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Toonly Reviews

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  • Likelihood to recommend8.24/10

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Overall I am really impressed with the quality of the animations that I created using Toonly and would definitely recommend it.
I have loved working with toonly, support was great when I had a question and there are so many great features.
I like the multitude of actions that the characters have. I like the fact that it is a drag & drop software and I like the fact that it is super intuitive.
But the more I used it, the more I began to be frustrated with the lack of templates and the gap between what I knew how to do and what I saw the product should be able to do.
The lack of training in how to create a masterful product as well as the relative lack of template designs to use.
And feel hell if you will purchase only basic version.
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Ronald L.

Retail, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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Toonly is a ton of fun and a great online tool

Reviewed 6 months ago
Pros

Its so much fun using this app to make cartoons and comic type art. You can do more than that, but that is what I like to do with it.

Cons

No cons to list. I am completely satisfied with my purchase

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Matt S.

Media Production, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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Beginner's Best Choice. Definitely Get the Job Done.

Reviewed 2 years ago

If you get the Enterprise version, which is an upsell option for Toonly, you will have a much more complete set of characters to use. I like Toonly with the Enterprise version. I think you can get the job done in a relatively short period of time (within an hour even for beginners). But as you progress, the editing time will definitely be much shorter as you can reuse many assets from scene to scene. Also, the lipsync function is absolutely great...!!

Pros

I recently tried Toonly, an animation creator, and found it to be very easy to use. It had a great user interface and the tutorials were extremely helpful when it came to creating animations. I was able to make some really cool animations with minimal effort. The library of characters and templates makes it easy to customize videos for any project. Overall I am really impressed with the quality of the animations that I created using Toonly and would definitely recommend it.

Cons

If the development team can more "choice of action" for every character, that would be great.

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Management Consulting, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Fun tool to get your creative juices flowing

Reviewed 2 years ago
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I use Toonly to design training presentations and material for employee engagement. I love that characters are easily created, edited and animated. I can get lost for hours using this tool - it's a lot of fun and creating content no longer feels like a task.

Cons

There are no aspects that I've encountered to date which I wasn't happy with.

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Andre P.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used weekly for 2+ years

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Toonly one of the best and easiest software to use

Reviewed 2 years ago

great it extremely affordable easy to use and navigate

Pros

the part i liked most is the ease of use and how beginner friendly it was to use with out having prior experience with the software

Cons

i didn't really notice any cons with the software

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Darlene B.

Publishing, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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High Learning Curve and Difficult to Master

Reviewed 2 years ago

Initially, I enjoyed using Toonly. I had great ideas and plans for how I could use the cartoon software in my author/training business. But the more I used it, the more I began to be frustrated with the lack of templates and the gap between what I knew how to do and what I saw the product should be able to do. It was hard to create a product that was not cheap looking, unprofessional, and lacking in...

Pros

The cute videos that can possibly result. It's an amazing idea to be able to animate cartoons to use for business start-ups or education.

Cons

The lack of training in how to create a masterful product as well as the relative lack of template designs to use.

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Krishnan G.

Education Management, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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An average product.

Reviewed 2 years ago
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Though the software is easy to use, it lacks the additional and critical features required for creating animated videos. Characters are 2D only.

Cons

There are better softwares in the market though they are slightly pricey.

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Sebastian S.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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Is agood program, updates missing since change of owners

Reviewed 2 years ago

I think is a great tool, worried what the future whit new owners.

Pros

Characters are its strong point, a lot of characters, a lot of animations, lipsync synchronization, and facial emotions.

Cons

- Only one style of characters, if you don't like that style you can´t do anything.- Objects and backgrounds, are limited- Is now Nov 2022, they change owners, and since then there are no updates, wondering if at any moment is not profitable to new users and will die, and they don't trust too much this product as they make they promotional videos with other tools, and when they create toonly videos for they own promotion they just look like random animations appearing anywhere.

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Online Media, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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Good software to make 2D explainer videos

Reviewed 2 years ago

When we want to make 2D explainer videos, Toonly is definitely our best tool for them.

Pros

Toonly is so far the best program to make animated explainer videos, with it's price. It is quite easy to use, there is quite a lot ready made backgrounds and learning curve is not too big. Price is right comparing what you get. Lip-sync is very good.

Cons

There could always be more different characters and items, or possibility to buy more personalized ones. There could be more ready made 'templates' or 'stories' which we could use immediately (just change texts and another small things) and we would also learn from them.

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Victor P.

Animation, self-employed

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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An impressive 2D animation software for my explainer videos!

