Video review is essential for everyone in the video marketing business. Whether you are a freelancer who needs feedback from a customer about your video creation or an agency that produces hundreds of videos per month in need of your marketing team feedback , you will have to deal with some kind of feedback and approval workflow.
Video feedback software is an excellent solution for teams and agencies because you can share and get feedback in real-time. There is no need to go after email threads or countless downloads. Email threads can be a headache when many people are involved; if you forget to copy somebody, it is a sure mess. And don't forget you must save every download for future reference.
While team management tools with many features (like ClickUp, Monday, Asana and others) can provide specific structure to get feedback and streamline processes, video review apps are specific tools designed with the video production process in mind.
We have compiled a list of the top 12 video review applications that can help simplify and improve your workflow. Check them out.
Screenlight
Screenlight is a video review platform that works with video, audio, images, and text files. With this software, you can watermark your videos and add your viewer's IP to track who is viewing your video.
You get an email notification each time someone adds a comment to a video. Reviewers can draw annotations and the system automatically tracks frames and timestamps. Reviewers can draw annotations to pinpoint feedback on creative assets and video files, with notifications updating stakeholders. You can turn notifications off, but there is no way of choosing a custom notification scheme.
Screenlight pricing:
- Free plan: one user, unlimited reviewers, one user, 1 GB max storage, 1 GB max video size, and Screenlight branding.
- Professional Plan: $9/user/month, unlimited reviewers, 50 GB storage per user, max file size is 10 GB/user and custom branding.
- Enterprise Plan: From $500/month.
Our take:
Simple and straightforward platform with no bells and whistles. Fast learning curve, you can set it up in minutes. Sign up for a free trial to test the platform, but also the Professional Plan at $9/month gives excellent value for the money (including branding) We would like to see more integrations (at present only with Adobe Premiere Pro)
VideoReview by TechSmith
VideoReview is a product from TechSmith, a solid player in the video creation business that features Camtasia as their flagship. This tool allows users to review videos by adding comments and drawings to streamline your approval process.
You can share video review links with anyone, but people do need a TechSmith account to review videos.
You can review videos in MP4 format, JPG, and PNG files. As with similar tools, you can set shared links to public and private and block any user. This software offers direct integration with Camtasia, although you can work with files created with different editors.
VideoReview pricing:
Unique plan available: $179.99/year with unlimited bandwidth, up to 15 reviewers per project, up to 25 projects, free email and phone support. 30-day money-back option.
Check how Video Review by TechSmith works:
Our take:
This software was created by Camtasia to maintain users under their own ecosystem. With only an annual pricing plan, love it or leave it. Furthermore, there is no free trial to test the tool before buying.
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Filestage
Filestage claims to get your files approved 3X faster and 92% of files approved in two review rounds (compared to an industry average of 18%)
This is a solid platform that features real-time comments, timestamped comments, and annotations.
Filestage supports video review, document review(Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDFs), image review, website review, and audio review.
All data is hosted on European servers, with secure file encryption and password protection. This platform integrates with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Asana, Monday and more apps. There is also a proprietary API to automate certain actions into your current workflow to streamline the review process and cross-functional collaboration.
Check how Filestage works in this video:
Filestage pricing:
- Free Plan: Unlimited reviews, 2 review steps, integrations, due dates and reminders.
- Basic Plan: $49/month adds 10 active projects and 250 GB storage.
- Professional Plan: $249/month with 25 active projects, custom branding, compare versions and review reports.
- Enterprise plan available.
Free 7-day trial available and annual payment option available.
Our take:
Filestage focuses on mid-sized and enterprise companies offering a solid product. If you are looking for a full professional video and document review software, consider this platform into your main options.
Frame io
Frame.io is a video review option from Adobe. Featuring real-time comments (frame-accurate), annotations, and version management, this is a platform for keeping a team together, no matter where they physically are.
Following Adobe standards, Frame.io is one of the most complete video review software available.
An email notification system keeps you informed when a user gives feedback. Active storage is 500 GB in the higher plan, and although you can add additional 250 GB chunks at $15/month, you can quickly run out of storage.
From the video side, this tool integrates with Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro. There is a huge list of integrations, including Slack, Salesforce, Monday, Paymo, and Zapier.
