Screentell is an online screen recording and video editing tool whose main selling point is "no desktop app required, record and edit entirely within the browser." Officially positioned as a studio-grade screen recording tool, it is suitable for creating product demos, tutorials, and YouTube or social media videos.
In terms of use: users can record their screen and camera, and quickly turn raw footage into focused, cinematic demo videos. The official three-step process is described as "from idea to export in just a few minutes": choose any window or screen to start recording, with a dual-stream engine capturing the screen and camera simultaneously; edit in the editor with zoom, 3D transforms, sticker decorations, as well as trimming, cutting, and speed adjustments; finally render in standard formats and export HD files for sharing on YouTube or social platforms.
Main capabilities:
- Recording: record the screen, camera, system audio, and microphone audio simultaneously.
- Motion and focus: offers Focus Zoom (2D focus zoom) and Focus Transforms (3D focus transforms), which the official describes as a "secret weapon," enabling smooth, professional camera movements to guide the viewer's attention, with cinematic 3D effects powered by Three.js.
- Stickers and annotations: supports hand-drawn style shapes and text annotations, hand-drawn style lines and arrows, and uploading images as stickers, with highly customizable styles.
- Backgrounds and layouts: customize backgrounds, add wallpapers, padding, and shadows to create a modern, polished look.
- Advanced editing: supports trimming and splitting, deleting unwanted clips, adjusting playback speed per clip, and screen cropping to hide distracting UI elements, browser tabs, or system bars.
- Camera layer: after recording, move, scale, or hide the camera bubble at any time.
- External video editing: import existing videos and edit them with the full toolset.
- Preview and export: WYSIWYG, confirm clips via the preview player; supports export to MP4, WebM, or GIF, with control over resolution, quality, and codec.
- Privacy: the official statement is that all processing is done locally in the browser, and recordings never leave the user's device.
How to use: open the website directly in the browser, choose the window or screen to record, capture the screen and camera simultaneously, enter the editor to complete zoom, 3D transforms, stickers, trimming, cropping, background layout, and other operations, then preview and use the export function to output the video. No desktop app installation is required.
Use cases: product demos, tutorials and instructional videos, YouTube and social media content, explainer videos that need camera language and annotated emphasis, and re-editing and exporting of existing videos.
Pricing and limitations:The free version includes unlimited recording, HD export, and basic editing, but videos carry a watermark, and each export is limited to a maximum of 3 minutes. The Pro version is aimed at creators and teams, with an officially listed price of approximately US$4.16 per month. It includes all features of the free version and supports video exports of unlimited length, and can be canceled at any time. There is also a one-time payment option that includes all Pro features, with no recurring payments, and lifetime access and updates. Specific pricing, refund policy, and other details are subject to the current information on the official website; the materials do not provide more detailed terms. The official FAQ mentions questions such as whether it is truly free, whether installation is not required, whether Windows is supported, whether videos recorded elsewhere can be edited, whether multiple clips can be exported from a single recording, and privacy and video storage location, but the materials do not give the corresponding answers.
