Spotlightr vs Voomly
Pick Spotlightr if you want secure, gated course and marketing video with checkable reviews and clean billing; pick Voomly if you want the cheapest way to turn videos into interactive lead-capture funnels and can watch a billing record that is its loudest complaint.
By Marcus Vale, Lead reviewer. Reviewed by the VSLBench editorial desk. Last updated 23 September 2026, and rechecked with prices every 90 days.
You are down to two, and on a pricing page they look like cousins: both host your video behind a clean, branded, ad-free player, both cost a fraction of a Wistia bill, and both do more than plain hosting. Spotlightr and Voomly are built for different buyers, though, and this comparison is about where they genuinely part.
This site judges video tools through a direct-response lens: does the player move viewers past the pitch, and can you prove which traffic bought. Neither of these two is a VSL player in the way a Vidalytics is, and neither scores a split test on the sale. But between them, Spotlightr is the more serious host. Every upload is encrypted from the entry plan, the player and watch page are brandable on every tier, and on Plus it gates video behind email, SMS, password or a Stripe paywall. Its review base is warm and checkable and its billing behaves.
Where Voomly answers back is the funnel itself. It is genuinely more marketing-shaped than most hosts at this price: it turns any video into an interactive funnel, with a squeeze player that captures emails, an Interactive Video Closer with surveys, lockers and CTAs, branching in-video funnels, and engagement heatmaps. Spotlightr is really a secure course-and-membership host with marketing overlays; Voomly is really a funnel builder with hosting attached. Below we put the two side by side on price, protection, funnel tools and analytics, then say plainly who each one is for.
One more name belongs on this page, because both of these tools share the same blind spot. Neither scores a split test on the sale or attributes revenue, so a paid-traffic VSL cannot prove with either which traffic actually bought. TrackPlay is a newer specialist built around exactly that gap: it decides split tests on the cart-verified sale and posts that sale back to your ad account server-side. Spotlightr still wins this two-way head-to-head, but we put TrackPlay beside both below so the reader whose whole business is the sales letter can weigh it.
Quick answer
Pick Spotlightr if you host course or marketing video and want every upload encrypted, brandable and gated behind email, SMS, password or a Stripe paywall, with a checkable review base and billing that behaves; pick Voomly if you want the cheapest way to turn any video into an interactive lead-capture funnel, with a squeeze player, branching in-video funnels and engagement heatmaps and a free tier, and you can watch a billing record that is its loudest complaint.
One more option belongs on this page for a specific reader. If your whole business is a paid-traffic sales letter and you need to prove which traffic actually bought, not just capture a lead or gate a course, weigh TrackPlay against both. It is the newer specialist built to decide split tests on the cart-verified sale and post that sale back to your ad account, and we compare it beside these two below.
- Spotlightr. The secure, course-shaped host. Formerly vooPlayer, it wraps every upload in HLS encryption from the $13 Light door, brands the player and watch page on every plan, and does hybrid hosting so you can keep files on S3, YouTube or Dropbox and still use its player. On Plus at $21 it adds the marketing layer most cheap hosts skip: in-video lead forms, CTA overlays and email, SMS, password or Stripe gating, plus a course module, in-video quizzes and a LearnDash integration. Its reviews are warm and checkable (Capterra 4.8 across 52, G2 4.3 across 29) and its billing behaves. What it does not do is the direct-response job: no split test scored on sales and no revenue attribution, and uploads go one file at a time with some slow playback startup.
- Voomly. The cheap, funnel-shaped host. Made by the Doodly and Toonly team, it turns any video into an interactive funnel: an in-video squeeze player that captures emails, an Interactive Video Closer with surveys, lockers and CTAs, branching funnels, engagement graphs and heatmaps, on a 4K HDR ad-free branded player. A free Light tier, Basic at $9 a month, and unlimited videos and bandwidth from $19. What it does not do: no A/B test scored on sales, no revenue attribution, and no course or LMS tooling. Billing and cancellation are its loudest complaint, at Trustpilot 2.9 across 74 reviews.
