toonmate
Character-consistent animation, backed by real validation

Your characters,
on-model every scene.

ToonMate generates animated video where your character actually stays your character — validated scene by scene with a calibrated consistency engine, not just hoped for. Every decision is logged, every provider failure has a fallback, and every compile produces a real video, not a promise.

Or skip the setup entirely — describe an idea in one sentence with Quick Video and get a finished, narrated video back automatically.

No credit card required · Pay only for what you generate

Photosynthesis Explained4 scenes · accepted

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

Scene 4

Visual consistency check0.94 · passed
Providerauto (multi-vendor reliability)
Ledger entryrecorded

Built for characters that actually hold up

Most tools generate an image and hope. ToonMate checks.

Describe it once, get a finished video

Quick Video turns a plain-language idea into a complete, narrated video — story, characters, images, and voice, generated and assembled automatically. No manual scene-by-scene setup required.

Real music and sound effects, not stock clips

Generate an original song or instrumental from a prompt or your own lyrics, plus one-off sound effects — mixed directly into your project's own soundtrack, not licensed from a library.

Characters that hold up together, not just alone

Add more than one character to a scene and each one's own locked style is checked independently — real, working progress on the exact problem this whole industry still hasn't solved.

Calibrated consistency validation

Every generated frame is checked against your character's own reference images with a calibrated visual-similarity score — not a guessed threshold, and not just hoped for.

AI-drafted storyboards, human-reviewed

Give an idea, get a scene-by-scene draft — description and voiceover, ready to edit. Nothing generates as an image until you review and accept it. AI drafts; you still decide.

Dynamic avatars, your choice

Generate a fully synthetic character, or animate a real photo with hard-gated, explicit consent — never assumed, never bypassed. The same choice, every time, by design.

Four independent animation vendors

Runway, Kling, Luma, and Google Veo — automatically tried in sequence for real reliability, with Veo adding natively synced audio generated together with the video, not muxed on afterward.

Interactive, not just watchable

Quizzes graded server-side, and real branching — a viewer's choice leads to a genuinely different video, not a scripted illusion of one.

Full provenance ledger

Every generation, acceptance, rejection, and threshold change is permanently logged in a hash-chained audit trail — inspectable, never silently overwritten.

Real video assembly, at any length

Crossfade transitions, Ken Burns motion, narrated voiceover, and burned-in captions, chunked and joined for long-form video — not just a short preview clip.

Script translation that respects the work

Reuses your already-approved images — only the script changes. Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa are first-class options, not an afterthought behind '40 languages.'

Sovereignty-ready infrastructure

Open-weight model support keeps self-hosting on the table. Storage is pluggable between local disk and S3-compatible backends.

Real content credentials, not a claim

Every finished video carries a signed, independently verifiable record of what generated it — shareable, and checkable by anyone, not just your own team.

Real human review, for content that matters

Health, financial, and civic content can be sent to an actual reviewer before you treat it as ready — a genuine second check, shown separately from the automated content credential.

Pay per video, or pay as you go

Prefer a fixed, known price for one finished video over variable, usage-based billing? A real video pass covers exactly that, no subscription required.

Real code-switching, not just translation

Mix English and Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, or Nigerian Pidgin within a single narration — how people actually talk, not language swapped in neat, separate blocks.

Turn a real Reddit story into a video, automatically

Source a real, popular post, get an AI-drafted narration script, and produce a finished, faceless-style video — review every real step before it goes further, then optionally publish straight to your own connected YouTube channel.

Paste a URL, get a produced ad

A real landing or product page's own content becomes the basis for a generated ad script and finished, downloadable video — no manual script-writing required.

From character to video

Three steps. Every one of them checked before it moves forward.

01

Lock your character

Define a style — art direction, species, palette — and generate a reference image. That reference is what every future scene gets checked against.

02

Build your scenes

Write a prompt and voiceover line per scene. Generate, preview instantly, and accept only the ones that actually pass consistency validation.

03

Compile your video

Pick transitions, motion, narration, and captions. ToonMate assembles a real MP4 — encoded, timed, and ready to download.

Real output, as it ships

This gallery is reserved for actual ToonMate-compiled videos — not stock footage standing in for them. As real projects clear consistency validation and get compiled, they land here.

