Animoto 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Animoto

4.2

(192)

Pricing

Starting at $16.00 per month

About Animoto

Animoto is the easiest way to create stunning, branded videos, no experience necessary.

Our drag-and-drop interface, customizable templates, and vast library of stock images and music allow creators of all skill levels to turn their ideas into engaging and impressive videos in a matter of minutes. Start creating your own polished, professional videos for free.

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Animoto Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $16.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

30 Color Swatches
3 Standard Fonts
50 Music Tracks
Animoto Branding on Videos
Standard Quality Video(720p)
Unlimited Social Sharing
Unlimited Video Creation
Customizable Video Templates
Limited access to our Getty Images stock library

Basic

$16.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

30 Color Swatches
3 Standard Fonts
50 Music Tracks
Available on Desktop and Ios
High Quality Video (HD 1080p)
No Animoto Branding on Videos
Unlimited Downloads
Unlimited Social Sharing
Unlimited Video Creation
Customizable Video Templates

Professional

$29.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

1 Million+ Licensed Stock Photos & Videos From Getty Images
1 Saved Brand
3000 Licensed Music Tracks
40 Professional Fonts
Adds Logo and Colors
Everything in Basic + No Animoto Branding on Videos
High Quality Video (HD 1080p
Voice-Over
Record screen and webcam together
Add multiple songs to your videos

Professional Plus

$79.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100 Million+ Premium Licensed Photos & Videos From Getty Images
Everything in Professional + Accounts for up to 3 Users
License to Resell to Businesses
Multiple Saved Brands
Uploads Own Fonts
Accounts for up to 3 users
25 saved templates
Collect time-stamped comments

Animoto Features

Popular features found in Video Making
Animation
Collaboration Tools
Drag & Drop
Media Library
Social Sharing
Templates
Video Capture
Video Creation
More features of Animoto
API
Audio Capture
Commenting/Notes
Content Library
Customizable Branding
Customizable Templates
Image Library
Multi-Screen Recording
Recording
Screen Capture
Screen Recording
Social Media Integration
Template Management
Text Editing
Text Overlay
Third-Party Integrations
Video Editing
Video Management
Video Support
Voice-Over/Audio

Animoto Integrations

Adobe Creative Cloud

Animoto User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

52%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

3.8

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.1

Aimee M.

Verified reviewer

Photography

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Love all the options

Previously 4

Overall, good software. I’m able to quickly produce good videos/slideshows.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Value for money

Previously 3

Customer support

Functionality

Previously 3

Pros:

I love all the options...the music library is huge and there are plenty of designs available. The direct link from Lightroom is a game changer!

Cons:

While there are a lot of design/template options, I would like more. I make about 50 videos a year and haven’t seen many new designs over the past 2 years.

Fahim Shahriar S.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Branding Made Easy!

It enables users to upgrade their branding with ease. Almost anyone can create contents with it. I loved the user friendly interface. Ideal for small businesses. One of the best options available. A powerful tool but it certainly needs to add more features.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very user friendly. Almost anyone can create amazing video content with it. The large template library makes it even easier for users. Creating videos takes a very little time and adding effects, transitions and text overlay is relatively very simple.

Cons:

The templates can sometimes be very restrictive. If a user has a proper idea about how the video should be then it is not for him.

Reasons for switching to Animoto

It was more suited with the projects I usually work in.

Jim m.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Deceptive double payment subscription renewal practice

Ended very badly. Once they auto-renew, it's a nightmare to get it reversed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was OK. But considering the head aches experienced with their deceptive subscription renewal practice, there are better alternatives

Cons:

Deceptive double payment subscription renewal practice of auto-renewing and charging your credit card again.

Vendor Response

Hey Jim, Thanks for sharing your experience with Animoto. It sounds like you may have already worked with our team on this, but if there's anything outstanding we're always just a message away! You can reach the Customer Team via help@animoto.com who can help look into next steps for you.

Replied September 2025

Michelle Z.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Animoto for Education

Animoto has allowed me to present material/lessons in a more engaging way, that is also fun for students (& myself) to create.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love Animoto’s ease of use, along with the amazing quality final product. It looks professionally made, even when they’re created by 4th graders.

Cons:

I love that there are templates to use, but I find them sometimes restricting. I also wish we could control the amount of time in each slide.

Reasons for switching to Animoto

Animoto is much more fun, and has easier to use templates. The final product is much more engaging.

Emily A.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed May 2025

Support help

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We’re very prompt and helping me with my problem as I had selected the wrong sunshades my account and fixed the charges.

Cons:

The inly thing I can think of is I was wanting ti make a slideshow longer than 20 min

sam h.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Terrible experience

I tried to use Animoto to create a memorial service video. The experience was terrible, hard to navigate, and I couldn't produce anything useable, so quickly I asked for a refund and was denied, only told what I paid $180 could be applied to a future year.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nothing

Cons:

Scam: They take your money and no refund or cancellation, only apply what you've paid to a future year - will never use again!

