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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/alternatives/) # Animoto Review From $16-$79/month Free version Free trial 4 plans On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pros and Cons - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Animoto 4.2 [(193)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $16.00 flat rate per month Top Alternatives ### 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. ## Animoto User Interface ## Popular Animoto Alternatives Main Product Animoto 4.2 [(193)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.40Ease of use - 3.82Value for money - 3.93Customer support - 4.06Functionality Pricing Starting at $16.00 per month Alternative Product [Wistia](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-hosting/wistia-profile/) 4.7 [(172)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-hosting/wistia-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.65Ease of use - 4.25Value for money - 4.57Customer support - 4.50Functionality Pricing Starting at $19.00 per month Alternative Product [TalkingPhotos](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/523824-TalkingPhotos/) 4.8 [(2254)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/523824-TalkingPhotos/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.76Ease of use - 4.76Value for money - 4.71Customer support - 4.56Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [HumanPal](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/humanpal-profile/) 4.7 [(3485)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/humanpal-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.72Ease of use - 4.73Value for money - 4.68Customer support - 4.56Functionality Pricing Starting at $199.00 one time Alternative Product [Camtasia](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/camtasia-profile/) 4.5 [(453)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/camtasia-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.45Ease of use - 4.19Value for money - 4.17Customer support - 4.32Functionality Pricing Starting at $179.88 per year Alternative Product [AVS Video Editor](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/avs-video-editor-profile/) 4.5 [(520)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/avs-video-editor-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.47Ease of use - 4.61Value for money - 4.28Customer support - 4.37Functionality Pricing Starting at £39.00 one time ## Animoto Pros and Cons We analyzed 193 verified reviews for Animoto to find out what actual users really think. Select to learn more Streamlined Slideshow Presentations Animoto makes it easy to build high-quality slideshows for personal, business, or educational use. Users appreciate the quick import of photos and videos, customizable templates, and professional results. The platform saves time and helps create engaging presentations with minimal effort. Intuitive And Simple Interface Getting started with Animoto is straightforward thanks to its user-friendly design and intuitive controls. Users consistently mention how easy it is to learn, navigate, and create projects without needing tutorials or technical expertise. Sharing and customizing videos is simple, making it accessible for all skill levels. Quick, Flexible Video Production Animoto lets you create professional videos quickly using templates, stock photos, and music. You can easily add text, transitions, and overlays, and customize content for marketing, presentations, or social media. The platform is accessible for users without video editing experience and offers a wide range of creative options. High Cost And Limited Value Animoto's pricing is frequently cited as expensive compared to similar tools. Users mention the need for upfront annual payments, limited features on lower-tier plans, and disappointment with price increases. Many feel the cost does not match the value or features provided. ## 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 Read More 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 Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Animoto User Reviews ## Animoto customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 193 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 101 reviews (52%) - 4 stars: 59 reviews (31%) - 3 stars: 13 reviews (7%) - 2 stars: 12 reviews (6%) - 1 star: 8 reviews (4%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 3.8/5 - Customer support: 3.9/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 --- ### Love all the options - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aimee M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, good software. I’m able to quickly produce good videos/slideshows. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Video Must - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Marco E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Love the animation and how videos come to life. #### Cons Which for a greater library of videos to use on videos. #### Reasons for switching to Animoto Wanted a new look and rebrand which other companies offered. --- ### Autorenewal with no warning or refund. - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Warren H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Terrible. Ripped off for a renewal when i haven’t even logged in for ove 10 months. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros It is fairly easy to use, and has some music track options #### Cons They autorenew your account with no warning and will not refund. The cost of a subscription is far more than the value of the product. There are free video editors that vastly exceed the features of this rudimentary interface. #### Vendor response Hey Warren, Thanks for sharing your experience. Our team would be happy to take a look into this for you. You can send a message to help@animoto.com with your account details and we'll be able to check into next steps from there! Replied September 2025 --- ### Image Slideshow to Music Creation App - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nick A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### If you need to crank out marketing video fast and with few resources Animoto is your go to solution. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: James M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Terrible experience - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: sam h. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### 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 --- ### I LOVE this Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Abigail N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### We make photovideo´s for our clients and post them online - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nelleke P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Use it all the time, its easy and beautiful results #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Great software, a little expensive - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Toiny W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall it's been great for making short marketing videos #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros One of the best, if not the best, for adding text to video #### Cons I'm not thrilled at the high price and I struggle with getting the timing of video/text/music right --- ### Drag and drop video compiler - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Esther G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like it because they provide the templates, but for a business tool, I think it's way too expensive for such limited editing and no scrubbing capabilities. I spend hours just previewing because there's no scrub feature. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love how easy it is to import photos and videos and create a basic slide show #### Cons 1) The price is higher than some other editors out there. 2) getting the music timing right is a guessing game bc they don't have a scrub feature 3) previews take a LONG time to load, and you can't scrub, so if you need to test something at the end, you have to watch the entire video to get there every time.... this takes a VERY long time to do. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 193 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/reviews/) ## Animoto Popular Comparisons [TalkingPhotos vs Animoto](https://www.softwareadvice.com/compare/420891-animoto/vs/523824-TalkingPhotos/)[HumanPal vs Animoto](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/vs/humanpal/)[Camtasia vs Animoto](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/vs/camtasia/)[CreateStudio vs Animoto](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/vs/createstudio/)[Movavi Video Editor Plus vs Animoto](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/vs/movavi-video-editor-plus/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-making/animoto-profile/alternatives/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice