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 hands-on tested these tools for the articles on this site. A page is researched from the company’s public pages. Where a third-party rating is shown, it is copied from the linked store or review site on the date in the sentence.

Ratings

pics2vids does not publish its own score. A rating on a tool page, when there is one, is a dated summary of someone else’s figure, with a link to the source. It is not our judgement of picture quality, and it is not marked up as a review rating for search engines.

Money

Some tool pages contain clearly labelled affiliate links. Today that is Synthesia. More may be added as programmes approve. If you buy through one, we may earn a commission. It does not cost you extra, and it does not change what we write. 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 [email protected] with the page and a link to the public source. We would rather correct a page than leave a stale price up.