Comparison
Best faceless video tools: Pictory and invideo for videos from a script, Revid and Crayo for TikTok shorts
Pictory and invideo turn a script into a video with stock clips and an AI voice, and Revid and Crayo make faceless TikTok and YouTube shorts. HeyGen and Synthesia make AI presenters, Runway makes AI clips, and Cutroom edits videos of your hands and product.
In short
- The best faceless video tools are Pictory and invideo for videos from a script, and Revid and Crayo for faceless TikTok and YouTube shorts.
- Pictory, invideo, Revid and Crayo add an AI voice for you. None of the four has a free plan, but Pictory has a free trial.
- HeyGen and Synthesia make AI presenter videos, and Runway makes AI clips from a photo or a prompt. HeyGen and Runway have free plans.
- invideo AI Basic is the cheapest paid plan here, at $9 a month billed yearly.
- Cutroom edits a video of your hands and product, with your own voice, into a 9:16 ad. Your first video is free.
- invideo AI Basic per month, billed yearly, the cheapest paid plan here
- $9
- Of AI video a month on Runway Standard, at $12 a month billed yearly
- 52 s
- Cutroom Lite per month, about 10 finished videos
- $19.99
The best faceless video tools at a glance
Here is what each tool makes, what it costs and who it suits. Prices come from each company's own site.
Eight faceless video tools, side by side
Prices as published on each company's own site on the day shown. Plans change, so check before you pay.
| Tool | Best for | Editing approach | Platform | Pricing from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pictory | Turning articles and scripts into stock-clip videos | Script, article or link to video with stock clips and AI voices | Web | Free trial; Starter $25/month, billed yearly ($29 monthly) |
 invideo AI | Whole videos from a text prompt, with stock clips and AI voices | Prompt or script to video, then you fix it in an editor | Web, iOS, Android | No free plan listed; Basic $9/month, billed yearly |
 Revid | Faceless shorts made and posted for you | Text or a link becomes a short with AI visuals, a voice-over and captions | Web | No free plan; from $39/month |
 Crayo | Reddit story and text-message shorts from ready-made formats | Pick a faceless format, add a script, get a short with an AI voice and subtitles | Web | No free plan; Hobby $13/month, billed yearly ($160 a year) |
 HeyGen | Presenter videos from a script in 175+ languages | Script to avatar video, with a text-based editor | Web, mobile app, API | Free plan; Creator $24/month, billed yearly ($29 monthly) |
 Synthesia | Training and company videos with avatars | Script to avatar video from templates | Web, API | Free plan, but no downloads; Starter $18/month, billed yearly ($29 monthly) |
 Runway | AI-generated clips from photos and prompts | Makes new video from a photo or a written prompt | Web | Free plan (125 one-time credits); Standard $12/month, billed yearly ($15 monthly) |
| Cutroom | Turning a narrated product demo into a 9:16 ad | Upload one clip with your voice, and Cutroom adds cuts, captions, b-roll and an opening headline | Web | First video free; Lite $19.99/month |
- Pictory
- Best for
- Turning articles and scripts into stock-clip videos
- Approach
- Script, article or link to video with stock clips and AI voices
- Platform
- Web
- Pricing from
- Free trial; Starter $25/month, billed yearly ($29 monthly)
- invideo AI
- Best for
- Whole videos from a text prompt, with stock clips and AI voices
- Approach
- Prompt or script to video, then you fix it in an editor
- Platform
- Web, iOS, Android
- Pricing from
- No free plan listed; Basic $9/month, billed yearly
- Revid
- Best for
- Faceless shorts made and posted for you
- Approach
- Text or a link becomes a short with AI visuals, a voice-over and captions
- Platform
- Web
- Pricing from
- No free plan; from $39/month
- Crayo
- Best for
- Reddit story and text-message shorts from ready-made formats
- Approach
- Pick a faceless format, add a script, get a short with an AI voice and subtitles
- Platform
- Web
- Pricing from
- No free plan; Hobby $13/month, billed yearly ($160 a year)
- HeyGen
- Best for
- Presenter videos from a script in 175+ languages
- Approach
- Script to avatar video, with a text-based editor
- Platform
- Web, mobile app, API
- Pricing from
- Free plan; Creator $24/month, billed yearly ($29 monthly)
- Synthesia
- Best for
- Training and company videos with avatars
- Approach
- Script to avatar video from templates
- Platform
- Web, API
- Pricing from
- Free plan, but no downloads; Starter $18/month, billed yearly ($29 monthly)
- Runway
- Best for
- AI-generated clips from photos and prompts
- Approach
- Makes new video from a photo or a written prompt
- Platform
- Web
- Pricing from
- Free plan (125 one-time credits); Standard $12/month, billed yearly ($15 monthly)
Cutroom
- Best for
- Turning a narrated product demo into a 9:16 ad
- Approach
- Upload one clip with your voice, and Cutroom adds cuts, captions, b-roll and an opening headline
- Platform
- Web
- Pricing from
- First video free; Lite $19.99/month
Prices and plans read from each vendor's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
Four ways to make a faceless video
There are four common ways to make a video without showing your face. Three use an AI voice, and the fourth uses your own.
