Sett's product page says its team runs the agents and your team approves the output. It does not describe a self-serve plan.

How much does Sett cost?

Sett does not publish pricing. All calls to action lead to a demo request.

Does Sett make playable ads?

Yes. Sett generates playable and video ads. Turning existing video ads into playables is listed as coming soon.

What is the closest alternative to Sett?

Segwise, which runs managed playable generation tied to creative analytics. For a self-serve option, Genie Playable, Layer or Craftsman+.

Can I make playables from my own game without a developer?

Yes. Genie Playable builds from your APK or HTML build and the assets in Genie, and your team iterates without a developer. See how to make a playable from your own game.

Which networks do these tools export to?

It varies. Check that every network you buy on is supported before you switch. Our specs hub lists each network's requirements.

Sett alternatives for playable ads (2026)

The closest Sett alternative is Segwise, which also runs AI playable generation as a managed service tied to performance data. If you are leaving Sett because you want your own team to run production, look at self-serve tools instead: Genie Playable, Layer, Craftsman+ or PlayableMaker, depending on how much you want built from your actual game. Sett is a strong fit for large studios that want a steady flow of video and playable concepts without operating a tool. Teams look elsewhere mostly for control, published pricing, or because they only need playables.

We make Genie Playable. We've tried to be fair; tell us if something is out of date.

Key takeaways

Sett is an agentic AI platform for UA creative. Its team runs the agents and your team approves the output. Pricing is not published.

Stay with Sett if you want video and playable concepts delivered as a flow, backed by performance data, and you'd rather not operate the tooling.

Look elsewhere if you want to run production yourself, start without a sales cycle, or pay a published price.

Segwise is the most like-for-like swap: managed playable generation on top of creative analytics.

Self-serve options range from template editors (PlayableMaker) to agents that start from a prompt (Layer) to tools that build from your game (Genie Playable).

Genie Playable fits teams that want to build from their own APK or HTML build without a developer, self-serve from $490/month, with exports for eight networks.

What is Sett good at?

The honest read: Sett is built for studios that want creative volume as a service. Its product page describes agents for creative strategy, UA creative analysis, and video and playable generation, with creative deployment marked "coming soon". During onboarding you share game assets and Sett builds its AI layer around your game, your audience and your UA strategy. You then receive a continuous stream of concepts to test.

Three things stand out:

·Video and playables in one flow. If your UA team tests both formats, one partner covering both keeps concepts consistent.

·Data in the loop. Sett lists connections to Meta, Google, AppLovin, Unity and Mintegral for performance data.

·Proof at scale. The site shows logos including Zynga, Scopely, Playtika, Rovio and Tripledot, plus case studies with Bagelcode, Vizor, Tactile and Papaya.

Sett also claims it is "10 x cheaper than humans" (vendor claim, sett.ai product page). There is no published price to test that against.

Who should stay with Sett?

Stay if your creative team is stretched, you want a partner to generate and filter concepts for you, and your testing cadence is high. Sett's own product page frames 30+ concepts a month as the bar to compete. If that matches your volume and your budget runs through a sales conversation anyway, switching tools will not fix much.

Why do teams look for Sett alternatives?

These reasons come from what Sett publishes, not from complaints we've collected. We don't have data on Sett's output quality or turnaround, so we don't comment on them.

Reason	What Sett publishes	What to look for instead
You want your own team to run it	Sett's team runs the agents; your team approves	A self-serve tool your UA or creative team operates daily
You need a price before a call	No pricing published; every CTA is "Get a demo"	Published plans you can start on this week
You only need playables	Bundles strategy, analysis, video and playables	A playable-focused tool
You want to turn winning videos into playables now	Video-to-playable marked "coming soon" on the use-cases page	A tool that ships video-to-playable today
You want network delivery handled in the tool	Deployment agents marked "coming soon"	Network-ready exports for the networks you buy on

How we compared

We read each vendor's live product and pricing pages on 26 Oct 2026 and recorded only what they publish. We scored each option on five things that matter to a UA team replacing a managed service: who runs production, what the playable is built from, network exports, pricing transparency, and how you get the next version. Where a vendor doesn't publish something, we say "not published" instead of guessing. We did not run paid tests of every tool, so this is a read of what each product offers, not a performance benchmark.

The six Sett alternatives

1. Segwise: the closest managed swap

Best for: teams that like the managed model but want playables driven by element-level performance tagging.

What it is: a creative analytics platform that tags creatives, including playables, by element (core mechanic, tutorial style, hook, end card, CTA) and matches those tags to IPM, CPI and ROAS. Its playable generation builds new playables from the elements that perform, and a team polishes and tests each one before delivery.

