Comparisons
Play against the tools you already use
Seventeen comparisons, each with its own table and a section saying when the other tool is the better choice. If you are looking for a comparison that flatters us on every row, this is not the page.
By category
Play against a type of tool or supplier, rather than against one particular product.
DAM
A DAM stores and finds your footage. Play also covers the brief, the budget, the review and the production itself. Compare both models and start free.
Project trackers
A project tracker orders tasks, but knows nothing about versions, review or what a shoot costs. Compare both models and start free with Play.
Agency
An agency delivers the piece. Play delivers the piece and leaves you the system, the footage and the real cost. Compare both models and start free.
Traditional production company
A traditional production company delivers the video. Play delivers the video and leaves you the rushes, the approvals and the real cost inside your own system.
Asset management
Where the footage lives, and what happens to everything that came before it.
Air
Air organises your material and what you do with it. Play is the Air alternative that also plans, budgets and produces. Start free on the LITE plan.
Bynder
Bynder governs your brand's assets. Play is the Bynder alternative that also budgets, coordinates talent and produces. Start free, with no quote needed.
Brandfolder
Brandfolder archives your assets and measures their use. Play is the Brandfolder alternative that also plans, budgets and produces. Start free on LITE.
Notion
Notion is good for documenting production, not for running it. Play is the Notion alternative with versions, heavy media and real cost. Start free.
Video review
Tools that cover the approval stage, once there is a cut to approve.
Frame.io
Play is the Frame.io alternative that does more than review video: it plans, budgets, coordinates talent and produces in one flow. Start free with LITE.
Wipster
Wipster reviews and approves video. Play is the Wipster alternative that also plans, budgets and produces, without paying per user. Start free.
Ziflow
Ziflow approves creative work in any format. Play is the Ziflow alternative specialised in video, with budgets and production. Start free.
Project management
General-purpose trackers that fit any kind of work, and for that reason understand none of it.
Monday.com
Monday.com charges per seat and requires a minimum of 10. Play is the Monday.com alternative priced per workspace, with video review and real cost. Try it.
Asana
Asana manages your company's work. Play is the Asana alternative specialised in video: versions, heavy media and real cost. Start free.
ClickUp
ClickUp has proofing, but no video versions and no shoot costs. Play is the ClickUp alternative specialised in production. Start free.
Production services
Someone who shoots for you, with or without a platform that stays behind afterwards.
Superside
Superside asks for 15,000 $ a month on an annual contract. Play is the Superside alternative that starts free and quotes production per project.
Lemonlight
Lemonlight produces the video and delivers it. Play is the Lemonlight alternative that also leaves you the system, the rushes and the real cost. Start free.
90 Seconds
90 Seconds is a global creator marketplace. Play is the alternative with a vetted network and a platform that manages all your production. Start free.