Animaker vs. Frame.io

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.

Incentivized

Excellent for editing down raw video captures of educational webinars. Questions from the audience can sometimes be too case specific, and would not be a value-add to a posted recording, and sometimes the presenter needs a topic to be edited down for time as well. Frame.io is great for allowing teams to give their feedback on the video so that everyone has input on which portions are most valuable/should be removed.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Allows clients to make frame-specific notes, so there is no confusion what they are talking about.
• When multiple stakeholders are making notes, platform automatically sorts them chronologically in the video.
• Multiple stakeholders giving notes can see when their note conflicts with a colleague's.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• When I mark a video private, it should disable the sharing link. We’ve run into issues where we’ve made a video private, thinking that it was no longer visible, but those with the link could still view it.
• Mobile version is great, but sometimes I have to rotate my phone to get the full feature set, which is a little clunky sometimes.

Incentivized

It is a great part of our workflow that really accelerates the whole video production and approval process between multiple teams and departments.

Incentivized

I've used other video review systems, Frame was the only one I didn't question how they allowed you to review - I just started reviewing. It's that simple. It's easy to set up projects, invite collaborators, and then provide a final cut for download. It's naturally built for the kind of work that TV/Film & video production companies do.

Incentivized

I haven't experienced any outages with Frame.io.

Incentivized

When sharing videos for feedback, there are no noticeable performance issues with Frame.io. Everyone is able to complete their tasks without the program getting in the way.

Incentivized

I've only reached out to Frame.io a few times but they responded quickly and offered achievable solutions. The fact that I haven't had to reach out to them more is proof that the platform is easy to use, reliable, and can run on its own. The only issues we have had were related to uploading issues on our end.

Incentivized

Animaker is a lot more user-friendly and easier to get used to as a beginner

Incentivized

I last used Wipster around 4-5 months ago, but I felt downtrodden by both their business practices and interface. Wipster sprung a new pricing model on users. This pricing model made no sense, was extremely pricey for no reason, and felt like a punch in the gut by a new and greedy company. Furthermore, I had constant issues with the software. It was buggy, slow, and presented issues with clients. My first day with Frame.io was like being released from prison. All I'd known up to this point was disappointment and gloom. Frame.io took every single issue our team had with Wipster and resolved it. Frame.io was nearly perfect

Incentivized

Frame.io was very easy to scale to the appropriate teams needed

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Frame.io has shortened our review time considerably, saving time.
• Frame.io is wonderful for managing a large team of editors, especially for us when we are using in-house staff and contractors.
• Frame.io has improved the relationship between departments, which was more tense with previous review methods.

Incentivized