Kizoa has a rating of 2.7 stars from 990 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Kizoa most frequently mention premium membership, several years, and tech support problems. Kizoa ranks 92nd among Photo Sharing sites.
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I don't know why there are so many negative reviews. Personally, I was completely satisfied. I will use this service again and recommend it to you!
Can not download any of my videos since last Sunday. Kizoa is closing as of April 1,2024. I have been sending emails, message of FB, tried the toll free numbers and zero results. No one replied. Nothing is fixed. How can we backup our videos if the Download does not work. No customer service at all. Just disappeared. As a lifetime pro-member which I paid for this is just unacceptable. Terrible.
Can not download any of my videos since last Sunday. Kizoa is closing as of April 1,2024. I have been sending emails, message of FB, tried the toll free numbers and zero results. No one replied. Nothing is fixed. How can we backup our videos if the Download does not work. No customer service at all. Just disappeared. As a lifetime pro-member which I paid for this is just unacceptable. Terrible.
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Zero customer service. Can not download movies anymore. Kizoa is being discontinued as of April 1st, 2024, but as of one week ago you can not download any new or past videos you made. Horrible treatment of paid lifetime pro-members.
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Download che si blocca al 99% senza completarsi.
Sto riscontrando problemi con il servizio di Kizoa. Ho cercato di contattare il supporto clienti di Kizoa tramite telefono e email, ma purtroppo non ho ricevuto alcuna risposta o assistenza.
Il mio problema principale riguarda il processo di download che si blocca al 99% senza completarsi. Ho pagato per il servizio e mi aspettavo di ricevere un supporto adeguato, ma attualmente mi sento frustrato/a dall'assenza di risposte o soluzioni da parte del team di supporto di Kizoa.
Ho esaurito tutte le opzioni disponibili per cercare assistenza direttamente da Kizoa, ma finora non ho avuto successo nel risolvere il mio problema.
KIZOA was recently purchased by INVIDEO.ai. To its credit, KIZOA was a great site BEFORE it was sold. Now it is (allegedly) in transition. That means that a lot of times you cannot upload ANY images or fix anything in your work. But worst of all, you CANNOT DOWNLOAD your work -- as of this writing, I've been waiting for more than 5 days for a download. When I reached out to customer service (via the very difficult-to-find link: https://direct.lc.chat/*******/), they were not helpful AT ALL.
My advice? Find a better site for your video creation because neither KIZOA, nor INVIDEO (the company that bought them) is safe or reliable at this time.
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This is a video service that does not provide a usable link or download -- even when it is not frozen.
Download stops at 99%... nothing else ever happens after that. I send many email at *******@kizoa.com and *******@kizoa.com and no body answer or contact me. I'm very frustrated. Even after I pay for premium and I can't download anything.
I cannot even get into the site anymore. Shows an icon telling me to click where the green arrow is, but there's nothing there on my computer. The two examples it shows don't apply. Haven't been able to access the site at all. I loved using it before, but have been trying other sites now because Kizoa changed things to make it inaccessible for me. Sooooo frustrating!
ZERO STARS. POINTLESS. Download stops at 99%... nothing else ever happens after that. The entire purpose of this is to create a video and it cannot complete one 39 second video with 8 slides. WHAT A JOKE. Also I find it bizarre that and archaic that Kizoa doesn't seem to recognize png images with transparent backgrounds-instead it inserts a blacked out background. Everything is super generic, but I thought with the option of uploading your own images and gifs that'd give more freedom of use but the gifs don't upload and Kizoa can't recognize transparent backgrounds. What is the point really.
BUY SOMETHING ELSE! After purchasing the Pro membership I created five movies. You say, "Wow! That's cool!"WRONG! I made five versions of the same movie because the system kept disgarding my movies. No archives no backup nothing! I'm under a deadline and cannot meet it because this program is faulty and cannot be relied to store my work. Therefore it is useless.
