Akmela P.
AP
Akmela P.
Digital Marketing Team Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Anyone can make compelling videos with Animoto - One of My Favorite Products"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

I consider Animoto for video editing. I love how easy Animoto makes it to create, edit, and cut videos. I am not tech-savvy and was able to easily use this and to make good videos.

We need to create videos often for social media, youtube and Animoto helps us do so quickly without going through the process, time, or cost of working with a video editor.

Hundreds of templates to choose from, applicable to almost every platform we use. It allows users to create personal and business slideshows.

Users just need to select photos, videos, audio track, and template, after a couple of minutes awesome video is ready to play and share.

I love how easy it is to import photos and videos and create a basic slide show.

The render time is fast, the templates are ok and the interface is probably the best I've ever used.

My Overall experience - Very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

Animoto does have a limited range of music selection and editing styles

what I do not like and that should solve is that it lacks some customization options, please provide more templates to choose from, option to use or upload songs based on our requirements

You will not be able to control the editing of the videos, as Animoto does that for you. If you enjoy being more creative.

It would also be nice to see a better customer support team. It has a few drawbacks but overall it is doing good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
UP
Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Animoto for schools!"
5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

Ease of use and the vast library of royalty-free music. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

C o s t i s p r o h i b i tive to some Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate
UR
Verified User in Real Estate
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Animoto Taught Me How to Shoot Videos!"
5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

I love the numerous animations I can choose from to make my videos. They have even more in their upgraded service for more complex videos. But, I love the free selections for my basic videos. The instructions are super simple to follow a 90-year-old can do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

Not anything much except that I would need to upgrade to use some other features but, I found a way around that by simplifying my videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ND
Nafisha D.
Video Editor
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Animoto is a great online video editing solution for anyone"
4/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

The amazing part is that it also has a free version. I also like how easy it is to make a great video through Animoto. It just requires a few clicks to get a video ready to share. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

The major concern with Animoto is its limited features, backgrounds, and sounds on its free version. There are quite a lot of extras that are priced. A few more functionalities would have been nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tamara J.
TJ
Tamara J.
Teacher
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Animoto truly engages students for the better"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

By far, the best thing about Animoto is that it makes learning entertaining to students. Students, nowadays, like watching moving images instead of reading plain text. By the use of the huge content library this cloud software has to offer, you can create a stunning animation/presentation of the information based off of the national curriculum. It requires a lot of creativity which I, thankfully, have a lot of. Using the amazing transitions only increase the amount of students engaged with the content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

I dislike how that sometimes that textboxes disappear right after I place them. This greatly increases the amount of time I have to spend making the presentation. Also, some of the pictures seem big on the thumbnail but prove to be very small in reality. You can, however, increase the size but that does take away at the quality of the image. The effects that you can use are very limited compared to more bulky software such as premiere pro or davinci resolve. However, this is understandable because Animoto is indeed an online service and operates within the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brianna C.
BC
Brianna C.
Product Designer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Professional Video Maker on any device"
5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

Animoto is a great-animated video or short video maker available on all devices. The best part about it is its availability on all platforms either it is a web browser or desktop application or a mobile phone. It allows you to make videos of different sizes with different resolutions. There are multiple templates available in the application to make the desired video you want. It is a complete start to end software; it would not let you hang in the dry, you can complete your footages and edit them as well. There are multiple professional templates available in the media library, I have personally used them and made the video footage for our company and it resulted in great reach expressions. Animoto is a great tool for everyone; you are either a basic editor and footage maker for freelancing platforms or a professional organizational video editor. Let us talk about the user interface of this tool. The user interface is so simple and clear. It makes everything easy to understand. There is not any huge learning curve for this tool. Let us talk about the price packaging of this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

There are not any worth mentioning drawbacks of this tool other than the fact that it does not allow any developer mode for the editing of the videos. Everything seems so basic if you are a professional editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ela G.
EG
Ela G.
Faculty
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Animoto is a wonderful tool to teach children to create their own animated movies"
5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

I liked that Animoto has many templates and starter clips to use. I also liked that Animoto has many different music choices for each project. It is easy to share and render the videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

It was a little slow on the school wifi network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Morgan G.
MG
Morgan G.
Manager of Sales
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It does not allow the editing of some basic parameters such as the type of the letter"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

It allows the creation and edition of audio and video files in a simple way, it also allows us to generate creative and high-impact presentations, which allows us to show our content in a totally different way than other people are used to. In addition, animoto allows us to export the videos made in different sizes, which allows us to adapt to the desired resolution. It has a catalog of templates that allows us to edit our video according to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

It does not allow the editing of some basic parameters such as the type of the letter, in addition to not allowing the import of external audio files, its catalog of templates can be more varied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

jossell r.
JR
jossell r.
Head of Executive Marketing
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"great for creating content for social media and advertising"
3/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

Animoto enchanted me from start to finish as it is very easy to create and produce short videos without having to have very complicated or sophisticated software, and without having to know much about design since you have easy to use templates and also easy to synchronize. The songs with our first video were a success and we uploaded it on Facebook and we had 15 thousand views being a resounding success for us for that reason and more I totally recommend an animoto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

The only thing I would like is for them to have more variety of templates to make my videos more varied, in addition to the fact that there is no online chat and so it is very difficult to connect with technical support and the previews take a long time to load, it is easier to see the full video and check how the video is doing to wait for the preview to load Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Libraries
UL
Verified User in Libraries
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Big help with library presentations!"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Animoto?

Animoto was a big help when I was in library school and needed to create book trailers: the formats are easy to work with and the free access is great for you to get started with. Once I started working as a children's librarian, I've been using Animoto to create monthly reports, using photos, to show my manager and administration what we do and it's wonderful; it goes beyond the boring Word documents to show what we're accomplishing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Animoto?

I really don't have any downsides. I'm a fan all around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.