Animiz vs Explain Everything

Animiz is Windows software for creating animated video presentations, explainer and storytelling videos, product demos, and GIFs. Its drag-and-drop editor uses a multi-track timeline to arrange elements and customize animation. Projects can use pre-designed characters and objects, templates, and video-asset libraries, or import PPTX files for animated presentations. Subtitles, voiceover, and background music are supported. Finished projects can be published as online video, offline video, or GIF. Listed offline formats are MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, FLV, and MKV. Users can upload videos to Animiz cloud storage and YouTube, then share them on Facebook and Twitter. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one user, 10G cloud storage, five scenes per project, 576P video, 144P GIF, and a watermark. Free projects have limited assets and lower resolution.

Explain Everything is an online whiteboard for teaching, creating interactive lessons, recording video tutorials, and collaborating. Its infinite canvas accepts documents, presentations, images, audio, and video for users to import and work with. Users can record narration and canvas activity, edit recordings, and render videos in Explain Drive. Collaboration can be synchronous or asynchronous, with invitations by link or access code and built-in voice chat. Listed integrations include Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube, OneDrive, and Schoolwork, as well as LMS assignment tools such as Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, and Blackboard. Schools can provision licenses through Google Admin, and students can sign in with Google EDU accounts. Explain Everything runs on Android, iOS, and the web. The free plan permits three projects, one slide per project, videos up to three minutes, one collaborator, 15-minute collaboration sessions, and 500 MB of cloud storage. Pro costs $9.99 a month; Team costs $9.99 a month per user. The maker says the service's data is stored in an AWS SOC2-certified data center in North Virginia.