Powtoon

Animated explainer videos from templates

Animaker runs the same templated whiteboard-and-cartoon explainer format, also with a free tier, and paid plans starting near twenty-five dollars.

Video templates and a logo maker

Renderforest adds a logo maker alongside its video templates, useful for a creator who needs the brand mark and the explainer clip from the same place.

Templates that turn photos into video

Animoto turns a folder of photos into a video using templates, a narrower job than building an animated explainer, starting at nine dollars a month with a free tier.

Whiteboard animation, drawn on as you watch

VideoScribe stays with the whiteboard style alone, drawn on screen as the viewer watches, rather than the cartoon and avatar mix Powtoon has expanded into.

Animated explainers without an animator

Vyond is built specifically for animated explainer video and has no free tier, unlike Powtoon, whose free plan costs nothing to start on.