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The best AI tools for making training videos in 2026

There is no best tool in the abstract, only the best tool for the video you want to make. This guide compares eight tools on the same criteria, from their official pages as checked on 5 October 2026.

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Before you read. This guide is published by EducPilot, which is on the list. We say so, we applied the same criteria to every tool, and each one is presented with what it does best, including where that beats us.

The short answer

If you want…Pick
An avatar presenter and many languagesSynthesia
Avatars, role-plays and SCORM for the LMSColossyan
A realistic avatar, your cloned voice, dubbingHeyGen
To animate characters yourselfVyond
To start from animated templates in an all-in-one editorPowtoon
To compose a whiteboard image by imageVideoScribe
A quick video summary of your own notesGemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
A drawn video made from your documents, sourced and corrected by your expertsEducPilot

The criteria

  1. What you see: an avatar, an animation, a drawing.
  2. The starting point: a script, a document, a web page.
  3. Review: who can correct, and how.
  4. Output: formats, languages, LMS.
  5. Entry price from the official page, and the free trial.

EducPilot: best for turning a document into a drawn video your experts correct

EducPilot, a French AI training video software, reads your PDFs, web pages or text, proposes a plan, then produces a drawn, narrated video where every sentence cites its page. Experts annotate the frame from a link, without an account; only the annotated scene is rewritten.

  • Strengths: cited sources, review by annotation, six art directions, 16:9 and 9:16, hosting in Germany.
  • Limits: no avatar, no SCORM, three languages (English, French, Chinese), PowerPoint and Word to export as PDF.
  • Price: 5 free minutes; Essentiel €20 incl. VAT per month for 30 minutes, Pro €82.80 for 130 minutes, Business €214.80 for 400 minutes.

Synthesia: best for a presenter on screen, in many languages

  • Strengths: avatars (yours included), 160+ languages and voices, AI Video Assistant from PDFs, decks or web pages, interactive videos, SCORM on Enterprise.
  • Limits: the free plan cannot download; 10 minutes a month on Starter.
  • Price: Starter $29 per month ($18 billed yearly), Creator $89 ($64 billed yearly).

Colossyan: best for e-learning with avatars

  • Strengths: several avatars per scene, SCORM export, interactive videos, translations, input from Word, PowerPoint or PDF, EU hosting available on Enterprise.
  • Limits: SCORM capped at 5 exports a month on Professional.
  • Price: free plan; Professional $59 per month billed yearly.

HeyGen: best for realism and localisation

  • Strengths: realistic avatars, voice cloning, 175+ languages and dialects, videos up to 30 minutes, 4K on Pro.
  • Limits: a general-purpose tool, built first for marketing.
  • Price: 3 free videos a month; Creator $29 per month.

Vyond: best for animating characters yourself

  • Strengths: animation studio, 650+ voices, avatars, screen and webcam recording, document or web address to video.
  • Limits: takes editing time; billed per user.
  • Price: Starter $58 per month billed yearly ($99 monthly).

Powtoon: best for starting from animated templates

  • Strengths: templates and characters, built-in AI tools (avatars, voices, dubbing), resale rights on Advanced.
  • Limits: 5 watermark-free exports a month on Lite.
  • Price: free plan; Lite $15 per month billed yearly.

VideoScribe: best for a hand-built whiteboard

  • Strengths: image-by-image control, large media library, browser or desktop app.
  • Limits: the video is built by hand; downloads capped by plan.
  • Price: 7-day trial; Lite $12.50 per month billed yearly.

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM): best for a video summary of your notes

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook in July 2026. Its “Video Overviews” turn a notebook’s documents into a narrated video in one of six visual styles, whiteboard included, as a detailed explainer or a brief; a “cinematic” version is reserved for Google AI Ultra subscribers, in English.

  • Strengths: very fast, built into the tool where your sources already live.
  • Limits: designed for learning on your own; Google does not present scene-by-scene correction or a brand kit.
  • Price: access within your Google account’s usage limits, refreshed every five hours since September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Which AI training video tool is free?

None is fully free for regular professional use, but all can be tried: free plans (Synthesia, Colossyan, HeyGen, Powtoon), a 7-day trial (VideoScribe), 5 free minutes (EducPilot), a Google account’s usage limits (Gemini Notebook).

Which tool makes AI whiteboard videos?

EducPilot generates the drawn video from your documents; VideoScribe lets you compose it by hand; Gemini Notebook offers a whiteboard style for its video summaries.

Which tools export SCORM?

Colossyan (from Professional) and Synthesia (Enterprise). EducPilot exports MP4.

Sources

Official pages checked on 5 October 2026: pricing of Synthesia, Colossyan, HeyGen, Vyond, Powtoon, VideoScribe and EducPilot; Google, Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM’s new name since July 2026), Video Overviews and Nano Banana (13 October 2025), Cinematic Video Overviews (4 March 2026), Gemini Notebook usage limits (28 August 2026).

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