Tella: record and edit screen videos with a professional look

Tella is a screen and camera recording tool with built-in editing. You start recording from the Mac or Windows app or the Chrome extension, present your screen with your webcam as a thumbnail, then move into the editor: layouts, zooms, background, borders, subtitles, silence removal. The result can be shared by link, embedded on a page or exported in 4K. Where a classic recorder produces a raw capture, Tella outputs a video that looks like a product demo.

For freelancers who show their work on video: a mockup demo for a client, a tutorial for a course, a personalized outreach video, a clip for LinkedIn or YouTube. If you just want to send a quick video to a colleague without worrying about the look, Loom is enough and offers a free plan. If you record a podcast or a remote interview, Riverside is the dedicated tool. And to turn a long video into short subtitled clips, look at Submagic or Opus Clip.

• Record: screen, webcam, microphone and system audio, with a teleprompter, up to 4K and 6 hours per clip.
• Edit without software: timeline, transcript-based editing, automatic removal of silences, hesitations and filler words.
• Polish the look: automatic layouts, Auto Zoom, blur, highlighting, backgrounds, borders, camera cropping, logo, background music.
• Add subtitles: transcription in 106 languages, styled subtitles, automatically generated titles, descriptions and chapters.
• Share: unlimited hosting, embeddable player, call-to-action buttons, comments, reactions, password protection.
• Measure: views, unique viewers, watch time, engagement, and conversion funnels with Premium.
• Delegate to AI: an agent in the editor applies changes from an instruction, and Auto Capture records a web page for you (beta).

• Pro: $13 per user per month. Unlimited videos, 4,500 credits per month, 106 languages, 4K export, team collaboration, analytics.
• Premium: $19 per user per month. Everything in Pro, 9,000 credits per month, custom domain, domain restriction, Tella branding removed, 4K sharing, 60 FPS export, advanced analytics.
• Enterprise: on quote, with SSO, SCIM, a shared Slack channel and a SOC 2 Type II report.

Prices shown with annual billing, presented with 50% off compared with monthly. No free plan, but a 7-day trial. Credit top-ups start at $25 for 25,000 credits, with no expiry. Pricing checked on tella.com in November 2026.

At FreelanceKit, we picked Tella because it gives the most professional result for the least effort. A demo recorded in ten minutes, run through the automatic layouts and silence cleanup, comes out clean, with a background and zooms, without opening editing software. For an independent who prospects or sells a course, the difference in perception is real.

The weak point to know about: there is no free plan. After the 7-day trial, it is $13 per user per month billed annually, which weighs on you if you make three videos a year. Removing the Tella logo and the custom domain require the Premium plan at $19. The interface and support are in English, prices are in dollars, and the AI features consume monthly credits.

If you are hesitating between Tella, Loom, Riverside, Submagic or Opus Clip, take a look at our dedicated page on alternatives to Tella.