The Movavi Screen Recorder Alternative for Mac, Windows & Web

Movavi Screen Recorder is a cheap, capable desktop capture app for Windows and macOS. It records a full screen or a custom area with webcam and system audio, schedules recordings so you can catch a webinar while you're away, highlights clicks and keystrokes, lets you draw on the screen mid-recording, takes scrolling screenshots, and exports up to 4K. At around £16.95 it's one of the least expensive paid recorders you can buy, and for capturing a call or a webinar to a file it does the job well.

Where it stops is everything after the recording. Movavi produces a file on your computer: sharing means exporting it and uploading it to YouTube, Google Drive, or Movavi Cloud, so there's no hosted player, no password protection, and no analytics telling you who watched. Real editing lives in Movavi Video Editor, a separate purchase — the recorder alone is roughly £16.95, and the Screen Recorder + Video Editor bundle is closer to £49.95, with further bundles on top. There are no team features, no SSO, and no shared workspace. The free trial also lasts 7 days and stamps a watermark on anything you export.

Tella covers the whole job in one tool. It records natively on Mac and Windows and in any browser, then hosts every recording instantly with a share link, embedded player, password protection, and CTAs. The editor is built in: AI auto-cut for silences and filler words, Auto Zoom, Auto Layouts, transcript-based editing, backgrounds, and subtitles — no second app and no export-then-upload step. Viewer analytics show total views, watch time, and engagement, and teams get a shared workspace. Plans start at $13/month with a 7-day free trial that doesn't watermark your videos.