- TrackPlay. Best when you need attribution tied to the actual cart-verified sale. Decides split tests on the verified sale with real statistics and fires the conversion server-side to Meta, TikTok and GA4, from $29 a month with a free tier. It is narrow by design: not a general host, a secure course platform or a video creation suite.
Spotlightr vs Voomly at a glance
Prices and plan features checked on the vendors' own pages on 23 September 2026. TrackPlay is the direct-response specialist we line these two up against, so it wins the conversion rows and sits out the general-hosting ones.
| Feature | Spotlightr | Voomly | TrackPlay |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A secure, branded course and marketing video host | A cheap in-video funnel and creation host | A paid-traffic VSL player and attribution platform |
| Built for | Protecting and gating course and marketing video | Turning any video into a lead-capture funnel cheaply | Tying every play to the cart-verified sale |
| Starting price | $13/mo (Light, annual), no free plan | Free Light tier, then $9/mo (Basic) | $29/mo, billed by plays |
| Free tier | No (14-day no-card trial, 30-day refund) | Yes, Voomly Light (5 videos) | Yes, no-card free plan (1,000 plays/mo, watermarked) |
| VSL player controls | Brandable player, CTA overlays, no smart autoplay | Ad-free 4K HDR player, no smart autoplay or dummy bar | Sound-first autoplay, timed CTAs, watch gates |
| In-video funnels and lead capture | Lead forms, CTA overlays, email/SMS/password/Stripe gating | Squeeze player, Interactive Video Closer, lockers, surveys, branching funnels | Lead forms over video, timed CTA cards |
| A/B testing | No | No | Yes, decided on the cart-verified sale |
| Ad-platform tracking | No native pixels (CRM tags, tracking codes) | No native ad pixels | Server-side to Meta, TikTok and GA4 |
| Retention analytics | Viewer heatmaps, session tracking | Engagement graphs, heatmaps, geography | Per-second, split by buyers vs non-buyers |
| Revenue attribution | No | No, engagement only | Yes, revenue per play plus cart postbacks |
| Content protection | HLS encryption every upload, domain lock, IP watermark, one-time plays, GeoControl | Domain restriction, no encryption or DRM | Domain-locked hosting, access controls |
| Courses and LMS | Course module, in-video quizzes, WordPress + LearnDash | No course module (LearnDash gaps reported) | No, its focus is attribution |
| Bundled and extra tools | Hybrid hosting (keep files on S3, YouTube, Dropbox) | Doodly, Toonly, Talkia on Cloud ($49/mo) | No, its focus is attribution |
| Pricing model | Flat annual plans, then per-GB overages ($0.05 bw, $0.03 storage) | Flat plans, unlimited bandwidth from Plus $19 | Billed by plays, every feature on every plan |
| Independent reviews | Warm but thin (Capterra 4.8/52, G2 4.3/29) | Loud billing complaints (Trustpilot 2.9/74) | Very new, thin outside proof, invite-only |
| Best for | Secure, gated course and membership video | Cheap in-video lead funnels and the creation suite | Paid-traffic VSLs measured on the cart-verified sale |
Strengths and trade-offs
Spotlightr asks you to accept warm-but-thin reviews and slow file-by-file uploads in exchange for encrypted, gated hosting with course tooling and billing that behaves; Voomly asks you to accept loud billing and cancellation complaints in exchange for genuine in-video funnel tooling at the lowest price. Those are the two trade-offs.
