Renderforest

4.8 (396)
Online video & animation platform

Overall rating

4.8 /5
(396)
Value for Money
4.5/5
Features
4.6/5
Ease of Use
4.8/5
Customer Support
4.7/5

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Rick
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  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Professional Video Logo Reveals make for really Engaging Videography

Reviewed on 5/12/2018

Renderforest has really helped me to overcome some major hurdles with regards to professional presentation of our business to stakeholders. The features that it has allowed me to use has made it possible for me to present designs to stakeholders that are more than just impressive, they actually look like they were designed by a qualified designer (which they were) but I made it my own through Renderforest.

Pros

I absolutely loved how easy it was to get right what I wanted out of Renderforest. The sheer amount of template available to do anything from a logo reveal to an explainer video are mind boggling. One of my favourite features of the software is the ability to keep tweaking the end result online before having to commit to use a credit to download the rendered final result. This goes a long way to making sure you are happy with your purchase!

Cons

I don't like the subscription based model because I don't use the software everyday. I would prefer to pay for each video individually when I need it. This would make the platform a lot more accessible to me.

Response from Renderforest

Hey dear Rick. Thanks for your positive review. We are always ready to work hard to make your experience better on our website. Hope you'll get more benefits using our platform.

Hamlet
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Renderforest is a game changer.

Reviewed on 27/4/2022

My overall experience is that for the price all honesty it is extremely under valued. Wix will charge you $120 just for a website. Renderforest will charge you the same amount and they will give you a video creator, a marketing Creator, a website creator, I mean the features are endless.

One of my favorite features which I haven't used yet is the ability to have a simple Pro membership which only grants you one website. But if you wanted to create another one all you have to do is pay a simple $35 fee to create a brand new tablet.

Pros

Imagine if you will a website that for let's say $120 a year can provide you with: a video editor that already has pre-made videos ready for you to just get in there and type what you want to make the videos you want. I'll website editor which is extremely easy to use. As well as a logo creator which is completely free. If you're getting into YouTube or streaming this is one of the best assets you can probably use to create great intros outros.

It doesn't even stop there you could create marketing material for Facebook Instagram and Snapchat which I personally use a lot and other formats will let you download the pictures to whatever the format of the platform you're uploading it too so if you need a picture that is going to fit your Snapchat story it's going to be made in that size.

I can't imagine living without this product. It literally takes all the work out of being a business owner and creator at least in the marketing section you don't need to spend a lot of money on marketing or videos just have to put in the hours.

Cons

The only con I can think about this product is that there isn't much spacing in small texts for you to write overall amazing product.

Response from Renderforest

Hamlet, we really appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback with us. We will share this with the team to let them know how we are doing!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

A Fine Logo Animation Website

Reviewed on 20/4/2021

I had an above average experience though, but I didn't actually use the end product because I wasn't satisfied with the result. I believe they could do better in the area of clear cut features and exclusive trial usage.

Pros

Renderforest has got loads of beautiful templates to choose from, which could even fit perfectly into the kind of logo animation project you may have in mind.

Cons

The usage after importing a template doesn't seem pretty straightforward, though a good starter tour was included. The watermark on the trial version is not cool. An exclusive trial period should be considered to give users reasons to want to come back to the service.

Response from Renderforest

Thanks for your feedback! Your words mean so much to us.

Please feel free to reach out at [email protected] to get assistance if you are facing difficulties while using the platform.

As for the watermark, some core things are changed on the platform, you can just check the pricing page to see what's been changed.

Looking forward to the pleasure of seeing you at Renderforest again.

Sincerely,
Renderforest Team

Turan
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

World of Dreams

Reviewed on 21/11/2022

Pros

When I used the free versions of the software, I was incredibly surprised by the results I got. An easy and useful interface, hundreds of intros, animations and videos were just the beginning.Just basic features for your videos that you can make online without installation. Design an animation or video has the intelligence to show you all your missing needs step by step.* Online Web use* Dozens of Videos and animations* Customizable texts and applications* Supported branches of all types* Video upload and download featureAnd an Art Gallery that takes your dreams one step further with hundreds of other contents.

