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Superscreen vs Tella.
A recorder that runs in a tab. Backgrounds, layouts and automatic zoom, finished as a share link rather than a file.
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The honest read
Where Tella is the better answer, and where it is not.
What Tella does well
- Nothing to install — a tab and a link is the whole workflow.
- The backgrounds and layouts make a plain capture look produced with no effort.
- Splitting a recording into clips and re-recording one of them is a genuinely good idea.
Where it runs out of road
- A browser tab is a compromised place to record from: system audio and window capture are limited by what the browser will give it.
- It needs an account, and the recording lives on their servers.
- No local master at full quality, and no system-wide shortcuts.
Tella is the fastest way to a polished share link, and if that is the finished product it is a good buy. Superscreen is a native recorder: the whole machine is available to it, and what you get at the end is a file you own.
Feature by feature
The whole list, both ways.
Every row opens that feature in full, with the panel that shows it running.
| Feature | Superscreen | Tella |
|---|---|---|
| Countdown | Included | Included |
| Frame rate | Included | Partly |
| Quality | Included | Not included |
| Cursor | Included | Included |
| Click highlights | Included | Partly |
| Camera bubble | Included | Included |
| Audio | Included | Partly |
| Trim and cut | Included | Included |
| Assets | Included | Partly |
| Captions | Included | Partly |
| Keystrokes | Included | Not included |
| Export formats | Included | Partly |
| Performance | Included | Partly |
| File names | Included | Not included |
| Cursor zoom | Included | Included |
| Projects | Included | Included |
- IncludedIncluded
- PartlyPartly
- Not includedNot included
Checked August 2026. Prices and features move — worth a look at the source before you decide.