Best alternatives to Boom - Free Screen Recorder & Screen Capture (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Boom, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Boom alternatives, compared
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Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture
Record your screen and camera with one click. Share that content in an instant with a link.
≈8M users2.7★ from 10.2K ratingsUpdated 8 days ago15 permissions- About 2667× more users than Boom
- Rated 2.2 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 9)
- Listed under Communication
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Screen Capture Recorder 4K
Capture and record your screen in high-quality 4K resolution with ease. Become a KOFIKLUB Member Today!
≈2K users3.0★ from 8 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago3 permissions- About 1.5× fewer users than Boom
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Cap - Screen Recorder & Screen Capture
Free, open source screen recorder. Capture your screen, tab, camera & mic in Chrome and share a video link the moment you stop.
≈10K users4.0★ from 8 ratingsUpdated 11 days ago9 permissions- About 3.3× more users than Boom
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Communication
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Vidyard - Screen Recorder & Screen Capture
Capture your screen, share your video and track who's watching it!
≈300K users4.0★ from 1.3K ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago11 permissions- About 100× more users than Boom
- Rated 0.8 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (11 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Screen capture and recorder - Screenshot Tool
Record screen and camera, screenshot, edit, and share via Google Drive
≈50K users4.0★ from 2K ratingsNot updated for 2+ years8 permissions- About 17× more users than Boom
- Rated 0.9 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (8 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Screen Capture Recorder
This recorder is a free recorder that can capture content of screen, individual windows or tabs. Save video to PC/Google Drive.
≈1K users3.6★ from 104 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago2 permissions- About 3.0× fewer users than Boom
- Rated 1.2 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Screen Recorder
Free Simple tool for high quality video capturing from Tab, Area of the page and full Screen, with Mic, Webcam and System audio
≈400K users3.7★ from 1.1K ratingsNot updated for 3+ yearsNo special permissions- About 133× more users than Boom
- Rated 1.2 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Simple Screen Recorder
Record video from your current browser tab in one click. Simple Tab Recorder captures tab activity easily with high-quality output.
≈5K users4.0★ from 16 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago4 permissions- About 1.7× more users than Boom
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Screen Recorder
Record a video from the camera or capture it from the screen (desktop, specific application window or browser tab)
≈2M users3.8★ from 1.9K ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 667× more users than Boom
- Rated 1.1 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 9)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Supercut – Screen Recorder & Camera Capture
The fastest way to share your screen & camera to create professional-looking video for both internal and external communication
≈2K users5.0★ from 21 ratingsUpdated 13 days ago11 permissions- About 1.5× fewer users than Boom
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (11 vs 9)
- Listed under Communication
Boom alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Boom?
By users, the most popular alternative is Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture with ≈8M users and a 2.7-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture.
Which Boom alternative has the best rating?
Vidyard - Screen Recorder & Screen Capture has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.0 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings.
Is there a Boom alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Screen Recorder asks for 0 permissions, against 9 for Boom.
How many alternatives to Boom are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Boom on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
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