Who wrote this, before anything else: videos.me, which makes a competing tool and is not in the comparison below. We are not going to tell you which of Kudoboard and VidDay to pick. Every figure here was read off their own pricing pages on the date stamped under the tables, and the totals are computed from those models rather than typed by hand.
Kudoboard makes a board: a page of notes, GIFs, photos and short clips that people post to, printable as a book or a poster. VidDay makes a film: video, photos and text cards assembled into one montage, with the deepest editing toolbox in the category. One is browsed, the other is played.
Unlike most pairings in this category, the price order here actually changes hands, and it changes early. VidDay’s entry tier is $5 for a film up to three minutes, which is below Kudoboard’s $6.99 floor. Cross three minutes and VidDay steps to $15 while Kudoboard has not moved, and from there Kudoboard stays lower all the way up: a board holding unlimited posts is $19.99 where a film of the same group is $60.
Six people talking for half a minute each is the one shape where the film costs less than the board. Everything longer than that reverses it.
| Kudoboard | VidDay | |
|---|---|---|
| What you end up with | A board: notes, GIFs, photos and clips on one page | A film: video, photos and text cards in one montage |
| How it is experienced | Scrolled, usually alone | Played start to finish, usually with people |
| What the price is charged by | The board, by how many posts it holds | The finished film’s length |
| The ladder | Lite $6.99 to 20 posts, Premium $9.99 to 100, Milestone $19.99 unlimited | $5 to 3 min, $15 to 10, $30 to 20, $45 to 30, $60 to 150 |
| Lowest published price | $6.99, and it covers a long celebration as readily as a short one | $5, and only for a film under three minutes |
| Annual plans | 5-board pack $35 a year; Business $299 to 50 employees; Pro $449 | Personal $59.99 a year for 6 videos; Business $237.99 for 30 |
| A dedicated memorial product | Memorial board, $99 | Not published as a separate product |
| Editing | Nothing to edit; contributors lay out their own tiles | Trim, split, reorder, text cards, themes, unlimited previews |
| Music | No music feature published on their pricing, features or how-it-works pages | Music library plus a custom song builder |
| Contributor reminders | Listed as “Reminders” under Administration, with no detail published | Smart invites: open tracking, RSVP list, automatic reminders |
| Contributors who would rather write | Served directly: a note takes seconds | Served partly: text cards sit beside the video |
| Physical output | Print the board as a book or a poster | Video Book (17 covers), postcard with QR code, gift wrap |
| When you pay | Not published; premium is described as applying to larger groups and added features, without saying when it is charged | At the end, to download and share (create now, pay later) |
Kudoboard charges by the board, so a long celebration costs what a short one does. VidDay charges by the finished film’s length, so it starts lower and climbs past it. Computed from their published ladders.
| Collection | Kudoboard | VidDay |
|---|---|---|
| 6 clips of 30 sec | $6.99Lite Board, holds 20 posts | $5.00pay per video, up to 3 min (film runs 3 min) |
| 6 clips of 35 sec | $6.99Lite Board, holds 20 posts | $15.00pay per video, up to 10 min (film runs 3 min 30 sec) |
| 15 clips of 60 sec | $6.99Lite Board, holds 20 posts | $30.00pay per video, up to 20 min (film runs 15 min) |
| 40 clips of 35 sec | $9.99Premium Board, holds 100 posts | $45.00pay per video, up to 30 min (film runs 23 min 20 sec) |
| 120 clips of 60 sec | $19.99Milestone Board, holds unlimited posts | $60.00pay per video, up to 150 min (film runs 120 min) |
We make a film rather than a board, and we charge by something neither of these two uses: the videos you actually receive. The flip this page is about does not exist on our pricing, because length is not what we meter. Six people talking for two minutes each costs what six people talking for twenty seconds each costs.
What we do not make is the board, the print, the themes or the editing suite. If the people contributing would rather type than record, a board is the right object. We may be the better option when you want the watched moment, cannot predict how many will reply, and would rather not find out what it costs after they have talked: the whole loop works before any payment.
| Collection | videos.me |
|---|---|
| 6 clips of 30 sec | $2.10pay as you go, 6 × $0.35 |
| 6 clips of 35 sec | $2.10pay as you go, 6 × $0.35 |
| 15 clips of 60 sec | $5.25pay as you go, 15 × $0.35 |
| 40 clips of 35 sec | $14.00pay as you go, 40 × $0.35 |
| 120 clips of 60 sec | $42.00pay as you go, 120 × $0.35 |
Every route for every tool in the category, including the annual plans and a year of collections, is worked out on our cost comparison page.
Kudoboard and VidDay facts read from kudoboard.com/pricing and vidday.com/pricing, 12 October 2026. Their features and prices are theirs to change; check their sites for current details. Our own figures are read from the pricing service that charges the card, not typed.
Above about three minutes of finished film, yes, and the gap widens. Below it, no: VidDay’s entry tier is $5 for a film up to three minutes, where Kudoboard’s cheapest board is $6.99. Six people talking for half a minute each is the shape where the film is the cheaper buy, and almost nothing longer is.
A Kudoboard is a page people post to, tiles of notes, GIFs, photos and short clips, which can be printed as a book or a poster. A VidDay is one video: contributions are assembled into a montage with themes, music and text cards. A board is browsed on a screen, usually alone. A film is played through, usually with people watching together.
Both publish annual plans and they are shaped differently. Kudoboard sells a 5-board pack at $35 a year and a Business Plan at $299 a year for up to 50 employees, counted in boards. VidDay sells a Personal membership at $59.99 a year for 6 videos and a Business membership at $237.99 for 30, counted in videos. Which fits depends on how many occasions you run a year and whether the output needs to be a film.
Kudoboard, more directly: a written note is a first-class post rather than a fallback. VidDay allows text cards and photos beside the video, so it is served there too, but the artifact is still a film and a page of text cards is not what it is for.
Kudoboard publishes a dedicated memorial board at $99. VidDay does not publish a separate memorial product, so a memorial montage is priced like any other film, by length from $5. The real decision is the object: written memories and photographs on a page, or people speaking in a film.
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