00:00:00:00 Slate
Slate records your screen in the browser and uploads while you record. When you stop, there is nothing to wait for — the link exists. Paste it.
Free forever for individuals · No card · Teams $8/seat/mo, 14 days free · Always half the price of Loom
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
00:05:09:11 Why we built this
Loom was a good tool. Atlassian bought it in 2023, and since then the bill has gone one direction and the feature list has filled up with AI you did not ask for and cannot opt out of paying for. Business is $18 a seat a month. Want the AI? $24. Meanwhile the free Creator Lite seats a lot of teams quietly relied on are being converted into seats you pay for.
None of that made recording a video better. It made it cost more.
The promise
Always half the price of Loom.
$8 a seat against their $18. 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
$1,200 a year that stays in your business, for the recording, the link, and the transcript — which is what you were using it for.
Free stays free for individuals. Not a trial, not a funnel, not degraded later.
Loom prices are Atlassian's published list prices, billed monthly, checked August 2026. Slate is not affiliated with Atlassian or Loom.
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.
$8 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.