Pros: the analytics and the generation share one data model. The FAQ lists AppLovin, Meta, Unity Ads, Mintegral, ironSource and Moloco for playables. A 7-day free trial covers the analytics platform.

Cons: like Sett, it is managed. Segwise describes playable generation as a managed service rather than a tool your team runs. If control is your reason for leaving Sett, this does not solve it.

Pricing: platform plans from $499/month (Growth, up to $250K monthly ad spend) and $1,699/month (Pro). Playable generation pricing is not published.

2. Genie Playable: self-serve, built from your game

Best for: live games whose UA or creative team wants to own playable production without a developer.

What it is: Genie Playable builds a playable from your APK or HTML build plus the assets in Genie, from a format that's already working, or from scratch from a brief using Genie Agent. You iterate from the last version instead of starting over.

Pros: your team runs it. The playable starts from your game, so mechanics and art match the store page. Optimized exports for Meta, AppLovin, Unity Ads, Liftoff, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Pangle and Mintegral, with Moloco coming soon. Published pricing.

Cons: playables only, no video or UGC production. No built-in creative analytics layer like Segwise's tagging, so you read results in your network and MMP dashboards. It is a tool, so someone on your team has to own it.

Pricing: self-serve from $490/month, or $249/month for startups, with a free sign-up that covers your first two playables. Larger companies can take a custom plan with a one-month pilot where the Genie team onboards you and helps build the playables you want.

One build in, the next version out. If your reason for leaving a managed service is waiting on someone else's queue, the fix is a tool that starts from your own build and keeps the last version as the starting point.

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3. Craftsman+: platform and studio in one

Best for: teams that want a self-serve platform today and the option to hand work to a studio when the queue gets long.

What it is: an AI platform that builds MRAID and HTML5 ads on a game engine, plus managed services for playables, video and UGC, art direction and dynamic creative. The site cites 200+ templates, a 15-minute brief-to-build claim, and a list of 31 export partners including AppLovin, Facebook, Google, Liftoff, Mintegral, Moloco, Pangle, Unity and Vungle.

Pros: the widest export list in this group, which matters if you also buy on DSPs. Pre-click analytics on taps and drop-off. Free tools listed on the site: file size checker, MRAID validator, network specs and previewer.

Cons: pricing is not published. The 200+ templates mean much of the self-serve path starts from a template rather than your build. The "Trust the numbers" section showed placeholder values when we checked, so we don't cite any performance figures.

Pricing: not published; demo-led. More detail in our Craftsman+ alternatives page.

4. Layer: prompt-first self-serve agent

Best for: teams already using Layer for game art who want playables from the same account.

What it is: an AI agent that starts from a game name or store link, a prompt, key art, a gameplay clip, a brief or your own HTML, and refines the playable through conversation. Output is MRAID-compliant HTML5.

Pros: self-serve, with a free account that includes a one-time grant of Creative Units. Playable creation is included in Layer plans with no per-export fee. Lists AppLovin, Meta, TikTok, Google UAC, Unity and ironSource.

Cons: plan prices were not on the playable page we checked. Starting from a store link or prompt is fast, but check how close the result gets to your real mechanics.

Pricing: included in Layer plans; free account to start.

5. Playbox: pay per playable

Best for: teams that want a known cost per playable rather than a subscription.

What it is: an agentic generator that starts from your game link, assets and UI, past playables with their data, a text idea, or a video ad. It offers self-serve generation and a managed option where certified creators build on the platform.

Pros: clear unit pricing. Lists Meta, Google, TikTok, AppLovin, Unity, Moloco and Mintegral exports. Video-to-playable is live.

Cons: the live game connection (Unity SDK) is marked as coming soon. Per-playable pricing adds up if you test heavily.

Pricing: managed new playable from $500; polish pass $150.

6. PlayableMaker: lowest cost to start

Best for: small teams with a designer who want to test playables cheaply.

What it is: a self-serve editor with a template library, an AI first draft, "vibe code" iterations and a video-to-playable editor.

Pros: free 30-day trial, monthly plans you can cancel, 300+ templates in all plans.

Cons: lower tiers cap exports and networks per export. Template-based work can drift toward a reskin of a generic mechanic. See PlayableMaker alternatives.

Pricing: free trial (2 exports); Essential €59/month; Starter €159/month; Pro €599/month; Enterprise custom.

How do the Sett alternatives compare?

