What Rotato is good at
Rotato has been the Mac mockup app for years, and it shows. Its renderer is built on Apple's Metal, it can path trace a frame for the glossiest stills, and it exports ProRes 4444 and 8K. It's a mature tool and many agencies are happy with it.
It also has a Figma plugin and a long list of hand-made scene templates.
Where Mockup Center is different
Rotato makes 3D device videos. Mockup Center makes those too, and adds two things Rotato doesn't have: 250+ photo mockups (real photographs with the screen mapped) and a much larger device list, 65 devices against Rotato's 30+.
Animation works differently as well. In Mockup Center you pick animations from a menu and they line up one after another on the timeline. Drag a clip's edge and only its length changes; drag the clip in the list and the order changes. You can still set your own keyframes when a preset isn't enough.
Exports are on par: Mockup Center also renders up to 8K and writes ProRes 4444 with a transparent background for Final Cut, Premiere and DaVinci, next to MP4 and WebM.
Then there's the price. Rotato's plans are one-time payments of $79 (phones only, no templates), $89 and $199 for Premium with 100 templates (rotato.app/pricing, checked November 2026). Mockup Center Premium is also a one-time payment, at half of Rotato Premium.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Rotato if your team already lives in its Figma plugin or you rely on its path-traced stills.
Pick Mockup Center if you want 3D, video templates and photo mockups in one app, more devices to choose from, or a lower one-time price. The free plan has no time limit, so you can try it on a real project before you decide.
