simpleshow

simpleshow combines an AI video creation platform with a studio producing custom explainer videos and interactive learning content. Founded in 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany, the business focuses on turning complex information into short visual stories for corporate communication, education and training. Its offering brings together automated video tools and bespoke production, giving organizations different ways to create explanatory content for employees, customers and learners.

Video creation and production

The simpleshow video maker is a browser-based platform that converts written scripts and text into animated explainer videos. It helps users select contextual illustrations, apply animation and integrate synthetic voices. Supporting tools include the AI Story Generator for scripting and The Simplifier, which transforms documents and presentations, including PDFs and slide decks, into video content.

Alongside its software, simpleshow provides full-service custom explainer production, including illustration, animation and voiceover work. Its multilingual offering combines automated translation and voice synthesis with professional voiceover artists, supporting productions in more than 50 languages. This combination serves teams creating both individual commissioned videos and recurring communication or training materials.

Interactive learning and enterprise communication

Through simpleshow interactive, the company develops video experiences with quizzes, clickable branching scenarios and learning content compatible with SCORM and learning management systems. Its work supports employee onboarding, compliance, health and safety, knowledge transfer and broader learning and development programmes. Other markets include enterprise technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, automotive and education.

The business expanded from bespoke studio production into software with the 2016 beta release of mysimpleshow, subsequently renamed simpleshow video maker. It now operates internationally across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, with its global headquarters in Berlin.

In September 2025, D-ID acquired simpleshow, bringing its explainer video tools and enterprise production capabilities together with D-ID’s conversational digital humans and visual agent technology. simpleshow continues to operate as an active subsidiary and specialized business unit within the group.