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You spend real effort putting together a great slide deck — and then you hit record, and somehow the final video still looks cheap. If you’ve ever made an online course, a webinar, or a tutorial video, you’ve probably run into this wall at least once.
- Your webcam bubble ends up covering the exact part of the slide people need to see
- One small slip mid-recording, and now you’re stuck editing
- Zoom or a free screen recorder gets the job done, but it still screams “this was just recorded,” not “this was made”
Tella has been quietly picking up a following among people dealing with exactly this problem.
What Is Tella?
Tella is a screen recorder that handles screen, webcam, and microphone capture — and the editing afterward — all inside one app. You can start recording from the native Mac or Windows app, the Chrome extension, or straight from the browser, and whatever you record lands directly in Tella’s browser-based editor for finishing touches.
Think of it as sitting right between Loom, which is simple but editing-light, and full editing software like Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, which is powerful but takes real time to learn. Tella is built for the gap in between: you need more polish than plain Loom footage, but not enough to justify opening a full editing app.
Key Features
Recording
- Mix and match screen, camera, and mic: switch between screen-only, camera-only, or screen-plus-camera picture-in-picture depending on what you’re making
- Choose your capture area: record the full screen, or just a specific window or region, so you’re not accidentally showing stray tabs or your dock
- Speaker notes: a built-in teleprompter-style feature that shows your own script or talking points on screen while you record — genuinely useful if you tend to blank on what to say next
Editing
- Flexible layouts: switch between side-by-side, full-screen, and picture-in-picture even after you’ve already recorded
- AI-assisted editing: automatically detects and removes filler words (“um,” “uh,” and the like), cuts silences, and flags stumbles — taking a chunk of the tedious cleanup off your plate
- Zooms and highlights: automatic zoom that follows your cursor, plus a highlight effect that dims everything except the part you want people to focus on
- Blur: blur out sensitive information — passwords, email addresses — that accidentally shows up on screen
- Auto-generated subtitles: captions are generated automatically from your audio and can be exported as SRT/VTT. Subtitles support more than 90 languages, which makes it easy to repurpose content into other languages
- Music and audio cleanup: a royalty-free music library, plus AI noise removal to clean up your voice track
Sharing & Analytics
- Share via link, embed on your website, or upload directly to YouTube, Google Drive, Notion, or Slack
- Basic analytics are built in too — view count, completion rate, and where in the video people rewound — so you get a rough sense of where viewers are getting stuck
▼ Right after you sign up, “Style your video” lets you customize how your videos are branded when shared by link — logo, colors, the works.
Who Tella Is Best For
Tella tends to be the strongest fit for these kinds of creators and teams:
- Online course creators who want recording, editing, and captioning handled inside one tool
- SaaS and product teams building demo videos to embed on a landing page or sales page
- Affiliate and review content creators who need to walk through a tool’s UI on screen while explaining it
- Customer support and success teams, where a short video showing the steps beats another long explanatory email
- YouTubers making tutorial content that needs some editing, but not enough to justify opening Premiere Pro
On the other hand, if you need color grading, multi-cam editing, or elaborate motion graphics, Tella’s editor alone won’t cut it — that’s still a job for dedicated software like Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
How Is It Different from Loom?
“So what’s actually different from Loom?” is the question we get most. The short version: Loom is built for quick, one-take internal messages. Tella is built for videos going out into the world that you want to look genuinely polished.
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Strong post-recording control over layout, zooms, and highlights
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Solid AI editing — automatic filler-word and silence removal cuts down on manual cleanup
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Subtitle generation supports many languages, making it easy to go multilingual
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Multiple ways to record — Mac, Windows, browser, and Chrome extension
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Doesn't match Loom's "hit record, send it" speed for quick internal clips
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The free plan caps how much you can record, so serious use basically means paying
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No mobile app — recording is a desktop-first experience
We’ll cover pricing details and a proper head-to-head with Loom and other competitors in a separate article. For now, this should give you the full picture of what Tella can actually do.
Tella’s Windows App Is Now in Beta
Tella has mostly lived in the browser and on Mac up to now, but a native Windows app has just launched in beta.
The Windows app records screen, webcam, mic, and system audio simultaneously, at up to 4K. That covers product demos, walkthroughs, online courses, and internal explainer videos, all made directly from a Windows machine.
Here’s what it covers:
- Screen, camera, mic, and system audio recording
- Recording at up to 4K
- Full-screen or custom-area capture
- Show or hide your mouse cursor
- AI-assisted editing
- Subtitles, zooms, and layout options
- Automatic cloud saving and link sharing
Compared to Windows’ built-in Game Bar, Tella is built specifically for making and sharing videos — you can go from recording straight to a polished, shareable video without switching to a separate editor.
Note that this is currently a beta release. If you’re on a Surface Pro X or a Snapdragon-powered PC, you’ll need the ARM build instead of the standard download.
Wrapping Up
Tella brings screen recording, webcam capture, editing, subtitles, and sharing together into one tool — built for creators who want all of that in one place. If you’re making online courses, product demos, or tutorial content — anything meant to actually be watched by other people — it’s a solid step up from Loom in terms of finished polish.
For a deeper look at pricing and a full comparison against Loom and other tools, check out:
If you’re considering giving it a try, signing up through Hoda’s link currently gets you a special offer:
- Monthly plan: 20% off your first 3 months
- Annual plan: 20% off your first year
