RunwayML

35 of 100 · reviews
4.5of 5 · store
11,532ratings on the App Store
296reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A professional video generation tool with genuinely high-quality output, but catastrophically expensive for regular users: a $15 subscription runs out after two short clips.

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What people use it for

Professionals with a budget who need quality over quantity. Not for high-volume content creation.

What reviews praise

When the prompt works, animation quality is above average.
Understands basic instructions quickly.

What reviews complain about

$15 = 2 clips of 5 seconds each.
Prompts ignored: background motion not added, descriptions violated.
Credits charged even for failed generations.
Text in video is unreadable.
Gen 3 removed without notice.

What users experience

2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

this app promises me free generations after it messes up my prompts twice, and then charges me AGAIN. it's done this 3 times and i've wasted 1200 ($12 in credits) trying to get it to make one video even semi-properly.

I paid 15$ for subscription to make a short video, I wrote a script for the video, it made this video from 7 slides for 5 sec each slide, the text that I put in the script the program messed it up and made it unreadable, after all 7 slides was ready I had no more credits to do anything else.