Cons

I can't find anything negative. While the trial versions are so professional, I can't even imagine the full version.

Simona
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Renderforest -passport for success!

Reviewed on 27/8/2022

I used Renderforest in my teaching activity to create educational films for students, to present a topic or certain lessons, and I found the provided templates a real help.

Pros

Renderforest is part of the category of digital tools with complete solutions in terms of video creations, animations and can be successfully used in the teaching career. Each facility offers opportunities to infuse creativity and challenge creators' imaginations. I'm convinced that users haven't given up on Renderforest because it's too good!

Cons

The only problem I encountered using Renderforest was related to the music I added from their library, which in some countries is not free. But this is not directly related to them. I have no problems to mention, I was delighted to use Renderforest!

Brice
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Renderforest

Reviewed on 18/10/2022

Pros

A very effective tool to visualize and create your ideas the configuration is easy and the viewing of the videos is spectacular

Cons

I noticed that the monthly cost is more expensive than if you pay yearly it review the balanced

Chris
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  • Industry: Graphic Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

I recommend you to get your own render Forest

Reviewed on 5/12/2022

I really love this app it is super

Pros

The video quality and the functionality of the app

Cons

Sometimes the app is slow if the speed can be improved the app will be good

Shivam
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  • Industry: Animation
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Good website for pre-built templates

Reviewed on 21/11/2022

Pros

Pre-built templates.Easy to use.High quality graphics

Cons

Fonts.Texts are bigger.Minimum time duration for a scene is 5 sec.

Arheer
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Create high quality animated videos

Reviewed on 6/9/2022

I have prepared a number of videos including invitations, personal portfolios, timelines, etc in an animated form using Renderforest. Learning the tool takes time but once you know the same it becomes very handy tool.

Pros

- You do not need an advanced video editing professional to help you create animated videos
- World-class animations and transitions
- A number of features to make your videos look very professional

Cons

- Very expensive video editing platform
- Difficult to customize everything in the video

Lindsey
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Love this platform!

Reviewed on 6/12/2022

Pros

I’ve used Renderforest to make quite a few videos openers. The template gallery is fantastic, and view creation is quite simple.

Cons

The quality of the free version is quite low. Paying for the better version is almost a requirement.

James
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great for unique, brand specific videos

Reviewed on 20/4/2021

For what it does and for the cost, it cannot be beat. If you're looking for short, easy to make videos for your projects this is the place to go. If you want more elaborate videos you may want to look elsewhere, but the for what you get with the pricing Renderforest is a great asset to our organization.

Pros

Renderforest makes it easy to create and publish brand specific content like intro videos, explainer videos, and more! We use Renderforest for our brand specific intro videos on all our online courses. We also have used it to create several brand explainer videos for our site and clients. The templates provided are great and make it easy to find an appropriate, brand related video. There are templates from more professional to the more artsy, fun, so plenty to chose from no matter what field you may be in. They are high quality videos and the costs are minimal to other options in the market. This is a great tool for small business who do not have the budget to ask professional to design and edit all videos.

Cons

Sometimes it is not the most appropriate for some type of videos as it lacks some more editing features. Wish there was more editing options available for longer videos or that you could take and combine a few different templates into one. Basically there are some features that just aren't available to make Renderforest my 100% go to for video needs.

Response from Renderforest

Hey James, your kind words encourage us to continue doing our best to make sure all needed features are available for you to use. The video duration and template mixing options are available. Please check the updates recently made on the platform.

Feel free to contact us if you face any difficulties. We'll be more than happy to assist you :)

Thanks again and have a wonderful day.

Renderforest Team

Fahim Shahriar
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Creating Content Made Easy!

Reviewed on 13/7/2022

The perfect ally for digital marketing agencies. The vast collection of templates help users to take inspiration and use it to save a lot of time. It is a must for creating premium content for big projects. The best option available on the market.

Pros

The templates save a lot of time. Creating content becomes hassle free. The vast collection of templates makes it easy to create premium content. Ideal for small digital marketing agencies.

Cons

The only downside of using it is the pricing plans. Without purchasing the business plan working on big projects is a hassle. As the quality of content also varies in case of the plans. So for 4k content purchasing the business plan is a must.

