Use Loom for daily one-off throw away videos, and Tella for more refined tutorials, courses or videos that you will re-use.
We believe there are better options available in this category, read below to learn what this software does well, and what they could do better. ⤵
While we use Loom daily (and feel like its a core tool in our business), we are becoming increasingly frustrated with its bloated features (no we don't need AI features 😭 please stop recommending them to us!) and quite slow (and crashes often). That said, we still haven't found an alternative that we are confident to switch to.
We used Tella to record our Motion Course and it was a fantastic tool that allowed us to beautifully record our screen + video and tie it all together with a custom background. That said, we can't envision using Tella in the day-to-day in its current form.
For example, with Loom, a core feature is being able to leave comments at different time stamps. With Tella, while you can leave comments at a time stamp, you have to manually write out the time stamp which is not intuitive.
Further, timestamps stop working after the 1 hour mark in Tella... which look, is probably not commonly needed for a regular Loom-style video, but we did need to it collaborate on for our course video (for internal feedback) so it resulted in a bit of a limiting experience.
Overall, use Loom for daily one-off throw away videos, and Tella for more refined tutorials, courses or videos that you will re-use.
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Record your screen, camera, or both at the same time.
Tella is an awesome tool to use if you are wanting to create courses or film beautiful videos that require screen sharing. It easily allows you to film a series a clips to create your video, and also allows you to edit your videos right within the web browser.
We used Tella to create our Motion App Course and it saved us tons of time and not to mention we didn't have to hire a video editor to get a beautiful end result.
While some editing features can be improved (you can read about in our full Tella Review), overall we'd recommend it and found that it came in very handy.
Record quick videos to update your team and cut down meetings by 29%.
Loom is just the accepted standard for recording asynchronous communication at companies.
People love receiving a Loom (over getting a meeting request), and even support teams love receiving a Loom when you're asking for help.
Loom has replaced internal and external video calls by as much as 95% in our business. You can also use it to record internal processes to use for team and customer onboarding. We use it for everything.
It's also free for recordings shorter than 5 minutes, so just go and sign up already 😉
If you're looking for more of an impressive screen recording and video editor for things like product feature launch GIFs and videos, look no further than our friends over at Screen Studio.
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