We make VideoSaysHi, and it is not the right tool for every job. It is built for one thing: turning video viewers into booked calls and qualified leads. If your job is different, another tool will serve you better, and this guide says which one, using facts from each company’s own website.
In short
Choose VideoAsk if people should reply on camera or by voice, or if you need a free plan. Choose Mindstamp or Cinema8 for training with SCORM files, Tolstoy for shoppable video on a Shopify store, and Hippo Video for personal videos sent by a sales team. Stay with VideoSaysHi when the goal is booked calls and scored leads.
VideoSaysHi alternatives at a glance
| Better fit | VideoSaysHi | |
|---|---|---|
| People reply on camera or by voice | VideoAsk | Not yet: viewers answer with buttons, questions, forms and file uploads |
| Live calls inside the tool | VideoAsk | No: viewers book a time on your calendar |
| Taking a payment inside the video | VideoAsk or Mindstamp | Not yet |
| Training courses with SCORM files | Mindstamp or Cinema8 | No |
| Shoppable video on a Shopify store | Tolstoy | No |
| Personal videos from each sales rep | Hippo Video | No: one funnel, shared by link, QR code or embed |
| A free plan | VideoAsk, Cinema8 or Hippo Video | No: paid plans from $49 a month |
| Your own domain | VideoAsk or Mindstamp | No |
Facts about other products come from each company’s own website, checked on 19 October 2026. Features change, so confirm anything that matters to you on their page.
VideoAsk: when people should answer on camera
VideoAsk, made by Typeform, is built for conversations that happen in everyone’s own time. You record a question, and people answer by video, audio or text. You can also start a live call, and it takes payments through Stripe.
Pricing: the Start plan is free, with up to 3 steps per videoask and 20 minutes of video and audio a month. Grow is $30 a month for 100 minutes, and Brand starts at $50 a month for 200 minutes, your own branding and a custom domain.
Choose it if you want to hear from people in their own voice, such as applicants, students or customers giving feedback. Stay with VideoSaysHi if the goal is a booked call: its calendar is built in, while VideoAsk books through Calendly, Acuity, OnceHub or HubSpot Meetings.
Mindstamp: training, quizzes and viewer reports
Mindstamp adds questions, buttons, hotspots and branching to a video and reports what each viewer did. It is aimed at training, marketing and sales teams, exports SCORM files for learning systems, takes answers by video or voice, and has a Stripe paywall.
Pricing: by plan, with unlimited viewers. When we checked, Basic was $99 a month for 5 videos, Core $299 for 50 and Pro $499 for 100, each lower when paid yearly. Conditional logic, HubSpot and a custom domain need Pro.
Choose it if you run training or courses and need SCORM files or detailed viewer reports. Stay with VideoSaysHi if you want booked calls: Starter is $49 a month for the same 5 videos, with the booking calendar included.
Cinema8: video hosting with interactive tools
Cinema8 is a video hosting platform with interactive features and support for learning standards such as SCORM and xAPI. It has a free plan and paid hosting plans from $12 a month billed yearly. Its full branching and gamification tools come with the Interaction Designer Pro add-on, listed at $249 to $299 a month unless you are on its Business plan.
Choose it if you want video hosting and learning standards in one place. Stay with VideoSaysHi if you only need funnels that turn viewers into leads and calls.
Tolstoy: shoppable video for Shopify stores
Tolstoy describes itself as an AI ecommerce platform for Shopify stores, with shoppable video on product pages. It also offers branching video with choices, contact forms, calendar booking and video or audio answers, and its plans are priced by monthly viewers.
Choose it if you sell products on Shopify and want video beside them. Stay with VideoSaysHi if you sell a service and need the lead and the call.
Hippo Video: personal videos for sales teams
Hippo Video is a video platform for sales, marketing and support teams, with AI video creation, polls, call-to-action buttons, meeting links and replies on video. It connects to HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft and Zapier, and is priced per user, with a free plan.
Choose it if each rep on a sales team sends their own videos to prospects. Stay with VideoSaysHi if one funnel, shared by link, QR code or embed, should qualify every visitor the same way.
When VideoSaysHi is the better fit
- Booking is built in. Viewers pick a time from your own calendar without leaving the video, with invites, reminders and reschedule links.
- Every lead arrives ready to call, with its answers, a score, its path, a follow-up status and an AI lead brief.
- Your CRM from $99 a month. Pro sends leads to HubSpot, Follow Up Boss, Google Sheets, webhooks and email tools.
- In person too. Run a funnel on a tablet in kiosk mode, or share it with a QR code.
- In three languages. Each funnel can be shown in English, Spanish or Arabic.
For a side-by-side table with prices, see VideoAsk alternatives: VideoSaysHi vs Mindstamp and more. To weigh any tool against your own needs, use 12 questions to ask before you pay.
How we checked
Every fact about another product comes from that company’s own pricing page, feature pages or help center, read on 19 October 2026. Where their pages disagreed, we left the detail out. We make VideoSaysHi; if something here is out of date, tell us through the contact page and we will correct it.
Checked on 19 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check each company’s own page before you decide.
- VideoAsk: pricing (opens in a new tab)
- VideoAsk: what VideoAsk is (opens in a new tab)
- VideoAsk: scheduling with Calendly (opens in a new tab)
- VideoAsk: payments with Stripe (opens in a new tab)
- Mindstamp: pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Mindstamp: FAQ (features by plan) (opens in a new tab)
- Mindstamp: question types, including video answers (opens in a new tab)
- Mindstamp: video paywall (opens in a new tab)
- Cinema8: pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Cinema8: Interaction Designer (opens in a new tab)
- Tolstoy: pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Tolstoy: interactive video (opens in a new tab)
- Hippo Video: pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Hippo Video: integrations (opens in a new tab)
Questions people ask
What is a free alternative to VideoSaysHi?
VideoSaysHi has no free plan. VideoAsk’s Start plan is free, with up to 3 steps per videoask and 20 minutes of video and audio a month, and Cinema8 and Hippo Video also list free plans. Check each company’s page for the current limits.
Which VideoSaysHi alternative lets people reply on video?
VideoAsk is built for it: people answer by video, audio or text. Mindstamp also takes answers by video or voice. In VideoSaysHi, viewers answer with buttons, questions, forms and file uploads.
Which alternative takes payments inside the video?
VideoAsk takes payments through Stripe, and Mindstamp has a Stripe paywall. VideoSaysHi does not take payments yet.
Can I take my leads with me if I switch?
Yes. Export them to Excel or CSV at any time, on every plan; see how to export leads. Keep your original video files too, so you can upload them to another tool.
When is VideoSaysHi the better choice?
When the goal is booked calls or qualified leads from your website, ads, emails or a kiosk at your front desk: the calendar is built in, and every lead arrives scored, with its path and an AI brief.