Shiv shankar
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

RENDERFOREST: THE BEST ANIMATION VIDEOS MAKER

Reviewed on 7/7/2020

It was one of my best decision to enroll with RENDERFOREST.
From day 1 I started creating professional marketing videos which helped me a lot improving my financial situation.

Pros

Renderforest super easy user interface provides tons of services in one place.
If you are looking to promote your brand just go for it. It's just INCREDIBLE.
Top class explainer videos,2D or 3D animation,animated logos for businesses, website hosting plans and much much more.
If you still need support, their customer care support is truly world class especially Lusi.
Just forget about the huge digital marketing costs, Renderforest is the best way to promote your brand without any kind of knowledge about animation.

Cons

There are no cons in Renderforest.
I create awesome animation videos without any kind of knowledge as well as their world class customer care support are always there for me.

Roger
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Impressive Features and Outstanding Customer Experience

Reviewed on 30/3/2018

Beautiful and sharp video for my business!

Pros

Working with the online software is easy even for first time users like me. I'm not a video editing expert but I was comfortably able to create a beautiful and sharp video for my business. The video templates and scenes really go a long way, you can create a professional publish-ready video in less than a day. I really don't know how I could have created a similar video without having this service from Render Forest. The subscription we made is worth all the magnificent results we received and more. While creating the video we got in touch with Render Forest customer care, the team was very helpful and that made our experience even better. They helped us with the app and answered our questions in a very timely manner. It easily shows the the team really cares about their customer experience, willing to go the extra mile to make sure they are happy.

Cons

More wonderful scenes please! There is a wide variety available already, but we can always use more and more scenes.

Abdul
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The Best Free Online Animated Video & Slide Show Maker

Reviewed on 11/4/2020

I use RenderForest to create my YouTube Courses intros and Promotional Videos for my YouTube channel. It really helped me in past when I was not able to pay some expert to create these videos. With it's free membership I was able to export videos in HD and that's the main thing that I really appreciate in RenderForest.

Pros

RenderForest is the best free online Animated Video & Slide Show Maker. It allows us to quickly, easily and affordably create logo Animations, Slide Shows, White Board videos, Explainer Videos and Promotional Videos. It also allows user to create these videos in HD Quality for free. (You can also pay to get premium services). Best for Small business & newbies who don't have money to pay for these services.

Cons

Customer support have to be improved. You can get your answer in 24 hours but sometime it takes up to 3 days.

Lili
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  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Greatest Experience Ever

Reviewed on 11/10/2018

Overall experience is full of fun, passionate and supportive.

Pros

I have never made a video before. On Renderforest website I was so excited to explore high quality and creative templates and tailor them to form my own unique project. I have the greatest experience not only with the website or products, but also with the customer service they provide. The support team is prompt in reply, effective and patient in communication and a positive attitude ready to help. Thank you for your support of my first video project. I have enjoyed the experience so much that making video with Renderforest is my new hobby now.

Cons

Maybe more ability to edit text, including language display other than English, font size and line spacing adjustments. More scenes reflecting people from other cultural background.

Response from Renderforest

Hi Lili. We are happy that you enjoy our platform. Also we want to say. that what you have mentioned in cons will be approved during the time. We are working on them.

Sumegha
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy, Simple, Quick and Best Video Creation Tool

Reviewed on 26/11/2018

Its immensly valuable in communicating our message to clients and social media updates

Pros

For a beginner in Video Creation, Its simply best solution available in market, its easy, quick, simple and ready to use tool with no prior brainier knowledge of video editing is required and its templates are very effective in passing the message to consumers and its fast and no dependence on third party vendors now. Its our idea, our executive and our uploading to websites.

Cons

It only allows to use one template at a time, it should allow to use atleast 3 templates in one video so it will add dynamics to quality of video and pricing is based on number of downloads , instead it should be for each templates.

Response from Renderforest

Hey dear Sumegha. We are thankful for your review. Our team is working hard to make your video and logo creation experience better and better. What about using many templates in the same video we will take it into account for sure.