Reviewed 2 years ago

Toonly is just one of the best 2D video software you can find online! I own several different video software and among them, I have Doodly as a doodle software and Toonly as a 2D animation software both from Bryxen! I was looking online for video creating software and I tried many of them and eventually, I kept only the ones I truly found useful and with a great team behind them! I have Toonly...

Pros

I like the ease I can animate the characters, props and all elements inside the software. I like the pre-made scenes that I can build my scenes on. I like the multitude of actions that the characters have. I like the fact that it is a drag & drop software and I like the fact that it is super intuitive.

Cons

I really do like everything about Toonly, I really don't find anything to dislike!

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Michael K.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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Toonly - An Easy To Use, Affordable Cartoon Creation Software

Reviewed 2 years ago

I have enjoyed my experience with Toonly. It gives me another piece of software that I can use to create content for my companies, as well as for my clients. I think that i got my moneys worth within the first week of owning the software.

Pros

I liked the fact that the software is easy to use and intuitive. You get better working with it as time goes on, but it is quite easy to use "out of the box".

Cons

The range of animations for the characters can be somewhat limiting, depending on what you are trying to do with your videos.

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Hossamudin H.

Higher Education, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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The easiest 2D animation software out there.

Reviewed 2 years ago

Great!

Pros

I like how easy it is creating an explainer video for my youtube channel.

Cons

Well, the animations, and characters are limited.

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Eduardo L.

E-Learning, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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My review of Toonly

Reviewed 3 years ago

Very good. I have created videos, some o which I have uploaded on the net and shared), and have not had to overcome many problems. I believe that as I get more practice, I will improve. The Facebook group that has been opened for Toonly users has proven to be very helpful, too

Pros

Creating videos with voice-over with Toonly id easy. This makes me create videos that can grab the attention of my English as Foreign Language learners (pupils in High School and teachers in Professional DEvelopment workshops I create and facilitate)

Cons

I find it difficult to get the characters to move their lips (yet I guess it is a question of practice)

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Eldar P.

Education Management, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Toonly is a great tool for small business and Individuals who want a animation presentation

Reviewed 3 years ago
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Anyone with a basic knowledge of editing can create their own animated presentation, also its the only tool in this category that I found for a one-time payment. The support is great and the team tries to improve the software with updates every few weeks. I using it to create a marketing videos for my business and also lessons videos for my digital course It is very useful and gives a low budget solution.

Cons

There is a nice selection of animations for the characters but not all the characters get all of them, and if you are interested in using a particular character it may not have the animation you need. Because all creators use the same characters, it may be not unique if they will consider to add a character creation tool it can be great. Editing the sound on the timeline may feel uncomfortable and inflexible.

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ivana s.

Banking, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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Perfect for a beginner video creator

Reviewed 3 years ago

it is very fast and easy to create animated explanatory videos.. there is also included royalty-free music what is really great value for money - especially when you purchase it while the special promo discount... a big plus is also relatively frequent updates including new objects, characters, animations

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It is really easy to use, even for a person who has never made a video before

Cons

I feel like there is not enough fonts and text animations

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Dan C.

E-Learning, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Quick way to explain ideas

Reviewed 4 years ago

Used as explainer for new business and to create a promo for a screenplay.

Pros

Ability to buy one-time license for a fixed fee, plus free updates. Easy to create new comic-book-like stories to explain concepts and ideas. Large selection of scenes, characters and props.

Cons

Not able to modify actions of characters beyond those shipped with product.

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Joanne R.

Information Technology and Services, self-employed

Used other for 1-2 years

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Toonly - make videos easily

Reviewed 4 years ago

Toonly has made it easy to make videos to assist with information or marketing purposes for the Company.

Pros

Toonly enables you to make a video with sound really, really easily. You don't need any experience at all in making videos. You can put music background, as well as record you speaking.

Cons

There isn't the ability to generate subtitles within Toonly based on what is spoken. This feature you need to use another tool to do on top of your Toonly video.

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Jyng L.

Animation, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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Not very stunning, but Toonly can deliver a decent and personalized explainer video.

Reviewed 4 years ago

I use Toonly whenever the project I am working on requires more character poses for a target niche. Toonly truly delivers flexibility and customization.

Pros

The best part of Toonly is its wide selection of character poses even for a standard version. I also love the lipsync feature which is not available on most animations sofware.

Cons

The characters look very simple, flat and outdated. The software also lags a lot on longer (more than 1 minute) videos which can be time consuming.

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Vivek C.

