What is the best software for creating Youtube videos and animation?

Wow, there are so many editors that can create animated videos. I can’t believe the amount of rubbish that people post on Quora nowadays. All they want to do it get their buck for their terrible marketing rubbish or just link to their own software for self-promotion. Some answers below are just a waste of time. This site has gone downhill so much it’s incredible.

So having got that out of the way here’s a list of some great editors you can use to make an animated YouTube video.

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1. mysimpleshow - create your own explainer video in minutes if you want to make a white board type simple animated video this online editor is totally free and easy to use.
2. Online Video Maker | Video Creation Software | Raw Shorts is another great online drag and drop animation editor but not free, but it’s pricing is fair.
3. Moovly l Online Video Editor and Video Maker for Business and Education probably one of my fave out of all of them because they have some great features. Free trial available but you can keep using it free, obviously with limited features.
4. Video Maker | Create Irresistible Videos Online is another great free online animation editor with loads of options. Well worth a look and it’s got some good features.
5. Free Online Video Maker - Create Awesome Videos Instantly | MotionDen is another online animation maker. I believe you can use limited features for free.
6. Animaker, Make Animated Videos on Cloud for free one of the best and always FREE. You’ll have many options with this editor.
7. Marketing video editor and animation maker Wave is also a great editor and very popular.
8. Pencil2D Animation an easy editor and free.
9. Your favorite software for hand drawn animation another hand draw animator.
10. CreaToon. Get the software safe and easy. not sure if this is still available but it looks good.
11. 2D Animation Software for Beginners to Professionals this has been used to create several movies and is an amazing tool.
12. 2D Animation Software For Everyone - Cartoon Animator />  another great software with downloads and several editors for 2D and 3D plus much more.
13. blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software of course but it get complicated.
14. Anim8or 3d Modeler Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program.
15. Muvizu | Animation software Muvizu is an interactive 3D animation package with everything you’ll need to make great animations.
16. NewTek LightWave 3D® 2019.1 high end animator.
17. Frames animation and digital storytelling software a cool stop motion animator.
18. Claymation Stopmotion Animation another stop motion tool, editor.
19. HTML Animation, Games, Apps, Videos, Logos, Banners, eCards, Presentations and Multimedia Websites. is a great full animation software.
20. HTML5 Presentation Software | Video Presentation Maker and PowerPoint alternative | Focusky is like PowerPoint but has many more features for animation, Download free and create an account free.
21. Tumult Hype is a key frame animator with some great options.
22. Pixar's RenderMan | Whats New another high end animation editor.
23. Slide Presentation Software, PPT - Microsoft PowerPoint if you know PowerPoint you will learn to love it. My fave for many editing tasks.
24. very first serious HTML5 animation tool another tool I haven’t tried but looks great.
25. Sign Up | Renderforest one of the old faves with many templates you can edit.
26. Video Maker | Make Videos and Animations Online | Powtoon? another template based old fave.
27. Introducing Animaker Deck. Presentations made easy! Also another editor from Animaker which is a slide-based editor.

This is the proper answer to this question, no marketing rubbish, links to my own products or website for self-promotion just some great animation makers. There are plenty more if you search around but many are really just template editors, so if your looking for a proper animator you might have to pay a monthly subscription.

Hope you find the right one. Your going to have to try some out and go with the one one you feel most comfortable using.