on your invoice as $24 a seat. That is backwards.
AI should make software cheaper to build, and that saving should land on your bill, not theirs.
Slate was built fast and built cheap, and we are not going to be coy about how. That is exactly why it can be $7 a seat and still be a real business rather than a loss leader waiting to be repriced once you have moved your library across.
Not a suggestion box. The work starts the moment you hit send.
Takes a minute. A 30 second Slate video usually beats writing three paragraphs.
00:00:14:08 How it works
Three steps, and the slow one has been removed.
Pick a screen or a tab and go. Pause when the dog starts barking, resume when it stops. Fluffed the intro? Restart the take without picking your screen again.
The upload runs during the take, not after it. Stopping is instant, because there is nothing left to send. Copy the link and paste it where you were about to type three paragraphs.
Adaptive HLS, so it plays on a phone on hotel wifi. Comments land on the timecode they were written at. You see who watched and how far they got.
00:01:06:12 Request links
A request link is a standing invitation. Send it to a customer, a candidate, a contractor, your dad. They open it in a browser, hit record, and the video lands in your library.
Nothing else free does this.
Dana asked you for a video
“Can you walk me through the bug you hit on checkout?”
No account needed
00:02:31:00 The recorder
Most tools treat the recorder as a formality: a button that starts a file. It is where the time actually goes, so it is where we spent ours.
You flubbed the first sentence. Hit restart. The screen you already picked stays picked, the recorder is armed, and you go again. This is the thing that made us abandon the alternatives.
Elsewhere pick screen → record → restart → pick screen again → record
Slate pick screen → record → restart → record
Someone walks in, you pause. They leave, you resume. It stays one recording, one file, one link. No stitching afterwards.
Not after it. By the time you press stop, the video is already up and the link already resolves. There is no progress bar between you and sending it.
System audio capture and global hotkeys, without living in a browser tab. In progress. Not shipped yet, and not something you have today.
00:04:12:18 Playback
A link is only useful if it plays everywhere and tells you something.
Watch-through
00:05:48:06 Pricing
The free plan is not a trial with better manners. If you are one person recording videos, that is the whole product and it does not expire.
$0 free forever
For one person. No card, no trial clock, no expiry date on the thing you already recorded.
$7 per seat / month
For an organization that wants one shared library and someone able to administer it. 14 days free to find out.
Full comparison, roles, and what happens when a trial ends →
00:07:03:21 End of roll
It is free for one person and it stays free. If it turns out you need a team workspace, that conversation can happen later.