A kick-ass video will have perfectly edited frames, color grading, background music, and, most importantly, a well-tailored voice over.

Voice overs are essential to convey essential ideas and express the scenario with emotions to the audience. As a result, many businesses rely on video formats with a perfectly suited voice over to deliver critical messages about their services/products to the customers.

Generally, voice overs are being used in a variety of formats, including podcasts, audio/video commercials, corporate training films, webinars, online coursework, video games, to name a few. Such content would be uninteresting to the audience if it did not include voice overs. For example, in a video course with no voices, or a video game with no narrative, no one would be interested in spending time with such content.

Nevertheless, creating good voice overs is strenuous. Though you could technically make one on your own, you’d still have to shell out hundreds or even thousands of dollars on recording equipment, besides the person-hours to be invested in that task.

Even though you are someone with the capacity to make a large investment, chances are you would not be satisfied with the quality of the voice overs you created on your own. Hence, understandably, you would turn to a freelancer or professional voice actor. However, depending on their service experience and the required work, the cost of hiring voice actors is also not the ideal long-term answer.

So are you wondering what you could possibly do about such a situation? Don’t worry, let me introduce you to voice over softwares. It’s 2023, and we have voice over softwares that runs based on artificial intelligence to produce realistic voices just from text.

Yes! You read that right. You can now convert your video scripts, documents, essays, or any text for that matter into a natural voice of your liking with the help of these voice over softwares. And the best part here is that most of these solutions are super affordable and easy to use. A few of them have lifetime free plans, and a few have trials that you can access without sharing your credit card information.

In addition, you don’t have to be concerned about piracy or copyright infringement with these tools.

So, choosing an online voice over software definitely has its advantages. But how do you choose the right one for your use case?

Well, let us simplify it by picking the best 5 and dissecting the Pros and Cons of each of these tools.

Let’s get started,

1. Animaker Voice
2. Natural Reader
3. Murf.ai
4. Wideo
5. Play.ht

1. Animaker Voice

Animaker Voice is a DIY online voice over software that allows you to convert text to speech instantly without much hassle. Simply create a free account with Animaker Voice and start making your voice overs without ripping any holes in your pocket.

Whether the use-case be a

• YouTube intro voice over.
• Product Explainer Video voice over.
• Brand video voice over.
• Wishes video voice over.
• Instagram Reels voice over or
• Tik Tok voice over,

For that matter, Animaker Voice allows you to create human-like voice overs for any use case that you might have in hand.

What’s special about Animaker Voice?
Animaker Voice comes loaded with about 200+ different human-like voices in 50 global languages. That’s insane, right?

Also, you have the complete customization of how the voice should sound.

Gender – Under the Gender option, you can choose between Male and Female voices.
Language – Under the Language option, you can choose the language for the voice. Animaker’s Voice Generator Application comes packed with 50 different global languages.
Voice – Under the Voice option, you can choose from different voices available based on the Gender and Language that you have chosen. In total, the Animaker’s Voice Generator Application comes packed with over 200 other computer-generated voices.
Auto Enhance – The Auto Enhance option is an AI-based neural-voice enhancer that automatically enhances the voice output without manually optimizing other options like breath effect, speed, pitch, etc., to the selected voice.
There are options to control the Pitch, Speed, and Volume of the voice.

Pitch – You can control the pitch of the voice from low to high
Speed – You get to control how fast the voice pronounces the text
Whisper – You can make the voice sound even more incredible with the Whisper option. Click on the Whisper check box to enable it.

Furthermore, Animaker Voice also provides editing options to fine-tune the voice manually by introducing a break in between words and introducing breath after pronouncing a word.

Breath – Animaker Voice pushes the voice editing prowess to the next level by allowing you to add real-life breathing effects in between the words with adjustable volume and duration for the breath in the voice
Break – You can even introduce pauses between two words with the Break feature

For a more detailed walkthrough about Animaker Voice, check out this blog – How to make a Computer Generated Voice? [The Easiest way]

2. NaturalReader Commercial

NaturalReader Commercial is an AI Voiceover software that helps you convert text to speech quickly and download them as audio files.

They use synthesized AI voices to bring you the highest quality natural-sounding voices available in the market today.

What’s special about NaturalReader Commercial
Multi-language
With about 176 voices from 27 different languages, including regional variations like Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, and US Spanish, NaturalReader Commercial offers the customers the variety to choose their preferences.

Studio Editor
NaturalReader Commercial comes with a Studio Editor that helps you assign specific voices and speeds to selected pieces of text or use drag and drop to rearrange sections easily. This Studio Editor is the key feature of this voice over software.