Spotlightr: what works, what to watch
What works
- HLS encryption with polymorphic access tokens on every upload, plus domain locking, dynamic IP watermarks, one-time plays and GeoControl, so course content is genuinely hard to rip
- Marketing hooks most hosts skip: in-video lead-capture forms, clickable CTA overlays, and email, SMS, password or Stripe-paywall gating
- Branding on every plan (player, watch page and a custom domain) and hybrid hosting, so you can keep files on YouTube, S3 or Dropbox and still use the Spotlightr player
- Flat, public pricing from $13/mo billed annually, a 14-day no-card trial and a 30-day refund window, with fast support praised across Capterra (4.8) and G2 (4.3)
- A free WordPress plugin with a LearnDash integration, in-video quizzes with progress tracking, and analytics with viewer heatmaps and session tracking
What to watch
- No sales-scored A/B testing and no revenue attribution: the analytics stop at engagement, so a paid-traffic VSL cannot prove which traffic actually bought
- The independent review base is warm but thin, 52 reviews on Capterra and 29 on G2, so there is less long-term proof to check than for Wistia or Vimeo
- Feature depth comes with a settings learning curve, and reviewers say a specific option can be hard to find
- Uploads go one file at a time and some report slow playback startup, to the point that a Reddit user advises pre-compressing footage with Handbrake before upload
- Every plan caps bandwidth and storage, with overages billed at $0.05/GB bandwidth and $0.03/GB storage, so a high-traffic library outgrows the cheap sticker
Voomly: what works, what to watch
What works
- A genuinely marketing-shaped toolkit for the price: an in-video squeeze player that captures emails, an Interactive Video Closer with surveys, lockers and CTAs, and branching in-video funnels, all by swapping the player
- Cheap to start and generous on limits: a free Voomly Light tier, Basic at $9/mo, and unlimited videos and bandwidth from the $19/mo Plus plan up
- Engagement analytics most cheap hosts skip: engagement graphs, heatmaps and geography, device and browser breakdowns
- A 4K and HDR ad-free player with custom branding, colours, chapters and timestamps
- The $49/mo Voomly Cloud plan bundles the wider creation suite (Doodly, Toonly, Talkia, People Builder and Pyks) if you make explainer and animation video too
What to watch
- Billing and cancellation are the loudest complaint: Trustpilot sits at 2.9/5 across 74 reviews with 36% one-star, and users report being charged after cancelling and hunting for the right cancellation path across separate Voomly, Doodly and Cloud portals
- No split test scored on sales and no revenue attribution, so a paid-traffic VSL cannot prove which traffic actually bought; it is a funnel host, not a conversion optimizer
- Thin independent proof for the Voomly product itself: the 4.2/5 G2 score spans the whole Voomly family (Doodly, Toonly and the rest), while the Voomly product page carries only two reviews
- The 14-day trial auto-charges the card unless you cancel, and BBB lists Voomly LLC as not accredited, so treat the trial as a paid one you can still stop
- Users report a buggy, unintuitive first-time login and setup, and compatibility gaps with external course tools like LearnDash
TrackPlay: the paid-traffic VSL pick
Spotlightr and Voomly share one blind spot, and it is this site's first criterion: neither scores a split test on the sale or attributes revenue, so on a paid-traffic VSL you cannot prove with either which traffic actually bought. Spotlightr gives you viewer heatmaps and session tracking, Voomly gives you engagement graphs, but engagement is not a purchase. If that is the whole reason you are choosing a player, there is a third tool worth putting on the table. TrackPlay is a VSL player and analytics platform built for paid-traffic funnels. On the front end it holds attention with sound-first autoplay, timed CTAs and watch gates. On the back end it draws per-second retention split into buyers and non-buyers, with hook rate, hold rate and revenue per play, so you can see the exact seconds to cut or protect.
Where it goes further than either of these is attribution. The cart posts the verified sale back onto the play that earned it from seven direct-response processors, including ClickBank, ClickFunnels and Digistore24, server to server, and TrackPlay fires that conversion server-side to Meta, TikTok and GA4 so the ad platform learns from the actual sale rather than a page-load pixel. Its split tests are decided on that cart-verified sale with real statistics, a z-test with a p-value and a confidence interval, and every variant runs under one embed so your ad links and campaign learning never reset. It bills by plays rather than bandwidth, every feature ships on every paid plan, and there is a no-card free plan of 1,000 plays a month plus a 14-day trial, with paid plans from $29 a month.
