Animoto vs Kapwing

Animoto is a video creation service for assembling photos, video clips, text and music into shareable videos. It is available on the web and as an iOS app designed for making videos on an iPhone. The free plan includes unlimited videos, more than 50 music tracks, three standard fonts and 30 color swatches. Free videos carry a “Made with Animoto” watermark and cannot be downloaded. Animoto hosts videos and provides share links and embed codes. Professional and Professional Plus users can customize play pages with branding and a call-to-action button. Animoto 3 videos can export at 360p, 720p or 1080p; Professional and Professional Plus users can export at 4K. The mobile app sharing menu lists Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, Twitter and YouTube. For the website, Animoto recommends a desktop or laptop using Chrome or Firefox, and notes that some features may not work as intended in mobile browsers. Subscriptions can be monthly or annual and recur unless canceled; a single month can be purchased by turning off auto-renewal.

Kapwing is a cloud-based video editor accessed through a browser on Mac, Windows, Chromebook and mobile devices. Users can edit video sections by changing an automatically generated transcript, and Smart Cut removes silences. Projects can be created, edited and exported at up to 4K on supported plans. Users can add material by pasting URLs from TikTok, YouTube, Twitter and other internet sources. Subtitles, dubbing and lip-sync technology support more than 100 languages. Pro users get Brand Kit tools for color palettes, logos, fonts and templates. The Free plan provides 10 credits, exports up to four minutes at 720p, and 5 GB of cloud storage. Pro costs $16 a month billed annually, per member, and includes 1,000 credits per month, 4K export, a 120-minute export limit, a 6 GB upload limit and 100 GB of cloud storage. Pro exports are watermark-free. Kapwing has no desktop or mobile app. Enterprise pricing is custom and not listed.