PowToon

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 communications, training and development, marketing, sales, or any other team. Team members can create engaging videos and presentation to facilitate communications, training, social media posts, online campaigns, and more. Teams can also collaborate on presentation creation with shared media libraries and asynchronous editing.

Pricing starting from:

US$89.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Key benefits of PowToon

  • 115K video backgrounds and full video, animation, GIF, and image file implementation.

  • Hundreds of templates, thousands of scenes, backgrounds, characters and assets to choose from.

  • Access to 5 visual looks: modern edge / flat, Infographics, whiteboard, animation, live video and social

  • Use the drag and drop editor to create custom presentations with ease.

  • Export created presentations to YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Wistia, Hubspot, Ads Manager, Slideshare, and Vimeo, or publish as PPT or PDF.
  • Typical Customers

    • Freelancers
    • Small Businesses (2-50)
    • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
    • Large enterprises (500 and more)

    Deployment

    • Cloud-based
    • On-premise

    Markets

    Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile and 6 others

    Supported Languages

    English, Spanish

    Pricing starting from:

    US$89.00/month

    • Free Version
    • Free Trial
    • Subscription

    Images

    PowToon Software - Presentation can be created with the drag and drop WYSIWYG editor
    PowToon Software - Users can access a range of royalty-free characters, objects, and music
    PowToon Software - Choose from a selection of over 100 in-built templates, designed for different purposes
    PowToon Software - Team members can collaborate on presentations and plan projects with shared media libraries and asynchronous editing
    PowToon Software - PowToon creations can be easily shared with other team members or exported
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    PowToon Software - Presentation can be created with the drag and drop WYSIWYG editor
    PowToon Software - Users can access a range of royalty-free characters, objects, and music
    PowToon Software - Choose from a selection of over 100 in-built templates, designed for different purposes
    PowToon Software - Team members can collaborate on presentations and plan projects with shared media libraries and asynchronous editing
    PowToon Software - PowToon creations can be easily shared with other team members or exported

    Features

    Total features of PowToon: 37

    • 3D Objects
    • Animation
    • Animations & Transitions
    • Audio Capture
    • Audio File Management
    • Brand Overlay
    • Collaboration Tools
    • Communication Management
    • Content Library
    • Content Management
    • Course Authoring
    • Customisable Branding
    • Customisable Templates
    • Data Import/Export
    • Drag & Drop
    • Image Library
    • Interactive Learning
    • Lead Capture
    • Media Import
    • Media Library
    • Multi-Channel Distribution
    • Multimedia Support
    • Offline Presenting
    • Privacy Options
    • ROI Tracking
    • Screen Sharing
    • Search/Filter
    • Social Sharing
    • Supports HD Resolution
    • Templates
    • Text Overlay
    • Video Capture
    • Video Creation
    • Video Editing
    • Video Management
    • Video Support
    • Voice-Over/Audio

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    4.5 /5
    (390)
    Value for Money
    4.2/5
    Features
    4.4/5
    Ease of Use
    4.3/5
    Customer Support
    4.3/5

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    Deepika
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
    • Review Source

    Overall rating

    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Great to use

    Reviewed on 9/12/2018

    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
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Retail
    • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
    • Review Source

    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Powtoons is Amazing

    Reviewed on 15/10/2019

    I have created dozens of videos for internal comms, advertising, recruiting and training. It has...

    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.

    Alternatives Considered

    Filmora

    Reasons for Choosing 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.

    Switched From

    Filmora
    Sitong
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Banking
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used for 1-5 months
    • Review Source

    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Not respecting customers

    Reviewed on 22/4/2019

    I feel this company is fooling customers like me and wasting my money and time. I do not think that...

    I feel this company is fooling customers like me and wasting my money and time. I do not think that customers should pay to a company like this and helps it to survive.

    Pros

    All the functions and material are easy to use and have high quality. The outcome was great.

    Cons

    It does not show you what materials and functions are only for the Pro Plan before you complete and go to the purchasing step. I completed my video making, and then I was told that I have to buy to starter plan to export it in MP3 format. I purchased it, and then I was told that I have used some pro stuff, like effects and pictures, in my video. In order to keep them, I have to buy a Pro Plan. Why am I not told ahead of time??? Moreover, they would not refund me the money I spent on the Starter Plan. Why do I need to pay twice????
    In the end, I paid for the Starter Plan, monthly subscription. Three months later, which is today, I found that my plan was auto-renewed. I do not remember their website writing anything about auto-renew, and so I went back and found that it was not mentioned anywhere on the payment page, and it was only written at the bottom of the Pricing page. If you do not search for it deliberately, there is no way you can find it.
    I feel this company is fooling customers like me and wasting my money and time. I do not think that customers should pay to a company like this and helps it to survive.

    DEYSON
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
    • Review Source

    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Very Good Animation Software

    Reviewed on 30/11/2019

    I reaaly like this software and using for create good promotionals campaigns for may customers.

    I reaaly like this software and using for create good promotionals campaigns for may customers.

    Pros

    Easy to use for very good quality job results.

    Cons

    The characters don't have a 'walk' animation as option ...

    Alternatives Considered

    Animaker

    Reasons for Switching to PowToon

    Because PowToon effer what I need, PowToon is different than others and, maybe need more features, but I believe in the good future for this software.
    Bruno
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    • Industry: E-Learning
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
    • Review Source

    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    most easy and complete online video creator

    Reviewed on 23/9/2022

    very practical online software to create fast and animated videos

    very practical online software to create fast and animated videos

    Pros

    it's simplicity and easy to use with a big media library available

    Cons

    still, the media library is very limited in a variety of themes, and the max video quality is not very high

    Alternatives Considered

    Camtasia and Canva

    Reasons for Switching to PowToon

    its less expensive and easy to use software and simple to export videos
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    PowToon FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for PowToon.

    PowToon offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$89.00/month
    • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    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.

    PowToon has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500

    PowToon supports the following languages:

    English, Spanish

    PowToon supports the following devices:

    PowToon integrates with the following applications:

    Google Drive, Kaltura Video Platform, Meta for Business, SlideShare, Vimeo, Wistia

    PowToon offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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