Kreatli Reviews

I came to Kreatli looking for a Frame.io alternative that could hold a whole production in one place, and for the most part it delivers. Frame-accurate comments, version stacking, deliverables with statuses, chat, and storage all in one workspace is exactly what I wanted, and for a lifetime deal the value is hard to argue with. The founder also actually responds to people, which counts for a lot with an early product.

I ran a real project through it, evaluating two videographers at the same time, and that is where I hit a few walls worth flagging:

Everyone you add as a member basically has the same control you do. They can upload, delete, edit text, edit your spaces, and change deliverables. There is no viewer or commenter role, so I can't bring a fellow producer in to quietly watch a project without handing them the keys.

Member emails are visible to everyone, and it even shows a different email than the one I used when I pitched the project. I would love to be able to hide that or choose what people see.

When you remove a member, their email still shows to others. It does not feel like a clean removal.

No way to download everything at once. One of my videographers asked for all the assets in one go and I had to package it up outside Kreatli and send a Google Drive link instead.

You can move assets between folders but not copy them, and there is no duplicate-project option. To keep my two videographers separated I had to rebuild a second project by hand, folder by folder, and re-upload everything.

None of this is a dealbreaker for the core job, and honestly a lot of it will not even matter if you are a solo editor sending a client a review link. But as a producer working with other producers and outside collaborators, permissions and privacy are the big ones for me. If they add real roles (a silent viewer especially), email privacy, a download-all, and project cloning, this goes from a great deal to a no-brainer. Rating it on where it is clearly headed.

Edit : Thanks for your answer. The workflow behind those requirements is :
- I set the status of the review link on "Review needed" then I send the review link to my client.
- my client adds some coments then he changes the status choosing between two options : "Changes required" or "Approved". Once he made his choice for the status, he can't change it anymore and can't add comments anymore until I change the status to "Review needed".
- if the new status is "Approved" (and if I allowed it in settings), the download button is displayed.

And all of this without the need for client to log in. I think that, at least for me, it's the best workflow to avoid useless messages, improve communication with the client and prevent the customer from obtaining the final rendering file without paying the full amount due. So the most important in requirements I've made is the possibility to decide when display the Download button for the client, or to not display it at all.

Review : Ok, since several months ago, I was looking an alternative to frame.io. Few days days ago, I started to seek on Appsumo but I couldn't find one. Today, I found Kreatli and it does the job very well and that's the only reason (for now at least) why I bought a tier. So just for this, I already give 5 tacos even if there are some improvments that I would love to see in the future :

- the ability for the client without an account, to see the status of a review link
- the possibility to decide when the client without an account can change the status of a review link (for example : the client can only change the status when this one is on "Review needed", and he can only change it to "Changes required" or "Approved")
- the possibility to decide when the client without an account can add some comments on the review link (for example : the client can only add some comments when the status is "Review needed")
- the possibility to decide when display the Download button for the client, or to not display it at all (for example : the client can download the file only if the status of the review link is "Approved")

By the way, I love the fact that we can compare two versions side by side. That's a function that I have never thought about, but now I know it's here, I think I'll use it everytime. And I also love the fact that once the client published his comments, he can't edit or delete them. Kreatli is definitely worth it.

The good:
frame-accurate review, version control, clean interface. And to their credit, they responded to early criticism about data ownership and rewrote their Terms. I liked that.

The friction:
guest review links are per file, not per project. If your client needs to review 12 videos, you send 12 links. That's not a workflow — that's a workaround. The only alternative is buying as many seats as I need now, or paying monthly for them later.

Also worth noting:
AppSumo lists Berlin, Germany with a German flag.The founder's name suggests Eastern Europe. Servers were in Poland, Terms now say Delaware Corporation in Newark. Three legal systems, one ten-month-old tool — that mix comes with a taste I personally don't like. Also no GDPR support.

3 tacos for now.
I'm off the fence and will refund my tier. Will keep an eye on future developments — if things streamline, I may give it a second chance.

I've been looking for a frame.io alternative and this nails it. The one thing we all need if making videos is the ability to leave notes at specific moments on the video - and this accomplishes exactly that.

There are some refinements needed still but that's a given with new platforms.

1. Platform speed: They need to get on this one right away because the speed isn't up to where it needs to be at all. As an example, when comparing videos side by side to see changes, I couldn't get them to play at the same speed no matter what I tried. One or the other would stall so they never played at the same time - lots of delays on playback.

2. Every time I refresh it logs me out and I have to log back in. That's a difficult workflow for sure.

I've only played with it for an hour or so but these issues were noticeable right away.

Other than that, it's doing exactly what I need and I hope they get enough traction to stay in business. Definitely worth the investment - especially if they improve the site speed and login issues.

Updated: As I've gotten to use the app more, I'm surprised by how fluid it is and how functional it is for my workflows, as well as how responsive the developer has been with my inquiries and/or feedback. To me, that's a really good sign, and I'm really excited for the future of this app.

I strongly advise anyone who has a video workflow or media workflow, for that matter, who wants to move past the terrible back and forth on different platforms and really centralize everything in one spot. This is by far the best Frame.io alternative you can get. The fact that it's on LTD is a really awesome opportunity.

Earlier review below:

This is an early review for me, but since no one else is reviewing it, I thought it would be appropriate to leave a review based off my initial experience.

So far, sitting with the videos was very seamless and easy. Inviting some freelancers into the workspace worked great, and they picked it up really quickly, which is great. That's gonna make the back and forth with video editing or deliverables much easier for me.

I left some questions in the question area, so I'll definitely revisit that on AppSumo. Videos load really quickly; the annotation is good. I think I could definitely use some keyboard shortcuts, though. Maybe I didn't find it—maybe not—but at least a button to show where the shortcuts are, or if you hover your mouse over it, would be very handy. One thing that I'm not quite certain on is the distinction between the personal and the team's plan, and what updates will accompany that, since that isn't really clear in the copy. For me, I just picked up the tier 2 to start with, but I'll evaluate that over the next 60 days. If you're like me and you looked at the solo plan versus the team plan, you're probably wondering why, if you played with add-on credits, you could get 1TB and 10 people on a team for nearly $100 less than just even starting on the team plan with 10 users and 250 terabytes. I'm not really certain why that is, but for that reason, I started with the team plan. So there's some stuff I'm not totally clear on, but it really does deliver on exactly what it needs to, frame by frame. And the app is clean. Instead of views, I'm really hoping for REST API, MCP-type functionalities because I really want this to talk to all my other apps, especially considering the agentic AI.

One use case for that is, for my AI-audited videos, if it ended up here once it's delivered, so that the editor or myself can manually review it and pass it or not. And so if the API point could create stages or tasks, and how that's done, that'd be great. Another thing I wanted is, when I'm doing bulk production, I'm not completely clear on whether the projects can be used for a ton of videos of the same type or template, or are projects really one-to-one for video? So that's also something I'm still not totally clear on. I know you can have multiple deliverables and such. But yeah, I thought I would mention that.

So overall, if you do any video for your business and you're like me and you've had to do a lot of back and forth and feedback loops, then you should at the very least get the solo plan today and give it a shot yourself. I mean, all these features I asked are super nice to have and I'm going to make sure I use this for years to come, but if you have an immediate use case, this is a no-brainer as much as I've used