The #1 Animated Video Maker

Bring any video idea to life in minutes with Vyond’s effortless animated AI video creator. Featuring industry-leading generative AI and a massive asset and template library, Vyond lets you create the perfect video for any audience — zero experience required.

Quickly create an animated video

How to make an animated video

1. Log into Vyond

Sign up for a free trial to start making animated videos right now with Vyond. All you need is an email address — no credit card required. 

2. Enter a prompt or build your video manually

Use the AI power of Vyond Go to generate a script and video on any topic using a simple text prompt, document, exact script, or URL in less than 20 seconds. Or use the thousands of assets, templates, and styles in Vyond Studio to build something quickly from scratch. 

3. Edit your video with a few clicks

Need to make changes or updates? Editing text, audio, narration, and visuals is simple in Vyond. Tweak instantly in Vyond Go with Quick Edit or make adjustments with a few clicks in Vyond Studio. 

4. Export and share your video

To share your videos, export them as GIFs or MP4s to your device. Then, upload them to your favorite video hosting service (YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, etc.) or to a Learning Management System (LMS) like Articulate, Docebo, 360Learning, or Absorb LMS. 

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Simple drag-and-drop interface

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Time-saving AI features

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Wide variety of styles and templates

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Easy to edit and translate

Vyond vs. other animated video makers


Animated video makers are powerful tools you can use to create impactful video content for your business — whether for learning and development programs, empowering your sales team, or building your brand’s social media presence.

Here’s a quick comparison of the best business-friendly animated video makers for business users, with Vyond leading the pack on user ratings via software review site G2.

FeatureVyondAnimakerPowtoonSimpleshow
G2 review ranking★ 4.8/5 from ~423 reviews; top-rated in the category for ease and support★ ~4.7/5; ranked near top among Simpleshow alternatives★ 4.4/5 from ~232 reviews; ease-of-setup and templates a positive★ ~4.1 / 5 on G2; ratings sparse. User reviews acknowledge ease and speed
Enterprise branding✅ Brand kit, logos/fonts, white-label themes, team libraries, admin controls and approval management⚠️ Basic branding via asset upload; fewer Enterprise governance tools⚠️ Centralized brand assets and templates; brand locking⚠️ Corporate branding integration: add colors, fonts, backgrounds, logos to account and apply across projects
Custom assets available✅ Easy to upload brand fonts, images, audio; Product team can create bespoke characters, backgrounds, objects by request⚠️ Upload images, audio, videos; character builder but no paid custom assets offering⚠️ Character builder available on business plans. No broader custom assets offering✅ Custom Video Builder supports custom corporate styles for enterprise users and a full-service custom assets offering
Variety of animation styles✅ Offers 5+ animated character styles. Easy to combine animated content with stock images, live action, AI avatars, kinetic text and more✅ 2D cartoon, whiteboard, infographic, some live‑action overlay options✅ Cartoon and whiteboard character styles✅ Access to up to 3 styles based on plan
Instant animated AI video maker✅ Vyond Go: generative AI that turns text prompts, documents or URLs into animated videos in seconds⚠️ Text-to-video animation generator✅ Offers AI‑assisted script/storyboarding tools, Veo 3, and a prompt-to-video option⚠️ Explainer Engine auto-generates visuals & timing from text scripts; quasi AI prompt workflow
Level of control over character actions✅ Very high: unique flexiskeleton and Video to Action functionality makes it easy to create 2400+ complex, specific character movements✅ High: 500+ character actions⚠️ Basic: pre-set character actions and limited user control⚠️ Low: automated, stylistic character actions with minimal user control
Size of animated template library✅ 1,000+ templates, tens of thousands of props, generative Text to Image feature for creating bespoke assets✅ 1,000+ templates with extensive media library (100M+ stock assets)✅ Hundreds of templates⚠️ Dozens of explainer “storyline” templates across professional, educational, and personal categories
Custom character creation✅ Powerful character builder; extensive customization of expressions, actions, appearance⚠️ Basic character builder with credits by plan level✅ Character builder with editable attributes; expressive but limited to business plan users⚠️ Available with add-on Custom Video Builder services
Export quality✅ Easy to export high-quality MP4, GIFs; auto captions and translations in 70+ languages; supports HD output⚠️ HD export; (Capterra reviews note good output, occasional limitations in lower-tier plans)✅ HD MP4 exports✅ HD export with subtitles in 20+ languages
Content collaboration features✅ Shared audio, video & image libraries and brand kits: Enterprise can apply dynamic logos to characters✅ Enterprise plan offers real-time comments and assign tasks and companywide shared library✅ Allows for team reviews, shared folders, collaboration tools✅ Collaboration features with Enterprise plans
Information security✅ Enterprise-grade (ISO 27001 compliant), supports SSO, secure role-based access, GDPR focus⚠️ ISO 27001 & GDPR compliant; Enterprise plan offers SSO✅ ISO 27001 & GDPR compliance on business plans; secure enterprise deployment available✅ ISO 27001, SOC2, SSO, TISAX support for enterprise users

Sources: G2.com; Vyond.com; Animaker.com; Powtoon.com; simpleshow.com

Make compelling animated videos in minutes (no experience required)

Anyone can make professional-grade animated videos with Vyond. 