Four ways to make a faceless video
| Way | Tools | The voice | Good for | Tradeoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock clips or AI images | Pictory, invideo, Revid, Crayo | An AI voice, added by the tool | Faceless channels, facts, lists and explainers | Stock clips cannot show your product |
| An AI presenter | HeyGen, Synthesia | The presenter's AI voice | Teaching, training, many languages | Personal stories are less believable |
| AI-generated clips | Runway | Runway's AI voices, on the same credits | Mood clips and scenes you cannot film | Hard to keep a real product looking right |
| Your hands and product | Cutroom | Your own voice, recorded while you film | Ads and product demos | You still have to film it |
Way: Stock clips or AI images
- Tools
- Pictory, invideo, Revid, Crayo
- The voice
- An AI voice, added by the tool
- Good for
- Faceless channels, facts, lists and explainers
- Tradeoff
- Stock clips cannot show your product
Way: An AI presenter
- Tools
- HeyGen, Synthesia
- The voice
- The presenter's AI voice
- Good for
- Teaching, training, many languages
- Tradeoff
- Personal stories are less believable
Way: AI-generated clips
- Tools
- Runway
- The voice
- Runway's AI voices, on the same credits
- Good for
- Mood clips and scenes you cannot film
- Tradeoff
- Hard to keep a real product looking right
Way: Your hands and product
- Tools
- Cutroom
- The voice
- Your own voice, recorded while you film
- Good for
- Ads and product demos
- Tradeoff
- You still have to film it
This is the whole editor
Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on those exact words. No timeline, no keyframes, no layers.
Faceless video tool pricing
HeyGen and Runway have free plans, and Pictory has a free trial. Synthesia's free plan lets you make videos but not download them. invideo, Revid and Crayo list no free plan.
- invideo AI has the cheapest paid plan here, at $9 a month billed yearly. Crayo Hobby is $13 a month billed yearly.
- Pictory Starter is $25 a month billed yearly and includes 200 video minutes a month.
- Revid costs $39 a month. Growth is discounted from $99 to $39 right now, the same price as Hobby, and it also posts your shorts to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, so Growth is the better buy.
- Runway charges for every second of video it makes. On Standard, $12 a month billed yearly buys about 52 seconds of AI video a month, by Runway's own count.
- HeyGen Creator is $24 a month and Synthesia Starter is $18 a month, both billed yearly.
- On Cutroom, your first video is free. Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits, which covers 10 videos, and a 30-second video uses 110 credits.
Faceless video tool plans
As each company published them on 21 September 2026. Plans change, so check before you pay.
| Tool | Free plan | First paid plan | Next plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pictory | Free trial | Starter $25/month yearly ($29 monthly), 200 video minutes | Professional $35/month yearly ($59 monthly) |
| invideo AI | No free plan listed | Basic $9/month yearly | Pro $25/month yearly ($30 monthly) |
| Revid | No free plan | Hobby $39/month | Growth, also $39/month right now (discounted from $99), adds posting to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube |
| Crayo | No free plan | Hobby $13/month yearly ($160 a year) | Clipper $27/month yearly ($327 a year) |
| HeyGen | Yes, 3 videos a month, watermark | Creator $24/month yearly ($29 monthly) | Pro $49/month |
| Synthesia | Yes, 10 minutes a month, but you cannot download the videos | Starter $18/month yearly ($29 monthly) | Creator $64/month yearly ($89 monthly) |
| Runway | Yes, 125 one-time credits | Standard $12/month yearly ($15 monthly), about 52 seconds of video | Pro $28/month yearly ($35 monthly), about 3 minutes of video |
| Cutroom | First video free, with a Cutroom mark | Lite $19.99/month, 1,250 credits (10 videos) | Basic $39.99/month, 2,500 credits (20 videos) |
Tool: Pictory
- Free plan
- Free trial
- First paid plan
- Starter $25/month yearly ($29 monthly), 200 video minutes
- Next plan
- Professional $35/month yearly ($59 monthly)
Tool: invideo AI
- Free plan
- No free plan listed
- First paid plan
- Basic $9/month yearly
- Next plan
- Pro $25/month yearly ($30 monthly)
Tool: Revid
- Free plan
- No free plan
- First paid plan
- Hobby $39/month
- Next plan
- Growth, also $39/month right now (discounted from $99), adds posting to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
Tool: Crayo
- Free plan
- No free plan
- First paid plan
- Hobby $13/month yearly ($160 a year)
- Next plan
- Clipper $27/month yearly ($327 a year)
Tool: HeyGen
- Free plan
- Yes, 3 videos a month, watermark
- First paid plan
- Creator $24/month yearly ($29 monthly)
- Next plan
- Pro $49/month
Tool: Synthesia
- Free plan
- Yes, 10 minutes a month, but you cannot download the videos
- First paid plan
- Starter $18/month yearly ($29 monthly)
- Next plan
- Creator $64/month yearly ($89 monthly)
Tool: Runway
- Free plan
- Yes, 125 one-time credits
- First paid plan
- Standard $12/month yearly ($15 monthly), about 52 seconds of video
- Next plan
- Pro $28/month yearly ($35 monthly), about 3 minutes of video
Tool: Cutroom
- Free plan
- First video free, with a Cutroom mark
- First paid plan
- Lite $19.99/month, 1,250 credits (10 videos)
- Next plan
- Basic $39.99/month, 2,500 credits (20 videos)
Which faceless video tool should you choose?
