PowToon

Avantages

C'est vite pris en main, c'est assez ludique et le rendu est très bon

Inconvénients

C'est lassant de constater les limitations mises uniquement pour vous faire prendre une License "entreprise". Très dangereux aussi le fait qu'il n'y a pas de possibilité de restauration d'un powtoon deleté ne fusse que quelque jours, voire quelques heures. Enfin je n'ai toujours pas réussi à changer de musique en cours d'exécution et je note aussi que les copier/coller sont capricieux, je ne sais pourquoi.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à PowToon

Avantages

Easy and quickkkk way to get your message and brand across in a way that reaches people and keeps their eye on the video.

Inconvénients

The price point is a bit high, so I did one package for my firm and that made it better.

Avantages

Allowed us to create dynamic and visually attractive presentations. It offers a wide range of animations, transitions, and effects that brought our content to life and made it more engaging for our audience.

Inconvénients

While Powtoon offers a decent library of templates, the selection is not as extensive compared to some other presentation tools. This limits our options, especially that we often use highly specialized and niche templates specific to our themes and messages.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à PowToon

Avantages

I have no prior experience with creating videos and I was able to easily create multiple, engaging training videos for staff.

Inconvénients

I wish the ability to customize characters for your branding guidelines was less pricey. It would also be useful to have additional character options to choose from.

Avantages

Allows a lot of creative exploration & advanced applications

Inconvénients

Can get clunky & overhwhelming not to mention a bit limiting in terms of templates & assets, too cumbersome as a result.

Avantages

This is the most Flexible software have ever used.its scalability and it's ease of use makes it compatible for me and my team.Have been using it to create quality videos and visual content for my clients.Has templates, which makes it easy for customization.Has this excellent features which magnifies their phenomenal work in your results.

Inconvénients

No cons for this excellent software.It saves time and cost

Avantages

One of the most striking elements of Powtoon is the simplicity of its design, and the ability to generate professional quality products, with multiple applications for institutions that want to make short videos and show a procedure, promote a product, generate interactive instructions, and colorful, and much more.All these applications for daily use increase our possibility of generating content that increases sales, for example, making our brand more established in the market, and the most important thing is that we do not need professionals in the area of graphic design to generate spectacular videos from Powtoon.

Inconvénients

Powtoon has expanded enormously and its use has spread very quickly, which has demanded the need to integrate with third parties to develop greater compatibility with products used in organizations. One of the best forms that Powtoon has adopted is integration through APIs, which guarantees connectivity with multiple existing systems in companies. In addition to that Powtoon is willing to listen to customer needs and constantly increase the number of tested and validated integrations.

Avantages

In this software lot of features are available . we can add the music in the video and add text and customize font size of the video, drag and drop feature is also available .

Inconvénients

i do not thing there is anything to dislike about this software.

Avantages

Training made easy! I use this product in different training deliveries.

Inconvénients

Voice over needs work as it sounds beyond robotic

Avantages

What I liked most about Powtoon is the ability to create effective and functional video presentations without having to show my face.

Inconvénients

Getting a hang of the various video transitions is not as easy as it seems. Also, creating the characters and getting the right effects is a bit complex especially for a beginner.

Avantages

A decent selection of templates.Simple to use, specially basic functions.

Inconvénients

If you use mid aged computer it'll be slugish and laggy.Stiff characters.Library is limited.

Avantages

I was impressed by the animations features for presentations. Useful for educational and business purposes, I think is a tremendous help for students with learning disabilities and people who tends to be shy and anxious during public speaking. The avatar can guide the audience while presenting and the voice can be easily recorded or uploaded by the user.

Inconvénients

I am still improving my skills with the software, but if I might find a "disadvantage" is the many, many possibilities...someone can gets lost. In the free version there is the Powtoon logo and music at the end of your presentation. It can be annoying.

Avantages

It's a tool that allows every kind of user to interact with elements giving a wide variety of options to make presentations more attractive and with a great quality.

Inconvénients

It seems that there's some lack of customization in some default animations, providing more options to make a more detailed transition or use of a template would result on greater and more professional results

Avantages

The ease of use and the end result! You can create very professional looking animations in a short time. I have used them for educational videos and website guides, and they had great results!

Inconvénients

Some features (like more than 5 exports per month) are in a higher pricing range. This is not a huge problem, but something to consider if you want to upload a lot of social media content.Also, custom fonts and character customisation is in a very high pricing tier.

Avantages

This is my go-to presentation creation software, far better than Power-Point slides. It is clear they are constantly improving their platform with new features and updates appearing regularly in the system, and I've watched over the years how the platform has continued to improve. I've not been able to find anything comparable in price and features on the market.

Inconvénients

Occasionally there is a delay in the uploading of content, likely processing time for information to communicate between servers. Also, I wish there were an improvement on the way to render/download a mp4 file. Currently it renders it on the server and sends an email to download. I wish there were just a simple render/download button available on the program.

