Comparison
Remotion is for React developers who build videos, or video products, in code. Kinomo is for teams on a Mac who want an agent to build the animation while they plan, cut and review it in an app, with no React project to maintain.
Facts about Remotion last checked on November 8, 2026 · Sources
With Remotion, a video is a React codebase. With Kinomo, it is a project you open, watch and edit, and your agent does the building.
In Remotion, each format is its own composition with its own width and height. In Kinomo, the 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 versions belong to the same scene: the All formats view shows them side by side at their real resolutions and plays them together, so one change can update every format.
Your agent connects to Kinomo over MCP and builds HTML and CSS scenes directly in the project. There are no components, build step or dependencies to keep up to date, and every change is checked by the engine before it is saved.
Lay out scenes in the Storyboard, then cut them on a timeline with chapters, music and sound effects. Anyone on the team can retime an animation by hand in the scene editor, without opening a code editor.
Send a private link with an optional password and expiry. Clients watch in their browser and pin comments on the frame; the comments come back into the project, where your agent can pick them up.
Where Kinomo stands out
| Criterion | Kinomo | Remotion |
|---|---|---|
| Formats while you edit | Kinomo stands out: Every format of a scene side by side (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5…), each at its own resolution, playing together on one timeline; edit them all at once or one at a time | Each format is a separate composition with its own width and height; no side-by-side view documented in Remotion Studio |
| What it is | Native Mac app for macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon | Node.js and React library, with Remotion Studio to preview, edit and render in the browser |
| How videos are made | Kinomo stands out: Your agent builds HTML and CSS scenes over MCP; animations are data, edited in the app or by the agent | React components and TypeScript code; official Agent Skills help Claude Code, Codex or Cursor write it |
| AI agents | Kinomo stands out: MCP server with 52 tools that act on the project open in the app on your Mac, with every change visible live | 13 official Agent Skills, including /remotion-docs for the documentation; the hosted docs MCP server was shut down on October 26, 2026 in favour of these skills |
| Editing by hand | Kinomo stands out: Storyboard, scene editor and a timeline with chapters, music and sound effects | Mostly in code; Remotion Studio previews, edits and renders compositions in the browser |
| Client review | Kinomo stands out: Private links with comments, password and expiry; comments return to the project | No review links or client comments documented; you share the rendered file |
| Export | H.264, HEVC, ProRes 422 and 4444, up to 4K, on your Mac | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, ProRes and GIF; rendered locally, on AWS Lambda or on Cloud Run |
| License and price | Kinomo stands out: Free during the beta | Free for individuals and companies of up to 3 people. Company License: $25 per seat per month, or $0.01 per render with a $100 monthly minimum; Enterprise from $500 a month |
Remotion is a mature, widely used library. It is the better choice in these cases.
You generate videos at scale. Its render API and AWS Lambda support are built for producing many personalised videos from data.
Your team lives in React. Videos are components, so they fit your design system, your npm packages and your code review.
You are building a video product. Remotion powers editors and apps that other people use, with a Player you can embed.
You are not on a Mac. Remotion runs wherever Node.js runs; Kinomo needs macOS on Apple silicon.
Download the beta, connect the agent you already use and ask it to storyboard your next video.
For people who make animated videos rather than video software, yes. Your agent builds the scenes in HTML and CSS through MCP, and you edit them in a Mac app instead of a React codebase.
No. Scenes are HTML and CSS built by your agent, and you adjust them in the Storyboard, the scene editor and the timeline.
That is not what Kinomo is built for. For batch rendering from data, a library like Remotion with a cloud renderer is the better tool.
Kinomo is free during the beta.
Last checked on November 8, 2026
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