Pronunciation Editor
With the Pronunciation Editor, you can use word substitution or phonetic characters to correct or improve the pronunciation of a given word or phrase.

Advanced Controls
Also, Natural Reader offers advanced controls. For example, you can use SSML tags to adjust pitch, tone, and emphasis or insert silence periods.

Commercial Licensing
NaturalReader offers a commercial license that allows you to publicly use the audio or for redistribution purposes. And this means you can use the audio in your YouTube videos, company training videos, eLearning modules, public announcements or broadcasts, and other business, public, or commercial purposes.

Pricing

The commercial subscriptions available under the monthly subscription are,

Free Plan – $0 per month
Single plan – $99 per month
Team Plan – $204 per month for four members

Pricing for this particular voice over software lies on the expensive side compared to the market standards. There’s an option for a yearly subscription as well, and the corresponding prices are Single Plan at $49 and Team Plan at $79 (for a four-member team). Still, this is expensive compared to the other players in the market.

Pros
Studio editor to completely customize the audio output
Pronunciation editor
Commercial licensing to use the audio public purposes
Advanced controls – SSML tags
Cons
No export option is available in the Free plan. It doesn’t allow you to download any audio files. You can only use the interface and get to know about the software.
Synthesized voices are available, but they can sound even more realistic.
Language options offered can be increased.
Pronunciation editor and advanced controls are not available for all voices.

Pricing plans are expensive compared to other software players in the market.

3. Murf.ai

Murf is an AI voice over platform where users can generate synthetic speech from text and add it to their videos and presentations. They specialize in voice synthesis. AI technology creates realistic voice-overs for various purposes, including e-learning, business presentations, gaming, and more.

Murf promises guaranteed quality and no more robotic voices. Instead, their voices are human-sounding, and quality checks across dozens of parameters. So gone are the days of computerized text to speech; it isn’t easy to distinguish between Murf’s advanced AI voices and recorded human voices.

What’s special about Murf.ai
Murf provides a wide range of 100% natural-sounding AI voices in 20 languages for professional voice over projects and presentations.

Murf provides a variety of voices in 20 languages. Most languages have voices accessible for quality testing, even in the free plan. In addition, some languages, such as English, Spanish, and Portuguese, accommodate various accents.

It’s more than simple text-to-speech software.

Add voice to videos or images
Murf Studio makes it simple to produce voice over videos and presentations. You can attain that ideal video timing by simply uploading videos or photos and altering the timing using the blocks in the bottom timeline. Then, add your text, convert to audio, and match your text blocks with your visuals in minutes to get the perfectly stitched voice over video.

Grammar assistant
Murf Studio includes a free grammar and punctuation checker, so you can always write immaculate scripts for your voice overs. It detects any grammatical, spelling, or punctuation mistakes in your text. It makes recommendations for enhancing the script for a higher-quality voice over.

Free background music
Murf Studio has a built-in archive of royalty-free audio tracks that you may use in your projects. Plus, there’s more. Each background music file has been labeled and classified based on use cases, such as explainer videos, presentations, advertising, and moods, such as joyful and peaceful. So on, so you can locate what you need quickly. But, of course, you also use your music within the project, and that’s also a possibility.

Pricing

Murf offers a free plan and three paid pricing options. Under the yearly subscription,

Basic plan – $13 per month
Pro plan – $26 per month
Enterprise – $83 onwards per month
Under the free plan, you get Single User access, and you can try out all 120+ voices plus get 10 mins of voice generation and 10 mins of transcription. However, you have no downloads in the free plan.

Under the Basic plan, you get Single User with Unlimited Downloads, 24 hours of voice generation/year, access to 60 voices in about ten different languages. Also, Commercial Usage rights are included. In addition, chat and Email support will be provided in this plan.

The Pro Plan supports up to 3 users with 96 hours of voice generation/year and 48 hours of transcription/year. You also get access to 120+ voices in about 20 different languages. Also, there are Recorded voice editing and Voice changer features. Commercial Usage rights and Priority Support are also included.

In the Enterprise plan, you get an Account Manager, Custom voice generation time, Custom transcription time, specify the number of users, SSO is enabled. Also, Collaboration features and Centralized invoicing are available.

Pros
A total of 120 voice overs in 19 languages
All plans include full HD video export
Pricing is on the affordable end compared to the market standards
Extensive voice over studio
A full scope of voice over customization is available
Cons
No downloads in the free plan
Voice changer is limited to the Pro and Enterprise plans only
Recorded voice editing feature can be improved and added to all the plans
The number of languages offered can be increased.

