Loom vs Tella Comparison 2026
Loom records a screen and a face and sends a link the moment you stop, free on Starter or $18 a member a month on Business, with editing limited to trimming. Tella records the same way but applies backgrounds, rounded corners and zooms that follow the cursor automatically, so a demo looks produced rather than captured, free to start or $13 a month on Pro. Loom is built for speed and correspondence. Tella is built to make a screen recording look deliberate, at a lower price than Loom's paid tier.
Screen recordings that go out as a link
Screen recordings that look designed, not captured
At a glance
- Tella starts cheaper, at $13.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Loom | Tella | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $18 | From $13 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
Loom
Screen recordings that go out as a link
Loom records your screen and your face together and hands you a link the moment you stop, so the thing you would have written three paragraphs about arrives as a two minute video instead. Viewers can reply on a timestamp rather than describing where they got confused. Editing is trimming and little else, so a cut that needs more than that belongs somewhere else.
Our note
Loom is for the video nobody would otherwise have made. Buy it for correspondence rather than publishing, and check the free plan's length limit against the way you actually explain things before paying for anything.
Tella
Screen recordings that look designed, not captured
Tella records a screen and a camera and then does the thing that usually takes an editor: backgrounds, rounded corners, zooms that follow the cursor and clean cuts between takes. A product demo comes out looking like it was made on purpose rather than grabbed in one sitting. The output is a hosted video with its own link. Somebody who needs frame-level control will find the constraints exactly as constraining as they sound.
Why people weigh these two
- Tella instead of Loom
- Tella is built so the recording looks designed rather than merely captured, from $13 a month with a free tier to test the look before paying.
- Loom instead of Tella
- Loom sends recordings out as a link from $18 with a free tier, faster to share and plainer to look at.
Which one should you pick
Pick Loom if the video is a quick message rather than something meant to look polished: feedback on a draft, a walkthrough for a client, an internal update. Starter is free with limits on length, and Business at $18 a member a month removes them along with viewer insights.
Pick Tella if the recording is a product demo or launch clip that needs to look intentional, since backgrounds, framing and cursor zooms are applied automatically rather than added by an editor. Pro is $13 a month, cheaper than Loom's Business tier, though anybody who already sends recordings through a real editor gains nothing from either.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, Loom or Tella?
- Tella, at $13 a month for Pro against Loom's $18 a member a month for Business. Both offer a free tier to start, with Loom's limited by video length and count and Tella's by which paid features stay locked.
- Does Loom make a recording look as polished as Tella does?
- No, by design. Loom's editing is deliberately limited to trimming a false start or joining two takes. Tella applies backgrounds, rounded corners and cursor-following zooms automatically, which is the entire reason to choose it over Loom for a demo.
- Which one is faster for a quick message to a client?
- Loom, since stopping the recording copies the link immediately, built for correspondence rather than production. Tella's take-based recording and automatic styling add a step that makes sense for a demo but is unnecessary overhead for a one-off message.
- Can I redo part of a recording without starting over on either?
- Tella supports take-based recording, so one section can be redone without restarting the whole video. Loom's recording is closer to a single continuous take, with trimming and joining available afterward but no equivalent take-by-take retry system.
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