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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Painter

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/APainter is a digital art and painting application, from Corel Corporation.N/A

    Foleon

    Score7.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Foleon is a content creation platform designed to make it easy to create interactive content that is on brand. It provides B2B companies with a drag & drop editor and interactive Foleon Doc format used to create bespoke digital content experiences that are engaging, intelligent, and scalable. Founded in Amsterdam with locations in the US and Europe, Foleon is on a mission to empower companies to create the content their audience craves.N/A
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    PainterFoleon
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    PainterFoleon
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—When it comes to creating compelling content, we know one size doesn't fit all. So we offer custom plans that align with your business needs today and scale as you do.
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    User Ratings
    PainterFoleon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    PainterFoleon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Corel Corporation
    Corel Painter does have a lot of great brushes, and they do emulate real art supplies very well. Especially the thick paint is well done. But unfortunately there are so many functional and UX bugs that overall it is just horrible to work with. When contacting customer support about it, they really seem clueless about the seriousness of the situation, and clueless about what proper UX is in general. They have tried to make it work a bit like Photoshop, which is a good move but then some things are absolutely not intuitive at all and they are definitely missing the mark horribly with so many issues. I would highly recommend using Photoshop instead, though you'll have to download them separately; it also offers a lot of great brushes nowadays and works much much smoother without all those aggravating bugs of Painter. The price of Corel Painter is just not at all worth all these horrible bugs.
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    Foleon
    With templates, themes, and roles,
    it facilitates cross-team collaboration and content production while ensuring
    consistency in our branding and content management.

    It is very useful to improve our
    procedures, collect information and ensure that our martech works together.

    Foleon allows us
    to add background movies, parallax effects, and other animations to increase
    customer engagement.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Corel Corporation
    • Watercolor Compatible
    • Multiple variety of Brushes and shapes
    • Captured Dab Library
    Incentivized
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    Foleon
    • Foleon is a very easy to use tool to create different types of posts.
    • The learning curve is relatively shallow and the user interface is very logical.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Corel Corporation
    • Way too many functional bugs, makes it hard to work with
    • Bad UX and usability, too much unintuitive behavior, makes it particularly hard to work with
    • Overall looks and behaves as if it was coded in the '90s, it really needs a complete UX overhaul
    • Did I mention the many bugs yet? Yeah? I'll mention it again because it's bad
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    Foleon
    • The platform can be quite slow at times, especially during posting.
    • I would also like to be able to limit access to media files and information.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Corel Corporation
    If it wasn't quite clear yet, I'll state it again: the usability of Corel Painter is, simply put, horrid. And I am not talking about rendering, lagging, etc., it is not even all that bad there. I am talking about the weird issues like being unable to move a brush into a custom brush palette when you work on a second screen, like being unable to move the software onto the second screen in the first place unless you separate all the palettes and the windows (and if nobody tells you upfront there is no way of knowing because the manual doesn't state this at all), and then having to drag all your separate windows and palettes over one by one every time your computer wakes up again, and they won't really want to move to the other screen but only through a tiny corner of your screen, and the fact that you have to scroll through lists and lists of fonts but can't search and when you apply this font, add another piece of text the font jumps back to the default font of all the text already applied even when you haven't selected any of the text. Just to name a very small few.
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    Foleon
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    Support Rating
    Corel Corporation
    It was really hard to get them to understand what I was having problems with. It was hard to get the message through that Painter has an unacceptable amount of functional and UX bugs. When I finally talked to someone who was easier to communicate with, he was very stoic about the situation, like they didn't really care about the awful amount of bugs.
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    Foleon
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    Alternatives Considered
    Corel Corporation
    Corel Painter has support to multiple OS and across all the devices. Coloring and multi layer imaging works very well. The new enhanced brush settings and the redesigned brush libraries.
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    Foleon
    Foleon
    makes it easy to create interactive and absolute material relevant to our
    organization's brand so that it is accessible to our readers while allowing us
    to create personalized digital content experiences.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Corel Corporation
    • Customer support could be improved in my opinion.
    • Multiple bugs while working with layered designing.
    Incentivized
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    Foleon
    • In my personal opinion, we can say that this tool has had great positive aspects in our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Foleon Screenshots

    Screenshot of Turning tedious long-form content into engaging, digestible stories and fully immerse the audience in an interactive, media-rich experience.Screenshot of A drag & drop editor with templates and themes used to create content, regardless of the user's digital or design experience.Screenshot of Collaborate between teams and scale interactive content creation with user roles and templates that lets the user stay on-brand.Screenshot of Connecting Foleon to a tech stack enhances its workflows, gain insights, and ensure martech works together.Screenshot of Foleon empowers users to optimize content based on the audience’s behavior.