Purchased the advanced program and have not been able to edit my videos for over 6 months. They acknowledge the issue was on their end and committed to refund my money. 6 emails and 2 months later I still have no refund. I have not been able to process my videos and it appears they are not going to do what they said they would. Stay away from this company. Very unhappy! Lamar H
Not sure what's going on. Can't access the site and my login won't reset. What happenned to the lifetime access?
Several years ago I naively purchased a Premium membership with Kizoa, believing that this
Would be an excellent platform for producing my video/slide shows. While I wasn't looking for sophistication,
I did seek a program capable of performing basic editing. What they promised in their introductory preview
Was in fact misleading:
• editing capabilities are poorly developed;
• almost every time I attempt to use the program for creating a new video or editing
an existing one, I encounter technical new glitches;
• each time I make a single edit on the music timeline, the program freezes forcing me to re login;
• saved transitions and music mysteriously disappear;
• texts appear off-centered;
• numerical ordering of my 100 plus saved videos become completely garbled making retrieval a nightmare;
• downloading is an endless process.
Last year, for four months, the company didn't answer its phones nor respond to my emails. When I was finally able to
Communicate with them, I was given the following response:
• "we're in the process of upgrading; bear with us for a few more weeks.
Months have passed without any visible improvement:
• the number of editing capabilities have continued to disappear;
• Kizoa's customer service in Paris, London and the US are no longer reachable;
• should I want to go back to a previous window, I am forced to re login;
• I can no longer retrieve many of my completed videos. Many video/slide shows
appear to have been erased or gravely altered;
• a new message appears on the homepage. "WARNING, due to an exceptional fire
At one of the data centers of our supplier, OVH ICloud, some of your photos, music
And gifs cannot be displayed in your account. We sincerely apologize for the
inconvenience and will do our very best to get your data back online as soon as
Possible"
This is not a guarantee, and the possible loss of year's of personal memories is more
than just an inconvenience.
Kizoa falls short of being a professional program and I give it the lowest marks in all areas.
After pouring my heart out on videos, just like others it seems I have to pay 15 dollars to download my video without watermark. Granted, but then the video crashes, freezes, doesn't seamlessly splice or merge, and many times you cannot find back button and your lose all your work. What is a 4 minute work takes 50 hours.
Horrible. Do not recommend. My money lost and wasted for nothing. It is sad because it has potential; probably the developers half-a---ed it.
Sorry to hear about the troubles encountered! Have you emailed us at support@kizoa.com so we can better assist you? We try to keep the majority of Kizoa free, which is why you're able to create a free account to make movies of unlimited time length to share online, or download to your computer if under 1 minute long. We also do offer lifetime Premium memberships for more advanced features. It's thanks to our Premium memberships that we're able to continue development, and do our best to improve Kizoa!
When I first began using Kizoa several years ago it was quite functional. Not completely user friendly, but it was possible to learn your way around and create a fairly nice movie/slide show. But recently it's function has declined markedly, stopping my projects midstream after a great deal of effort, with no support from Kizoa. Constantly unable to upload critical photos and collages after putting in a great deal of work. Very, very frustrating. If you are looking for a dependable media production application I can no longer recommend Kizoa. Definitely look elsewhere because this one has become a dead end.
Hello Nancy,
Thank you for your feedback,
Could you please send us an email to: support@kizoa.com
With the approximate date and time that the problems occurred, so we can check what happened to your collages and with the photos uploading.
Thank you
My Girl Scout Troop bought a membership for this website to be able to work on movie maker badges. We created a slideshow with it in June. Was easy to use and worked great. I go to log in and it is simply GONE. I can no longer access our slideshow we put hours into making. Nor the pictures we uploaded. This company stole from us. Hard earned cookie money is GONE. Incredibly frustrated. Their Facebook and Twitter accounts are also POOF GONE!
We experienced a major outage last week. We've been running some ads on Google advising people to now go to kizoa. App since Saturday but you may not have seen them. We're so sorry about the inconvenience caused.