Frame.io pricing:
- Free Plan: Unlimited shares, apps and integrations, 2 projects and 1080p playback.
- Pro Plan: $15/month/user with custom branded presentations, password-protect shares and 4K playback.
- Team plan: $25/user/month adds private projects, share link expiration and custom-branded emails.
- Enterprise plan available.
Our take:
A full featured option focused on mid-sized and enterprise users. Not for the small agency or freelancer who creates a few videos per month. You can find some features available on higher plans (like share link expiration) on basic plans of other apps like Screenlight.
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Qickreviewer
Quickreviewer is a platform that claims to be the easiest real-time video proofing system. Collaborators can add comments with attached files, annotations, and tag people. You can compare versions side by side to check changes and related comments.
You can set email notifications hourly or daily, and there is the option to download a PDF with the videoframes and annotations.
This platform has flexible pricing plans, with many options to craft a custom plan on demand. Using Quickreviewer you can also review banner ads, HTML pages and even live websites.
Check Quickreviewer in action:
Quickreviewer pricing:
- Free Plan: One user, 100 MB storage, unlimited reviewers, slow-motion video review.
- Pro Plan: $29/month for 10 users, 25 GB storage, custom branding, download comments, integrations, teams creation.
- Premium Plan: 84/month adds to the Pro Plan 20 users, 250 GB storage.
Our take:
Quickreviewer has many unique features like audio comments (to record 15-seconds audios instead of typing text), auto-compare (get a pixel-by-pixel comparison between two files to quickly identify differences). Furthermore, $29/month can be a bit pricey if you are in a budget, but the cost/benefit ratio is excellent.
Ruttl
Ruttl offers a comprehensive solution for efficient collaboration on video projects through precise annotations, shape markup, and screen recording for granular frame-by-frame feedback.
This is one of the most straightforward tools we have seen for video review. Once you upload your video to the platform, you can mark anywhere on the screen to annotate comments or even use pre-defined shapes to highlight any portion of the screen. Next, you can use a share link to allow your team to provide feedback and review.
Ruttl goes the extra mile by offering a unique live chat feature so you can get instant feedback from your teammates. A screen recorder adds an exciting option if you prefer to give feedback through direct video.
Ruttl video is included in a product suite that offers website feedback tool, mobile app feedback tool, PDF annotation, and bug tracking.
Ruttl pricing
- Free Plan: Up to 5 users, 1 project, unlimited guests, and all integrations.
- Pro Plan: $4/month/user adds 1 admin, up to 50 users, unlimited projects, and 10 minutes of video commenting.
- Team Plan: $12/month/user adds admin users with project management capabilities, workspaces, and custom branding.
Our take
Straightforward platform with a generous free plan and ultra-low pricing. Ruttl offers many features for video feedback and more. Slack, Asana, ClickUp, Trello, Jira, and Zapier integrations add a lot of value to the platform.
ShotGrid
ShotGrid (formerly ShotGun Software) is a product from Autodesk. It allows real-time tracking, where teammates can review, approve and manage all project instances.
This video review app also offers scheduling and resource planning, production insights, and many features suitable for professional producers and filmmakers.
A Pipeline Toolkit allows you to build and set up a custom pipeline. This is a unique plus of ShotGrid, valuable when managing large teams and complex workflows.
ShotGrid pricing:
$345/year ( or $45/month) with 30-day money-back guarantee.
Our take:
Shotgrid goes a step beyond standard features, offering a full production management software. A product built for the big players in the video production industry.
MarkUp
Markup (formerly Oroson) accepts videos, PDFs, images, and more files. Once you upload the file to the web, the system renders the file and shows a link for sharing with your customers or collaborators. They don't even need an account, but they can stick comments in any specific file for more accurate feedback.
Video and audio files can receive comments on specific timestamps. This platform is visually appealing with a clean design.
You can revert sharing anytime and make the link private in case you missed something.
At this time, they only offer integration with Loom videos.
Markup pricing:
- Free Plan: 1 workspace, 20 markups and 10 GB storage.
- Pro Plan: $49/month for unlimited users, 1 workspace, unlimited markups, 500 GB storage, share links. 14-days free-trial available.
- Enterprise Plan available.
