# Tella: reviews and analysis > Records screen and camera and returns a video that looks edited without you editing anything. - Canonical: https://serchai.com/en/reviews/tella/ - Site: Serchai (https://serchai.com) — AI tools comparator - Language: en - Updated: 2026-08-02 --- ## Verdict Tella records screen and camera and applies the scary part of editing on its own: zooms, backgrounds, split screens and trimming by deleting words from the transcript. For demos and tutorials you publish the same day and it looks good. What you have to accept is that there is no free plan (seven days of trial, then you pay), that the $13 a month requires annual billing because monthly it is $26, that it does not record remote guests, and that it is a small team with recording bugs documented in writing. **Best for:** Anyone recording demos and tutorials solo who wants a polished result without learning to edit. **Rating:** 3.8/5 ## Pros - Zooms, backgrounds and split screens applied automatically, with no multitrack timeline - Trims by deleting words from the transcript and strips filler words - Native macOS and Windows apps on top of the browser ## Cons - No free plan: seven days of trial and then you pay - It does not record remote guests or separate per-participant tracks - Recording bugs documented in a verified review ## Key facts - Price: From 13 USD · free trial available - Free trial: Yes - Platforms: Web, macOS, Windows, Chrome - Categories: [Video](https://serchai.com/en/best-ai/video/) - Official website: https://www.tella.com ## What the internet says (agentic sweep) What repeats in its favour is the finish: you record screen and camera and come out with a video that looks edited without having edited anything, thanks to automatic zooms, backgrounds, split-screen layouts and trimming by transcript. On Product Hunt it holds 4.8 out of 5 across 37 reviews and several say the same thing, that they came from Loom and never went back. There is criticism inside that same community too, «pretty buggy at times + a relatively limited feature set», and a verified Capterra review flagging the worst possible failure in a recorder: «More than 50% of the time, Tella records the wrong screen for your very first video», with corrupt segments you have to redo. The other objection is size. It is a six-person team with $3.5M raised in total, no reviews profile on G2 and only two on Capterra, so independent signal is scarce and the gap has been filled by a layer of affiliate pages that help nobody decide. And one boundary is worth marking: it does not record remote guests or per-participant tracks, so it is no replacement for an interview recording studio. - Sweep date: 2026-08-02 - Derived score: 3.8/5 ### Axes - Results: 4.2/5 - Control: 3.8/5 - Real price: 3.6/5 - Integration: 3.5/5 - Support: 3.4/5 ### Recurring themes in favor - You get a video that looks edited without editing anything, with automatic zooms, backgrounds and split-screen layouts (strong theme) - You trim by deleting words from the transcript and strip filler words, so there is no multitrack timeline to learn (strong theme) - Native macOS and Windows apps on top of the browser, so recording does not hang on a tab (present theme) - Several voices in its own community say they came from Loom and stayed, which is the switch that really measures whether it pays off (present theme) ### Recurring themes against - A verified review reports it records the wrong screen more than half the time on the first video, and that some segments come out corrupt (strong theme) - It does not record remote guests or separate per-participant tracks, so remote interviews fall outside (strong theme) - There is no free plan: seven days of trial and then you pay, and the $13 a month requires annual billing because monthly it is $26 (strong theme) - It is a six-person team with $3.5M raised, and that size gap against its rivals is a real platform risk (present theme) - Independent signal is scarce: no reviews profile on G2 and two on Capterra, so almost everything a search returns is affiliate pages (present theme) ### Sweep sources - [Official pricing] https://www.tella.com/pricing — Página oficial de precios, leída dos veces de forma independiente. El dominio antiguo tella.tv responde hoy con un 307 hacia tella.com, así que el enlace bueno es este. El JSON-LD del HTML declara dos ofertas con importe, «Pro» con «price»: «13.00» y «priceCurrency»: «USD», y «Premium» con «19.00», las dos por usuario. El conmutador viene puesto en anual y esas son las cifras anuales: sueltas son 26 y 39 dólares al mes, según la tabla que el propio sitio publica en su versión para modelos. No hay tarjeta de plan gratuito, y la fila de comparativa del propio sitio lo dice sin rodeos, «Free plan available: No - 7-day free trial». El total anual cobrado no lo publica en ninguna parte - [Communities] https://www.producthunt.com/products/tella-1-0/reviews — Reseñas en Product Hunt: 37 con una media de 4,8 sobre 5, con nombre y fecha. El elogio se repite en lo mismo, el acabado y los detalles pequeños («It's the little things like centring yourself on camera after recording it, or easy transitions»), y hay varios cambios declarados desde Loom. La crítica útil viene de dentro, con un «pretty buggy at times + a relatively limited feature set» que va seguido de reconocer que aun así hace vídeos de demostración bonitos. Es la única bolsa de opinión de usuario con volumen contable que tiene esta herramienta - [Review sites] https://www.capterra.com/p/10013576/Tella/ — Solo dos reseñas verificadas en seis años, lo que ya es un dato en sí, pero una de ellas contiene el reparo más grave del expediente y por eso entra: «More than 50% of the time, Tella records the wrong screen for your very first video» y «some segments are corrupt and you have to record those segments all over again». Es un fallo en la función central del producto, contado por alguien identificado y con la reseña verificada, no un comentario suelto de foro - [Communities] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24158509 — Hilo de presentación en Hacker News del 14 de agosto de 2020, con 221 puntos y 81 comentarios. Fecha el lanzamiento y explica la decisión técnica de fondo, que renderiza elementos de página sobre una línea de tiempo en lugar de transcodificar a vídeo. Los comentarios son hostiles y sustantivos, que es lo que los hace útiles: uno duda de que se distinga de una presentación en el navegador, «I'm struggling to see why I would use that over a generic tool like Google Docs», y otro señala el riesgo que la reseña de Capterra confirmaría años después, «spending two hours maybe recording a video only to have it fail halfway through with no data saved» - [Press] https://tech.eu/2025/04/22/tella-raises-2-1m-for-ai-powered-video-creation/ — Cobertura de tech.eu del 22 de abril de 2025 sobre la ronda semilla de 2,1 millones de dólares liderada por Gradient, que suma 3,5 