Best AI tools for making videos from text

Synthesia turns a script into a video presented by a realistic AI avatar, in many languages. It is widely used for training, onboarding and explainer videos, where filming a real presenter every time would be slow and costly, and videos can be updated by editing the text.

Best for: training and onboarding videos, explainer videos in several languages, updating a video without reshooting.

Worth knowing: The free plan is limited to a few minutes a month and adds a watermark; downloads need a paid plan.

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Pictory makes videos from text. You paste a script or a blog post and it builds scenes with matching stock footage, captions and an AI voiceover, which you then adjust in its editor. It is popular for faceless videos and for repurposing written content.

Best for: turning blog posts into videos, faceless videos with stock footage, adding captions and voiceover quickly.

Worth knowing: There is a free trial but no free plan, and stock-footage videos can look generic unless you swap scenes by hand.

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Runway is a set of AI video tools. You can generate short clips from text or an image, and use AI editing tools on your own footage.

Best for: short generated video clips, b-roll and visual experiments, aI-assisted editing effects.

Worth knowing: Generation uses credits, so heavy use needs a paid plan.

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