Rewatch vs Loom: what moved over, what did not, and what to add
Loom absorbed Rewatch's meeting recording without full feature parity. A look at the gap, your old videos, and the meetings you can drop.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team
2 min read
Rewatch vs Loom is no longer a contest between two products: Atlassian bought Rewatch in 2024 and moved its meeting recording into Loom, so Loom is what remains. The real choice for a developer team is whether Loom's Meeting Recording covers what you used Rewatch for, and whether some of those meetings should become AyeWatch alerts instead.
Side by side
| Rewatch | Loom Meeting Recording | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Acquired by Atlassian in 2024; rewatch.com no longer loads | Available on every Loom plan |
| Platforms | Virtual meetings | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams |
| Notes and recaps | AI notes, recaps and action items | AI recaps on Business + AI or Enterprise |
| Your old videos | Migrated out | Stored in "Rewatch Import" folders and space |
| Feature match | The original | Key Rewatch features, not full parity, per Atlassian |
What Rewatch was
Rewatch recorded virtual meetings, wrote AI notes and recaps, and picked out action items. It was founded in 2020. When Atlassian announced the deal on August 29, 2024, Rewatch said the standalone platform would close over the next 90 days.
What Loom offers now
Loom's Meeting Recording joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls to record, summarize and share them. Recording works on all Loom plans, and recaps need an AI plan. Atlassian's announcement also described plans to make meeting content searchable in Confluence and Rovo, so if your team already lives in Jira and Confluence, Loom is the natural fit.
Atlassian is direct that Loom will not match Rewatch feature for feature. If something you relied on is missing, check the Loom FAQ before assuming it is a setting.
Where your old Rewatch recordings went
Rewatch libraries and private videos moved into a private "Rewatch Import" folder for each user. Public videos from collections went into one shared "Rewatch Import" space, where each collection became a folder. Loom puts a video in only one folder, so a recording that sat in three Rewatch collections now sits in one, picked from the earliest non-secret collection. Search there first if something seems lost.
The meetings you can skip
Engineering teams often hold calls whose main content is outside news: a dependency changed its license, an API provider posted a deprecation, a competitor shipped a feature, a GitHub issue thread is blowing up on Reddit. Recording that call and searching the transcript later is the slow route.
AyeWatch watches those sources directly. Paste the changelog or docs URL, describe a topic in plain English, or follow X, Reddit, YouTube and other social platforms. You get an alert with a short summary of what changed and the source links. Push alerts come with every plan; paid plans add Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, a REST API and MCP support for AI agents, which makes it easy to pipe alerts into your own tooling. The Free Preview is a no-cost start, and paid plans begin at $9 a month.
AyeWatch does not record or transcribe meetings, so it complements Loom rather than replacing it.
Which to pick
- You want your old Rewatch archive and a recorder in the Atlassian stack: Loom.
- You want a standalone recorder outside Atlassian: Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai.
- You want to stop holding calls just to pass along what changed on the web: AyeWatch, and start with the Free Preview.
Most teams will use Loom for the calls they must keep and AyeWatch for the updates they no longer need to meet about.