Komodo Decks Reviews

Just as good as Loom but for a fraction of the cost. Top work.

I got myself Komodo Tier 4 in January 2023 and now at the end of 2024, I'm switching to it as my primary screen recording software for my software reviews. I understand that it is more of a Loom alternative to record and share your screen/demos, but my feedback is primarily about the screen recording part, I'm not covering the sharing capabilities which are also great.

Pros:
- all base needs are covered for screen recording: capturing the camera, the entire screen, and particular windows
- improving over time, adding new features like capturing only particular screen area
- keyboard shortcuts to enable/disable cursor highlighting, pause/stop video, click capturing
- you can start/pause recording (which saves time later during video editing)
- cursor highlighting, click highlighting, key stokes recording
- it captures both your mic and system audio easily
- quickly uploads recorded video and you can apply quick edits online like cutting pauses
- after the video is uploaded - it gives you a video summary, chapters, and transcript that you can use for example to build the video description for a YouTube video

Points to improve:
- I would like to be able to hide/show the recording controls when you have one monitor, if you have connected the 2nd monitor then you can move the controls there so those will not be recorded in the video.

Plan to test later:
- there is an included step-by-step guide builder when that captures clicks and screenshots and it can make interactive guides, and you can host those guides on your website in a 'white labeled' manner by connecting via CNAME

I've been a user for a while... it's such an amazing products. I took a minute to review it to also let the team know of what I'd like to see next :

1. Please add localization !! I make my videos in french for my clients. It would be amazing to have the AI generated text be multi-language

2. Small bug : I'm trigger happy, sometime I record a video and quickly close the page and the video doesn't upload. It's my fault of course, but just having a confirm message before closing the tab would be amazing! Frustrating when you spent 15 minutes on a video!

It's taken a long time for me to review Komodo Decks and I don't know why. It's amazing! I will never over explain myself again when telling clients (or family, for that matter) how to do any tasks on the computer. This is literally the best thing aside from a desktop connection to do it for them. Great for regular ol' screen capture videos, too! I love it.

I'm very impressed. It's relatively easy to use (although the tutorials could be clearer and more extensive, but the support was quick and helpful). And it does exactly what it says: records both your screen and your clicks. I especially like that you can edit both as needed. I use it for customers but also for myself when I learn something new and might not remember how to do it in 6 months time when I next need to!