# Tella vs CleanShot

> Tella matches CleanShot's polish and goes further: real video editing, AI automation, richer analytics, and team collaboration, on every platform, not just Mac.

CleanShot X is a Mac-only screenshot and screen recording app with CleanShot Cloud for shareable links. It has basic trim editing, transcription, and password protection on Pro, but no timeline, no webcam layering, no AI audio, no analytics, and no team playlists.

Tella gives you CleanShot-level polish on Mac plus a full video editor, AI auto-cut and auto-zoom, embedded players, viewer analytics, CTAs, password protection, and team collaboration — and runs on Windows and the browser, not just macOS.

## Feature comparison

### Recording

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Screen recording | ✓ | ✓ |
| Webcam recording | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microphone recording | ✓ | ✓ |
| System audio recording | ✓ | ✓ |
| Teleprompter | ✓ | — |
| Recording resolution | Up to 4K | Up to 4K |
| Recording length | 6 hours | — |
| Transcription | 106 languages | ✓ |

### Editing

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timeline editing | ✓ | — |
| Transcript editing | ✓ | — |
| AI mistakes finder | ✓ | — |
| Buffer removal | ✓ | — |
| Silence removal | ✓ | — |
| Filler word removal | ✓ | — |
| Layout editing | ✓ | — |
| Auto Layouts | ✓ | — |
| Zoom effects | ✓ | — |
| Auto Zoom | ✓ | — |
| Blur | ✓ | ✓ |
| Highlight | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backgrounds | ✓ | ✓ |
| Borders | ✓ | — |
| Subtitle editing | ✓ | — |
| Subtitle styling | ✓ | — |
| Screen cropping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Camera reframing | ✓ | — |
| Audio level editing | ✓ | — |
| AI audio enhancement | ✓ | — |
| Background music | ✓ | — |
| Adjust canvas size | ✓ | ✓ |
| Logo overlay | ✓ | — |

### Sharing & storage

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video expiry | Unlimited | — |
| Video hosting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embedded player | ✓ | — |
| Custom branding | ✓ | Paid only |
| Custom domain | ✓ (Premium plan and above) | Paid only |
| Password protection | ✓ | Paid only |
| Domain restriction | ✓ (Premium plan and above) | — |
| White-label | ✓ (Premium plan and above) | Paid only |
| Title & description | ✓ | — |
| Video chapters | ✓ | — |
| Comments | ✓ | — |
| Reactions | ✓ | — |
| Call-to-action buttons | ✓ | — |
| Playback speed control | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI document generation | ✓ | — |

### Download

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video export | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio export | ✓ | — |
| Separate clips export | ✓ | — |
| Raw recordings export | ✓ | — |
| Thumbnail export | ✓ | — |
| Subtitles export | ✓ | — |
| Playback speed & timelapse | ✓ | — |
| 4K | ✓ | ✓ |
| 60 FPS | ✓ | — |

### Analytics

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Total views | ✓ | — |
| Unique viewers | ✓ | — |
| Watch time | ✓ | — |
| Engagement | ✓ | — |
| Conversion funnels | ✓ | — |
| Individual viewers | ✓ | — |
| Traffic sources | ✓ | — |
| Viewer locations | ✓ | — |
| History | All time | ✓ |

### Organization & collaboration

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| User management | ✓ | Paid only |
| Personal playlists | ✓ | — |
| Shared playlists | ✓ | — |
| Team playlists | ✓ | — |
| Public playlists | ✓ | — |

### Apps & integrations

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Native macOS recorder | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native Windows recorder | ✓ | — |
| Chrome extension | ✓ | — |
| Slack integration | ✓ | — |
| Notion integration | ✓ | — |
| Linear integration | ✓ | — |

### Support & security

| Feature | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Email support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority support | ✓ (Premium plan and above) | — |
| Shared Slack channel | ✓ (Enterprise plan only) | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓ (Enterprise plan only) | Paid only |
| SCIM | ✓ (Enterprise plan only) | Paid only |
| Loom migration tool | ✓ | — |
| Batch import tool | ✓ | — |

### Plans & pricing

| | Tella | CleanShot X |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free plan available | Yes, forever free | — |
| Entry paid price | From $13/mo (Pro, annual) | $29 one-time |
| Top tier price | Custom (Enterprise) | Custom (team) |
| Billing cadence | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |

## Sources

- [Homepage](https://cleanshot.com/)
- [Pricing](https://cleanshot.com/pricing)
- [Features](https://cleanshot.com/features)
- [Cloud](https://cleanshot.com/product/cloud)

## Try Tella

Get started at https://www.tella.com or sign up at https://www.tella.tv/api/signup.