Loom-class recording. Minus the $15/month. Minus the cloud.
Press one hotkey — or just say “Voom” — and Voom records your screen, your voice, and you, floating over the page as a clean AI-cutout presenter. Stop, and a playable MP4 is on your Mac with its path on your clipboard. Nothing uploads. Nobody bills you.
Three moves. Zero editing timeline.
1 — Start
Press ⌥⇧R for the full screen, ⌥⇧W to scope a single window, or literally say “Voom”. The REC light is honest — it only turns red once frames are verifiably flowing to disk.
2 — Present
Toggle the presenter camera (⌥⇧C) and you float over your screen as a clean AI cutout — drag yourself anywhere, switch cameras by name, pick your shape and framing.
3 — Stop & ship
Say “stop Voom” or hit the hotkey again. A corruption-proof MP4 is already playable in ~/Movies/VoxRecordings and its path is on your clipboard. Drop it in Slack. Done.
The flagship feature of $200/yr apps, running on your Mac.
On-device ML segmentation cuts you out of your background in real time. No green screen, no ring light, no room cleanup — and every style works in wide, square, or tall framing.
Clean AI cutout
The upscale default: just you, cut out of your background, grounded by a feather-light shadow. No glow, no gimmick — Apple-keynote energy over your own screen.
Glow accent
When a take wants energy, switch on the colored aura — mint, hero blue, champagne, cyber cyan. One dropdown, same cutout engine.
Real chroma key
Own a green screen? Voom does true color-cube keying with green-spill suppression — broadcast-style transparency at zero CPU drama.
Raw shapes
No AI, no cutout — your feed in a crisp circle, squircle, portrait, or hexagon. The classic Loom bubble, minus Loom.
Square & tall framing
Full-height square for the corner bubble, tall for vertical-video crops, wide for the whole scene — all crop-first with no distortion, ever.
You’re the director
Drag yourself anywhere mid-take. Scroll to resize — from a corner thumbnail to nearly full screen — or just say “camera bigger”. Your size sticks, cameras are remembered by name, and follow-me tracking only runs if you opt in.
Loom is a subscription. Voom is a hotkey.
Loom is a polished product — that uploads every take to its cloud, caps the free tier, and bills per seat, per month, forever. Voom takes the other road.
| Voom | Loom | Presenter apps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 forever | $15–18 / user / month | $200+ / year |
| Where recordings live | Your Mac | Their cloud | Varies |
| AI presenter cutout | ✓ on-device | Limited | ✓ (their headline feature) |
| File ready | Instantly, on stop | After upload & processing | After export render |
| Free-tier limits | None | Recording caps & branding | Watermarks / trials |
| Start by voice | ✓ say “Voom” | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ MIT | ✗ | ✗ |
Loom is a fine tool if your team lives in its library. If you just want the recording — it’s your Mac, your file, your call.
Voom ships inside Vox — a private AI dictation machine.
One install gets you both. Vox is the voice layer: hold a key, speak, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is — transcribed locally by Whisper, never uploaded.
Dictate anywhere
Hold Right Option, talk, release — clean text pastes into any app in about 1.5 seconds. English and French, personal vocabulary, zero cloud.
Hands-free Conversation Mode
Toggle once and just talk to your editor or AI assistant — live word-by-word typing, self-revising text, “ok send” to ship, a bell when it’s your turn.
Narrate your Vooms
The same voice engine powers your recordings: dictate the doc, record the walkthrough, ship both — one tool, one hotkey away.
Get Voom for Mac.
Enter your email and you’ll land on the download page with the 2-minute setup guide — or skip the form entirely with the direct links below.
Recording in 3 minutes
Open the DMG, or paste one line into Terminal. Everything (engine, models, presenter binary) installs itself.
macOS asks once, for “Hammerspoon” (Voom’s engine). That’s the whole setup.
You’re recording. Stop, and the MP4 path is on your clipboard.
curl -fsSL https://automatescale.com/vox/install | bash
Stop renting your own recordings.
Voom is what happens when screen recording is built like infrastructure instead of a SaaS funnel: local, instant, open source — and finished the moment you stop talking.