--- title: Freemake Reviews meta_title: 'Freemake Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 25 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Freemake works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.7 review_count: 25 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: Video url: https://www.g2.com/categories/video --- # Freemake Reviews **Vendor:** Freemake **Category:** [Other Video Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-video) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About Freemake Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, 3GP, DVD, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android, rip & burn DVD, convert to Flash FLV & SWF, burn Blu-ray, and upload to YouTube with our free video converter ## Freemake Reviews ### 1. Freemake Video is a Free, Versatile and User-Friendly Multimedia Tool **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Freemake?** Freemake is a free tool having many things to like. It supports multiple formats like MP4, MKV, AVI etc., allowing seamless conversions between them. It has support for basic video editing options like cropping, trimming, adding subtitles etc. It also has the option to download videos from popular platforms like youtube facebook etc. It is a good package for someone who has to do light video editing. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** Some things that I dont like about freemake: it's revenue is generated through ads, which can be irritating at times. Also, advance features are lacking, with occassional crasher and performance issues. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually need to casually edit videos, and using a full fledged video editor for this purpose was an overkill and with more features, editors becomes complicated to use and handle. So, it has been very beneficial for me. It has user friendly UI and less features, making it perfect for my use. ### 2. Long term solution for basic video editing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anth K. | IT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Freemake?** The software is easy to install on your desktop and gives you the basic tools you need to convert video files to different formats and do basic edits. Its simple enough that little leaning is required. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** Anything beyond the basic editing tools is not in Freemake's repertoire. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed to convert some AVIs to the MP4 format to fit on my kindle and I wanted to adjust the quality to minimize the size of the video files. ### 3. Powerful, flexible tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Freemake?** It's easy to use. It also offers a wide range of file formats to convert. It also is flexible enough to handle video and audio files with many different output codecs. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** It offers some editing capabilities but it would be great if those were expanded. That would help in instances where I don't need to edit a full, new video but rather just need an extended clip. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes I'm given video files that don't work natively with our editing software. Freemake makes it very easy to convert the original source into a video file that works. ### 4. Great for Beginners **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asen K. | Research Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Freemake?** It comes with easy to use software and its user friendly. The multipurpose usability of this product is great. It can be used for Doawloading/Converting/Editing, which is great. As other apps/software does not provide all these in one. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** The need to install/use different versions of the apps for different usage such as downloading, editing, converting is not very convenient. If we can use as all in one app, that would be great. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** The basic need for editing and downloading videos. If you are just looking for basic needs, than this app is more than enough. ### 5. Simple Yet Powerful Video Converter **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wil D. | Educator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Freemake?** It's easy to use plus it was a one time cost. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** That audio is not included in the bundle. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest thing it does is turn DVD into video files like Mp4s. ### 6. Sleazy sales model. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack H. | IT Admin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Freemake?** Hard to find anything that I like after having a charge made to my credit card without my permisssion. 0/10 - I DO NOT recommend. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** The deceitful sales model. DON'T DO the $1 trial - it is a scam. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** The sales model is sleazy. ### 7. Mediocre software, with fraudulent selling technique **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Massimo S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Freemake?** Relatively easy to use, very buggy. Keeps crashing **What do you dislike about Freemake?** Not enough features, thumbnails for slide show tiny, only one track per slideshow available, keeps crashing. The rendering resolution is really crappy **Recommendations to others considering Freemake:** Make sure you understand that there is nothing free about freemake. After purchasing 1 week license I was charged for full license, plus they were going to charge my PayPal account every 3 years. I had to post a complaint with PayPal ti stop them from charging me. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tried to make a slideshow but couldn't since it only allowed to use one music track. Resolution is crappy ### 8. Deceptive at best **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reuben O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Freemake?** Their deception of going through freemake, but creating an account in fastspring to confuse their customers. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** Everything about the software. Useless!! **Recommendations to others considering Freemake:** Do not buy it or try it!!! **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have learned that they charge you even when you do not authorize it. ### 9. The best converter site I came across yet! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh N. | Visual Artist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Freemake?** The customization of your video clip duration and even the codec settings is covered totally under this product. The best part is the file size compression or file size control functionality which was really unique and comes really handy for fast renders and quick previews. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** In the previous version, there were some issues regarding the audio video sync if we would change the audio settings or the codec maybe. However, surprisingly this problem hasn't occured since the last update I guess. **Recommendations to others considering Freemake:** It is inexpensive, that is the biggest deal maker. I personally have consistently used it and can definitely say it is quite compatible to work with. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** All kinds of preview conversions for client approval before final render are being converted using freemake's product by me. The consistency in the performance since last 5+ years is something I loved to stick to. ### 10. CRASHES AND NO REFUND **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** C A. | CI Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Freemake?** good reviews, modern interface, good reputation. **What do you dislike about Freemake?** CRASHES AND NO REFUND (within 24h of purchase). Crashes when I convert a 3Gig 1920 x 1080 video file to a lower resolution (regardless of video format). This is occurs on 2 of my computers incl a 1 year old Lenovo Core i7 with 16G.. I asked for a refund (a measly $5), and they want me to correspond with them trying to debug why this is happening.. SORRY my time preoccupied with YOUR DEBUG is worth MUCH MORE than the $5 purchase fee.. So don't waste my time, and give me my refund.. But they are now bringing up Terms that say I have to partake in debugs before a refund.. GIMME A BREAK, it's only $5, not worth my time or your negative publicity.. (and here we are) Stop trying to use your customers as a debug team, esp when they don't want to solve the problem (for you), but would rather get on with their working day (which is what the software was bought for).. **Recommendations to others considering Freemake:** Freemake Customer Service presumes the customer is "out to get them".. **What problems is Freemake solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. 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