Tella vs Zight Comparison 2026
Both cover screen recording. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Screen recordings that look designed, not captured
Screenshots and screen recordings with links
At a glance
- Zight starts cheaper, at $9.95.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Tella | Zight | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $13 | From $9.95 |
| 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 | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | None |
| Runs on (they differ) | Web, macOS | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS |
| Covers |
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.
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.
Only on this side
- Covers video hosting
Zight
Screenshots and screen recordings with links
Zight, which spent years as CloudApp, captures a screenshot or a short recording and hands back a link before the file has finished uploading. Annotation, GIF capture and a searchable library are the reasons people keep it in the menu bar. The free plan caps recording length and storage, and the cap arrives sooner than expected.
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