Code is going back to the machines.
Software is returning to the people who need it.
You describe. Loom builds. You ship.
Humans learned code because machines couldn’t understand us. They can now. Every app Loom builds is a capability you own outright — no platform, no subscription, no gatekeeper. An autonomous program that expands every day, shaped entirely by what you need, limited only by what you can imagine.
The autonomous coderAn autonomous coder.
For everyone, not just coders.
Loom is an autonomous coder.
You describe what you want — a sentence, a half-idea, a rambling paragraph, whatever you've got. Loom figures out what you actually meant, plans the project, writes all the code, reads its own code to catch its own mistakes, runs it, fixes what breaks, and when everything works, hands you the finished app.
You don't write any code. You don't read any code. You don't have to look at code if you don't want to.
From a quick tool to a whole system.
Loom builds single-page apps, full-stack apps with their own login and database (a self-hosted backend — no third-party accounts to sign up for), and, in Architect mode, whole multi-service systems: a web app, an API, and a scheduled worker, planned and wired together. Start with a simple version and grow it by asking.
Watch a video while it works.
Real software takes minutes to build, not seconds. That's a lot of seconds of staring at a progress bar. So Loom has a lounge built into it — YouTube, music, whatever you want — and you can put something on while it works. We're fairly sure we're the first coding tool designed around the theory that you'd rather be watching almost anything else. Every other tool sits you down in front of the code. Loom hopes you won't.
You choose the models. Loom escalates when it needs to.
There isn't one best AI. There are a dozen, each good at different things — one is great at hard reasoning but expensive, another is cheap and fast, another reads pictures well.
In Loom's model routing you decide which model handles each part of the work — planning, writing, reviewing, testing — or keep the sensible defaults. And when a step turns out harder than expected, Loom automatically escalates to a stronger model so it still gets done right.
Pay as you go.
Loom works with every major AI model — Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax. One deposit, billed per request, usage visible in your account in real time. No subscription, no monthly fee, no expiring credits.
Developers have a head start. Loom catches everyone else up.
A developer sits down after breakfast with an idea and has working software by lunch. Everyone else has to hire somebody, wait weeks, or quietly let the idea go.
Loom is for the everyone-else group. No syntax to learn. No Stack Overflow tabs. No bootcamp. The idea in your head turns into a running app while you — say — watch a video in Loom's lounge.
Getting started
From an idea to a running app, in four steps.
1. Install and sign in. Download Loom, drag it into Applications, and sign in with a free Stera account — it comes with 100 joules to start.
2. Describe what you want. A sentence or a paragraph — “a habit tracker with a daily check-off,” “an invoice dashboard for my clients.” Loom plans it, writes the code, runs it, and fixes what breaks.
3. Watch a video while it works. A few minutes later your app opens — yours, on your machine, in Documents/Loom Apps.
4. Change anything by asking. Tell Loom what you want different and it finds the right files, edits them, and restarts the app so you see it live.
The trick: start small, then grow it. Loom works best when you begin with a simple first version — just the core idea — and add the rest gradually with Apply Change (step 4). A focused first build plus a handful of small changes beats one giant prompt every time.
Want the full walkthrough — install, sign-in, billing, and the first things worth doing? Read the guide →
Build instead of subscribe
For most of the software you pay for every month, the math has quietly stopped working.
The reason you pay twelve dollars a month for a task manager, nine for a habit tracker, nineteen for a CRM with features you never touch, and seven for a reading queue you open twice a week — the reason all four of those are rentals instead of things you own — is that, historically, writing the software yourself was impossible. You had to borrow someone else's. By the time you'd borrowed twenty of them, you were paying the price of a vacation every year for software that was never yours.
That was the old deal. It was a reasonable deal while the alternative was no software at all. It isn't reasonable anymore. For the personal-tier stuff — the single-user tools, the small workflows, the apps that exist to save you fifteen minutes a week — the cheapest path is now asking Loom to build the version you actually want, once. You keep it. It doesn't bill you monthly. It doesn't get acquired and shut down. It doesn't change its pricing page when the founder hires a growth team.
This isn't a claim that SaaS is dead. If you're running software with thousands of users, real-time collaboration, compliance audits, and humans on call at 3am — keep paying. Those vendors are earning their money. We're talking about the personal layer — the dozen small tools that only you use. That layer, historically, you rented. Now you can ask for it, and it's built.
You don't rent that layer anymore.
Ready when you are.
Loom is the thing you download. It's pay-as-you-go: no subscription, no monthly fee, you pay only for the tokens each build actually uses. Sign in once with a free Stera account — first 100 joules are on us — and you're building.