With Hippo Video, you can:

• Capture your screen, webcam, audio, or a combination of the options.
• Choose to record your whole screen or your current browser tab.
• Record videos via the desktop app (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook), web app, or Chrome extension.

Rewatch offers a separate screen recorder app, which you can use to:

• Record your webcam, screen, or both
• Capture your whole screen, a specific window, or a custom region
• Record and share videos via the desktop app (Windows and Mac) and mobile apps (Android and iOS)

Hippo Video offers numerous options for sharing videos publicly and privately:

• Copy a video link and send to a recipient
• Send videos directly via email
• Copy an embed code to insert the video on other platforms
• Set a password to protect private videos
• Set an access expiry date for videos
• Share videos with team members to review them before sharing with prospects
• Create video folders and select users or groups to share them with

Rewatch’s sharing permissions enable you to:

• Make your videos visible and searchable to the entire organization
• Make videos unlisted and unsearchable
• Share videos to public collections or limit access to certain members
• Allow users to share videos on the web via a link
• Invite external guests to watch a video
• Embed videos on websites

Hippo Video doesn’t have a native voice annotation feature.

Rewatch doesn’t include a native feature for including voice annotations in comments responding to videos.

With Hippo Video, you can enable comments on your videos. Viewers can attach comments to the playhead to include a timecode.

With Rewatch, video viewers can highlight a section of the video transcript to attach a window of time to their comments. Clicking the timeframe will make the video jump to the start of the timestamp.

Hippo Video does not generate video transcripts for viewers to read and search.

However, the tool can create a transcript for editing with AI. You can delete words from the transcript to automatically edit the video accordingly. When you add words, the tool will add text interludes on screen.

Rewatch AI automatically creates a transcript for any meeting recordings, screen recordings, or uploaded clips.

Additionally, the app supports transcription in 31 languages, and you can set a default language for your organization or for a particular video. If you then need to translate the transcript, Rewatch has 35 languages available for translations.

Hippo Video can generate subtitles for videos, or you can create and upload them yourself. You can also download the caption file in a .vvt or .srt format.

‍Note: Depending on your plan, you will have a limited number of subtitle credits available to you. Automated subtitles are available in 36 languages.

Rewatch automatically generates closed captions for video content.

Rewatch doesn’t include a native feature for assigning responses as an action item to prompt viewers to reply.

Rewatch doesn’t include a native feature for assigning responses as an action item to prompt viewers to reply.

Hippo Video doesn’t offer a native feature for setting response deadlines and automating reminders.

Rewatch has no native feature for setting response deadlines and prompting viewers to reply in a timely manner via automated reminders.

You can create groups for different teams or clients on Hippo Video and add members to them. This allows you to share videos, folders, and sales page templates with an entire group. If video commenting is enabled, groups can also asynchronously discuss content within a video or folder.

‍Note: Groups are only available in the Teams and Enterprise plans.

With Rewatch, you can create collections and make them globally accessible or restrict visibility to specific members.

You can also create subfolders within collections to contain different kinds of video content.

You can import videos, images, and documents to Hippo Video from your local drive or Google Drive. You can edit, share, and track analytics for imported videos.

You can upload videos from your device, Google Drive, or Dropbox and add them to your Rewatch collections.

If you have a paid plan, you can download videos from your Hippo Video library.

Rewatch allows you to save videos for offline viewing on the mobile apps.

Hippo Video doesn’t offer users the option to capture screenshots.

Rewatch doesn’t include a native feature for capturing and sharing screenshots.

Hippo Video offers a Chrome extension that lets you start video and screen recordings from your browser.

Rewatch doesn’t offer a browser extension for capturing screen recordings or scheduling meeting recordings.

Hippo Video doesn’t enable AI-generated video summaries or action items.

However, the tool does offer several AI features:

• Video details: Generate titles, descriptions, and chapters for videos
• Script Generator: Generate video scripts, that you can read off a teleprompter while recording
• AI Avatars: Convert text to video with realistic virtual presenters
• Humanize AI: Generate hundreds of personalized versions of your original video (E.g., adding prospect names)‍
• AI Editor: Edit a transcript of your video and let the AI make automatic edits to your video.

Rewatch’s AI features include:

• Automatic meeting recording and transcription
• Meeting notes and summaries
• Automated notifications when certain keywords are mentioned in video transcripts
• Suggested action items you can assign to team members

Hippo Video offers the following default user profiles:

• Standard Admin: Has access to all features, including branding, subscriptions, and user management.
• Standard User: Has permissions set by the admins. By default, this excludes branding, subscriptions, and user management.

You can also create custom user profiles and change their permissions.

When it comes to content permissions, an admin or owner of a video or folder can allow users or groups to be editors (with the ability to edit videos) or viewers (view-only access).

You can assign the following roles to users in your organization:

• Member: Can access published videos and collections and manage their own videos and meetings.
• Guest: Limited to access specific collections shared with them
• Collection Contributors: Have access to view and add videos to secret collections
• Collection Editors: Manage a specific collection, include editing, adding sub-collections, and managing contributors
• Channel Admins: Can manage channel settings, users, and any videos or collections they have access to‍
• Channel Owners: Full access to every setting, collection, and video on the channel.

Hippo Video is a ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified provider. They host customer data in a segmented Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. They use TLS 1.2 encryption for data both in transit and at rest.

Rewatch uses industry-standard encryption practices including 256-bit AES, encryption in transit and at rest, and TLS cipher configuration.

Hippo Video offers four pricing plans:

• Free: Free forever; includes 50 videos/month, a 30-minute recording length, and 10 minutes of closed captions.
• Pro: $30/user/month or $20/user/month billed annually; includes unlimited video recordings, a one-hour recording limit, and 30 minutes of closed captions.
• Teams: $60/user/month or $75/user/month billed annually; includes a two-hour recording limit, 200 minutes of closed captions, and 50 personalized videos.‍
• Enterprise: $80/user/month billed annually; includes a minimum of 10 seats, a three-hour recording limit, unlimited captions, and role-based access controls.

Rewatch offers the following pricing plans:

• Free: Free for up to 5 users and 15 transcribed recordings a month.
• Team: $23.75/user/month or $19.00/user/month billed annually for 3 to 250 users and unlimited recordings.‍
• Custom: Contact sales for pricing; includes additional security and compliance features, custom onboarding, and channel analytics.

Hippo Video offers a user-friendly way to create and share professional-looking sales and marketing videos. Its AI features, brand customization, CTAs, and analytics make this a great option for companies looking to connect with customers. It’s also well-suited for other use cases like education (E.g., teachers, coaches, etc.).

The website offers users a wealth of educational resources to learn more about the app — including how-to articles, a Q&A forum, videos, and more.

Another handy feature for making work easier is the customizable hotkeys for performing actions while recording (E.g., start/stop, pause/resume, and mouse emphasis).

That said, a few additional features (like meeting recording, AI summaries, screenshots, and transcription) would expand the tool's functionality and improve internal communication for businesses.

Rewatch is super user friendly when it comes to automatically recording meetings and choosing who to share videos with. Its AI features also bolster the ease-of-use, so team members can easily catch up on what they missed or refresh their memories.

However, the webcam and screen recorder isn’t as feature-rich as other tools on the market. For example, you can’t record audio audio only or capture screenshots, and it doesn’t have a browser extension for convenient recording.

Hippo Video offers a seven-day free trial for its Pro and Teams plans. You can also contact sales to request a custom demo.

Signing up for a free plan with Rewatch automatically grants you access to a 14-day free trial of the Team plan. Additionally, you can fill out a form to request a demo and discuss custom solutions.