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6 Screen Recorders for Tutorials With Your Face in the Corner, and How a Small Business Can Use Them
Sabrina Ramonov's picks for recording tutorials with a face cam: Loom, Tella, OBS, Scribe, Guidde and Screen Studio, plus simple ways a local business can use them.
If you've ever explained the same thing to a customer or a new hire for the tenth time, a short screen recording with your face in the corner can do the explaining for you. Here are six tools worth knowing, and how I'd use them in a small business.
Credit: this post is based on a YouTube Short by Sabrina Ramonov, best screen recorder apps for tutorials with your face in the corner. The picks and her experience with them are hers; go watch the original. I checked pricing on each tool's official site on October 23, 2026. Plans change often, so confirm before you buy.
The short version: No single recorder is best. Loom is the quick default, Tella is great for polished tutorials, OBS is free, Scribe and Guidde turn your clicks into step-by-step guides, and Screen Studio makes Mac recordings look professionally edited. Pick based on what you're making.
What Sabrina said
A viewer asked Sabrina what to use for tutorials with a small face cam, besides Loom. She has tried about five recorders, and here's her take:
Loom is the familiar default.
Tella is her pick for YouTube, mostly because switching layouts is easy: split screen, you on the side, or a small bubble in the corner.
OBS is the free, open-source choice. She says she has "never had an issue with it."
Scribe and Guidde are worth a look when the goal is documentation. They record your clicks and turn them into step-by-step guides.
Screen Studio (Mac only) zooms in automatically where you click and type, which makes a video livelier. She stopped using it because it sometimes crashed with several monitors connected, and she once lost an hour of footage.
Her main point: pick the tool based on what you're making.
The tools
Loom
What it does: Records your screen and camera from a browser or desktop app, then gives you a link to share right away. Good for quick walkthroughs and updates.
Cost: There's a free Starter plan, but it's limited to 25 videos per person and five minutes per recording. Paid Business plans are billed per user each month and remove those limits, and a Business + AI plan adds automatic titles, summaries and filler-word removal. Loom offers a 14-day free trial of Business + AI. Loom pricing
Tella
What it does: A polished screen-and-camera recorder for tutorials, demos and courses. You can switch layouts during the video (split screen, side, or corner bubble) and edit afterward, including by editing the transcript.
Cost: Paid only, with Pro and Premium plans charged per user each month, and a free trial. Annual billing roughly halves the monthly price. Tella pricing
OBS Studio
What it does: Free desktop software for recording and live streaming on Windows, Mac and Linux. You build "scenes" that combine your screen, webcam and overlays. It takes more setup than the others, but there are no watermarks or time limits.
Cost: Free and open source. OBS Studio
Scribe
What it does: Watches you do a task in an app and turns it into a written step-by-step guide with screenshots. That makes standard operating procedures and how-tos easy to produce.
Cost: There's a free Basic plan for capturing web processes, plus paid plans billed per seat. Capturing desktop apps requires a paid plan. Scribe pricing
Guidde
What it does: An AI tool for documentation videos. It records your workflow and creates a narrated, step-by-step video guide, with AI voiceovers if you'd rather not use your own voice.
Cost: The free plan covers up to 25 how-to videos. Pro and Business plans are billed per creator each month, with a discount for paying annually, and there's a free seven-day Business trial. Guidde pricing
Screen Studio (Mac)
What it does: A Mac screen recorder that adds smooth automatic zooms, cursor effects and a tidy camera bubble, so recordings look professionally edited. Worth noting given Sabrina's experience: Screen Studio now says it saves your take to disk every two seconds and can recover a recording after a crash.
Cost: A paid subscription, monthly or yearly, with every feature in every plan. Yearly works out cheaper. Screen Studio
How a small business could use these
Answer the same question once. Record a two-minute Loom or Tella video for your most common customer question ("How do I book?" or "How do I reset my thermostat?") and send the link instead of typing it again.
Write SOPs without writing. Run through your scheduling or billing process once in Scribe or Guidde. You get a guide you can hand to new hires. Blur or skip any screens that show customer details.
Start free. OBS costs nothing and handles pro-level recording if you can spend an afternoon on setup. Loom's free plan is fine for short clips.
Make website and social content. Short Tella or Screen Studio demos of your product, service or before-and-after work make strong clips for your site and social pages.
Let AI do the heavy lifting. AI agents such as Grok Bot, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini can draft your script, turn a recording's transcript into a blog post or captions, summarize it into a checklist, and help you choose and set up the right tool.
Start simple: pick one tool, record your top three customer questions this week, and post the videos where customers will see them, like your website's FAQ page or your Google Business Profile.
Want this done for you?
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If you'd like a hand, contact Local Business Search and we'll help you get started.
Thanks again to Sabrina Ramonov for the original tips. Watch her Short here.