Sample Voice Note - Since there were no download options available in the free version, we couldn’t showcase any sample audios from the Murf voice over software.

4. Wideo

Wideo is a video-making website with over 2.5 million registered users worldwide. Make promotional films, explainer videos, demo videos, and presentations, among other things.

Wideo also provides a text-to-speech tool that uses the Google text-to-speech API. Wideo’s Text to Speech Software (TTS) is a quick and straightforward approach to converting text to audio to make your message more memorable and inclusive to the audience.

What’s special about Wideo
With Wideo’s TTS, you can convert text to speech, download it as an mp3 file, import the audio file into your video editor, and add a professional voiceover to your videos.

Without creating an account in Wideo, you can still make your own voice overs and download them as mp3 audio files. Under the free version, you get to convert 2000 characters per day.

Pricing

Wideo comes as a video creation suite, and along with it is the text-to-speech tool.

The basic plan is $59 per month, and the Pro plan is $99 per month. Both provide a limited character count for conversion and download. The Pro plan starts at $99 per month, and the Pro+ plan starts at $199 per month. Unlimited characters limit is included in these two plans for the text to speech conversion.

Pros
Offers more than 40 global languages
You can customize the pronunciation speed of the text
User-friendly interface
Pro plan is economical compared to the market standards
Free user plan is available
Cons
Customization of the voices are limited
More number of global languages can be added
Integrations can be included to support other applications
Detailed information about the tool can be provided

5. Play.ht

Play.ht is a text-to-speech and Al voice synthesis software. You can instantly convert text into natural-sounding speech and download them as audio files in MP3 and WAV formats.

What’s special about Play.ht
You can quickly pick the correct voice from an extensive library of 570 Al voices in 60+ languages and generate natural-sounding voices in no time.

Creating Audio files
Play.ht voice over software gives the users basically two options,

1. Create audio from text 2. Source from an article URL. You can enter the text or fetch content from a URL, convert it to audio, and download it as MP3 or WAV files.

WordPress Plugin
The voice over software comes with a Plugin for WordPress. You can easily add audio to blog posts, pages, and e-learning materials from your WordPress dashboard. Use AI voices and audio player widgets to make your textual content audible.

To improve content accessibility, user engagement, and time on page metrics, you may convert your blog posts, articles, and eLearning content into audio with the plugin.

Medium Extension
Play.ht also offers a Chrome browser extension for Medium. You can easily add audio to your Medium stories by installing and using the available Medium Chrome Extension.

API access
Use the API to gain access to Play.ht. For example, if you’re a developer, you can use Play.ht’s API to incorporate text-to-speech conversions into your software. The API uses a comprehensive collection of voices and languages to provide a single interface for converting text to speech.

Complete Customization
Play.ht allows you to modify the voice overs by simply highlighting the words altogether. To make the speech more human-like, add pauses and emphasis. You may even alter the voice’s pace, tone, and pronunciation to mimic genuine human voices in specific scenarios better.

Podcast Hosting
With Play.ht, you can get the RSS feed of the created audio files and distribute them to powerful podcasting platforms such as iTunes and Spotify.

Pricing

Play.ht offers four paid plans (prices below are when billed monthly)

The personal plan starts at $19 per month. This plan is apt for school projects and proofreading content. It includes unlimited previews and downloads, but the catch is you won’t get commercial rights for reuse; podcast hosting is also not included.

The professional plan starts at $39 per month. Premium voices are the key added advantage in this plan. And along with it, you get customizable audio players and exclusive commercial rights. Even Podcast hosting is included in this plan.

The growth plan starts at $99 per month. Under this plan, you get everything included in the Professional plan. In addition, you get a pronunciation library and an automatic audio creation feature along with it.

The business plan starts at $199 per month. Everything in the Growth plan is covered here. Also, priority technical support is offered. You get the rebranding and reselling rights as well. Teams’ access to the project for possible collaboration is also included.

The pricing varies drastically when you opt for the plans yearly,

Personal- $14.25 per month
Professional – $29.25 per month
Growth- $74.25 per month
Business – $149.25 per month
But the features included remain the same as when the plans are billed monthly.

Pros
Offers 570+ AI Voices and 60+ Languages
Supports MP3 & WAV Export of audio files
Commercial Use licensing is provided (except personal plan)
Full SSML Support
Availability of API Access
Plugin Integrations with WordPress and Medium

Cons
Rebranding and Reselling rights are included in the Business plan only
Voice over options are too many, but most of them sound less human-like
The free version supports only three downloads.