millones con el millón y medio anterior. Es una noticia de origen corporativo, o sea una señal y no varias, y se cita solo por el hecho societario y por el tamaño de la empresa, que es el reparo de continuidad que un comprador debería pesar antes de casarse con la herramienta > **TLDR:** Tella records screen and camera and applies the off-putting part of editing on its own: zooms that follow the action, backgrounds, split screens and trimming by deleting words from the transcript. For product demos and tutorials you get a publishable video the same day without knowing how to edit. What you accept in exchange is no free plan, a $13 a month price that requires annual billing, no remote guest recording, and a six-person team behind it. ## What Tella is and how it works Tella came out of Y Combinator in 2020 with an idea that sounded odd then and defines its product now: instead of transcoding everything to video and cutting it on a multitrack timeline, it composes the piece from page elements on a clip timeline. You record, and the result already arrives with framing, background and pacing applied. In practice that means the tool makes the decisions that make a product video look good. The zoom lands where something is happening, the camera sits in a corner with a clean crop, the background is swapped for a colour or a brand image, and the transitions between takes are already in. You can change all of it, but the starting point is not an empty canvas. There are two editing routes and neither requires learning an editing suite. One, the transcript: delete the words and that stretch leaves the video. Two, automatic cleanup, which strips filler words. On top sit trimming, clip splitting, subtitles, annotations and teleprompter notes so you can read a script without it showing. ## What using it is like day to day The first recording is the tool's best moment and also its worst, depending on who you ask. The general feeling in its community is surprise at the finish: on Product Hunt it holds 4.8 out of 5 across 37 reviews, and several tell the same story, that they came from another recording tool and never went back. The line that repeats most is not about features but about output: producing more videos because each one costs less. Now the uncomfortable part, because it concerns the core function. A verified Capterra review says the tool records the wrong screen more than half the time on the first video, and that some segments come out corrupt and have to be redone. In its own Product Hunt community there is a rating that sums it up bluntly, that it is buggy at times with a relatively limited feature set, though it makes beautiful demo videos. This is not a polish problem: sometimes you record twice. The second boundary is reach. Tella records what happens on your machine, not a conversation split across several. There is no recording room with remote guests and no separate per-participant tracks, so a remote interview with good quality from each side falls outside its ground. The third is size. Six people and three and a half million dollars raised in total. The product moves, with weekly changelogs, but it is worth knowing who you are marrying before you put your company's video archive in there. ## Price and plans There is no free plan. The vendor's own comparison says it in those words: no free plan available, a seven-day trial with no credit card. The entry plan is Pro, from $13 per user per month, and that figure requires annual billing. Month to month the same plan costs $26, twice as much. The next step, Premium, runs from $19 a month annually and $39 monthly, and what it adds is branding and control: your own domain, removing Tella's mark from the player, 60 fps export and finer analytics. The amounts are declared in dollars by the page's own code and there is no currency selector. It is worth looking at the second tier before signing up for the first if you plan to publish these videos to customers, because removing the player branding lives up there rather than down here. ## Who it is for (and who it is not for) Tella is for people recording alone: product demos, tutorials, sales messages, team updates. People who need the video to look good and have neither the time nor the appetite to learn to edit. For that specific job it pays for itself easily, because the saving is not in the editing but in not having to ask anyone for it. It is not for recording remote interviews at studio quality, and there [Riverside](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/riverside/) does exactly what Tella does not, capturing each participant on their own side. Nor is it for long spoken material where fine editing matters, and on that [Descript](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/descript/) has more depth and a free plan that genuinely lets you test. And if what you want is to slice a long video into pieces for social, that is a different trade covered by [OpusClip](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/opusclip/). The rest of the category lives in the [best AI video tools](https://serchai.com/en/best-ai/video/). ## Alternatives to Tella The split is clear. Descript for long spoken material and fine transcript-based editing. Riverside for recording with remote guests. Tella keeps what it does better than both, which is the automatic finish on a solo recording. They are compared side by side in [Tella alternatives](https://serchai.com/en/alternatives/tella/). ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is there a free plan? No. There is a seven-day trial of the Pro plan with no credit card, and after that you pay. It is the most practical difference against almost all of its competition. ### Is $13 a month the real price? With annual billing, yes. Paying month to month it is $26 per user, exactly double, and that is the figure you will see if you decline the year-long commitment. ### Can I record an interview with someone in another city? Not at the quality a remote recording studio gives. Tella does not capture separate per-participant tracks and has no guest room, so that needs a different tool. ### Do I have to install anything? You can work from the browser, but there are native macOS and Windows apps and they are the sensible route if you record a lot, because recording stops depending on an open tab. ### What actually goes wrong? What is documented in writing are recording failures: capturing the wrong screen on the first video and segments coming out corrupt and needing a redo. It is worth a short test before you record anything that matters. ## Alternatives - [Descript](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/descript/) — Edit video and audio by deleting words from the transcript, like in a document. (4/5) - [Riverside](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/riverside/) — Record remote interviews in local 4K quality, without the internet ruining the take. (4/5)