An independent guide, with a name on it

I am Adrian Dane. I write from Shumen, in Bulgaria. I wrote The Stat Man, and I founded WhatChan. pics2vids is my notebook on the apps that turn a photograph into a video: one still set in motion, a folder cut into a slideshow, or a generator that starts from a picture you already have.

We do not host the tools, log you in, or make the film for you. A review sends you to the company’s own website. The site is written in UK English for people who have the photos already and want a straight answer about which sort of app fits the job.

How a page gets written

Prices, plan names, credit costs and platform lists are taken from the company’s public pages, and the review says the date we checked. If a figure is not on those pages, we say “check current pricing” rather than guess. Marketing lines that disagree with the pricing page are pointed out, not smoothed over.

We have not run a private laboratory test of the same photograph through every model for this first set of articles. Treat the score as a reading aid, then read the reasons under it.

What the score means

The editorial score is from 1 to 5. It is our judgement of how well the public product fits the jobs on this site: animating a still, building a video from many photos, and whether a person can understand the price before they pay. It is not an average of user reviews, and it is not a measurement of picture quality.

Money

The site is built so that some outbound links can later be affiliate links. None of the starter articles use them. When a link would pay us, the page shows a notice at the top and the link is labelled. Read the affiliate disclosure.

Corrections

If a plan, price or feature has changed, write to hello@pics2vids.co.uk with the page and a link to the public source. We would rather correct a page than leave a stale price up.