A decade ago, one had to break a sweat to create videos.

 From being a luxury reserved to well-funded bigwigs to becoming every individual’s pocket tool, DIY video making tools have bridged the gap in skillset and dramatically revolutionized the world of content.

One of the early introducers of video making software was Vyond who’s been around since 2007.

Vyond was formerly known as GoAnimate that has been facilitating the creation of animated videos. Every product has its own growth, innovation, lifecycle, and uniqueness. Vyond, over the years, has definitely scaled up and strengthened its engineering muscle.

But, with the changing pace of customer demand and more DIY video making tools entering the market, does Vyond still have what it takes?

Does it check off all the boxes to be crowned as “the best video making platform”?

The short answer is – NO!

This article will demystify and highlight the core features that a video making tool should have (that Vyond does not).

But, before we jump into the comparison, let’s see the pros and cons of Vyond and their pricing.

Vyond Pros:

• A vast library with a massive collection of characters, properties, customization, and animations

• Their application is relatively stable as they have been in the market for so many years.

• There are three visual styles -  contemporary, business-friendly, and whiteboard

• Quick and accessible resources – tutorials, webinars, FAQs, and more

Vyond Cons:

• Vyond’s plans are extremely pricey and are the highest among the DIY segment.

• Pay to Play. They only offer a 14 day Free Trial and you won’t get options to download your video.

• Their animated characters don’t look as attractive as the ones offered by other tools.

• The tool does not have an in-built stock asset library

• No option to resize videos that are responsive to different channels

As you see, the above cons are why Vyond isn’t the best DIY video maker in the market today.

Let’s now see the top Vyond alternatives, the reasons why might be better off considering them instead.

Top Vyond alternatives that you must try!

1. Animaker

Animaker is one of the best video making tools in the market today. It allows you to create animated and live videos for free. With an easy to use app bundled with powerful features, Animaker has made video making easy for everyone including non-designers. Animaker has the largest collection of assets including an extensive custom character builder, 100M+ stock assets, advanced animations, and human-like TTS engine – most of which is not available in Vyond.

Pros:

• Animaker has a huge library of 100M+ stock assets

• The custom character builder with 15+ facial features and 10+ accessory options. This enables the creation of billions of unique character combinations.

• They are the only tool to offer 4K video exports

• It also comes with an automated lip-sync feature that makes speech animations look professional

• Their advanced text-to-speech engine enables humanizing the auto-generated voiceover

• Animaker’s plans are very pocket-friendly

Cons:

• The Brand kit is available only in the Enterprise Plan of Animaker

• 2K quality is available from the Pro Plan onwards

Clearly, Animaker is a good Vyond alternative and you must check it out if you haven’t already.

2. Powtoon

Powtoon is a cloud-based animation software for creating animated videos and presentations. Like Vyond, Powtoon too has existed in the market for a long time. With Powtoon, you can create live and animated videos. Powtoon has a freemium plan and a good collection of stock assets which makes it a more balanced tool compared to Vyond.

Pros:

• Powtoon’s application is really simple to use

• Powtoon has millions of stock images that are available within the image libraries

• With Powtoon, you can create videos of different sizes – horizontal, square, and vertical that makes it suitable for different social media platforms

• A wide collection of templates for different use cases

Cons: 

• While Powtoon isn’t priced as high as Vyond. It is still priced very high when you consider its limited feature set.

• You cannot download videos in the free plan which makes it difficult to evaluate the product

• Powtoon does not have advanced character animations and has an average of only 7 character expressions per character.

• There’s no humanizing TTS available in Powtoon which makes voice-overs sound robotic

• Powtoon does not allow for real-time collaboration by multiple users

3. Moovly

Moovly is a cloud-based video creation tool that allows the creation of animated videos and presentations. It has a wide range of templates and assets that will help you create good videos. Moovly, when compared to Vyond, has a wider collection of stock assets and is certainly a better tool for live video creation. However, as far as animations are concerned, Moovly is lagging far behind.

Pros:

• Moovly has a huge library of 75 million premium stock assets

• With Moovly, you can resize your videos to make it optimized and suitable for different social media platforms

• They have a decent collection of templates.