Coming soon

Education

Explainer videos, lessons, tutorials

Coming soon

Marketing

Product walkthroughs, promos

Coming soon

Storytelling

Character-driven narrative pieces

Coming soon

Internal comms

Onboarding, training content

Why teams choose ToonMate

Character consistency
Typical AI video toolMarketed as a feature, drift reported by users with no visibility into why.
ToonMateCalibrated against real, labeled data, with a clear pass/fail check shown on every generation.
Multiple characters, one scene
Typical AI video toolStill a widely acknowledged, unsolved problem across this whole industry — identities blur when characters interact.
ToonMateEach character in a scene is checked independently against its own locked style, and a continuity report flags gradual drift across a whole project.
Generation reliability
Typical AI video toolSingle provider. An outage or billing issue stops your render.
ToonMateFive providers, tried automatically — no single point of failure.
Human avatar likeness
Typical AI video toolEither a licensed actor roster, or no real-photo option at all.
ToonMateYour choice: fully synthetic, or your own photo — with consent required and enforced, not assumed.
Interactive video
Typical AI video toolUsually not offered outside dedicated L&D platforms, at enterprise pricing.
ToonMateGraded quizzes and real branching — a different next video, not a scripted illusion of choice.
Audit trail
Typical AI video toolNone.
ToonMateEvery decision hash-chained and permanently inspectable.
Content authenticity
Typical AI video toolNo way to verify what actually generated a video, or whether it's been altered since.
ToonMateA real, signed content credential on every video, publicly and independently verifiable — plus optional real human review for high-stakes content.
Payments and pricing
Typical AI video toolUSD-only billing, built for a global-default market.
ToonMateReal Naira-denominated billing via Paystack, Flutterwave, and Moniepoint, plus a fixed-price, pay-per-video option with no subscription required.
Content sourcing
Typical AI video toolYou write every script yourself, from a blank page.
ToonMateA real, automated pipeline turns a popular Reddit story or an existing landing page into a produced, narrated video — you review every real step, nothing is fully hands-off by default.
Data residency
Typical AI video toolLocked to one closed vendor's infrastructure.
ToonMateStorage is pluggable; open-weight model support keeps self-hosting on the table.

Not just a studio — a platform

For teams building on ToonMate, not just creating with it.

A real, scoped developer API

Call ToonMate's own generation pipeline directly from your own app — image generation, animation, voiceover, and consistency checks, each behind its own API key scope. Billed the same, transparent way as the studio itself.

Buy or sell a character template

Need a ready-made character instead of starting from zero? Buy one from another studio. Built something reusable? List it and earn every time it sells — a real marketplace, not a static asset library.

Bring your own key

Already have accounts with your preferred image or video vendors? Use them directly through ToonMate's own pipeline instead of paying twice.

Built to be trusted with real data

Every claim below was tested against a real attempt to break it, not just written down.

Tenant isolation, enforced at the database

Row-level security on every table, with FORCE RLS — not just application-level checks that a bug could bypass. A real cross-tenant vulnerability was found in this build and closed, proven with an actual exploit attempt, not just code review.

Consent-first by design, not by policy document

Any real person's likeness — photo upload, talking avatars — requires an explicit, hard-gated consent step enforced in code. Synthetic avatars need none, because no real person is involved. The same rule, every time, not left to a checkbox nobody reads.

Spending you can see before it happens

Real per-generation cost estimates, reconciled against what was actually spent, with monthly caps that block a compile BEFORE money is spent — not after, and not just estimated.

An audit trail that can't be quietly edited

Every generation, acceptance, rejection, and admin action is hash-chained and append-only. Tamper-detection has been proven, not just claimed — a trigger was deliberately disabled, a row tampered, and the chain caught the exact break.

Graceful secret rotation

Rotating the signing key doesn't instantly log out every active session — a documented rotation window keeps things running while credentials change, tested through a real server restart, not simulated.

Provenance you can check yourself

Every video's origin record is signed and independently verifiable on a public page — not a claim you have to take our word for, and separate from optional human review for content that genuinely needs a person to check it.

Honest about where we are: ToonMate does not currently hold formal certifications like ISO 27001 or FedRAMP — those require an independent third-party audit, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than let the engineering above imply something it isn't. If a compliance certification is a hard requirement for your team today, we're not there yet. If what you need is evidence the engineering actually holds up under real pressure, that's what's above.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers, including about what isn't built yet.

No — ToonMate is a hosted studio. Sign up and start generating; there's nothing to run yourself.

Pricing

Every plan is built around the same real, transparent wallet system — see exactly what you're paying for, before and after you generate.

Try it free for 3 days

No card required — real, usable quota to actually try the product, not a crippled demo.

Start free for 3 days

starter

For getting started, genuinely accessible

$9.00/mo

or $7.00/mo billed yearly

  • 5 image and 5 video AI vendors, automatically tried for reliability
  • Real Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin voiceover, not just English text-to-speech
  • Live consistency scoring on every generation, before you pay for it
  • Full timeline editor — effects, real audio waveforms, checkpoints
Choose starter

bold

More quota, priority rendering

$19.00/mo

or $15.00/mo billed yearly

  • Everything in Starter
  • More included quota every month
  • Priority rendering — your jobs process ahead of the standard queue
Choose bold

pro

Wallet overage unlocked once quota runs out

$39.00/mo

or $31.00/mo billed yearly

  • Everything in Bold
  • Wallet billing once your included quota runs out — never hard-blocked
  • No hard spending cap by default
Choose pro

enterprise

Wallet overage + bring your own key — contact us

Contact us

  • Everything in Pro
  • Bring your own provider keys — your own vendor relationship and rates
  • Data-residency commitments for regulated industries
  • Direct support from the team building the platform
Get in touch

Every generation's real cost is tracked transparently in your wallet — see exactly what each video costs, before and after you generate it.

Just need one video?

A real video pass gets you one finished video at a fixed, known price — no subscription, no wallet top-up required. Available once you're in the studio.

Need something different?

A school or company licensing seats for a whole team, or want ToonMate's team to build something for you rather than self-serve? Both are real, but genuinely different from a fixed monthly plan — reach out through your ToonMate account contact, or via the details on our contact page, and we'll work out what actually fits.