Avantages

I can create my own lesson easy and made my own video or make animation to make the lesson interactive .
I can found some resource from the app. and got some ideas to my lesson.
I can used the audio to help my students to make practice to speak and listening very well.
engaged my students during the class.

Inconvénients

lack of variety in characters.
limited animations.
lack of support for video files.

Avantages

It is a very good software to make video marketing or educational videos, extremely easy to use and in relation to price and benefits it has a lot of quality. With it you can make animations without having previous experience, you just need to drag and drop and that's it. The 2d and whiteboard animations as well as the transitions will make you love it. It will save you a lot of time editing and creating content.

Inconvénients

I think basically what I don't like is that you have to pay a bit of a price to be able to personalize your branded content. That if you put it on a scale, freelancers or people who start creating content may not be able to afford it. In addition to the fact that Pow Toon has not had an update for a long time, to put it in a big way, and it is lagging behind software like Create Studio.

Avantages

I liked how easy it was to create a Powtoon video with an extensive media library including characters, music, sounds, and images. There are many templates to choose from for the background of the Powtoon

Inconvénients

The function to download and export option in Powtoon can be frustrating, as there are many technical difficulties that arise with the website.

Avantages

A variety of pre-built templates to use or edit. The business version has the most options for characters. It's very easy to do voiceover and export the final product.

Inconvénients

The collaboration function doesn't work properly. This feature is still in BETA, but I'd like to use it like you can collaborate on a Google Slides. Sometimes updates don't save. I'd be sure to click SAVE every time you make a major change, or at least each slide you create.

Avantages

PowToon is a great software that one can use to create attractive, creative presentations using cartoon characters. The animations are fun and interesting and the great transitions make it more fun to watch and keeps your audience engaged,

A major plus is that the character set is diverse and there are a lot to choose from. There is also lot of support and tutorials online for users to learn from.

Inconvénients

Lovely software, but one of the cons that I encountered was that when my projects got too large, its seems to use a lot of CPU power because my computer lags.

Another con, for those user who love freebies, the free version has a lot of restrictions.

Avantages

Everything! I love all the features and have used it extensively for work. Other parts of our global organization are starting to use it too. I started the trend - and now even our Headquarters in Atlanta are using it!

Inconvénients

Would love more culturally appropriate characters - and also the hands that are featured in the 'whiteboard' piece - can we have options to make them not only Caucasian?

Avantages

My assistant was able to make some pretty cool videos very quickly, despite limited technical experience with video creation. The tool presents a variety of diverse characters with stock animations for different moods or actions (e.g., explaining, gesturing angrily, looking bored). The audio recording tool allows you to retry if you're unhappy with a take, and was reasonably painless to use. The animations were simple to string together but more visually interesting than what you can produce in PowerPoint.

We created a lesson plan for instructors to use where the learners responded using PowToon projects, and these were a hit. It gives them an alternative way to communicate their ideas and again, is quite easy to use.

Inconvénients

We were not using the pro version of the tool, so we were limited in access to characters, scenes and icons. That said, the free version provided a very smooth experience. If you do not upgrade, there will be a PowToon logo and music appended to your video, and some animations will have limited customizability (e.g., a character animation may loop ad nauseum).

It is also easy for a junior designer to get caught up in the capabilities of the tool and lose focus on the quality and structure of the content. It's easy to add too much irrelevant on-screen animation and so detract from your message.

Avantages

I love anything that will grab my students' attention. I especially love it when it's something I can have them use to capture the attention of their classmates. I really like that this is flashy and doesn't require coding or graphic design knowledge to make a fun and professional presentation.

Inconvénients

It's hard to explain to students that they can't use everything they can see. I completely understand that a company would want people to see what they could have for a price, but it's frustrating for students to see all of these really cool features and not be able to touch them.

Avantages

Easy to Start: It only takes me ~20 min to gain basic proficiency and ~60 min to gain advanced proficiency.
Time-Saving Templates: It has several templates ready to be used, which saves time.
Beautiful built-in assets: Animated avatars, objects, short videos, graphics, audios, etc. Basically anything you could possibly want in a multimedia product--PowToon has it already built-in.
Ease of Future Maintenance/Update: The way Powtoon's interface is designed allows for ease of future edits. You can easily swap in/out vectors/audio/texts if your video ever needs an update in the future.

Inconvénients

Minor Glitch: Sometimes, objects (vectors, geometric shapes) would move to the wrong place by mouse drags. This is more of a minor nuisance than a real problem.
Lack of Audio Editing Feature: It has very little audio-editing capability. Because it has a built-in voice-over recording feature, this feature would be more useful if audio editing ability can be available.

Avantages

I have been using this software for 5 years to produce high quality, professional looking animated explainer videos. There are a lot of different character styles and assets style like 2D, whiteboard, infographic, live to choose from. They provide the too and it's open to your imagination. New features added constantly that make this software very versatile.

Inconvénients

Some features need to be added - better timeline, ability to encase videos, camera motion for example.