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It's 8:47 PM, you just finished prepping tomorrow's slide deck. Tomorrow's class is the third in a five-lesson unit on probability, and you know three students are out sick. You could type up a summary of what they'll miss. You could write it out by hand and drop it in the parent group chat. You could just say "watch the recording later" — but there's no recording, because Loom caps you at 5 minutes and your lecture is 50.
Pullsy gives you unlimited-length lecture capture, free, with auto-chapters (so students can scrub to "the formula on slide 14"), an auto-summary (so parents can skim what was covered without watching the whole thing), and an Ask-this-video panel where students can ask the recording a question three weeks after the lecture and still get a real answer with a timestamp.
The recording-the-classroom-while-actually-being-in-it workflow.
Most "screen recorder for teachers" articles talk about pre-recording lectures at home. Real teaching is messier — you're in the classroom, the projector is doing something weird, the network is down, half the students are paying attention. Here are four recording workflows teachers actually use.
Lecture capture — the slide walkthrough that students scrub through later
You're teaching a 50-minute algebra class. You record the slide deck walkthrough + your voice narration (no webcam needed — students have seen your face 180 times this year, they'll survive). Pullsy auto-chapters the lecture by slide. When a student emails three weeks later asking "what was the formula on slide 14?", they scrub to the chapter, click it, and they're there.
A 50-minute lecture has no problem on Pullsy — there's no length cap. Loom's free Starter would cap you at 5:00. Your lecture splits across 10 separate videos with hard cuts between them, and students will absolutely not watch them in order.
Student feedback — a TA drops a 30-second Loom response
A student turned in a problem-solving video as their homework. You (or the TA) watch the 3-minute submission, then drop a 30-second Loom response: "good idea on step 2 — but check your sign at 1:14." Pullsy auto-chapters your response and the Ask-this-video panel lets the student ask a follow-up.
Writing "check your sign at 1:14" in text doesn't land. Showing the student the exact 5-second moment where they made the sign error, with your narration on top, is a different level of feedback. Loom can do the recording part (with a 5-min cap on free and a watermark); Pullsy adds the chaptering, the Ask-this-video, and the analytics showing the student watched your feedback to completion.
iPhone / mobile field trip — record on the bus
You're on the bus to the school garden for a biology field trip. You record a 90-second walk-and-talk from your iPhone: "OK, we're about to arrive at the pollinator garden — I want you to look for three things: bees, butterflies, and hoverflies." You drop the link in the class LMS as soon as you get back to school.
Pullsy's viewer side works on every device — phone, tablet, laptop. The recording side is browser-based and works on any modern desktop. The mobile browser screen-capture APIs aren't exposed the same way, so the actual recording happens on a laptop; for the in-the-field capture, your iPhone has its own built-in recorder and you can upload the resulting video to a Pullsy share as a follow-up. The students watch on their phones, ask the recording a question ("what was that plant?"), and get a timestamped answer.
Recording a 5-minute concept explainer for absent students
Three students are out sick today. You record a 5-minute explainer of the concept they're going to miss, drop the link in the parent-group chat. Pullsy's auto-summary tells the parents what the lesson covered without them having to watch.
A 5-minute recording is fine on Pullsy free, no watermark. The auto-summary lets parents skim "covered: X, Y, Z; homework: read chapter 4, do problems 1-7" without watching the whole video. The Ask-this-video panel lets the absent student ask the lesson a question two days later when they're reviewing.
Loom vs Pullsy for classroom workflows.
| Classroom need | Loom Free | Loom Business | Pullsy Free |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max length per recording | 5 min cap | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Videos per account (lifetime cap) | 25 videos | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Watermark on recordings | Yes — on every video | No | No, ever |
| Auto-chapter by slide / topic | No | Business + AI only | Yes, free |
| Auto-summary of the lesson | No | Business + AI only | Yes, free |
| Students can ask the recording a question | No | No | Yes — Ask-this-video, free |
| Recording → printable handout / study guide | No | No | Yes — auto-guide export, free |
| View analytics (who watched, how far) | No | Business only | Yes, free |
Auto-summary + chapters — so students find the part they need.
A 50-minute lecture doesn\'t help anyone if students can\'t find the part they\'re stuck on. Pullsy auto-summarizes the lesson, chapters it by topic transition, and makes the transcript fully searchable. A student reviewing for a test types "Bayes theorem" and jumps straight to that moment. Loom gates the same three features behind Business + AI (~$20–24/user/mo).
Ask-this-video — students can ask the recording a question, weeks later.
The hardest part of teaching is what happens after the lesson — the homework help session, the parent email, the student who missed three weeks and is now lost. Pullsy\'s Ask-this-video panel lets a student type a question about the lesson and get a timestamped answer from the recording\'s transcript, three days or three weeks later. The recording becomes a permanent tutor. Loom has no equivalent at any tier.
No watermark — the recording looks like yours.
Pullsy doesn\'t stamp a Loom badge on a teacher\'s lecture recording. The video is clean — your slides, your voice, nothing else. Loom\'s free Starter puts the Loom logo in the share-page chrome and the bottom-right corner of the video, which reads as "this teacher uses a free tool" rather than "this teacher made this lesson."
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a webcam on?
No. Pullsy records screen + mic by default. If you want to include your face, you can toggle the camera on; if you don't, the recording is just your slides + your voice. Many teachers prefer no-cam for lecture capture — students don't need to see your face on a recorded video they'll scrub through.
Can students record their own work?
Pullsy's recorder works in the browser, on any modern laptop. A student can record their problem-solving walkthrough and submit it the same way you submit a written homework file. The teacher watches, gives feedback, and the Ask-this-video panel lets the student ask the teacher's feedback a question.
Can parents view the video?
Pullsy links are unlisted by default — anyone with the link can watch, no account. Most teachers share lesson-recording links with parents via the class group chat or the LMS. For more restricted sharing, the Team tier adds link-level access controls.
What about FERPA — student privacy?
Pullsy is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure in the EU. View analytics are scoped to the recording owner (you). There's no third-party retargeting, no advertising IDs, no fingerprinting. Student work-recordings should not include personally identifiable information in the URL (the share URL is opaque) or in the video itself. If your school has specific data-retention requirements, the Team tier supports configurable retention windows.
How long does Pullsy keep recordings?
On free and Pro tiers, recordings are kept as long as you want them — no auto-deletion. Delete them manually when you're done. Most teachers keep a year's worth of lecture captures and a semester's worth of student feedback recordings.
Is Pullsy affiliated with Loom?
No. Loom is a trademark of Atlassian. Pullsy is an independent product not affiliated with or endorsed by Loom. Plan details above are dated to July 2026 from Loom's public pricing pages.
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Loom is a trademark of Atlassian. Pullsy is not affiliated with or endorsed by Loom. Loom plan details reflect Loom's public pricing pages as of July 2026.