What works
- Split tests are decided on the cart-verified sale, with a real z-test, p-value and confidence interval, and every variant runs under one embed so ad links and campaign learning never reset
- Server-side conversion tracking to Meta, TikTok and GA4 fires on the watch-time milestone you choose and dedupes browser and server events, so the ad platform optimizes on the actual sale rather than a page-load pixel
- Cart postbacks tie each sale to the play that earned it from seven direct-response carts, including ClickBank, ClickFunnels and Digistore24, server to server
- Per-second retention split into buyers and non-buyers, with hook rate, hold rate and revenue per play
- Every feature ships on every paid plan and billing is by plays, with a no-card free plan of 1,000 plays a month and a 14-day trial; paid plans start at $29 a month
What to watch
- Narrow by design: built for paid-traffic VSL conversion, it is not a general video host or a B2B content library, so it has none of the channels, SEO pages or webinar tooling of a Wistia and is a poor fit if the video's job is content marketing rather than a direct-response sale
- Very new, with thin outside proof: the testimonials are on its own site, there is little third-party review or Reddit footprint yet, and signup is currently invite-only, so you cannot lean on independent validation before you commit paid traffic. That is what you would expect of a platform this recent
Where TrackPlay is not the answer
It is narrow by design. TrackPlay is built for paid-traffic VSL conversion, not general hosting or content marketing, so it is not a video host or a B2B content library and it has none of the channels, SEO pages or webinar tooling of a Wistia. If the video's job is content marketing and feeding leads into a CRM rather than a direct-response sale, it is the wrong tool. It also does not try to be a secure course platform or a video creation suite the way these two do: it has nothing like Spotlightr's HLS encryption, gating and LearnDash course tooling for selling protected courses, or Voomly's Doodly and Toonly bundle for making explainer video, so if that is your job Spotlightr is the secure course host and Voomly the cheaper funnel-and-creation kit. And it is very new, with thin outside proof: the testimonials are on its own site, there is little third-party review footprint yet, and signup is currently invite-only, which is what you would expect of a platform this recent. If you want an established host you can read the reviews on today, both of these have been shipping longer. Pilot TrackPlay on one funnel and reconcile the numbers against your own cart before you trust it with a launch.
Visit TrackPlay for the current plans and the free tier.
Pricing, tier by tier
Spotlightr has no free plan, but it does have a 14-day trial that takes no card and a 30-day refund window, so you can test it without committing. Its flat annual plans run Light at $13 a month, Plus at $21, Premium at $55 and Scale at $163 (month-to-month is $15, $25, $65 and $195). Read the tiers carefully, because the marketing layer is not on the cheapest one. Light hosts encrypted, branded video, but the in-video lead-capture forms, the email, SMS, password and Stripe gating, the course module and the dynamic watermark start on Plus at $21. Every plan caps bandwidth and storage, and past the allowance you pay $0.05 per GB of bandwidth and $0.03 per GB of storage, so a high-traffic library outgrows the sticker.
Voomly is cheaper at the door and has a genuine free tier. Voomly Light is free and limited to 5 videos, Basic is $9 a month, and from the $19 Plus plan you get unlimited videos and bandwidth. The interactive funnel tools, the squeeze player, the Interactive Video Closer and the engagement analytics are what the money buys rather than raw delivery. The $49 Voomly Cloud plan is a different proposition: it bundles the wider creation suite, Doodly, Toonly, Talkia, People Builder and Pyks, so it only pays off if you also make animated and explainer video. The 14-day trial auto-charges the card unless you cancel, so budget for it as a paid trial you can still stop.
