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KimChiKimChiPLUS
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Posted: May 19, 2025

All future plan updates? Is blatantly not true

Please appsumo, you should enforce your deals.

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Edited May 14, 2025

"All future plan updates"… meaningless AppSumo marketing lingo.

The ol' bait and switch trick. "All future plan updates" means nothing! The "Premium Plan" is gone and I've no idea what plan my LTD is now mapped to. Customer support? Not existing, simply ignores the question. The much needed updates to this promising platform introduced better voice overs and other features that now required a monthly paid upgrade! Not best business practice. Really disappointned. Again.

WHY DOES APPSUMO NOT ENFORCE THEIR "ALL FUTURE PLAN UPDATES" CLAIM???

Here's the reply from Pictory.ai on that matter, a canned response:
"Thank you for reaching out! We understand your concern regarding the mapping of your AppSumo lifetime deal for the "Premium Plan" and the updates associated with it.

Currently, Pictory offers three plans: Starter, Professional, and Enterprise. Since the "Premium Plan" is no longer listed, your account should be mapped to the plan that aligns most closely with the features of the original "Premium Plan" you purchased. However, specific details about how your lifetime deal is mapped to the current plans or features would depend on the terms of your AppSumo deal and the updates provided by Pictory.

Regarding the new features like voice-over capabilities, these are included in the Professional Plan and Enterprise Plan. If you are being prompted to upgrade for these features, it may indicate that they are not part of the mapped plan for your lifetime deal.

To clarify your account's current mapping and access to features, we recommend reviewing the details of your AppSumo deal and comparing it with the features of the current plans."

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Posted: Apr 17, 2025

Best lifetime i ever got on appsumo

Reviewing this because i just started using it years later, one of the great products that devs actually supported the lifetime buyers. Love this software. Great work devs.

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Posted: Oct 26, 2023

After pictory disappointment i might stop buying deals from appsumo

why do we buy the new deals from appsumo, why? because we see potential and we hope in future when product becomes a hit and they launch new features then we would be able to use those new professional images. we make that investment by hoping if that becomes a hit we will get the upgrades and save money.
i am extremely disappointed with pictory for this reason.
now recently that have made much needed upgrades in their platform by introducing realistic ai voices and getty images upgrade to platform.
but i can confirm that all those upgrades are available to any monthly paying subscribers for even the starter packages but the appsumo users for even top tier purchases are not able to use those upgrades. so what we are getting is still the 2-3 year old pictory. whats the point of buying these deals from appsumo if we are not going to get the future upgrades even when the seller has clearly mentioned in this listing.
where is appsumo support on this? what you are guys going to do about it. you advertised this on your platform. dont you have any control on such sellers who literally abuse your platform and your customers. really dissappointed.

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Posted: May 23, 2023

OMG ... I've made so many videos, so fast.

Pictory is so amazing. I got it, but did not use it for months. Then I tried it. Compared to InVideo, Viddoyze, and Flexclip, the workflow is just much faster.

That is, I start from an article, copy it in and BOOM - I have a video. Then I go back and preview it, changing any of the stock video segments. Most of the time, what Pictory chooses is good.

Then I chose the background music, and the voice over.

Normally I use my own voice. But the AI voices are good IF I do two things.
A) chose one of the newer voices (non-robotic).
B) edit the script so it sounds like a real human is reading. That is, no grammar errors.
Then preview and Publish!

If you need to crank out videos fast. Pictory is it.
Also, they have a lot of great training videos.

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