Screentell

Screentell is a browser-based screen recorder and video editor that turns plain screen captures into cinematic, studio-quality product demos and tutorials with 3D transforms, focus zooms, and annotations — all processed locally in your browser.

What is Screentell?

Screentell is a browser-based screen recorder and video editor built to close the gap between a quick raw capture and a polished, studio-quality demo — with zero installation and zero cloud uploads. You record any screen, window, or tab while optionally capturing your webcam, system audio, and microphone through a dual-stream engine, then drop straight into an editor where you can add cinematic 3D transforms (depth, rotation, skewing built on three.js), 2D focus zooms and pans with keyframes, rich annotation stickers, hand-drawn shapes, a face-cam layer you can move or hide after recording, clip cutting, per-segment speed control, cropping, and branded layouts with backgrounds, padding, and shadows. All processing happens locally in the browser, so recordings never leave your device — a genuine privacy advantage over cloud-native recorders for pre-release, internal, or client footage. Export runs to MP4, WebM, or GIF with full control over resolution and quality, up to 4K on paid plans. The product is very young: it launched around March 2026 under Crownbyte LTD (founder Shawn on X), has an official YouTube channel, docs, changelog, and GitHub issue tracker, and is being actively improved (recent additions include inline text editing, blur/pixelate masking, noise suppression, and higher export bitrates). Pricing is freemium: unlimited free recording and editing with watermarked, 3-minute-capped exports; Pro at $6.99/month or $49.99/year removes the limits; and a lifetime one-time option sits at $99 on the vendor's site (regularly $199.99) or $79 via the ProductCanyon deal (regularly $99.99). It competes best against Screen Studio and Camtasia on price and cross-platform reach, and against Loom on polish — but it is strictly single-user, Chromium-only, and carries the usual startup-lifetime-deal risk.

Key Features

• *Cinematic 3D Transforms** — Add depth, rotation, scaling, and skewing that break the flat screen and mimic high-end camera moves.
• *Focus Zoom & Pan (2D/3D)** — Set keyframes to smoothly zoom and pan toward the details that matter, guiding the viewer's eye through a demo.
• *Dual-Stream Recording** — Capture screen, webcam, system audio, and microphone simultaneously in one browser tab.
• *Rich Annotation Stickers** — Drop arrows, bubbles, shapes, and hand-drawn style text with full color, border, and shadow control — or upload custom images.
• *Face Camera Layer** — Treat your webcam as a layer you can move, resize, reshape, or hide even after recording is done.
• *Clip Cut & Speed Control** — Split clips, remove unwanted segments, and set per-segment playback speeds on the timeline.
• *Screen Cropping** — Hide browser tabs, taskbars, and distracting UI — or blur/pixelate sensitive information before exporting.
• *Layouts & Backgrounds** — Add inset padding, shadows, gradients, and wallpapers behind your video for a clean, branded look.
• *Multi-Format Export** — Render to MP4, WebM, or GIF with full control over resolution, quality, and codecs — up to 4K on paid plans.

Who is it for?

• Solo creators, indie makers, and founders recording product demos and walkthroughs
• Marketing teams producing feature demos, launch videos, and social clips without firing up a full video editor
• Educators and course creators building clean tutorial videos for online lessons
• Support and onboarding teams generating quick troubleshooting clips
• Freelancers and agencies who want client-facing screen videos to look premium
• Privacy-conscious teams recording pre-release or internal footage that shouldn't touch a cloud server

Who is it NOT for?

• Teams whose workflow is built around async video sharing, comments, and libraries — that's Loom's turf
• Anyone on Firefox or Safari — the tool is Chromium-only and the experience degrades fast elsewhere
• Users who need durable cloud backup — projects live in browser local storage and auto-delete after 30 days
• Heavy producers needing advanced audio mixing, multi-track audio, or deep AI editing features
• Underpowered machines doing long or 4K exports — rendering happens on your hardware
• Enterprises needing SSO, team workspaces, admin controls, or dedicated support