About Animoto
Animoto is an online video making software designed to help non-profit organizations and businesses in the photography, education, real estate, fitness, and eCommerce industries create and share customizable video content using a music library, templates, fonts, and more on a centralized platform. Managers can crop, trim, edit, and move images or videos and share them across corporate websites, blogs, and social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
Using Animoto, administrators can add brand logos, watermarks, texts, or background colors in videos and adjust their duration as well as the aspect ratio according to requirements. Managers can crop, upload, and rearrange media files on a drag-and-drop interface and utilize the search functionality to filter and retrieve songs based on genres or moods. Staff members can select built-in templates to create various types of videos for self-introduction, greetings, product launches, testimonials, tutorials, narratives, brand promotions, slideshows, graduation messages, portfolios, and more.
Animoto allows organizations to upload their music to the platform and use the slider to adjust the volume of soundtracks in videos. The mobile application helps content creators add images to Instagram stories, resize or customize text, and create promotional videos for multiple purposes such as advertisements, real-estate, fashion, lifestyle, and fitness, among others. The software also offers an oEmbed API, which helps businesses embed created content into corporate websites.
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- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
How to impress your community without any real editing knowledge: USE ANIMOTO.
Reviewed on 3/10/2018
Overall, I am so thankful that I discovered Animoto. I have impressed many people with our...
Overall, I am so thankful that I discovered Animoto. I have impressed many people with our slideshows.
Pros
I love how easily it makes professional looking slideshows. A nice retreat from other clunky slideshow options.
Cons
Monthly subscription versus just buying a single video.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Anyone can make compelling videos with Animoto
Reviewed on 9/9/2018
Positive experience making professional videos with this quick, user-friendly software.
Positive experience making professional videos with this quick, user-friendly software.
Pros
Extremely user friendly software with reasonable pricing. Animoto is highly accessible and would be a great video development tool for people with limited video/design experience, or people with limited time. My team uses Animoto to create product/campaign launch videos for clients, as well as promotional videos for our own services. If you have a handful of images or video clips ready to go, you can create a short compelling video in as little as twenty minutes!
Cons
Customization of video templates is pretty limited (in terms of style, speed, layout, amount of content per slide, fonts, etc.). Templates are still great considering the ease of use and low cost. Sometimes it's challenging to fit a full thought onto a slide due to the limited number of characters Animoto allows in a line of text... but that's probably a good thing to keep videos from becoming text-heavy.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Unethical Company
Reviewed on 24/12/2019
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There's nothing in the software that you can't do with Facebook or Avid, Final Cut, Premiere or a free iphone App.
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I recommend not doing business with this company. We had a subscription for a year. On the following year they auto-billed $588 and never sent any warning about this or even a receipt.
My credit card showed the payment was charged and I contacted the company the "same day" to cancel the annual subscription and refund us.
There customer service policy is No EXCEPTIONS No REFUNDS. What kind of crappy business is this? I would expect this kind of service at a car dealer. That's why people hate car dealers.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Great product, horrible customer service
Reviewed on 18/9/2018
Animoto has since resolved the issues and brought everything back. In fact, they are looking to...
Animoto has since resolved the issues and brought everything back. In fact, they are looking to find out why it was all cancelled and wrote to tell me when they will receive a response. I still feel as though they need a phone, but at least they did get back to me, and I can continue on with the software which I use often.
As said before, I love the product. But when something goes wrong there is little to non-existent support, so I am still waiting to get a response back after several weeks of submitting requests. Unfortunately this has tainted my view of the company. I was even going to get a subscription for my school.
Pros
The software is great. I use it a lot for school book trailers and family memories. I had this product for 10 years and never had any problems until they lost my account.
Cons
I thought it was intuitive and constantly evolving for better choices, so I don’t have much to say to improve.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Animoto in the classroom
Reviewed on 16/7/2019
Pros
Students love using it for projects & presentations. It’s a creative & technology driven way for students to express what they have learned with others.
Cons
It is a little difficult to use at first so many students become frustrated. Once they gain an idea of how to use it they love it.
Animoto FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Animoto.Q. What type of pricing plans does Animoto offer?
Animoto offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: €14.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Animoto is offered across three pricing plans, outlined below. • Free: Available for free • Professional: $65 per month and $33 per month billed annually • Team: $94 per month and $49 per month billed annually
Q. Who are the typical users of Animoto?
Animoto has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Animoto support?
Animoto supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Animoto support mobile devices?
Animoto supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Animoto integrate with?
Animoto integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Creative Cloud
Q. What level of support does Animoto offer?
Animoto offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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