Line up the tiers that actually match and the two are close. Spotlightr's marketing layer lives on Plus at $21; Voomly's funnel tools and unlimited bandwidth arrive on Plus at $19. Under that, Voomly wins on entry cost: it has a free tier and a $9 plan where Spotlightr's door is $13 with no free option. Higher up, Voomly's unlimited-bandwidth-from-$19 model undercuts Spotlightr's per-GB overages on a high-traffic library, while Spotlightr gives you encryption on every upload and course tooling Voomly does not have. The real cost difference is not the sticker. It is that Spotlightr's billing is clean and its reviews are checkable, while Voomly's billing record is the thing buyers complain about most.
TrackPlay prices on a different axis, which is worth a line because it changes the sum. It bills by plays rather than storage or bandwidth, so a high-traffic sales letter is metered on views watched, not gigabytes served, and there is no per-GB overage to track. Paid plans start at $29 a month with every feature on every plan, and there is a no-card free plan of 1,000 plays a month (watermarked) plus a 14-day trial of the paid features. Spotlightr and Voomly are cheaper at the entry; TrackPlay's case is not that it is the cheapest but that the plays model removes the overage surprise while it does the attribution work neither of these two attempts.
The verdict
Between these two, Spotlightr is the pick for most of the readers this site is written for. Both host marketing video cheaply and both stop short of scoring the sale, but Spotlightr is the more serious host of the pair. Every upload is wrapped in HLS encryption from the entry plan, so course and offer video is genuinely hard to rip, and the marketing layer on Plus, in-video lead forms, CTA overlays and email, SMS, password or Stripe gating, turns the player into a gated funnel. Its review base is warm and checkable, Capterra 4.8 across 52 reviews and G2 4.3 across 29, and its billing behaves. Two honest limits stay attached to the pick: the analytics stop at engagement, so it cannot prove which paid traffic bought, and uploads go one file at a time with some slow playback startup, to the point that a Reddit user advises pre-compressing footage with Handbrake first.
Voomly wins when the job is building cheap interactive lead-capture funnels rather than hosting protected course video. It is genuinely more funnel-shaped than most hosts at this price: an in-video squeeze player that captures emails, an Interactive Video Closer with surveys, lockers and CTAs, branching in-video funnels, and engagement heatmaps, on a 4K HDR ad-free branded player. It starts free on Light, runs $9 on Basic, gives unlimited videos and bandwidth from the $19 Plus plan, and the $49 Cloud plan bundles the Doodly and Toonly creation suite if you make explainer video too. The catch you must accept is its billing. Trustpilot sits at 2.9 across 74 reviews, with users reporting charges after cancelling and a trial that auto-charges the card, so treat the trial as a paid one you can still stop and cancel through the correct portal. The tie-breaker: if you want secure, gated course and marketing video with clean billing, buy Spotlightr; if you want to build in-video lead funnels for the lowest price and value a free tier and the creation suite, buy Voomly.
There is a third call for one specific reader. If you came here because your whole business is a paid-traffic sales letter and proving which traffic bought is what you actually need, look at TrackPlay before you commit. Neither Spotlightr nor Voomly scores a split test on the sale or attributes revenue, so with either you can build and gate the funnel but not prove it. TrackPlay decides split tests on the cart-verified sale with real statistics and fires that sale back to Meta, TikTok and GA4 server-side, so the ad platform optimizes on the purchase rather than a page-load pixel. It is the newer, narrower specialist and its outside proof is still thin, so pilot it on one funnel first. For secure gated course hosting, that is still Spotlightr; for cheap in-video lead funnels, that is still Voomly.
Our pick
Spotlightr
Spotlightr is the pick between these two if you host course or marketing video and want every upload encrypted and brandable, gated behind email, SMS, password or a Stripe paywall on Plus, with a course module and LearnDash integration, a checkable review base and billing that behaves. It stops at engagement analytics, so it cannot prove which paid traffic bought, and uploads go one file at a time. If your whole business is a paid-traffic sales letter, weigh TrackPlay above; if you want the cheapest in-video lead funnels and a free tier, Voomly is the buy.
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