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Adobe After Effects vs. Adobe Animate

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe After Effects

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAdobe After Effects allows users to create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions, remove an object from a clip, start a fire or make it rain, or animate a logo or character. The vendor states that with After Effects, users can apply motion-graphics and animation to any digital object.

    $20.99

    Per User Per Month

    Adobe Animate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Animate (or Animate CC) supports but replaces the former Adobe Flash, and allows users to design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web. With it, the vendor states users can bring cartoons and banner ads to life, create animated doodles and avatars, and add action to eLearning content and infographics. With Animate, users can publish to multiple platforms in many formats, and reach viewers on any screen.

    $20.99

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe After EffectsAdobe Animate
    Editions & Modules
    Annual Plan (Paid Monthly)
    $20.99
    Per User Per Month
    Monthly Plan
    $31.49
    Per User Per Month
    Annual Plan (Prepaid)
    $239.88
    Per User Per Year
    Annual Plan, Paid Monthly
    $20.99
    per month
    Monthly Plan
    $31.49
    per month
    Annual Plan, Prepaid
    $239.88
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe After EffectsAdobe Animate
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe After EffectsAdobe Animate
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe After Effects
    Because of our use of other Adobe products, and how they all play well together, we never really looked at using any other product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe After Effects
    We have taken After Effects because Adobe Animate is completely focused on animation rather than other things which After Effects can handle very easily, like we needed a program which can handle the professional animation, speed up our workflow, and can do various things like …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe After Effects
    The family apps advantage puts Adobe After Effects at a higher preference for me, but I have heard that Final Cut Pro is also great if you deal with footage and animation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe After Effects
    Because they are part of the Creative Cloud platform, all Adobe software. They are well integrated into each other. If I create a vector in Illustrator and save it, load it up in After Effects, and notice that I need to adjust it? Well I don't have to fully close out of After …
    Incentivized
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Animate
    i can say Adobe Animate is far better in results of animation among Cartoon Animator or Toon Boom Harmony. but it is lot more difficult to animate and learn how to animate in Adobe Animate. so if you want to learn quick Cartoon Animator is easy but if you need industry standard …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Animate
    We initially used after effects for many of our animations because it was part of our creative cloud subscription and some teammates had experience. We discovered some of the all-in-on features of Animate and decided to migrate a large percentage of our training video …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Animate
    I find After Effects more difficult to learn. Both are in the same Adobe CC subscription and both have a great interface. But the possibilities in features make After Effects more difficult. Therefore I like to use Animate when the assignment does not need to much complexity, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Animate
    Adobe Animate works best for advanced animation and cuts and works well with the entire Adobe suite. There is nothing that compares when it comes to working within the same product.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Adobe After EffectsAdobe Animate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    8.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)