I was surprised be even getting a response back from their customer service email since their number listed doesn't work at all. When you make a purchase on their site, it takes you to a PayPal site to make a transaction. However, on that link site. There are other options of payment like visa or Mastercard. I chose visa which then goes straight from my bank account. Not PayPal. Customer service said they were unable to process a refund and to make a dispute with PayPal over my purchase. But I didn't pay with PayPal. Yet, on the bank statement that shows my purchase through my visa card, the name on the statement says PayPal kizoa. So they figured they could scam me by saying it says PayPal. When I jever paid through them. I'm in the process of talking with my bank in hopes they can do a charge back. I paid 2x for premium on 2 different accounts I had made in 2013. I had loads of videos and pictures stored there that are the only pictures I have left from after our house fire. And the site promised it would be retrieved. But after paying for one... nothing showed up in the account. Paying for the second one, it showed the pictures and videos I made were listed. But could not veiw any of it. Rendering the site useless for me. And they wouldn't even offer to help troubleshoot why I couldn't see those pictures. I'm terribly saddened that I am unable to get those pictures back. And I am infuriated by the lack of customer care or service to offer any compensation or help at all. It was a complete waist of valuable time and not to mention money that is tight. I would not recommend kizoa and urge anyone to find a much more reputable company who has a customer service number that WORKS, also known for helping people with issues and will guarantee your money back if they fail on their end.
Tip for consumers:
Do not pay them unless you don't mind waiting your money.
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The site was great but what a ripoff. We as a non profit were so excited to find a place to showcase animals that were in need. We paid the unlimited package for the unlimited time, so the most expensive package available as we thought this was something we could use alot. Imagine our surprise with the link was no longer working and no way to get an answer from anyone very shortly after we paid
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback.
Could you please tell me more about your problem? It was the link from your film that wasn't working after you share it?
We will shortly contact you by email, so we can fix that link problem asap.
Thank you
Deceiving customers. It is not possible to upload video on YouTube. It says with "Starter" membership you can share videos on YouTube. When it comes to upload video it asks to upgrade the membership. After upgrading membership and paying extra money still to upload the video is not possible. Customer service is below "0". Noone replies emails. Noone cares. Cheating on customers. Very bad. Shame on You! Kizoa!
I have attempted to adjust my security settings but the upload to youtube function no longer works. Can't get past authentication.
I paid for an upgraded membership for a higher quality video but it didn't work, when I contacted customer service about the issue, I never received a response.
Hello Jasmine,
We are very sorry to hear this and apologise for the inconvenience caused. Could you please give us your Kizoa email so we can track down the issue?
I looked for a free slideshow service for my husbands' memorial funeral service. I searched for free slideshow programs and settled on Kizoa after reading the positive reviews. I spent days working on his slideshow and then realized that I cannot actually download the video or even properly upload it to youtube without paying. I am so disappointed and spent so much time on this. Their policy on what constitutes "free" is sneaky and unclear until you try to download. SO DISAPPOINTED. Don't get scammed like me.
Hi Andrea, first of all I am very sorry for your loss. I have gone ahead and exceptionally requested for your to receive your movie in video format which will be sent to you by email. Just so you know, you most definitely can upload your movie to Youtube for free regardless of how long your movie lasts. When you are logged into your Kizoa account go to the "My Movies" tab, select your movie, then click on the "Youtube" button at the bottom of the screen. You will then need to choose the "basic" option and your movie will be automatically uploaded onto your Youtube channel. If you would like to review what features are free and which ones are Premium you can consult our membership chart on our website as well as by clicking on the large orange "Lifetime Premium" button in the top left of your Kizoa account.
Customer service is horrible will never use again wish I could get my money back I could not get my daughters graduation video to download to a dvd
Hello Renee,
We are very sorry to hear so. Please contact us at support@kizoa.com for refunds.
