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Turns a script or a blog post into a video
Pictory does the same job from a script or blog post, assembling stock footage into a narrated video, with plans from $25 after a trial where invideo starts at $17.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Generative video with an editor around it
Runway generates original video clips from a prompt and edits them in the same tool, free to start with paid plans from $15, for footage that does not exist yet rather than invideo's library of stock clips.
Text to video in eighty languages, on credits
Fliki also turns text into narrated video on a credit meter, works in eighty languages, and keeps a free tier where invideo has none.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
AI editing for talking-head video on iPhone
Captions edits your own talking-head footage shot on an iPhone rather than generating stock-clip video from a prompt, from $24.99, the pick when the footage already exists and needs cutting, not creating.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
Video from a script, read by an AI presenter
Synthesia builds the video around an AI presenter reading your script instead of stock clips and narration, with a free tier and paid plans from $19.
A presenter generated from a script, in 30 languages
HeyGen swaps the stock-clip montage for a generated presenter speaking your script in 30 languages, with a free tier to test before its $29 plan.
Short AI video clips from text or an image
Pika generates short AI video clips straight from text or an image rather than assembling stock footage, with a free tier and paid plans from $8, for raw generated clips instead of a narrated explainer.
