Brand Avatars for UGC Content

Software from TikTok Symphony or HeyGen create fake presenters and let every SME make UGC videos in minutes!

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April 21st, 2025

This section makes me, a video marketer who has worked for big brands like Revolut and HelloFresh, a bit squirmish. So now we can create video testimonials aka UGC videos in a few minutes? Without a real person actually recommending the brand?

On the long run this will weaken one of Robert Cialdini’s six “principals of persuasion”. I’m talking about social proof, which of course doesn’t work anymore if the testimonial video is completely fake.

But, I’m not here to lecture you about old marketing rules, I’m here to test the newest AI tools and in this instance AI brand avatar generators such as TikTok’s Symphony.

Before we dive deeper into the topic, I want to point out that the companies we have tested for this AI tool category follow one of two concepts:

  1. Either you can upload your own script and let the avatar recite it

  2. Let AI also write the content for your script

I’m not a fan of 2. because the technology is not good enough yet to roam so free. It’s better to control at least one variable and let AI do the rest well. As a business owner I would want to control the narrative about my product. But if you quickly want to test different approaches and you’re running out of ideas, the second category will be a great sparring partner.

I’ve put together a short video with examples of all AI brand avatars I’ve tested below, so take a look for yourself and see which style, avatar and overall tool you like best.

Just fyi, our review contains a few affiliate marketing links. If you purchase any of the tools, we might receive a small commission.

AI Video Generator Comparison

Use cases: UGC ads, Brand material, Brand videos

Most famous Tool: TikTok Symphony

AI Brand Avatar Comparison

What it does: Creates a video ad with an avatar, pictures, voice overs, captions and background music

Who will love this: Small businesses who want to leverage TikTok and other social media channels for their product or service.

My Favorite AI Brand Avatar

1

Setup/Onboarding

5

User Experience

5

Tool Performance

5

Overall score:

5/5

Use Cases

Business, Shops

Support

Help Center, Community, How To Guides, Live Chat Support

Key Features

  • AI Avatars
  • Video Avatars
  • Photo Avatars
  • Generative Avatars
  • Stock Avatars
  • Avatar Looks
  • Avatar Videos
  • Video Translation
  • Localisation
  • Interactive Avatars

Pros & Cons

Pros:

  • Lip Sync is amazing
  • Generally movements are great
  • Final video is straight usable and doesn't require tweaks
  • Super easy to use

Cons:

  • Models a bit too picture perfect

Price Point

Creator
$29
Team
$39
Enterprise
Customisable
Free Trial
Free Plan Available

Conclusion

At this point I much rather have a solid tool that actually follows my instructions and doesn't add random elements to my video (TikTok) or creates a useless script (Creatify) for my AI Brand Avatar. HeyGen hits the sweet spot: it gives the right amount of control over the settings and lets me control the script in full. We are not there yet where the tool can do every aspect itself and still deliver a good result. I prefer to control the script but get a flawless AI Brand avatar. Well, that would be my only significant con for HeyGen: the avatars are too perfect. Nobody will believe that I can get so many perfect models to speak about AI Tools SME, they could have added a few more regular looking representatives as well.

Award Emoji

2

Setup/Onboarding

5

User Experience

4

Tool Performance

3

Overall score:

4/5

Use Cases

Business, Shop

Support

Help Center, Email Support

Key Features

  • Generate & Remix Videos
  • Avatar Videos
  • Video Editor
  • Generate Scripts
  • Generate Avatars
  • Translate Videos
  • Dub Videos
  • Daily Video Generations

Pros & Cons

Pros:

  • Cool Effects
  • Makes editing and creation super easy
  • Free (which is pretty amazing)
  • Tool will automatically create a new video for you every 24h, no input required from your side

Cons:

  • "Mature" Avatar was maybe 30 years
  • The logo on my background picture has an overlay and makes the video useless
  • Lip Sync is not good
  • Avatar movements are unnatural

Price Point

Free Trial
Completely Free

Conclusion

Overall the TikTok Creative Symphony is impressive, if you don't care much for details (which brands absolutely should in my opinion though). Two things made me put this AI Brand Avatar software not in the pole position: I was suprised how bad the lip sync is, HeyGen for example has cracked lip sync much better than TikTok. And secondly the video creation was completely unusable because TikTok has blurred my brand name out in the background. Probably to not make the captions overlap, but of course I could just move the captions further up or down. But I am unable to take out the blurred out brand name.

