Vyond vs Animaker: Which is a better fit?

Michelle: Hi, I'm Michelle. I'm a global learning content developer. I give Vyond four out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. With adding Vyond to our current authoring tools, we were able to add some very interesting and engaging video content upfront to our existing modules. For example, an Adobe Captivate module, we were a able to add a nice and engaging video upfront. With Vyond, the ability to very quickly and easily create a video was very appealing. Also, there's a very large library of characters, props, background music, sound effects, all of which were very customizable where we can add animations and transitions to that information. So it was very easy to develop a video. I would say, in addition to the ease of the Vyond platform in and of itself, the ability to quickly share links to anyone in the organization was very helpful. I could just quickly copy the link, send it to someone else on the team for them to review or preview throughout the development process. I would say the only thing that I encounter with Vyond that I like the least would be the fact that it is cloud-based. So there are moments in time when I'm in the middle of developing a scene or portion of this video and there's a disruption in internet connectivity or the network, and it causes the site in of itself to pause and get disconnected. So I might lose what I was working on, and so, that, at times, can be frustrating.

Lora: I'm Lora. I'm a career coach in the professional services industry. Today I'm going to review the Animaker video software. I give it a rating of four. The business problem that I solve using Animaker video software is that in my communications with my customers, I have to repeat the same information and it's quite a bit of detail. The best thing that I could think of was to put together a cartoon that I could use to explain all of those details and direct my new customers and clients over to see that, and Animaker's video software helped me do that. What I like most about using Animaker video software is that it was free to start, so I got a really good connection with it, understanding how I was going to use it and explain my story, and then I was able to just do a simple upgrade, very inexpensive, and got quite a few more details, a lot of actions from the different characters I was able to build and even building customized characters. Now it tells my story for me and I don't have to repeat myself. What I dislike about Animaker is that the menu system is not very user-friendly. Once you get finished with your video, you have one selection which is to download. Once it downloads, you then get an email that tells you that your video is downloaded and gives you a link. Once you click on that link, it takes you to another screen of your video and your option again is download or to share with social media. I think it would be better if the first download was compiled for download. That way we would know that we're actually not hitting our download at this point. We could still go back and make an edit before we do our final download.