I’ve made some genuinely awesome stuff on here but I’ve also wasted a ton of money on failed, flawed, or otherwise compromised generations that had nothing to do with my prompts. You pay per generation not just for the ones you actually use. It’s a bit of a gamble, because you never know if it’s going to actually follow your instructions accurately. But when it works, it’s awesome, amazing technology. I just wish you only paid for the stuff you kept. You should have an option to keep it and pay for it or basically return it. Or at least get a portion of the credits back for really screwed up outputs. The AI agent will also trick you into spending your credits so you have to be very patient and vigilant. They’d benefit greatly from using an agent that didn’t automatically and consistently try to drain your pockets. Other than that it’s great, but I won’t use it often, not unless they fix some things and bring down the cost. Dropping $300+ on a 30 second to minute long video is an unsustainable business model. I’d be better off betting on a sportsbook app…

Runway assigns asset ids to each uploaded asset. The id is literally 36 characters long. However you cannot ever reference this asset id without scrolling up endlessly. You cannot copy this asset id except manually as text from the chat cannot be selected to copy. You will not be able to reference assets effectively to verify you are accurate in your directions. Runway is also unable to build from previous wins and make small edits to achieve final results. I spent hours making a story board for a simple 10-12 second logo reveal with four assets. After the 8th iteration the story board was good enough to move to video. the first video was almost there. It just needed some placement edits. And it could not follow simple instructions to modify placement of previously uploaded assets. Instead is started throwing randomly created videos with wildly different effects and text styles like I needed to reinvent a long established logo and graphic standards. Its failure costs you money as each shortcoming requires more credits to resolve. It could not remove sound or music from a video. It could not even extend a videos timing a few seconds. Though repeatedly asked to do so, it came back with videos with identical sound and identical running time. Runway has been a dreadfully frustrating waste of time.

Firstly, great looking and smooth UI on startup. Well done there. Secondly, So I got a suggestion from OpenAI’s GPT to download this app for image animation, so I thought it would be pretty legit getting that referral. Downloaded, typed in first prompt, asking for a short image ran animation. Immediately hit the subscription paywall with a tier level sub reply. Guys, I never write reviews for apps. I felt I needed to this time because there wasn’t even a short video or taster gif or anything. It was BAM straight into money. I am in App Store review for three new apps myself, and I wouldn’t want a new user to my product to get slapped with a “Can’t touch this” MC Hammer song playing promotion (in my head) for the product that they won’t even show you what kind of work it does before you pay. Instant bad review. They should at least give prospective real money subscribers with samples before they put up their hard earned money on trust, (which probably isn’t any good if they are going this route) just looking for one single 3-6 second short or a dumb gif. Come on, we gotta do better. Scam. That’s the first thought that came to mind when this happened. Maybe it’s not! Will never know now I guess. Thanks for reading.

Extremely disappointing and shockingly expensive experience. I purchased Runway specifically to create AI video content, then purchased an additional 1,000 credits thinking that would finally give me enough to complete one project. Instead, credits disappeared incredibly quickly while the actual video results were poor, unrealistic, and often unusable. Simple requests produced distorted or awkward footage, and the process repeatedly pushed me toward spending even more credits just to try again.What makes this especially frustrating is that you can spend a significant amount of money without ending up with a single usable finished video. Even basic experimentation becomes expensive because every bad generation costs you, regardless of the quality of the result.The concept behind Runway is great, but my experience did not come remotely close to justifying the cost. I expected a premium creative tool; instead I spent money, purchased additional credits, wasted an enormous amount of time troubleshooting, and still couldn’t complete one relatively simple social media video. I would not recommend this service based on my experience, and I will not be purchasing additional credits or continuing my subscription.