Turn your data into animated charts and infographics
Connect your data to After Effects templates and automate charts, graphs, counters and infographics. Build the animation once, then generate new versions with Plainly whenever you have new data.
Collaborating with Plainly was a seamless experience. Their team was committed and proficient, allowing us to achieve our campaign goals and create great experiences for our supporters.
Toma Delafosse, Head of Performance @ UNICEF
How data-driven animation works
Build your animation template
Create your charts and graphics in After Effects, connect their values to editable controls, and upload the prepared template to Plainly.
Connect your data
Upload the numbers, labels and other content that should change. Match your data to the inputs you created in the template.
Generate your animated visuals
Plainly renders each version in the cloud, using your data to update the animation. Download the results or send them to your connected tools.
Control what changes
Elements marked as dynamic change, everything else stays exactly as it was designed.
Choose how your data reaches the animation
Upload a CSV, connect a data source, collect inputs through a form or use Plainly’s API to supply the values for each animation.
Turn spreadsheet data into finished videos
Map columns to your template's layers and get a video for every row of data.
Turn form submissions into videos
Clients, customers, or team members submit the content, and each response generates a finished video automatically.
Trigger video creation from other tools
Connect Airtable, Google Sheets, HeyGen, and more to generate videos automatically.
Generate videos programmatically
Send data through the REST API and generate video variations directly from your product or backend.
More ways teams use Plainly
Automated video versioning
Swap names, prices and images across hundreds of videos while your team stays focused on the creative work.
Video localization
Batch localize your videos, adapting text, assets, and audio to suit different languages and cultures.
Sports videos
Capture the excitement, and create videos for match lineups, game updates, recaps, and exciting moments as they happen!
News videos
Automate video creation using structured data such as RSS feeds, article metadata, and more.
Digital signage
Automate your digital signage video creation to deliver up-to-date, relevant content across multiple displays at all times.
Broadcast content
Dynamically create lower thirds and other on-screen graphics for your broadcast content in no time.
Dynamic video ads
Automatically swap out elements of your ads and create thousands of variations for TV or social media.
Personalized videos
Engage with your customers with videos personalized specifically for them.
Video editing API
Integrate Plainly into your app, or create custom video automation workflows with a powerful rest API.
What others say about Plainly
We have a great experience working with the team and Plainly. They weren’t shy to break the mold and go the extra mile. Personalization in today’s saturated digital landscape is paramount to cut through the noise and stick out; Plainly offers a great platform, product, and solution for this.
CMO, Y11 Sport & Media Holdings
Working with Plainly was great, their API is robust but simple to set up. After setting up the workflow, we literally forgot about it. The integration with After Effects allowed my team to work with tools they are familiar with and create high-quality video templates.
CTO, Tapni
Plainly allows you to produce large amounts of video content very quickly. A great advantage is that your content can be still very individual and on-brand due to the ability of using Templates made in Adobe After Effects. Its interface is quite intuitive and the software gets new interesting features often.
Motion Designer, Freelance
Create your next batch of animated infographics with Plainly
