ShareX vs Tella Comparison 2026
Both cover screen recording. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Screen capture and recording, open source
Screen recordings that look designed, not captured
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
ShareX | Tella | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | From $13 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | Not stated |
| Runs on (they differ) | Windows | Web, macOS |
| Covers | Screen Recording |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
ShareX
Screen capture and recording, open source
ShareX captures a region, a window, a scrolling page or the whole screen, records video and GIFs, and then runs whatever steps you set afterwards: annotate, upload, copy the link back. It has been in development for eighteen years and it uploads to a long list of destinations, including one you host yourself. Windows only, free, and it wants no account.
Our note
For capture and share on Windows nothing paid does the job better, and the custom uploader support is genuinely rare. The moment a recording has to look edited rather than raw, it is the wrong tool.
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.
Our note
Buy Tella for the thing it refuses to let you do badly, which is ship an ugly demo. If your videos are already going through an editor, this replaces nothing and adds a subscription.
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