 Cons:

• There is no support available in the free version

• The duration of the video exports in the free plan is only 2 minutes

• The TTS software is available only in the most expensive subscriptions

• The UI is heavy and difficult to work with. Particularly, the timeline has multiple panels that make editing a cumbersome process and there is no grid color palette

• There are no advanced animations or a variety of characters available in Moovly. The quality of animations seem to be mediocre too

4. Toonly

Toonly is a very simple tool to make animations. It is a downloadable software and not an online or cloud-based tool. The ease-of-use and affordability make Toonly a tool worth trying. Toonly is a good Vyond alternative if you are looking to create animated videos on a budget. However, the characters and animations are pretty mediocre in the tool in terms of the availability of options and the look and feel.

Pros:

• Toonly is one of the most affordable tools starting at as low as $20/mo billed annually

• The tool gives a 30-day money-back guarantee which makes it risk-free

Cons:

• This not an on-cloud tool which has its own disadvantages

• There is no free trial which makes it hard to evaluate the tool

• The standard plan has very generic 2d background collection that makes it difficult to create videos for different use cases

• Color customization of gradient backgrounds is not possible and there are very limited animated texts, backgrounds, and font options available

5. Animoto

Animoto is a cloud-based video making tool that enables the creation of videos, presentations, and customized web-based presentations. The UI is more clean and intuitive compared to Vyond. Animoto does not have animations and is only a good alternative for creating live videos.

Pros:

• Animoto has millions of stock footage and images available in the library

• A clean, intuitive, and easy-to-work-with UI

• Has a good range of video style, textures, and filters

• You can download videos in the Animoto free plan which enables a fair evaluation of the tool

Cons:

• There is no option to create high-quality animated videos. There is no character builder or advanced animations available in Animoto

• There are very limited templates available

6. Biteable

Biteable is a video making tool that allows you to create animated and live videos for free. With a good collection of pre-built templates and assets, makes Biteable a good tool to try out. Biteable is good for live video creation. As far as animations are concerned, they lag far behind due to the absence of characters, animation effects, TTS software, and more.

Pros:

• Biteable has a good library of stock images and clips and allows a Full HD quality download right from the free plan

• A very good collection of templates for different use cases

• Unlimited exports right from the free plan

• The tool is intuitive and easy to use

 Cons:

• The animations are not very impressive in Biteable. There are no characters, advanced animations, TTS software, or any elements that support high-quality animated videos

• There’s no TTS software available in Biteable

• There are very limited font options

7. Wideo

Wideo is a cloud-based video creation tool that enables users to create, edit, and share videos. It is a simple tool that allows the creation of videos and presentations at ease. There are not many advanced animations available in Wideo. There is no character builder or an option to make your characters have a lip movement. Wideo is a good Vyond alternative if you want to create live videos or animated videos on a budget.

 Pros:

• A good collection of +970,000 stock images are available

• It has a light-weight UI with a timeline that is easy to work with

• It is available in English, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese

• Wideo is more affordable compared to Vyond starting at $19 m/o

 Cons:

• There are no video downloads in the free plan

• There is a limit on the duration of the videos across all plans. The 1.5-minute video duration in the basic plan does not justify the pricing

• There are very limited templates

• The free trial period is just for 7 days

Conclusion

 Vyond is one of the pioneers of the DIY video market. There are a lot of features in Vyond like extensive character customizations, animations, team collaboration, etc that make it an excellent video making tool.

But, there are still untapped areas of DIY video making that Vyond has not cracked yet. Vyond has made its mark with animated videos, but it will become a holistic tool only when it scales up live video creation as well.

So, sign up and try out as many tools as you can, see what fits your requirements, and then invest in the best one. If you were looking for alternatives to Vyond, I hope this post has helped you.

If you know other Vyond free alternatives, drop a comment!

Powtoon started back in 2011 and instantly became the master of the DIY video-making game. Its ease of use swept everyone off their feet and proved its worth.

It has been more than 7 years since then, and a lot of newer and more exciting fish have joined them in the ocean.

A detailed analysis of these Powtoon alternatives got us thinking if Powtoon still holds the position of the top-ranked tool or should we pass around the crown!

So, we decided to list down, what according to us are the 7 best alternatives to Powtoon in order of resourcefulness. Try your hands on them and let us know what you think!

1. Animaker:

Let’s start with the one that tops our list!

The reason why we’re ranking Animaker first is not just because of its cool animation characters and eye-pleasing color palettes, but because we consider it to be the all-in-one package at the best price!