Our take:
A complete system that supports not only videos but 30+ file types and with emphasis on visual feedback. If you work with several file types, this might be an option to consider.
zipBoard
zipBoard is a review and collaboration software that enables creative teams cut down 50% time on video reviews and approvals by using 5+ visual review and annotation tools to give and receive time-stamped feedback all from one place - right in their browser (no extensions or app installations required).
This collaborative cloud-based platform features several annotation tools, time-stamped feedback, unlimited collaborators and reviewers, Kanban and spreadsheet views to manage and prioritize tasks, autogenerated reports, and phases to keep projects organized. zipBoard allows for easy collaboration between internal and external stakeholders.
Besides video reviews, zipBoard supports reviews for other file types, including PDF documents, images, zip files, and URLs (websites and apps).
This platform integrates with Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Wrike. It also has APIs to allow for custom integrations.
Check how zipBoard works in this video:
zipBoard pricing:
- Free Plan: a 15-day free trial with 1 project free forever.
- Team Plan: Starts at $99/month; offering up to 20 content uploads with unlimited collaborators, reviewers, and projects.
- Agency Plan: Starts at $199/month; offering everything in the Team plan with up to 100 content uploads, project reports, and integrations.
- Enterprise Plan: Available upon request. Kindly check the pricing page for more information and inquiries.
Our take:
Simple and straightforward tool to collect feedback and reviews from videos, documents and more. Its useful Chrome extension makes the review process even quicker.
GoVisually
GoVisually is a solid platform that promises "blazing fast video review without chaos."
A three-step process is all you need to get a video reviewed in record time; upload the file to the platform, review and approve and then deliver the final assets.
Reviewers you sent the sharing link can use this video commenting tool to leave comments without needing account creation, an exciting feature to reduce friction and increase feedback.
This platform supports MP4, MOV, PSD, PDF, PNG, GIF, and JPG files.
GoVisually integrates with ClickUp, Trello, Airtable, Asana, and Zapier. Based on our experience, we guess that integrating GoVisually with ClickUp can craft a perfect match.
An iOS mobile app is available for review on the go.
GoVisually pricing:
- Solo Plan: $9/month for one user, 5 active projects.
- Lite Plan: $49/month (billed annually) for 3 users, 50 projects, unlimited reviewers, smart compare revisions and email support.
- Pro Plan: $99/month (billed annually) for up to 3 users, 250 projects, unlimited reviewers, smart compare, due dates and deadlines, branding, Adobe extension and Zapier integration.
Free 7-day trial available.
Our take:
With many good reviews, this is a strong player in the video review business with excellent customer support. Furthermore, the only software in its class with Zapier integration. Give it a try.
Wipster
With Wipster, you can access media and reviews from any device. You send collaborators a private or public URL so they can add their feedback. Feedback turns into tasks that can be checked and completed. It is easy to track review progress through feedback cycles, approvals, and delivery.
This platform integrates with PremierePro, After Effects, Slack, Box, Vimeo, and other platforms you might be using.
Wipster pricing:
- Free Plan: 5 GB storage, 480p playback.
- Team Plan: $19.95/month/user with 250 GB storage, variable playback speed, branding.
- Multi-Team Plan: $39.95/month/user with 500 GB storage, variable playback speed, branding and 10 seats minimum.
Check Wipster in action in this video:
Our take:
Very limited free plan. Pricing plans are focused on mid-sized and big companies that need to share and review videos at scale.
Ziflow
Ziflow is a cloud-based option that streamlines video reviews and collaboration at every process step. It helps to centralize comments and markups directly on your video, avoiding thus email chains. The platform is easy to use and supports reviewing video files, websites, and document files.
The software offers unique integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. This helpful feature allows you to get feedback without leaving the apps. Dropbox, Monday, Slack, Trello, and many more integrations are available.
Regarding security, this software is SOC2 certified, a member of the Privacy Shield Framework, and GDPR compliant.
Ziflow pricing:
- Personal Plan: Free for unlimited reviewers, version management, compare versions, Adobe and Final Cut extensions.
- Starter Plan: $20/user/month adds unread comments, basic branding.
- Business Plan: $40/user/month adds advanced branding, advanced commenting, intake forms.
Our take:
The ability to set up automated workflows and the variety of file types supported set this platform apart. If you need to review large quantities of files, Ziflow could be the way to go.
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