Law Practice, 1-10 employees

Used other for 6-12 months

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Waste of Money

Reviewed 4 years ago

Waste of money. And feel hell if you will purchase only basic version.

Pros

Pricing of additional features. 'Enterprise version'

Cons

No Updates since purchase. No new text effect.

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James M.

Design, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Basic 2D Character Animations

Reviewed 4 years ago
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A fine tool for animation video projects requiring only 2D character animation. Access to time line functionality makes simple animation projects easier than in PowerPoint. Also fun to lip sync characters with a spoken script.

Cons

The learning curve can be a little steep for first time users and the supplied tutorials are very basic. Would love to see far more advanced tutorials to take advantage of all that Toonly has to offer.

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eli m.

Logistics and Supply Chain, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Very easy to use.

Reviewed 4 years ago
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It is quite easy to use. the interface is user friendly and can be used with very little training.

Cons

The toons and pictures available for use are very limiting i have to import from outside to get work done.

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Natalie W.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Limited Package - Could be better

Reviewed 4 years ago

It is good for short videos that are not for a diverse audience but for us it didn't work out so well.

Pros

This was advertised on Instagram as a one time fee for the software and it was a great price. We jumped at the chance mainly due to the price offered and on using the software it was as stated easy to use and did what we expected.

Cons

As we got deeper into the software we found that although we had the software the limitations we had on characters/images and sounds made the software lose appeal very swiftly, it almost became a waste of money due to having to not having what we expected from the advertisement. For the people we engage, we need diversity and a good database of characters, this appears that we would have to buy additional features.

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Jodie A.

Animation, self-employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

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geen aanrader

Reviewed 9 months ago

niet goed, gelimineerd aantal keuze's, maar eenmalig de keuze om te upgraden. Dit moet je doen voordat je toonly ooit hebt gebruikt. Je zou binnen 30 dagen een refund moeten kunnen krijgen door te mailen naar support@toonly.com, maar dit emailadres blijkt niet te werken.

Pros

leuke animaties.

Cons

Ik wilde mijn aankoop annuleren en de refund ontvangen. Daarom nam ik contact op met support@toonly.com - maar dit e-mailadres bleek niet te werken

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Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Si quiere una animación de Negocios

Reviewed a year ago

El producto es genial para la creación de videos de todo lo que quieras explicar de una manera sencilla y que sea de interesante para tu público objetivo.

Pros

- La facilidad de crear videos- Algunas funcionalidades que permiten la creación de videos animados mucho rápido.- Es genial para crear esos videos únicos de Negocios, se ven muy profesionales y sin un conocimiento avanzado de animación.- El precio, si encuentras una oferta puedes verlo con pago único- Las diferentes opciones de incluir imágenes a color en su galería de fondos.

Cons

- Que no esté en otro idioma aparte de Inglés- Los tiempos por escena están muy limitados, cosa que agregaría más tiempo o posibilidades entre escena.- La Galería de imágenes le falta un poco más de contenido, debería disponer de una biblioteca mayor.

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Hector V.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Excelente para crear animaciones y videos explicativos

Reviewed a year ago

Esta herramienta es útil para los que necesitamos crear contenido visualmente atractivo para presentaciones, videos de marketing, tutoriales, cursos en línea y más. Con Toonly, podemos crear animaciones personalizadas, agregar texto y efectos de sonido, y exportar videos en varios formatos para compartir en línea o en presentaciones.

Pros

Toonly es una herramienta fácil de usar para crear animaciones y videos explicativos de manera rápida y efectiva.

Cons

Las plantillas predefinidas pueden ser limitantes para aquellos que buscamos una mayor personalización en nuestras animaciones.

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Christian H.

Civic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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Animación sin ser diseñador

Reviewed 3 years ago

Es un muy buen programa para crear videos animados, simples pero efectivos para la educación o marketing.

Pros

Toonly es una muy buena opción si no tienes mucho presupuesto para el marketing digital de tu empresa, sus personajes en diseño 2D, están muy bien hechos y por el precio que tiene el software lo coloca en una muy buena opción de compra. La curva de aprendizaje no es muy difícil por lo que en poco tiempo podrás crear muy buenos videos animados. Los personajes además de realizar muchas acciones, también tienen la opción de Lip Sync lo cual es una verdadera ayuda en videos educativos y explicativos. Una nueva actualización, permite personalizar la ropa de los personajes a los de tu marca.

Cons

Si bien es un muy buen programa para bolsillos ajustados, la interfaz y el tablero han ido quedando un poco desactualizados y en algunos momentos se ven muy simples. Que no se agregan personajes con mucha frecuencia.

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