Tella vs Loom: pick by what the video becomes

Pick Tella if the recording is a deliverable you keep, and pick Loom if it is a message you send once. That is the whole decision, and you can test it in one sitting: record the same three-minute walkthrough on both free entries, then try to get a clean, branded, 4K file out of each. We run Tella for every video meant to last, the YouTube channel, the training material and the coaching sessions, per our own record in the Tella fiche, and what we have not run ourselves is a Loom workspace, so every Loom figure below comes from Loom's own pricing page read today.

Read what each plan caps before you pay

Tella has two paid plans and no forever-free plan: Pro at 13 dollars per user per month and Premium at 19, both figures read on the pricing page in its annual-billing state, which is the state the page displays. Every new workspace starts with a 7-day trial instead. Loom does keep a permanent free tier, Starter, with up to 50 members, a 25-video cap per person, 5-minute screen recordings and 720p quality. Loom Business costs 18 and Business + AI costs 24, both per user, on the monthly billing the page displays; an annual discount is advertised on the same page, and the page does not print its yearly per-seat figure as text.

Tella Pro already includes unlimited videos, unlimited storage, export in 4K and transcription in 106 languages; Premium adds the custom domain, domain restriction, the removal of Tella branding and 60 FPS export. Loom gates its waveform editing behind Business, and its filler-word and silence removal, auto titles, summaries and chapters behind Business + AI. So the stripped-down Loom experience is free forever but narrow, while Tella asks for a card after a week and starts you at full editing.

Move the Loom library before you decide

Tella Transfer is a free desktop app that signs into your Loom account and exports your whole library at once, private videos and folders included, either as MP4s or directly into Tella, where each Loom folder becomes a playlist. If you only need one public video, the Loom downloader grabs it from a share link. Tella also publishes a switch-from-Loom guide covering recreating important embeds, onboarding creators and keeping old Loom links live while the team moves over. The one thing a migration cannot do is preserve Loom-side analytics history; Tella keeps viewer history at 30 days on Pro and all time on Premium, and that history starts over in the new tool.

Match the edit to the use case, branded or internal

Loom is built for the other end, the quick internal update inside a company already running Slack, Jira, Confluence or GitHub, where the video is one message in a thread and nobody will open it twice. How that live-editing loop works on a real production day, from first take to published file, is what record once, publish the same day walks through.

If the recordings going out of your company carry your logo, Premium's branding removal and custom domain are the features that decide it, and additional domains cost 10 dollars a month each, per the help page. If the recordings stay inside your company, Loom's free Starter tier covers a small team's async messages at zero, which Tella cannot match at any price point since it has no free plan at all.

Run the seven days on real work

Tella's trial runs seven days from account creation and includes most Pro features. You will hit the trial's locks quickly, and they are the honest preview: trial clips cap at 2 hours instead of 6, exports come out HD at 30 FPS instead of 4K, raw recording export and video uploads require a paid plan, and Auto Capture cannot start from a trial. On the Loom side, the Starter tier is the test: record your normal week and count. The week you post video 26, or the first take that runs past five minutes, is the week the free tier has answered the question for you.

Check where each one stops you

Loom stops the free user at the Starter caps and stops the Business user only at the seat count, since recording time is unlimited there. Tella stops the paid user nowhere on storage or video count, but its included credits, which pay the Tella Agent and Auto Capture rather than the recording itself, reset every month, are pooled across the workspace, and unused ones expire at the end of the month. Workspace owners can buy one-time top-ups from 25,000 credits for 25 dollars up to 2,500,000 for 2,250 dollars, and purchased credits never expire. A single clip also caps at 6 hours, with longer recordings assembled from several clips.

Efficient App's review, updated 16 June 2026, reports that Tella's comment timestamps stop working past the one-hour mark and must be typed out manually, which stings if you use comments for internal feedback on course material, and that Loom has grown slow and prone to crashing, though that team still uses it daily.

Place yourself and pick

Tella bills for the editing and the hosting of files you keep; Loom bills for the pipeline that fires a message into a chat and moves on. Our full Tella review covers the recording side in detail, the wider field sits in the Tella alternative page, and if your question is really who else does this job, start from Loom alternatives.

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