Generate scripts and videos with a simple text prompt. Use our drag-and-drop interface and huge asset library to bring your ideas to life, as easily as creating a PowerPoint. Transform text to speech with our 600+ unique AI voices. And let our AI instantly translate your video into 70+ languages. 

Bring any video idea to life with the power of animation

If you can imagine it, you can create it in Vyond — no production team or video expertise required. 

Our gigantic asset library, industry-specific video templates, pre-built scenes, characters, and props provide users with an incredible level of creative control. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can generate new objects, backgrounds, and scenes with generative AI tools like Text to Prop and Text to Image. And while Vyond is the leading animated video creation platform, you can also use it to create videos that use photorealistic stock images and videos, screen recordings, dynamic text, and more. 

Scale your animated video production with the power of AI

Vyond’s built-in AI helps teams generate engaging video content in a wide variety of styles (animated, photorealistic, mixed media, screen recordings, and dynamic text, to name a few) in the fraction of the time, at scale. Vyond’s effortless, all-in-one video creation platform is helping thousands of companies communicate critical information better, and keep up with the speed of business. 

Communicate and train better with the best animated video maker on the market

Animated videos are uniquely effective at grabbing people’s attention, conveying complex information in a clear, bold way, and — most importantly — getting your message to stick, no matter the audience. 

With Vyond, teams of all kinds (L&D, human resources, marketing, sales, internal comms, you name it) do all of the above more effectively in far less time than ever before.

65% of the Fortune 500 rely on Vyond.

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Keith Anderson
Director of Learning, Sears Home Services

Make animated videos for every business use case

Animated videos for L&D 

Since video retention rates are 9x those of text, video is the new standard for getting your learners prepared. Quickly and effortlessly transform critical information into engaging videos at scale — increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and maximizing business outcomes.

With an extensive library of thousands of pre-built scenes, 1000+ video templates, and over 40,000 props and character actions, creating engaging and relevant video communication for any industry is quick and easy. Then, simply save your video as an MP4 and seamlessly import it into your learning management system.

Animated videos for HR and internal communications

HR and internal comms teams have a lot on their plates: creating employee onboarding, training, workforce communications — the list goes on. With Vyond, you can turn critical information into impactful and attention-grabbing videos in just minutes. So whether you need to spin up a walkthrough of your company’s new PTO-tracking system or a custom GIF for the all-company Slack channel, Vyond has you covered (no experience required).

Animated videos for sales & sales enablement

Connecting with today’s distracted and overwhelmed prospects has never been more challenging. Vyond is the perfect solution for both boosting sales and enabling your sellers. With Vyond, you can effortlessly create engaging, effective videos for sales pitches, outreach, custom demos, team training, and more.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the best AI animated video generator?

Vyond is the best AI animated video generator, thanks to its wide variety of animated styles and assets. Choose from a diverse range of character styles, with the ability to customize their looks, actions, speech, and more. You can even request custom assets if you need a particular style and look. Perfect for engaging storytelling and dynamic presentations, Vyond’s animated characters, props, and scenes captivate viewers and simplify complex ideas with compelling visuals. And to ensure your animated video engages global audiences, Vyond also offers AI translation tools and ultra- high- quality AI voices that make translation quick, smooth, and nearly instant.

How do I make an animated video for free?

Most free animated video tools lack quality animations, character variations, and backgrounds, making it challenging to produce videos tailored to your business and its audience. Paying a reasonable price for a top-tier animation video tool will ultimately save you time and money, and ensure you’re producing highly engaging and professional content.

Can I customize animated videos in Vyond?

Absolutely. In fact, Vyond’s ability to help you create highly relevant content is one of the things our customers appreciate the most.

For a personal touch, you can easily use industry-specific templates, scan in photos of your work locations, create one-off objects, use team members’ real voices for audio, create characters that look like people you work with—and much more. Enterprise clients can also create uniforms with their company logo, request bespoke character styles, and easily manage their brand with our branding kit and custom assets. 

What are some animated video examples made in Vyond?

Browse our Customer Videos library to explore real examples of animated videos made by people like you, across industries, roles, and geographies.

How do I make an animated video with AI?

With Vyond the answer is: effortlessly. You can generate videos in seconds with a text prompt in Vyond Go. Or choose from our wide range of scenes, characters, and templates in Vyond Studio to make something great in a matter of minutes. Want to see for yourself? Sign up for a free trial.

Can I create animated Vyond videos on my phone?

Yes! You can use to Vyond to instantly create and download animated videos from your mobile device, access and view your existing video library, and make minor file edits like renaming, copying, and moving videos. You can also download your library videos or specific scenes. (That said, to experience the full video creation functionality and features, we recommend using Vyond on your desktop.)