Pirsonal alternative
If you’re frustrated with Pirsonal's complicated interface and reliance on their team for every project step, and you're experienced with After Effects, Plainly is the perfect alternative. With Plainly, you get a user-friendly platform, robust After Effects rendering infrastructure, and advanced customization of your personalized videos - all without needing external help or wasting time troubleshooting.
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Feature
Plainly
Pirsonal
Cloud rendering
API
Limited
Time-based trimming rules
Thumbnail generation
Auto-scale
Add captions
Interactive videos
Native integrations
12+
1
Pricing
Starts at $59/month
Starts at $199
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Pirsonal vs Plainly: Which is right for you?
You and your team don’t use After Effects and need a web-based template editor that supports basic video templates.
You and your team are After Effects users who want to use all functionalities without any workflow disruptions.
You need interactive and clickable elements in your videos.
You need time-based rules that will shift layers in time and adjust the final output based on the input assets.
You need an agency-type approach where you expect your hand to be held during the whole process.
You need various video output formats to distribute content across different platforms through native integrations or API.
An honest comparison of Plainly as a Pirsonal alternative.
Pirsonal vs Plainly pricing
Pirsonal offers 3 plans with different features and capabilities. However, if you want to create videos in 1080p full HD, use custom fonts, and remove their branding from the player, you'll need their Transform plan. Additionally, creating a 1080p full HD video on Pirsonal requires double the credits - meaning additional costs.
At Plainly, we’ve kept our pricing straightforward. We charge based on usage, and our plans scale with your needs—no add-ons or hidden fees. You can use any font and render videos up to 4K at no extra cost, with access to the full feature set across all plans.
Reducing back-and-forth with support
While Pirsonal offers a support system through email and has a help center, their convoluted interfaces and recurring technical problems often require frequent communication with their team, as the help center doesn't cover everything.
In contrast, Plainly is truly a self-serve, intuitive solution that requires no back-and-forth with the support. It’s easy to understand and use, but if you do encounter any issues or have questions, our help center and support team are there to help you.
Basic vs Advanced customization
Pirsonal is designed for marketers who want to create basic video templates in a web-based template creator. If you're an After Effects user, Pirsonal will hold you back.
Plainly, an alternative to Pirsonal, is an After Effects native solution designed for advanced video versioning. Our solution includes advanced features such as shifting & cropping elements in time based on input, auto-scaling media, and exporting thumbnails.
Distributing videos
Since Pirsonal focuses on HTML video format, your video must be played on their video player, meaning you can’t distribute it to other platforms like Vimeo, YouTube, and more.
Plainly provides native integrations and an API without any additional paywalls or hidden fees. You can upload videos automatically to your cloud storage or, even better, publish them directly to platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Frame.io, and more - with just a few clicks.
Native integrations
Pirsonal’s integration options are limited, offering only Zapier, which restricts users to basic automation and requires reliance on Zapier. Their API is also restrictive, allowing for only basic workflow creation.
Plainly offers an API for advanced users, but also offers native integrations to 12+ tools such as Google Sheets, Drive, YouTube, FrameIO, RSS and many more for video rendering and distribution.
Complete access via API
Pirsonal does offer an API, but its functionality is quite limited, allowing only basic tasks like triggering video creation. It lacks flexibility for advanced workflows, meaning users cannot implement complex custom automation.
Plainly is an API-first solution. Everything is accessible through the Plainly API, and it’s built to fit any kind of workflow you need. That's why Fortune 100 companies trust Plainly's API for custom video personalization workflows.
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Pirsonal Alternative - that’s Plainly
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We literally had team members saying "It's like magic".
Plainly team was amazing helping us bring everything to production, it's obvious that customer satisfaction is super important to them. To anyone who wants to automate video production, we recommend Plainly over any other alternative on the market!
Lead Technical Artist / Eterlast