Toonly Review – Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons

Toonly Review 2021 – Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons

Do you know that the Doodly creators have started new explained video software? Toonly is more about creating animations. You might be encountering some ads for Toonly on social media. So, is it worth getting? Is it good to buy? 

In this article, we are going to give you a complete Toonly review which is used to create animations. 

What is Toonly? What can it be used for?

Toonly is the new software by Doodly that helps you create explainer videos. Note that it is not an online cloud-based platform. The videos are not whiteboard animations. The screen doesn’t display hand, drawing, or writing animations. Just like Doodly, Toonly software is also very easy to use.

There are pre-made music, objects, and people in the library and you can use those while making the videos. Also, pre-loaded elements have an inbuilt animation. While using this in your video, it is easy to emphasize videos. It allows uploading your images like objects, background, persons. But customized image animations are not possible.

Toonly can be used to create videos for giving instruction or any tutorial, product or service marketing, etc. Toonly works on both MAC and PC. It is available when you go for a single membership plan and don’t need a separate license for this. To use this software, you need an internet connection even though this is not cloud-based. 

Level of difficulty & learning curve

The greatest thing about Toonly is its ease of use. The difficulty level is almost negligible, and you don’t need to be skilled in video editing to use Toonly. You don’t even need to know what actual animation is. 

For first time users, the learning curve is found to be a bit steeper. But this can be resolved as there are many tutorials on how to start perfectly. And it’s just for the first-time users. Since they keep the area of coding under lock and key, the software is considered to be more beginner-friendly. 

For the beginners, we would like to give crisp information on the working of Toonly. 

Here it goes: 

After choosing a background of your choice, drag and drop audios, text, images, or voiceovers directly to the program. You are now ready with your program and save it to send to the destination of your choice.

It’s quite easy, right?? 

Features of Toonly

To start with, Toonly has two licenses: Toonly Enterprise and Toonly Standard. Let’s see what you get when buying the explained animation video software. 

1. Toonly library

Toonly library is a collection of backgrounds, props, and characters. Typical images stock is not available though. The professional graphic designers are skilled enough and they have drawn all the images which are present in this software. The advantage of custom drawn images proves that every image at Toonly is unique. 

You get: 

  1. Total of 200 characters that has 10 characters with 20 poses
  2. Background scenes of 20 types
  3. Props in various niches and topics

2. Voiceovers addition

Record your own voiceovers in the software. Also, you can record your voice in the existing video easily. Prerecorded voices can also be done in Toonly. 

3. Background music

Free music tracks are of 100 types which are royalty-free. Simply drag and drop the required file in order to add music for your video file. 

4. Exporting the video

The video can be exported in the formats of mp4. The resolutions include 480p, 720p, 1080p, 4k.  

Pricing structure 

The two licenses Standard and Enterprise come in two proving structures. 

Pricing for Standard membership

  • Monthly subscription charge – $39
  • Annual subscription charge – $20 per month

What you get:

  1. 17 animations
  2. 25 facial expressions
  3. 30 characters
  4. 10 premade scenes
  5. 79 backgrounds
  6. 20 background audios
  7. 716 prop images
  8. 3 text animations.

You are allowed to create an unlimited number of videos with this plan. With the standard membership, you won’t get access to the Toonly club that gives new props and characters every month. 

Pricing for enterprise membership

  • Monthly subscription charge – $69
  • Annual subscription charge – $40 per month

What you get:

  1. 360 facial expressions
  2. 68 characters
  3. 1783 prop images
  4. 30 character animations
  5. 147 backgrounds
  6. 101 scene transitions
  7. 20 premade scenes
  8. 5 text animations
  9. 143 background audios
  10. Toonly Facebook group invitation
  11. Premium support
  12. Access to Toonly club

There is a one-time purchase offer for a limited time, which is known as lifetime membership offer. To start using this service, you need to pay a one-time fee of $67. Unfortunately, this offer is not available now. If you wish to have this offer, subscribe standard plan first and then upgrade to the enterprise level. 

Pros & Cons

Pros Cons
  • Easy to use
  • No animations possible for custom images
  • No coding skills needed
  • Autosaving not possible
  • Downloadable software
  • Free trial not available
  • Regular updates
  • Voice can’t be synced sometimes
  • Video exporting is easy
  • Quite inexpensive

Overall Rating

3.7/5

Is it worth buying?

While buying software, this question is common. Is it worth buying? Should I go for it? To answer these questions, you must know why your business needs animated explainer videos.

  • People get to know the business story easily when you use animated videos. This helps to increase engagement, audience, and conversion.
  • The animated videos simplify difficult topics.
  • People won’t have the thought of being marketed while watching videos.
  • These are good tools for storytelling.
  • Videos increase organic reach as the people share it to friends and family.

These are the importance of Toonly software for business.  In this Toonly review, we have tried to explain all the important details of the tool. We hope you found it useful.

When deciding to choose a plan, choose it based on your requirements. 

In a nutshell, Toonly is definitely worth your investment.