Ghanah
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Superb

Reviewed on 16/6/2020

Perfect, I always tell my friends about this website

Pros

The ease to use, have more than one option to be used, High quality , the video ideas are great, so much options

Cons

I think it has variety of the options , we need more :D :D :D and we need it to support Arabic fonts more.

Carmeli
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  • Industry: Facilities Services
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Renderforest has helped me create digital content for my clients social media

Reviewed on 18/5/2018

Everything! High rate of viewers and client satisfaction.

Pros

User friendly and easy to use. There are different templates you can use and lots of music choices to accompany the videos. I would recommend anyone working in the digital marketing world to use Renderforest. Renderforest can take your business to another level.

Cons

Rendering time lags and sometimes it doesn't show up that it is finished. I also am disappointed that I was able to get grandfathered into the first subscription price when it first launch.

Patrick
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  • Industry: Religious Institutions
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Cool videos now in reach

Reviewed on 27/6/2020

If you want to go for occasional videos of a different kind, then this software will do the trick for you. The videos we have uploaded to our YouTube channel and that were done through this program got more visits.

Pros

For small churches that do want to communicate well But have a limited budget, Renderforest is just a great tool to create nice videos for events. No longer do you have to go for mediocre video material as this platform offers tons of good templates.

Cons

Ok. It’s true that it comes for free but with a watermark, the paid videos without the watermark do come a bit more expensive.

Ville
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent product, excellent service

Reviewed on 17/8/2018

Simply amazing. I have recommended Renderforest many times already and my whole team is buzzing about this.

Pros

Creativity, freedom to create your kind of videos. I faced my first problem about creating videos and the service was amazing. Renderforest team responded quickly and they manually fixed the problem in my video.

Cons

Only bad thing is that I'd like to have Music Visualisations without the time mark on the video but I've contacted Renderforest and they said that they will look for the option to take the time mark away.

Response from Renderforest

Hey Ville. Thanks for your time spent on this review. It's very important to us. We will try do add your mentioned option in our music visualizer templates. :) It will be useful for the other users too.

Adam
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Create slick video intros in seconds.

Reviewed on 8/7/2019

Pros

You can create your own video intro without needing any video editing skills or heavy duty computer hardware. The final product is a very professional looking video that takes no more than 20 minutes to create.

Cons

The library of templates is relatively small and they charge extra if you want your video export to be in HD.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Airlines/Aviation
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent product, Professional software online

Reviewed on 22/7/2020

Pros

I love the fact that everything is on-line and I do not need to install any software, the interface is really friendly user and each option is really simple and intuitive to understand. I am really happy to be a new Client of renderforest, I had to finish one big project and had to use some really professional template, renderfores was exactly was what I was looking for. I really suggest you to get the premium pack it really worth any penny!

Cons

Nothing, special everything is ok, the help support is really handy and fast! (a couple of minutes)

Omar
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best service I've ever dealt with ♥

Reviewed on 14/8/2018

Absolutely loved it, and very recommended for all video makers who want professional videos and supportive team.

Pros

I liked the majority of templates and the ease of use, also the UI and UX are just terrific and gives you an enjoyable experience, it's like you're playing with it rather than doing a tedious job.

And the most important thing is the customer support, they are really supportive and.
I accidentally made a mistype in the video I made, and once I discovered it I contacted them and they were kind enough to help with it and re-render it again after I edited it with no additional charges, and I'm very grateful for that.

Cons

I think it would be great to have a little more tools to be able to do adjust the text and the illustrations separately, that can be done in the future versions of the service, However it still the best service of it's kind in my opinion.

Response from Renderforest

Hello Omar. Thanks for your amazing review. We appreciate your time spent on it.

Now we are working on your mentioned tools. Wait for good news soon.

Oliver
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Student Review

Reviewed on 7/3/2019

Great, the best I've found in the market and very good customer service. Another major point to note is their student discount and how they strive to look after us!

Pros

Easy to use, great quality of pre-made animations. Found it really easy for information presentations for my honors project, and evaluation presentations.

Cons

Lack of customization within the actual themes the info-graphic videos have. Quite a

Response from Renderforest

Dear Oliver, we are glad you loved our tool. We are working hard every day to make your experience better on our platform. We'll make count also your cons comment and we'll try to upgrade the customization.