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Tella vs Loom: Which is the Best Screen Recorder? [2026]

By Federico · Updated Apr 8, 2026

Sharing screen recordings is a highly effective way to connect with clients, coworkers, and your audience. Whether you’re showing a product demo or giving feedback, picking the right tool is key to delivering your message clearly. Loom and Tella are two top screen recording apps people often choose from, but they are optimized for different workflows.

Loom vs Tella at a Glance

Here’s a quick comparison between Loom and Tella to help you choose the right screen recorder for your needs.

Availability

Loom offers much broader access. You can use it in the browser, through the Chrome extension, on Windows and macOS desktop, and on iPhone and Android. That makes it easier to adopt across large teams, especially when people want to record from different devices.

Tella is narrower. It has a native Mac app and a web app that works on Mac and Windows. There is still no native Windows desktop app, and mobile support is view-only rather than full recording or editing.

If you need mobile recording or Windows-native desktop support, Loom has the advantage. If browser-based recording on Windows is enough, Tella is still a viable option.

Recording ease

Both platforms are easy to start with. Loom is built around speed: click record, speak, and share the link. That is why it works so well for feedback, sales outreach, bug reports, and internal updates.

Tella is also simple, but the recording flow is more creator-oriented. Instead of treating everything as one quick take, it is more comfortable with clip-based recording and later polish.

Recording features

The biggest workflow difference is track flexibility. Tella records in a way that makes it much easier to adjust the camera and screen layout after recording. That matters when you want a more polished demo, tutorial, or course-style video.

Loom keeps things simpler. The screen and camera are combined into one video, and the editing model is limited to trimming, stitching, transcript edits, and AI cleanup on the AI plan. That is enough for quick communication, but it is less flexible when the final video needs more visual control.

Editing features

Loom has improved beyond basic trimming. It now supports transcript editing, stitching recordings together, and AI features like titles, summaries, chapters, filler-word removal, silence removal, and highlight clips on Business + AI.

Tella still gives you more control over the visual result. Layout changes, backgrounds, zooms, captions, callouts, and multi-clip workflows make it better suited to polished async videos rather than just fast communication.

Sharing options

Both tools make sharing easy, but Loom is still the stronger communication product. Every recording becomes a hosted Loom page with comments, reactions, viewer analytics, and privacy controls on paid plans.

Tella also gives you hosted viewer pages, and it adds some presentation-focused features Loom does not emphasize, such as call-to-action buttons and more layout polish. That is useful if the recording is customer-facing or part of a marketing workflow rather than just internal communication.

Educational content

For tutorials and courses, Tella is usually the better fit between these two because it gives you separate layout control, clip-based recording, and more polished editing. Loom is better when speed matters more than polish.

If you need a more structured workflow for educational content, Borumi is still the stronger option because it is built around scenes, scripting, and re-recording parts of a lesson without turning the whole process into a generic screen recording workflow.