A Movavi Video Converter Alternative That Covers Every Device

The short version

Pricing checked in August 2026. Movavi runs promotions, so check their page before you buy anything.

Do not read that format row as a score. Every vendor counts differently: some count formats they can open, some count formats they can write, and some count both as one number. Movavi Video Converter's figure is its own claim in its own units. The row worth comparing is the one above it, because Movavi's count is video and audio containers, so no total makes it convert an image or a document.

What Movavi Video Converter is

Movavi Video Converter from Movavi handles video and audio. It runs on Windows and Mac, licensed per device. It is $19.95 a month, $54.95 a year, or $69.95 for a lifetime licence covering one PC. The lifetime licence covers the current major version only. Moving to the next major version has historically cost a further $20 to $40.

For format coverage it advertises the popular containers plus 40+ additional formats, by Movavi's own description.

Where Movavi Video Converter is the better buy

Movavi is beginner-friendly and its presets for phones and consoles are genuinely convenient. It is a reasonable buy if you convert video and nothing else.

Why people go looking for something else

The usual reason is that your lifetime licence turned out to cover one version on one PC, and the upgrade prompt arrived anyway.

How to Convert (I built this one)

How to Convert does 5,438 conversion pairs across 124 file types, covering audio, video, images, documents, ebooks and email. It costs $29 once. There is no subscription, no renewal, and no separate licence for each operating system. One purchase covers Mac, Windows and Linux on up to 5 devices.

Everything runs on your own machine. Files are never uploaded to a server, which matters more than it used to: in March 2025 the FBI's Denver field office warned that free online converters were being used to deliver malware and to scrape uploaded files for passwords and financial details.

Converting as many files as you like in one go

This is the job most converters make you do one file at a time. Select as many files as you want, drag them in, pick the output format once, and walk away. There is no queue limit and no per-file confirmation, and because it runs on your own machine the speed depends on your CPU rather than someone else's upload queue.

Where it wins against Movavi Video Converter

• One purchase covers up to 5 devices across all three operating systems.
• It handles images, documents and email files, not just video and audio.
• 5,438 conversion pairs across 124 file types, so whatever you need to convert next is probably already covered.
• Nothing is uploaded, so private documents, client work and personal photos never leave your computer.

What Movavi Video Converter cannot do

Movavi Video Converter handles video and audio, and advertises the popular containers plus 40+ additional formats, by Movavi's own description. This does 5,438 conversion pairs across 124 file types, so the gap is not a slightly longer list, it is whole categories of file. All of the below runs in the same app, on the same one-time licence.

Image formats, including the awkward ones

ICO, WebP, AVIF, HEIC and SVG all have their own quirks around transparency, colour profiles and metadata. These are the conversions people usually solve by uploading a screenshot to an ad-covered site, which is a poor idea when the image is a document or something with location data attached.

Turning a raster image into a real vector

This is not a rename. It traces the image and produces an actual SVG with editable paths, so a logo scraped off an old site can be scaled to any size without going soft. Most converters cannot do this at all, and the ones that can are usually a separate paid purchase.

Where it does not win

It does not edit video on a timeline, and it does not carry Movavi's library of device presets. If picking your exact phone model from a menu is what you want, Movavi is friendlier than this is.

Should you switch?

Switch if you convert more than one type of file, work across more than one operating system, or object to paying again for something you use occasionally. At $29 for 5 devices against $69.95 for a single PC, the maths is short even before the next major version arrives.

Stay with Movavi Video Converter if the specific thing it does better is the thing you bought it for. Movavi is beginner-friendly and its presets for phones and consoles are genuinely convenient. It is a reasonable buy if you convert video and nothing else.

You can try most conversions in the browser first, free, before buying anything. Drag a file onto the converter on the home page and see whether it handles your files properly.