3

Setup/Onboarding

5

User Experience

3

Tool Performance

3

Overall score:

3.5/5

Use Cases

Business, Shops

Support

Learning Center, Case Studies, 24/7 Priority Customer Support

Key Features

  • AI Avatar
  • AI Shorts
  • AI Editing
  • Intuitive design interface
  • AI-driven suggestions
  • URL to Ad Maker
  • Batch Mode
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Extensive template library
  • Customizable workflows

Pros & Cons

Pros:

  • AI Avatars aren't polished and perfect like from other companies
  • Lip Sync is quite good
  • I was able to choose which setting I would like the avatar to be in (office, living room, kitchen)
  • Let's you edit the video afterwards
  • Lets you add pauses manually

Cons:

  • I uploaded my own script, but it wasn't used
  • The pictures were randomly mixed together in the background
  • Should let user choose CTA before rendering (it added download now, which doesn't fit in my case). Additional credits are required to change and re-render
  • AI generated script is very general and doesn't feel like it's taken from my website at all

Price Point

Starter
$39
Pro
$99
Enterprise
Custom
Free Trial
10 Free Credits

Conclusion

I think this tool is best suited for SME owners who want a quick and automated way to create AI brand avatars and UGC videos but aren’t too concerned about having full creative control over their brand messaging. The process starts with uploading a URL, after which the tool automatically scans the website for basic information and images. However, it initially pulled the wrong brand name and description, which I had to correct manually. I liked that I could adjust settings based on the social media platform and choose from different tones and purposes if I let AI generate the script. A nice touch was the ability to manually add pauses. However, I quickly noticed a problem—despite updating my brand description, the **AI script generator still used the outdated information**. This meant I had to rely on my own script instead. While I could preview the AI-generated scripts, they felt too generic and didn’t add much value. Once the script was set, the tool generated 14 different video variations, and I had to select one to render. The biggest issue came at the final stage—despite choosing my own script, the tool still produced a rather impersonal and generic video, almost as if it had partially overwritten my input. While the automation makes video creation fast and easy, the lack of control over the final output was frustrating. You can tweak details, but the tool ultimately seems to do what it wants, which is why I found it limiting in terms of customization and user experience and gave it a medium rating.

4

Setup/Onboarding

5

User Experience

3

Tool Performance

2

Overall score:

3/5

Use Cases

Business, Shops

Support

Help Center, Training,

Key Features

  • AI Avatar Generator
  • AI Video Editor
  • AI Clips Generator
  • AI Eye Contact
  • Background Noise Remover
  • 3D Avatar Creator
  • Video Translator
  • Add Subtitles
  • AI Ad Generator
  • Online Video Editor

Pros & Cons

Pros:

  • Content integration from my website worked well
  • Lip sync is decent
  • Very cheap

Cons:

  • Video generation took several minutes
  • Ironically Caption's captions are cut off on the sides
  • Pictures are too randomly added and but can't be edited anymore
  • Doesn't let you download videos from free trial

Price Point

Pro
$9.99
Max
$24.99
Scale
$69.99
Enterprise
Custom
Free Trial
Free Plan Available

Conclusion

I tested the AI script feature with their AI Brand avatars. Even though there are a few positive surprises with this tool, I can't recommending using it. The output is just of too low quality. Good was that Captions actually took the right information from my website (contrary to Creatify). It created a script very close to the content, but I don't like that it exaggerated so much ("AI Tools SME will change your life" doesn't sound so believable to me). The bad part is that Captions will add cut off captions, which looks very unprofessional for any company. Also the pictures it added can not be edited afterwards, you can only add more pictures on top of them.

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