Lumen5 turns text into slideshow-style social videos with stock and brand kits. ViralTales builds illustrated story scenes for your narration — with you on screen if you want.
Start Creating Free See How It WorksLumen5 is a drag-and-drop tool that converts text into short social videos, pairing your words with stock clips and on-brand text overlays. It's quick for LinkedIn and Instagram posts, but the result is essentially an animated slideshow of stock plus captions.
ViralTales is for when the slideshow isn't enough — when you want the visuals to tell the story. It generates an illustrated scene per beat and can keep your real footage on screen, which a text-over-stock tool can't do.
Lumen5 is fast for turning a post into a captioned social clip, and the brand kit keeps visuals consistent for marketing teams.
Text-over-stock looks like a slideshow, not a story, and it's faceless by design. For narrative content, the format caps how engaging the video can be.
Instead of captions over stock, ViralTales illustrates each beat of your narration and can place your real talking-head footage beside it — a story, not a slideshow.
Paste a script or upload a clip — both produce illustrated stories.
No recording needed. Write your script, paste it in, and get a complete illustrated video with a natural AI voiceover. The scenes are drawn for your story — not pulled from a stock shelf.
Record your usual talking-head take and upload it. You get a split-screen video — you on one side keeping your credibility, illustrated scenes matching your narration on the other.
Content that deserves a story, not a slideshow.
Turn a written post into an illustrated narrative, not a caption reel.
Show what your point means with scenes built for it.
Give each step its own illustrated beat instead of a text card.
Keep yourself on screen and add illustrated scenes beside you.
Open with a custom illustrated hook for Reels and Shorts.
Tell a customer or personal story visually, beat by beat.
Captioned slideshows vs illustrated stories.
Text over stock clips with brand styling. Fast for posts, slideshow-like for stories.
Same shared footage, same interchangeable feel.
Original illustrations per beat, plus your real speaker on screen. Built for narrative, not captions.
An honest read so you choose the right tool.
You want fast captioned social clips from posts and stock visuals are fine.
Your content is story-driven and a captioned slideshow isn't engaging enough.
Using a slideshow tool for narrative content — captions over stock rarely hold attention to the end.
From post to illustrated story without an editor.
Upload a talking-head clip or paste your script. Either path works.
Scene by scene, ViralTales draws visuals that match what you're saying. Ready in minutes.
Preview, regenerate any scene in the editor, then download and post anywhere.
Yes, especially for story-driven content where a captioned slideshow isn't engaging enough.
No — it generates original illustrated scenes matched to your narration.
Yes, via Script to Video with AI voiceover.
Yes, Video to Video builds a split screen with your real footage.
Yes — it's tuned for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok lengths.
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