• The custom character-builder allows you to customize 15+ facial features and 10+ accessory slots. You can create billions of character combinations.
• Animaker’s subscription plans are very pocket friendly
• The text-to-speech software enables you to humanize the voiceovers by adding breaks, breaths, emphasis, and whisper. It supports 25+ languages and 50+ voices. It has an auto lip-sync too
• It has a large collection of a 100M+ stock assets

Cons:

• The brand management feature is available only in the Enterprise Plan of Animaker.
• 2K quality is available Pro Plan onwards.

2. Vyond:

Vyond is the newly revised name of GoAnimate. It is also a pretty good software if you’re looking to create professional looking cartoon videos. The only thing that’s holding it back is that it’s not as easy to use as Powtoon.

Pros:

• Vyond has a very interesting collection of templates.
• It has a unique feature of automatic character lip synchronization.
• It lets you customize your character with a lot of scope for diversity within the same style of character.

Cons:

• It is a bit too pricey.
• You lack the option of editing audio.
• The characters don’t look as attractive as the options offered by other players in the industry.

3. VideoScribe:

VideoScribe is the flag bearer of Whiteboard animation in the DIY video-making industry. It is a quality software that you should definitely try your hands on!

Pros:

• It supports unlimited no. of downloads, hosting and creation in the paid plan.
• It has a large library of audio and visual elements including soundtracks.
• It has a simple 5 step interface with a lot of good DIY features.

Cons:

• The software is limited to only whiteboard style of videos.
• It has a Free trial period of only 7 days.

4. Animatron:

Animatron is an easy-to-use tool. It also has a separate Lite mode, which is a simplified version that empowers those who have never had any animation experience before.

Pros:

• The pre-animated characters that come with the software are fun to use.
• There is a good variety of graphics that you can use.
• Animatron has set up an active community in which people share their projects with each other and get valuable feedback.

Cons:

• There is no email support for the free version
• The designs, transitions and animations do not come with ample choices.

5. Moovly:

Moovly was started just a year after Powtoon. It was created to serve as a video-making tool for corporate enterprises, small medium businesses, individual professionals, students and teachers.

Pros:

• It is a very pocket-friendly tool.
• One unique feature of Moovly is the ability to use real videos as backgrounds.

Cons:

• Custom library is available only in the enterprise plan.
• The user interface can be a bit more user-friendly.

6. RawShorts:

RawShorts is a free platform for anyone who wants to make professional-looking videos for businesses. It is the only DIY video making tool in the market that has an AI engine. You can simple type in the script of your video to see it convert into one. Although, this is a step in the right direction, it looks like the AI feature isn’t completely ready yet.

Pros:

• The final video output is of high quality.
• You can easily export and share the videos.

Cons:

• The storage capacity is only 1 GB.
• Maximum no. of premium exports is limited to only 25.

7. Wideo:

Wideo as a tool can prove to be very helpful for SMBs, marketing professionals and digital agencies. It helps you produce videos quickly and easily with a lot of templates. It doesn’t even require a credit card to try its free version.

Pros:

• It gives you the ability to control individual frames for detailed animation.
• It comes with a variety of tutorials and how-to articles.
• It is available in English, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese.

Cons:

• The 1-minute limitation does not justify the basic package price of the software.
• There are no free subscription plans available. The free trial period is only for 7 days.
• The software is expensive as compared to its other competitors.

To conclude, we recommend that you go for Animaker, as it is the best Powtoon alternative and in some cases even better than the latter!
It’s pocket friendly, eye-pleasing and very user-friendly.

But, feel free to try your hands on other options as well and let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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Algopix offers immediate benefits to users including:
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Increasing Market Awareness – Comparison of different offers and sales campaigns over the long term for more targeted business strategies.
Enabling Smart Business Decisions – through intelligent analytics, Algopix  equips users with the data needed to know precisely what actions to take

Algopix is currently free to use and supports over 12 eBay and Amazon markets globally.

Last week, the shower fell on my head. It was a chilly morning. First, I thought it was frozen ice. Then, I realised the whole damn thing was broken.

I called the plumber. He came in at lightning speed. So quick that he forgot to take his tools. He was the finest plumber in town, but without the tools he was as good as my Neighbour Jerry.

The only difference between humans today and humans 10000 years ago is tools.

You might be a social media expert. You might have the creativity to make content that attracts attention. You might even have the insight to understand the trends. But without the right tools, you are only 1% of what you can be.

A lot of professionals don’t update their arsenal.

We find an amazing tool. We fall in love with it. And we keep on using it for years and years.

What if your Grandpa still used pigeons instead of Gmail?

Here is the 2017 list of must have tools for social media:

Live Video Maker – Shakr.

Small businesses and big brands are turning to social media video advertising for discovery, entertainment and brand awareness.

