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Mockupflo vs After Effects
After Effects can make any launch film, this kind included, given 3D device models, a plugin to render them and someone who knows compositing. Mockupflo makes one kind of film and makes it fast: your screen on a real-time 3D device, with the camera, light and timing already in the template, in a browser tab.
- Mockupflo Pro
- $7 a month
- After Effects
- $22.99 a month
- Device models
- Built in vs bring your own
- Learning curve
- Minutes vs a craft
Side by side.
At the figures After Effects publishes. Quoted phrases are Adobe’s own words; the rest is our reading of Adobe’s pages.
Free: the whole editor, stills at full quality and video to 720p, with a small Mockupflo mark; free exports are not counted or capped. Pro $7 a month, $70 a year or $199 once.
$22.99 a month for the single app, annual plan billed monthly (US list). No free tier beyond a trial. Element 3D, a common plugin for 3D models, is $199.95.
3D device mockups and launch films from a screenshot or a screen recording
General motion graphics and compositing
15 devices built in 3D and rendered in real time, in their real finishes: iPhone, the foldable iPhone Duo, Galaxy, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook and Pro Display XDR
None built in. You source 3D device models yourself and import them, then build and light the phone, its finish and its screen.
300+ built-in templates that carry the camera, light and timing (Pro), 64 one-click camera presets, Smart Animate from focus areas you draw, and a keyframe timeline with bezier easing
Anything: keyframes, expressions, cameras, lights and a large plugin ecosystem
Stills as PNG, JPG or WebP up to 5120 px. Video as MP4 or WebM: 720p at 30 fps free, 1080p and 4K at up to 60 fps on Pro; transparent WebM in Chrome and Edge
Whatever your render settings, codecs and machine allow
In your browser, on your own GPU; video encodes there too. Your screenshots and recordings never upload.
On your computer
A desktop browser with a GPU on Windows, macOS or Linux; video export in Chrome, Edge or Safari 16.4+
A desktop app for macOS and Windows
Pro: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client drives the editor through a connector that runs on your machine
Scripting and third-party extensions
Pick a template, drop your screen in, export. The timeline is there when you want to direct every frame.
Motion design and compositing
After Effects price read on 21 September 2026 at adobe.com/products/aftereffects/plans.html (single app, US list, annual plan billed monthly); Adobe shows regional prices elsewhere, and a re-check on 24 September 2026 could only reach a regional page. Element 3D price read on 21 September 2026 at videocopilot.net. USD list prices, subject to change; check Adobe’s page for your region before you decide.
Which to pick.
After Effects can do anything. You just have to do all of it yourself.
Pick After Effects if
You have a few spare months to learn compositing before launch.
You enjoy sourcing a 3D iPhone, importing it, lighting it, texturing its screen, then buying a $199.95 plugin to render it.
$22.99 a month is a fair price for a render queue and a weekend of tutorials.
Your launch can wait for the render bar.
You work on macOS or Windows and nowhere else, ever.
Pick Mockupflo if
You want the device film today, without learning compositing.
You have no 3D device models, or no time to light them: they are built in, in their real finishes.
It costs less: free to test, Pro $7 a month or $199 once, with nothing else to buy.
You are on a machine without it: Mockupflo runs in a browser, on Linux too.
Other comparisons.
- Mockupflo vs UltramockThe closest pair: both put your screen on a 3D device in a browser tab. Where the price, the free tier and the motion tools part ways.
- Mockupflo vs Shots.soQuick device frames and animated presets for social posts, against real-time 3D devices and a camera that moves.
- Mockupflo vs ReelfolioA showreel of many screens, rendered in the cloud, against your product on a 3D device, rendered on your machine.
- Mockupflo vs Envato ElementsA library of static mockups and editable video templates, against a tool that renders your screen on a moving 3D device.