Adobe Animate vs. Animaker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Animate
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Animate (or Animate CC) supports but replaces the former Adobe Flash, and allows users to design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web. With it, the vendor states users can bring cartoons and banner ads to life, create animated doodles and avatars, and add action to eLearning content and infographics. With Animate, users can publish to multiple platforms in many formats, and reach viewers on any screen.
$20.99
per month
Animaker
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Animaker is the eponymous platform from the company headquartered in Palo Alto, that enables beginners, non-designers & professionals to create Animation and Live-Action videos for every moment, featuring drag-and-drop editing, a character builder, a catalog of stock images and videos to use, and templates to ease video creation.
$20
per month
Pricing
Adobe AnimateAnimaker
Editions & Modules
Annual Plan, Paid Monthly
$20.99
per month
Monthly Plan
$31.49
per month
Annual Plan, Prepaid
$239.88
per year
Basic
$20
per month
Starter
$35
per month
Pro
$79
per month
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe AnimateAnimaker
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—50% discount for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
Adobe AnimateAnimaker
Small Businesses
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Maya
Score 8.3 out of 10
iMovie
iMovie
Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Blender
Blender
Score 9.1 out of 10
iMovie
iMovie
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects
Score 8.8 out of 10
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe AnimateAnimaker
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(28 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe AnimateAnimaker
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Scenarios where Adobe Animate is well suited:2D animation for web, mobile, and video games: Adobe Animate is well suited for creating 2D animations for web, mobile, and video games. With its vector-based drawing tools, bone rigging, and inverse kinematics features, it's easy to create smooth, scalable graphics and realistic movement.Scenarios where Adobe Animate is less appropriate:Complex 3D animation: Adobe Animate is primarily a 2D animation software, and while it does have some basic 3D features, it is not as robust as specialized 3D animation software like Autodesk Maya or Blender.
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Animaker
Animaker is best suited for short projects that are well-defined. We have found it very useful for developing our explainer videos, concept illustrations for pitching new product functions or iterations, and also for creating content quickly and easily. For an illustration of bigger and more complex projects, they might be less adequate and more difficult to execute seamlessly.
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Pros
Adobe
  • The adaptability of what Adobe Animate can do makes it so helpful. You can accomplish something basic like make a ball bob on-screen over certain letters prior to showing your logo, or something more mind-boggling like building up a vivified short to show.
  • Utilizing Adobe Animate recordings on sites is typical, so individuals are accustomed to seeing it and have the essential modules introduced as of now.
  • The records are little, and the pressure is extremely smooth. This aids in the event that you are attempting to send substance to cell phones or essentially keep your site impression little to guarantee quick stacking times.
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Animaker
  • Extreme flexibility with subtitling style, positioning, and transition options
  • Character customization options -- from facial features to costumes, gestures, etc.
  • They have great options in a wide array of templates to choose from.
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Cons
Adobe
  • There are too many updates and they are constantly popping up - especially during the middle of a projects, which causes me to shut down the application and restart the program. Wastes time.
  • There is no mobile browser or device support. Limits a lot of projects - especially apps.
  • Flash player can require a lot of RAM and battery
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Animaker
  • It would be great to have more sound track options to choose from.
  • Add more scene templates that feature group interactions of multiple customizable characters
  • Direct voice-over enhancements when developing projects
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Usability
Adobe
Adobe Animate is difficult to learn because its totally different from the other animation tools but one thing for sure if you want to build a quality on industry standards then Adobe Animate is your knight in shining armour. so using Adobe Animate is easy but you have to spend a lot of time learning it and practicing it. their ui is more like a design software with added keyframes. but if you know your way to work it will be a legend to work with.
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Animaker
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Adobe Animate was always the preferred software as the support was much better than the competition. And the ease of rendering was also a deciding factor. Results with character animations are much more crisp with Adobe Animate than in any other 2d based animation software.
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Animaker
Animaker is a lot more user-friendly and easier to get used to as a beginner
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Negative, anyone who spent time learning the program now feels sad that it's going away.
  • Animation that was done on Flash but can now be made with Toon Boom or even Adobe After Effects.
  • On the plus side, since it's an Adobe product, you can rent it instead of buying the full license. That means potentially people could use it for a little longer without having to shell out as much money.
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Animaker
  • Ever since we switched from using only actual demo videos to adding animated explainers, our conversion rates have increased significantly.
  • Our productivity when creating presentations and materials for client engagement has more than tripled since we started using Animaker. We can go from storyboard to final output in 3 days or less. Previously, each output took at least 2 weeks to complete.
  • Creating projects in Animaker is just way more fun. Team members no longer dread having to work on a new concept. And our outputs are a lot more engaging.
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