And with the number of video ad views totaling to 28.7 billion last year, you just can’t ignore it! However, as the cost for making video ads are too expensive, most marketers were still testing waters. Shakr changes all that. It is the missing piece of puzzle that saves the day here.

Shakr aims to help Small business owners ( real estate agents, car dealers, restaurant owners) to create video advertising campaigns for their marketplace at a very affordable price.

All you need to do is pick stock images from the application and drop them in the video creator. The output is a stunning HD video for your video ad campaign. Their templates are designed by graphic designers who have worked for brands like Nike and Samsung in the past.

You can also preview the HD-quality, non-watermarked video clips and themes before buying them.

WeVideo

Another popular social media app I have come across is WeVideo. Like Shakr, WeVideos also helps you create live videos. But the best thing I like about them is that you can capture and edit your video on your mobile on the go.
WeVideo boasts of giving full creative control to the users.Their main motto is that imagination should be the foundation of any kickass video. They make it very easy to create a great movie.

With features like photo animation, voice over, and clip transformation, screencasting etc, WeVideo seems no less than a mix of professional video editing tools within a single application.

WeVideo is the one stop solution for making anything from family videos to product demos. It can be used in both PC and smartphone.

Animated Videos: Animaker

Animated videos are underestimated.

While it cannot provide the richness of a real video, it has its own advantages.

It’s not just an app for explainer videos. In addition to having a huge list of awesome features to make cool animations, it can come to your rescue:

1. If your target audience is not from your country and you don’t have the money to hire a foreign actor.

2. When you want your imagination to make all the rules.

3. When you want to incite warm emotions while showing a factory or anything boring.

4. If you are catering to a statistics heavy topic.

5. If you want to make changes later.

Animaker edges out most other apps in the same segment thanks to 2 things:

Better Visuals: More lively characters in the app with new characters coming up all the time.

A constant update of features: Last year we came up with Video Infographics and this year we’ve already brought in Animaker Decks: which can convert your video into a slide show presentation. But our landmark innovation this year would be the addition of the world’s first vertical video maker. If you haven’t already, you should check it out now.

Video slideshows – Animoto

Like the 3 tools mentioned above, Animoto also has a unique feature- Video slideshows.

It gives you a video slideshow instead of a video as an output which is recreated out of free images, video clips or music clips. Animoto has patented Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology which makes all of this possible.

The company aims to help users make professional looking videos instead of poorly made camcorder video clips. And it turned out to be true when Animoto’s Facebook application launched in 2008 had nearly 750,000 people signed up in just three days!

If you want to create a video slideshow with an attractive mix of video clips, images and music clips, Animoto is a tool you need to try.

Magisto

If you want to add a personal touch to their social videos, Magisto holds a big advantage. With their emotion sense technology, the tool automatically selects the best parts of the video and clubs it into a beautiful story that elicits emotion.

The patented emotion sense technology is said to work on three levels: Visual analysis, audio analysis and storytelling.

After a detailed analysis of the video, the tool identifies the main character of the video, the topic of the video and uses the emotion guided techniques to form a perfect story.

From personal videos to commercial ads, Magisto captures the core element of your video (the story) and makes it compelling to look at.

All with an easy-to-use interface with editing tools, captions, custom branding and pre- themed templates. Magisto has come a long way to be called a “smart video storytelling application”.

It’s a war out there. Having a good plan alone won’t be enough to stand out. You need to use the right tools as well. Remember, Iron man would be just talk and no show if he didn’t have the suit.

]]> https://thestartupvideos.com/?feed=rss2&p=3035 0 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=2889 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=2889#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2016 07:13:21 +0000 Sruthi http://thestartupvideos.com/?p=2889 Animaker, which turned up the trumps with the fame of “ an online tool for creating studio-quality videos” has a great news for everyone. It has launched “the video infographics”.

Video infographics: an introduction.

Data and statistics are an inevitable asset for everyone. (Marketers, Journalists, Teachers etc). It is a valuable insight which poses to be a foundation of every decision you take. There is a voluminous amount of data present but no proper method to relay this valuable information to the audience.

Video infographics is the new tool that surpasses the traditional powerpoint presentations and elaborate infographics. It is a combination of “video” and “infographics”, the two powerful tools of conveying information. It breathes life into the boring presentations and make information appealing, consumable and retainable.

Animaker’s Video Infographics: First look

Animaker has come all over again with new features, an extended library, updated assets, enhanced User Interface and many more exciting effects.

