Syllaby covers the whole social media routine: it suggests topics, writes scripts, makes faceless and avatar videos, and posts them to your accounts. Animatic focuses on one job: turning a voiceover, a script or an idea into a narrated video you can direct scene by scene.
Updated . Syllaby details checked against its own website in September 2026.
Built for narrated video, up to 3 hours on Ultra.
It depends on how much of the social media routine you want one tool to handle.
What each is for, what you get out of it, and how you work with it.
| Feature | Animatic | Syllaby |
|---|---|---|
| What it's for | Producing narrated videos, from short explainers to full-length documentaries | Social content for businesses and creators: topic ideas, scripts, faceless and avatar videos, scheduling and analytics |
| Where the visuals come from | A picture generated for every scene in your Visual Style, with camera movement and transitions; any scene can become generated video | AI images or clips from a choice of video models, in an art style you pick, plus stock audio and video |
| Presenters | None: Animatic makes faceless video | AI avatars, including Real Clone avatars |
| What you start from | Your recorded voiceover, a script read by one of 6 AI voices, or an idea drafted into a script you edit first | A topic, or a script you write or have it generate; its feature list also includes audio-to-video and URL-to-video |
| Voices | 6 AI voices in English and Latin American Spanish, or your own recording | 100+ AI voices in several languages, and voice cloning from a 30-second sample on Basic and above |
| Publishing | Export a finished video file and upload it yourself | A content calendar that schedules and publishes to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Threads and LinkedIn |
| Longest video | 3 hours on Ultra, 2 hours on Pro, 1 hour on Creator, 10 minutes on Free | Unlimited on every plan, charged by the minute |
| How usage is counted | Credits for images, AI narration and script drafts; uploading your own voiceover uses none | Credits: 13 per minute of faceless video, rounded up to the whole minute; 1 per minute of AI script; 15 per trending idea |
| Try it first | Free plan: projects up to 10 minutes and 100 credits, no card | No free trial; Starter is $9 a month for 100 credits, and refunds can be requested within 30 days of payment |
Syllaby details from its pricing page, homepage, faceless video guide and long-form video page, checked September 2026.
In Syllaby's faceless video workflow, you choose the model, art style, duration, script, voice, subtitles and music, generate the video, then refine it in its editor.
Animatic splits the job into steps you can check: the scene plan, then the visuals, then the timeline. At each step you can change one scene without touching the rest.
01:38 – 01:52At canal level: a tiny folded-paper boat drifting toward the red paper bridge.
Every city starts somewhere. This one started with a paper boat.
Much of Syllaby is about what happens around the video: finding topics, presenting and posting.
Idea discovery suggests trending topics to make videos about, at 15 credits an idea.
Presenter-led videos with AI avatars, including Real Clone avatars.
Clone a voice from a 30-second sample: 1 clone on Basic, 3 on Standard, 5 on Premium.
A content calendar and bulk scheduler that post to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Threads and LinkedIn.
A choice of video models, including Veo, Kling and Seedance, with text-to-scene clips priced per second.
Generation at up to 4K resolution, exported as MP4, MOV or WebM.
Syllaby charges for faceless video by the minute: 13 credits a minute, with part-minutes rounded up. The video counts on its plan cards are 1-minute videos at that rate. Basic's 500 monthly credits come to about 38 of them.
Longer videos use proportionally more. A 20-minute video takes 260 credits. A 60-minute video takes 780, more than the 500 credits a month on monthly Basic; Standard's 1,500 credits cover about 115 minutes.
Animatic prices each step instead. Credits pay for images, AI narration (about 3 credits per minute) and script drafts, and every step shows its cost and your balance before it runs. Your plan sets how long a project can be: 1 hour on Creator, 2 hours on Pro and 3 hours on Ultra.
Four thousand years ago, this basin held a lake the size of a small sea.
What's on screenA wide blue lake under a clear sky, cliffs along the far shore.
Rivers fed it from three sides, and people settled along its edge.
What's on screenA reed-lined river winding toward the lake, cattle grazing on the bank.
Start free with no card. Paid plans add longer projects, 1080p exports without a watermark, and commercial use.
$20per month, billed annually at $240
$49.99per month, billed annually at $590
$82.99per month, billed annually at $990
Or start for free with 100 credits and projects up to 10 minutes, no card required.
Full pricing: monthly or annual, what credits pay for, top-ups and billing
If your main job is producing narrated videos, yes. Animatic gives you a scene plan to edit, a visual generated for each scene in a saved style, and projects up to 2 hours. If you need avatars, topic research or scheduled posting, Syllaby covers those and Animatic doesn't.
Syllaby charges 13 credits per minute of faceless video and rounds part-minutes up, so a 20-minute video uses 260 credits and a 60-minute video 780. Starter includes 100 credits a month, and Basic 500 on monthly billing.
No. Animatic exports a finished video file for you to upload. Syllaby can schedule and publish to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Threads and LinkedIn from its content calendar.
In Animatic, upload a recorded voiceover with Start with Narration: it uses no credits, and the scenes follow your timing. Syllaby can clone your voice from a 30-second sample on its Basic plan and above.
Animatic has a free plan with no card, for projects up to 10 minutes. Syllaby has no free trial, but its cheapest plan is $9 a month and it accepts refund requests within 30 days of payment.
Upload a voiceover or paste a script, and check every scene before you export. No card needed.