# Motion > Creative analytics that shows which ads work and why Motion (motionapp.com) is a creative analytics tool for ad teams, not the Motion calendar and task planner. It reports on your own ad accounts: it pulls ads and results from Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn into visual reports, tags every creative with AI and suggests what to make next. Its Inspo feed also follows competitors' new ads. Plans are priced by monthly ad spend. - **Category:** Ad Creative & Reporting - **Made by:** Motion Creative Cloud Inc. - **Website:** https://motionapp.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Motion is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $999 per month for up to $50K ad spend a month. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $999 per month for up to $50K ad spend a month; billing term not stated | Unlimited seats and ad accounts, AI tags and tasks, ad leaderboard, creative analytics, competitor inspiration, benchmarks, MCP access and Slack requests. | | Pro | Custom | For brands spending over $50K a month: adds unlimited view-only guests, Northbeam and Google Analytics attribution, video QA in Slack and onboarding. | | Growth | Custom | For brands spending over $125K a month: adds a dedicated customer success manager, solutions engineering, advanced security and private Slack support. | Read from https://motionapp.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Motion before buying. ## Key features - **Visual creative reports:** Top performer, comparison and launch reports put each ad's image or video next to its numbers, grouped by creative, and update themselves. - **AI tags:** Tags every ad by asset type, visual format, hook and angle, so results can be compared by element and gaps in creative variety stand out. - **AI tasks and chat:** One-click tasks analyze a report, review creative variety or find ads to iterate on, with follow-up chat and a recommended next brief. - **Inspo competitor feed:** Follow other advertisers to see their newly launched ads in a feed, save ads to boards, and run AI analyses on what rival brands are doing. - **Snapshots for sharing:** Share live or frozen reports and AI outputs by link with teammates, clients or agencies, who need no Motion login, and hide sensitive data. - **Attribution data:** Brings Google Analytics 4 and Northbeam attribution and custom conversions into reports, from the Pro plan up. ## Good for - Direct-to-consumer brands spending heavily on Meta and TikTok ads - Creative strategists who brief editors on which ads to make next - Agencies sharing visual ad reports with clients ## Worth knowing - Not the Motion planner: this is a separate product from a different company, for analyzing ad creative. - Only Starter has a published price; Pro and Growth, for over $50K and $125K of monthly ad spend, are priced through sales. - Plan limits follow average monthly ad spend over the last 3 months; going over brings a sales contact, not a cutoff. - It analyzes ads and suggests briefs but does not make the videos or images itself. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Motion is creative analytics: it pulls your ads from Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn into visual reports, tags every ad with AI and suggests what to make next. It's not the Motion calendar app. The only published price is $999 a month for up to $50K of ad spend, which is a lot if you spend far less than that. - **Value for money: F.** Graded against the reporting tools it's listed with. The only published price is Starter at $999 a month for up to $50K of ad spend, billing term not stated, and someone spending a tenth of that pays the same. That's several times what its rivals charge at that spend, and nothing here explains the gap. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial that needs no card. That's long enough to connect your accounts and see a few reports before paying. - **Features: C.** Visual reports, AI tags by hook and angle, AI tasks that suggest the next brief, a feed of rivals' new ads and shareable snapshots. It's strong analysis, but it doesn't make the ads, and attribution from GA4 and Northbeam only comes on Pro, priced through sales. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You connect ad accounts before anything shows, and the reports and tags take some learning, though shared snapshots need no login for clients. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no phone or desktop app. It reads Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn ad accounts, posts to Slack, takes Google Analytics 4 and Northbeam data on Pro, and offers MCP access. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Motion's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among ad creative and reporting tools - Motion's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 11 other ad creative and reporting tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 1 of 11) and worst on value for money (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $50 a month, against a middle price of $19 for the category: 9 of the 10 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ad-tools ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Motion you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 10 of the 11 other ad creative and reporting tools grade higher. It costs $600 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads and YouTube Ads among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, YouTube Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Google Analytics 4, Northbeam, Slack **Tags:** Reports, Dashboards, AI features, AI agents ## Alternatives - [Atria](https://toolgpa.com/tools/atria): Meta and TikTok ad library, ad reports and AI ad ideas in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/atria-vs-motion-ads) - [Foreplay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/foreplay): Save, search and track competitors' ads, and report on your own. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/foreplay-vs-motion-ads) - [Madgicx](https://toolgpa.com/tools/madgicx): AI optimization, automation and reports for Meta ad accounts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/madgicx-vs-motion-ads) - [Superads](https://toolgpa.com/tools/superads): Creative analytics across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google Ads. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/motion-ads-vs-superads) - [Birch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/birch): Rules that manage and report on ad accounts, formerly Revealbot. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/birch-vs-motion-ads) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://motionapp.com/pricing/ - https://motionapp.com/ - https://motionapp.com/integrations/ - https://motionapp.com/llm-info/ - https://help.motionapp.com/en/articles/12759123-faqs-about-motion - https://help.motionapp.com/en/articles/14305934-why-am-i-seeing-an-ad-spend-limit-banner-in-motion Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/motion-ads Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).