The latest theme has

3000+ maps

1000+ charts

30+ bgm

Unique font styles

A whole new range of Pre animated assets

Enhanced User Interface

900+ properties

Improved speed

Fully customizable

Maps:

This category comes handy for journalists. Tiled animation, icon animation, destination animation etc are the types of maps offered in this section. You can select two locations and animate it parallelly too.

Charts:

Line charts, pie charts, Bar graphs. Dotted graphs, Area map, Numbers, Currency, tables…. There is a huge set of charts available in the library section. The data can be manipulated and customized by a single click.

Pre animated assets:

Now your animation becomes easier. Animaker has included a vast number of pre-animated lines, shapes, icons that adds professionalism in your work, yet take it less effort.

Other Features:

Your video can seem more alive with a new set of inspirational and merry bgms. All genres of music files are available in the updated set.

That is not all. This is just a dime’s worth.

Make most of the latest theme of Animaker’s Video Infographics. The good news is that you can work collaboratively on all the themes of Animaker to make best use of all the available options. To get started, Click here.

]]> https://thestartupvideos.com/?feed=rss2&p=2889 0 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=2650 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=2650#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:16:53 +0000 bhuvana http://thestartupvideos.com/?p=2650 Airbnb traditionally relied on social and word of mouth for building its consumer base. But recently, the company have eyed a bigger slice of the pie, with a bid to build its audience base beyond savvy early adopters.

The campaign is based around a short film, ‘Welcome to Airbnb’, and this video campaign sets out to explain what Airbnb does, exactly, in the most charming way possible.

Now see their behind the scenes peek at the making of “Welcome to Airbnb” video. Hope you enjoy the ride.

To produce this video, they spent five weeks 30 people building an 85-square-meter train set, with more than 2,400 craftsmen-hours spent creating the landscape. Also the work used 20 square meters of plywood, 12 liters of glue and more than 160 sheets of polyboard.

“The whole idea behind is to portray the world as a smaller place. It includes places from Australia, and from other parts of the world,” an Airbnb person said.

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Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) is a Google initiative created by Google India in collaboration with a number of Indian online shopping portals. Some of the partnered sites included, Myntra, Ebay, Indiatimes shopping, Infibeam, Rock.in, Gitanjali Gifts, Fashionara, Caratlane, Healthkart, etc. The concept of the GOSF was that the online shopping sites would give heavy discounts for one day, in order to promote their sales.

With the huge success of Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF 2014), Google decided to thank the nameless, unsung heroes of the e-commerce industry: the delivery men. For this, it has launched new campaign #SpecialDelivery.

Since they can’t say thanks to all, they decided to do that in a unique and special way, called video.

Here is the video launched by Google under this campaign,

This video speaks about various difficulties and situations faced by the delivery boys and how they receive joy from each customer’s happiness.

When Google can why can’t we say thanks to the delivery boy and bring smile on their faces?

We request every individual to say ‘Thanks’ to the delivery boy next time delivers something to you. Change the way you receive your next online shopping!

]]> https://thestartupvideos.com/?feed=rss2&p=2479 0 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=1648 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=1648#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:54:55 +0000 bhuvana http://thestartupvideos.com/?p=1648 Now, for creating high quality, interesting, compelling video, you don’t need to start spout a thousands of words of brilliant prose with your camera and also you don’t need a giant video production department.

Then how its possible! you have this question in mind? But not certainly, we gonna talk about a video making tool. You may heard about several free and paid tools online that can help you create something that really stand out.

An up-and-coming online tool (Its in Beta version) help you to hold your viewers attention and make them feel wow, called “Animaker”. the company says its main purpose is to help everyone create video of studio quality.

First Look: Do videos right!

Animaker is a “Click and Choose. Drag and Drop. Edit and Play. DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Animated video making app” and its fully free for early accesses.

With Animaker, start producing online videos for internal business communication, content marketing, presentation, Explainer video, Demo video, social media marketing, e-Learning, video advertising, video Resume, Support/FAQ via video, and more purposes.

Using this cloud based app, you can choose your theme which has huge number of characters, actions, expressions, Screen Effects, Call outs, Number, backgrounds, properties, Sound Effects and Background Musics. However its does not end with the pre-created themes. A simple upload tool provides you an option to import your own assets and can save in “My Library” section.

Once you finished with video making, you can download files as mp4 format in both HD and SD quality. Animaker offers unlimited video creation, unlimited hosting and playback, and also you can enjoy sharing with your social networks from the website itself.

That’s a wrap now. If you would love to try with this app, get an early access here.

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