Reasons for switching to Animoto

I thought that Animoto would be easier, I was wrong, not only was it not easier, but to get greater functionality, I had to select the higher priced option of $180 for pro., which didn't help at all. And I quickly quit the program and asked for a refund, they do not do refunds. They said I could cancel at any time, and assuming that this meant money needed back, I did cancel only to discover that with this company, it meant there would be no refund and the ability to use the software in the future. This was not clear. So during the saddest part of our lives, we reached out for hope of developing a slide video of our son's life, but nothing was produced.

Vendor Response

So sorry to hear of your experience. Our Customer Team would be happy to help you out! You can reach us by email 24/7 at help@animoto.com Animoto offers Monthly plans as well as Annual payment options. By purchasing a 12 month commitment in selecting the Annual plan rather than a Monthly option, you completed your purchase and confirmed the total amount due through the check out flow, which also displays the plan duration. Cancelling your Annual plan now means you will not be charged a year later on the renewal date provided prior to checkout, rather than automatically refunding unused time. So you would have still had the services for the remainder of the year. If you haven't already, please reach out to our Customer Team to see how we can help further. Just mention that you recently posted a Capterra review so your ticket can get routed in the right direction.

Replied November 2023

Nick A.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Image Slideshow to Music Creation App

Overall, adds another element to the classroom. I have also used Animoto to put together slideshows of my daughters that come out really well. Love the ability to share easily through a multitude of options including social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I remember when Animoto first came out. I was using it in the classroom with students to curate their images for various assignments (book trailers, public service projects, social media campaigns) etc. This was something they enjoyed. There are workarounds to do similar things, like using Google Slides or PowerPoint, or iMovie, but this takes the guesswork out of it. A simple tool to be able to merge images and video into a slide presentations/slideshow and overlay music to it. Comes out very professional looking. Students enjoy sharing these as it requires minimal movie editing experience and is a lot easier than iMovie. If you are using a LMS, I love how you can embed this inside it! Another way for teachers to be creative in how they deliver the content to their students.

Cons:

There aren't a lot of features or customization, but it is pretty straightforward in that you add images, add video, and ick a song. The rest is done by Animoto. There are templates to choose from as well, but would be nice to have a few more features/animations to make it more personal.

James M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

If you need to crank out marketing video fast and with few resources Animoto is your go to solution.

Fast and easy way to generate dynamic content from assets submitted by non-professionals. Also a great way to quickly generate Social Media specific video content by professionals as well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

While we produce longer form video using editing software such as Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere we still value our Animoto subscription to create something fast and flashy. For seasonal or holiday-based promotions or events, they have some great 'themed' backgrounds. We really get use out of Animoto when we have people share their photos and cell phone videos from events we can't attend and then we are able to quickly generate fun and engage videos that really capture the event. Being able to create 'square' aspect ration videos easily is enormously useful if your primary distribution is on Social Media. Just as great is the ability to go back and re-edit the video in 16x9 quickly and easily for display on a monitor or video wall.

Cons:

Most of the music that Animoto has for its videos get ads placed on them when used on YouTube so we don't use them anymore and instead either upload youtube safe music from youtube or from royalty free music we purchase or own. Animoto has made great strides in creating some of their square and marketing video templates but could use some more holiday/seasonal and general styles as it has been a while since I've seen some new exciting themes.

Abigail N.

Verified reviewer

Photography

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

I LOVE this Software

Creating promo videos for my client was a breeze, it was easy to create a simple but neat and attractive video using images, video clips, and some background music.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I knew of Animoto but had never used until my client (A photographer in Melbourne) suggested using it to create a promo video with images she had taken during one of her event photography gig. At first I was skeptical and was considering using Lumen 5 for that since I've used it for a while and I'm very comfortable with it. But Wow, Animoto is definitely 100 times better than Lumen 5. The interface is smooth, it's easy to use, it allowed me to upload images and videos to use. It also let me create "Quotes" as opposed to a "text" slide that's simply a text and the background color. I also like how the text element has an option for Title and subtitle, I also love how I can change the font size, spacing etc.

Cons:

Animoto is perfect although I wouldn't say no to the ability to crop an uploaded video, especially when the final exported video has to be within a specific time frame. My client wanted a video no less than one minute but the video she had was over 3 minutes. I had to use Movavi to cut the video before uploading it to Animoto

Nelleke P.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

We make photovideo´s for our clients and post them online

Use it all the time, its easy and beautiful results

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its easy and the results are really great looking, our clients are very happy. Lots of choice in templates and lettertypes, colors, possibilities. Well I say lots but in any case plenty enough for my purpose. We make presentations for small hotels and B & B´s and display them on their webpages, it really makes for an easy but fabulous presentation. It took a while to figure out how it all works, but in the end its really simple. The share functions are super easy and everything seems to work just fine. I even uploaded my own music for the first time, which also works fine. Although there are lots to choose from in the library.

Cons:

Support is a bit difficult, no online chat. I would like it if settings could be stored as favorites, as I forget which settings I like best. There also doesnt seem to be a duplicate button, which would be usefull. I also miss a help button or a how to guide, which would have saved me lots of time in the beginning.

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