It comes down to the kind of video you need.
Which faceless video tool to choose
Choose Pictory or invideo if you publish information videos often, from a script or an article.
Choose Revid if you run a faceless TikTok or YouTube Shorts channel and want shorts made and posted for you.
Choose Crayo if you want Reddit story or text-message shorts made from a ready-made format.
Choose HeyGen if you need an explainer with a presenter, in several languages.
Choose Synthesia if you are building a library of training videos.
Choose Runway if you want AI-made clips of scenes you cannot film yourself, like a mood or a setting.
Choose Cutroom if you sell a product and want ads that show your hands using it, with your voice. Your first video is free.
Where Cutroom fits
Cutroom does not make stock-clip videos from a script. It edits a video you filmed, like your hands using the product while you talk.
- You film your hands and the product close up on your phone while you talk, then upload the clip, up to 3 minutes long.
- Cutroom cuts it, adds captions timed to your voice, places b-roll on your words and adds an opening headline.
- Stock clips cover at most 52% of the video, so your product is on screen about half the time or more.
- On Basic you can make a music track in the Music tab and play it under your voice.
- Your first video is free, with no card, and you have 7 days to make it. It carries a Cutroom mark, and Lite at $19.99 a month removes it.
What things cost on Cutroom
Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits, and Basic is $39.99 a month for 2,500. Music and the AI presenter start on Basic.
| What you make | Price |
|---|---|
| A 30-second video | 110 credits. Lite at $19.99 a month covers 10 |
| A music track up to 60 seconds | 50 credits on Basic, about 80 cents |
| AI presenter from a photo, with an AI voice if you want one | 350 credits a minute, plus 70 a minute for the AI voice, on Basic |
What you make: A 30-second video
- Price
- 110 credits. Lite at $19.99 a month covers 10
What you make: A music track up to 60 seconds
- Price
- 50 credits on Basic, about 80 cents
What you make: AI presenter from a photo, with an AI voice if you want one
- Price
- 350 credits a minute, plus 70 a minute for the AI voice, on Basic
Questions people ask
- What is the best faceless video tool?
- Pictory and invideo are best for stock-clip videos with an AI voice, and Revid and Crayo for faceless TikTok and YouTube shorts. HeyGen and Synthesia are best for an AI presenter, Runway for AI-generated clips, and Cutroom for product ads in your own voice.
- Does invideo AI have a free plan?
- Not on its pricing page. invideo AI lists paid plans only, starting with Basic at $9 a month billed yearly.
- Which faceless videos work best in ads?
- Videos of your hands using the product, with your voice over them. They show the real product in use, which stock clips cannot. Stock clips with a voice-over suit information videos better than ads.
- Can I build a brand without showing my face?
- Yes. Faceless TikTok and YouTube channels are built with tools like Revid and Crayo. A product brand can show its hands using the product instead of a face, and that is the kind of video Cutroom edits.
- Is an AI voice-over good enough?
- For explainers and list videos, yes. For a personal story or a product review, a real voice is more believable. Pictory, invideo, Revid and Crayo all add AI voices. In Cutroom your clip needs your own voice, unless you use the AI presenter.
- What does a faceless video cost on Cutroom?
- Your first video is free. After that, Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits, which covers 10 videos, and a 30-second video uses 110 credits.
- When is Cutroom the wrong tool?
- When you have nothing filmed. Stock-clip videos belong in Pictory or invideo, faceless shorts in Revid or Crayo, presenter videos in HeyGen or Synthesia, and AI-generated clips in Runway. Cutroom edits a clip with your voice in it.
Film your hands and product, talk while you use it, and upload the clip. Your first video is free.
Try for freeYour first video is free, no card, and you have 7 days to make it. It carries a Cutroom mark; Lite at $19.99/month removes it