Sharing a category with Pictory is what puts a product on this page at all. These 18 video tools are the closest of the ones that do, ordered by how much of Pictory’s categories and tags each one covers and how closely its own description reads like Pictory’s — that is an ordering, not a verdict. We have not tested any of them, and there is no score on this page.
Back to the Pictory listing| Tool | Pricing | Open source | Upvotes here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lumen5 | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Steve AI | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Fliki | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Recast Studio | Freemium | No | 0 |
| ShortsKit AI | Subscription | No | 0 |
| Synthesys | Subscription | No | 0 |
| Elai | Freemium | No | 0 |
| VEED | Freemium | No | 31 |
| 2short.ai | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Wisecut | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Streamlabs Podcast Editor | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Videobolt | Freemium | No | 0 |
| ClipWing | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Async | Freemium | No | 0 |
| AI Studios | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Animaker | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Flixier | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Ssemble | Subscription | No | 0 |
Turn text and blogs into marketing videos with AI
Lumen5 is an AI-powered video creation platform that allows users to turn written content such as blogs, articles, and documents into engaging videos.
Freemium · Shares 3 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
AI-powered video creation platform
Steve AI is an artificial intelligence-driven video creation platform that enables users to generate animated, live-action, and generative AI videos from text, scripts, audio, or prompts.
Freemium · Shares 3 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
Turn text and scripts into videos with AI voices
Fliki is an AI-powered video generator that transforms scripts, blog posts, and prompts into complete videos with lifelike voiceovers, dynamic visuals, background music, and subtitles.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
AI-powered video editor for marketing teams
Recast Studio is an AI-powered video editing and content repurposing platform designed for marketing teams. It automatically detects highlights in long-form recordings such as webinars, podcasts, and interviews, transfor…
Freemium · Shares 3 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
Create viral AI short videos from text prompts
ShortsKit AI is an AI-powered video creation platform that helps users turn textual ideas and descriptions into short-form videos for platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels.
Subscription · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
AI video agent for marketing teams
Synthesys is an AI video platform that orchestrates frontier models to produce product ads, user-generated content, explainer videos, and commercials from a single prompt.
Subscription · Shares 3 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
AI video generator for learning and development
Elai is an AI-powered video creation platform that enables users to generate professional videos from text, blog posts, and PowerPoint presentations.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
Online video editing with subtitles and AI avatars
VEED is a browser-based video editor covering recording, trimming, subtitles, translation and brand kits, with AI features for avatars, dubbing and clean-up.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
Turn long videos into short clips using AI
2short.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to help content creators repurpose long YouTube videos into engaging short-form clips for platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
AI video editor for long videos and short clips
Wisecut is an AI-powered video editing platform that automatically transforms long-form recordings into engaging short clips.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
Edit your video by editing transcribed text
Streamlabs Podcast Editor is a text-based video and podcast editing tool that uses AI to transcribe video content.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
Online video and motion graphics maker
Videobolt is a browser-based video creation platform that offers thousands of professional templates for intros, promos, slideshows, music visualizers, and mockups.
Freemium · Shares 3 categories with Pictory
Turn long videos into short clips with AI
ClipWing uses artificial intelligence to transcribe your long-form videos, identify key moments, and help you generate vertical and horizontal short clips for social media.
Freemium · Shares 3 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
Chat-based AI creative suite for video production
Async is an AI-powered video editor that allows users to create, edit, and repurpose video content through chat prompts.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
AI video generator and custom avatar platform
AI Studios by DeepBrain AI provides text-to-video generation, AI avatars, translation, and dubbing tools. Users can create videos from scripts, generate custom or photo avatars, and build interactive training courses wit…
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
Online animation and video making platform
Animaker is a cloud-based animation and video creation platform that enables users to produce studio-quality animated and live-action videos.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
AI video generator and editor in your browser
Flixier is a browser-based video editing platform that integrates AI video generation, voiceovers, and automatic subtitles directly into a timeline workflow.
Freemium · Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with Pictory
Turn YouTube videos into shorts with AI
Ssemble is an AI-powered platform designed to convert long-form YouTube videos into viral short-form clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
Subscription · Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Pictory
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