After making a slight bit of noise on social media, they contacted me back. They ignored requests for a refund, but did clarify the problem with being unable to edit video clips. They had told me in an old email they'd for sure fix it. That was a lie. They now say they are not going to fix it. They are continuing to sell full priced memberships, have no warning on their site that you can't edit clips, and the part of the program that did it still shows up. It is beyond misleading. This is criminal theft. It's tantamount to selling coffee makers that don't make coffee. They actually offer up going to a different free program to edit clips, render clips, then bring them into Kizoa. That's not video editing. That is stealing. They know it, they keep selling it. Hit them and hit them hard. This is the shadiest thing I've been taken in on. Could have just refunded me. Now it's a bigger fight.
Hello Ben, we are very sorry you had such a bad experience. You're right about trimming videos. It was possible with the old Flash-based version but is now absent with the newest HTML5 version, and we should have taken this feature out of the website. If we did not do so, it's because it was always in our roadmap. It simply got delayed. As it happens, I have only had confirmation that, hopefully the video trimming feature should back up sometime next week. For the refund: it is our policy to refund complaints if they are in good faith. This is clearly your case. So please, send an email to support@kizoa.com with lydia.theiner@kizoa.com cc'ed, stating the email address of your Kizoa account and we will promptly refund you.
When Kizoa works, it is remarkable. The creations are beautiful and the variety of templates is incredible.
The problem? It hardly works. For three weeks, I have wasted countless hours trying to log-on and complete my creations.
Weeks ago, I was able to create project files using the slow and sluggish kizoa.it as an alternative to kizoa.com. The end result? The process for turning them into video files would not complete and produced a glitched-out video file that was unusable. Hours and hours, wasted.
I was hesitant to pay into an 'online-based' solution for this very reason. While I understand that things happen, Kizoa has made matters words with a lack of updates and transparency from their twitter account. This whole situation has been extremely frustrating. I am left with no choice but to seek an offline alternative and start my projects from scratch on a very tight timeline.
And so. My recommendation is to find an alternative. What could and should be a really wonderful application has turned into a frustrating and time-wasting disaster.
Time to move on.
I open an account stored my photos in it. And I tried to go in my account and comes up a message that I cant go in my account. And there is no way where I can get in touch with them and I lost all
My photos
We experienced a major outage last week. Your photos are safely on your account. In order to log into your account please type www.kizoa.app to open the website. We're so sorry about the inconvenience but we will not let you down!
I have a life time subscription and and when I moved from windows to mac I've been unable to get this to work
Hello,
As a our platform is online, it wouldn't matter if you use a Mac or Windows. Our platform is compatible with all browsers. This seems to have been a technical glitch and we sincerely apologise for that. Please contact us at support@kizoa.com or call us at 844 898 4403. We'll get this sorted out for you asap!
The film cutting option has not worked for three weeks. I have called many times (8 or 9 now) and have yet to get a representative. I have gotten an email telling me it is a bug and that they are working on it. I'm even more nervous today because the whole website is down. Hoping I haven't lost all my footage.
Until the past few weeks I was really happy with Kizoa. I am hoping it works again so I can restore the stars I would have given it a few weeks ago.
Update: It has been about 5 months now with no change, except that I am no longer to send emails for some reason. I'm about to go on every rating site Kizoa is attached to and in every language to warn people to stay away if this continues.
Dear Ryan, we experienced a major outage for some weeks.We've been running some ads on Google advising people to now go to kizoa. App since Saturday but you may not have seen them. We're so sorry about the inconvenience but we will not let you down!
Create videos, slideshows, collages, and edit photos from the convenience of a single platform with your own account. Combine your photos, videos, music, text, effects, and more for amazing results you can't find anywhere else.
Kizoa was founded in 2007 in Paris, France.
Hello Miranda,
Thank you for your feedback.
We have checked your account and there were some problems with your film, one of the problems was one of the gifs that you have uploaded into your account was "broken" and also a png file, this prevented the correct downloading of your movie.
You can upload gifs into Kizoa, but you have to make sure that the gif is in the correct format and with transparency, and also choose the option "save as gif" when downloaded.
When these cases happen, an email is usually sent to inform you of the problem and is asked to contact the support team, have you received any of that email? Because we didn't receive any email from you to inform us about that.
We will contact you soon by email to explain how the gif upload works.
Thank you