PowToon

RATING:

4.5

(392)

About PowToon

Powtoon is a visual communication platform designed to help businesses to create animated videos & presentations for marketing, HR, IT, training & more. With a large variety of pre-built templates & a drag and drop editor, Powtoon allows businesses and teams to create fully customized presentations. Powtoon is a visual communication platform for creating engaging, animated videos and presentations with zero design skills or technical background. Users can choose from a range of over 200 ready-to-use templates and customize them with company branding, content, and visuals. With Powtoon, users also have access to a library of royalty-free music, objects, and videos to enhance their creations! Powtoon Business can be used across HR, IT, customer support, internal communi...

PowToon Pricing

Powtoon offers a variety of different license types: Free Plan: free with 100MB of storage and access to all free content. Pro: $89/month billed monthly ($228 billed yearly) with 2GB of storage and access to Pro and free content. Pro+: $197/month billed monthly ($708 billed yearly) with 10GB of storage and access to all content. Agency: $1188 billed yearly with 100GB of storage and access to all content. Business plan pricing available on request.

Starting price: 

$89.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

Presentation can be created with the drag and drop WYSIWYG editor

PowToon Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for PowToon

1 - 5 of 391 Reviews

Mari

Computer Software, 1,001 - 5,000 employees

Used less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

2

Reviewed December 2021

Almost perfect

User Profile

Deepika

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2018

Great to use

PROS

Being a graphic designer, I use this for animated videos & presentations almost everyday. powtoon has so many templates & animation effects which make it very useful to make quick videos. I love this software because it has a clean interface. Colors & design are very user friendly . I would recommend this product to everyone who wants to make animated videos & presentations.

CONS

The hardest part of this product is it sometimes takes way too much time to upload images & add videos to timeline. This is a heavy product, which hangs alot, that makes it very irritating at times. One thing I want in this product is options to arrange the saved files in folders or as we want because the minus point is when we mistakenly open a file it comes to number one which bothers the order of the files & makes it difficult to keep a check.

Mich

Retail, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2019

Powtoons is Amazing

I have created dozens of videos for internal comms, advertising, recruiting and training. It has made my life so easy and with great reward and outcome.

PROS

This is a super simple app to create fun and vibrant communications pieces either with cartoons or video.

CONS

I think customer service could be much better. I don't think I've ever gotten ahold of a live person.

Reasons for switching to PowToon

I didn't exactly make a total switch because I still need to edit some video before dropping it in to Powtoons, but the functionality of Powtoons and its ability to drag and drop anything into the video at any time is so cool. And it has a huge database of photos, video, and other tidbits.

riley

Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

Used less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed October 2019

Powtoon

Not great they say they would be creating new content and we have had the service for 6 months with absolutely no content updates

PROS

You can put multiple layers of text on one slide and customize where it will show up.

CONS

They have absolutely zero content. They say they have marketing videos but they are only 10 seconds long and random. We no longer use this software.

Reason for choosing PowToon

We ended up purchasing promo as well because promo has a wide range and variety of videos and music that works a lot better than Powtoon. Very disappointed in Powtoon.

Zach

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Don't Need to Be a Video Production Expert to Make Great Marketing Videos

It has been very positive and was really a self-service platform. I have yet to deal with any person on the customer support side, we purchased the tool and onboarded completely independently and that is a testament to the UX/UI team at Powtoon. It is very straightforward and simple to use right away!

PROS

I liked how straightforward the use of the product was. I created 10-12 videos in a two-week span that were all ~60sec animated videos for usage in video advertising. It was very easy to learn, the platform auto-saves your progress so there's no fear of losing information, and it saves your video in whatever format you require. The templates are typically all I needed for videos, so I didn't have to start from scratch on any of my ideas. It has been a good experience and I will use the tool whenever we need to create a quick animated short!

CONS

The pricing was a bit confusing. We initially signed up for a base tier where we thought we'd have more functionality based on the description. When we got into the system we realized that immediately we'd need to upgrade from "Lite" to "Professional" in order to get the most out of the system and templates. We needed to remove watermarks and unlock key features, so we jumped to Pro. It wasn't outrageous to jump in price, but it was a snag as we had to get the new cost approved again internally.

Reason for choosing PowToon

We liked a couple of the templates on Powtoon for our initial use case better than the alternative solution we looked at.