Vmake AI Review

Testing the Watermark Remover

The upload screen is plain and quick to read. You drag a file in, paste one, or import from a link, and a batch upload button sits beside the single upload. Two sample files are offered if you want to try the tool without your own material.

I fed it an AI-generated portrait carrying an OpenArt watermark stamped across the middle of the frame, which is a harder case than a small corner logo. After the upload, the tool asks what you want taken out. Auto mode gives five targets: Watermark, Text, People, Passerby, Logo. I ticked Watermark and hit Apply. A Manual tab is available if you would rather brush over a region yourself.

Processing a single image took about a minute.

The result was clean. Vmake detected and removed the OpenArt mark on its own, with no visible smearing across the area where the logo had been sitting, and the panel confirmed the removal.

Then the catch arrives. The output preview comes back tiled with Vmake’s own watermark, and the Download button carries a paid badge. A tool built to strip watermarks hands you back a watermarked file unless you subscribe.

Testing the Image Enhancer

For the second test I used a small, soft camel photo at low resolution.

Output quality here was strong. Detail in the fur came back, the sand texture held together, and the edges avoided the plastic look that cheap upscalers leave behind. The panel offers three 4K modes on the standard tier, with 8K and 16K sitting behind a Pro badge. Content presets cover Portrait, Portrait Pro, Old photo, and Product.

Same wall as before. The preview is watermarked and the download is paid.

Trying to Generate a Product Video

Video generation is the feature the whole platform is built around, so this was the test that mattered. I uploaded a stainless steel baby feeding bottle as the product reference.

The prompt I gave it:

Create a premium 8-second product advertisement using the uploaded steel baby feeding bottle as the exact product reference. Show the bottle rotating smoothly on a clean, soft pastel background with gentle studio lighting. Highlight its wide neck, stainless-steel finish, and baby-friendly design. Add subtle light reflections, elegant camera movement, and a warm, hygienic, premium feel. Keep the bottle’s shape, color, logo, and details unchanged.

I then set the cheapest configuration the tool would allow: Seedance 2.0 at 720p, eight seconds, in a 9:16 vertical frame.

It failed, and the error message explained exactly why. The job required 320 credits. My balance was zero.

The Credit Math Behind the Free Tier

That 320-credit figure is the number everything else in this review turns on.

The pricing page advertises 20 credits daily on the free plan, valid for one day.

My account showed a balance of zero.

There is no daily check-in button anywhere in the interface, no task panel, and nothing to claim. The advertised credits simply never appeared.

Put the two figures side by side and the free tier stops adding up. Twenty credits a day that expire after twenty-four hours cannot be saved up toward 320. Even if the daily allowance had landed in my account exactly as advertised, a free user still could not generate one eight-second video. The ceiling is structural rather than a bug in my account.

The paid math works out like this. Plus at $9.99 per month carries 1,000 credits, which buys three eight-second clips at roughly $3.33 each. Pro at $29.99 per month carries 4,500 credits, or fourteen clips at about $2.14 each. Both numbers assume the cheapest settings I tested. A longer clip or a sharper resolution costs more than that.

Two things stayed outside this test. I did not pay for a subscription, so I cannot speak to output quality on a paid plan, and I did not put the cancellation flow through its paces, which is the complaint that comes up most often in third-party reviews of the service.