Tool	Who runs production	Built from	Video too?	Networks (published)	Pricing
Sett	Sett's team; you approve	Your game assets, prompts	Yes	Meta, Google, AppLovin, Unity, Mintegral (data connections)	Not published
Segwise	Segwise team (managed)	Tagged elements of your playables	Yes (separate products)	AppLovin, Meta, Unity Ads, Mintegral, ironSource, Moloco	Platform from $499/mo; playables not published
Genie Playable	Your team	Your APK/HTML build, a working format, or a brief	No	Meta, AppLovin, Unity Ads, Liftoff, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Pangle, Mintegral; Moloco coming soon	From $490/mo; $249/mo startups
Craftsman+	Your team or their studio	Templates, briefs	Yes (studio)	31 listed partners	Not published
Layer	Your team	Store link, prompt, art, clip, HTML	Variants from the playable	AppLovin, Meta, TikTok, Google UAC, Unity, ironSource	In Layer plans
Playbox	Your team or certified creators	Game link, assets, video, idea	No	Meta, Google, TikTok, AppLovin, Unity, Moloco, Mintegral	From $500 per playable (managed)
PlayableMaker	Your team	Templates, AI draft, video	No	13 listed, capped by tier	€0 to €599/mo

What do UA teams miss when they leave a managed service?

The brief. Teams we talk to underestimate how much work a managed partner was doing in deciding what to test next. When you move to a self-serve tool, the first playable is rarely the hard part. The third and fourth versions are, when the network data says the hook works but the end card doesn't. Before you switch, decide who on your team owns the iteration plan and how many variants you'll test per cycle. Our guide on how many playables to test is a good starting point.

Iterate, not restart. Genie Playable keeps your last version as the base, so a new hook or end card is a change to a working playable, not a fresh build.

How to iterate on a winning playable

Which Sett alternative should you pick?

If your reason for leaving Sett is..	Look at
You like managed, want deeper playable analytics	Segwise
You want your team to own production, built from your game	Genie Playable
You want self-serve now, studio help later, and a long network list	Craftsman+
You already use Layer for art	Layer
You want a fixed price per playable	Playbox
You want the cheapest way to start testing	PlayableMaker
You need video and playables from one partner	Stay with Sett, or Craftsman+ studio

Where does Genie Playable fit?

Genie Playable is the option for teams leaving Sett because they want control. Your team runs it, without a developer, and every playable starts from something real: your APK or HTML build plus the assets in Genie, a format already working in your account, or a brief to Genie Agent. One build in. A network-ready playable out, for Meta, AppLovin, Unity Ads, Liftoff, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Pangle and Mintegral, with Moloco coming soon.

Who it's not for: teams that want someone else to decide and produce concepts every month, teams that need video and UGC from the same vendor, and teams that want an analytics product to tag every creative. Sett or Segwise fit those better. If you're a larger company and want help getting started, the custom plan includes a one-month pilot where our team onboards you and builds alongside you.

Try it on your own game. Want your team to own the next playable? Start self-serve with your first two playables included, or talk to us about a one-month pilot.

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FAQ

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A playable ad from your own game is a 30 to 90 second interactive slice of your game: your characters, your art and one clear mechanic, packaged as a small HTML5 file an ad network can run. You can't ship your game build as it is. Networks cap playables at about 5 MB in a single HTML file or ZIP, with strict rules on code and clicks. So you have three options: export a stripped-down scene from your engine, rebuild the moment in an HTML5 framework, or use a tool that builds the playable from your game's build and assets. This guide walks through all three.

Key takeaways

What does "a playable ad from your own game" actually mean?

It means the player sees your game, not a generic template with your logo on top. Studios that do this well keep three things fixed and treat the rest as open.

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This matches what UA and creative leads tell us. Brand fidelity is non-negotiable. Gameplay is often borrowed from whatever is trending. The catch is policy. The UK ASA now treats even a genuine but non-core mechanic as potentially misleading, and Google Play bans ads that don't represent the app. The closer your playable is to what players actually get, the safer it is, and the better it tends to retain.

Why can't I just ship my game build as a playable?

Ad networks run playables inside their own ad containers, not as apps. Every playable has to fit this box:

SizeAbout 5 MB on every major network (AppLovin, Meta, Google, TikTok, Unity, Mintegral, Moloco, Snapchat). A WebGL export of a real game is usually far bigger. An empty Godot export is already over the limit.

FormatOne self-contained HTML file with every asset inlined (AppLovin, Unity, Moloco), or a ZIP with an index.html (Google, TikTok, Mintegral, Snapchat). Meta accepts both.

No external callsNothing loads from your servers at runtime.

Click-out callmraid.open() on AppLovin and Unity, FbPlayableAd.onCTAClick() on Meta and Moloco, ExitApi.exit() on Google, window.openAppStore() on TikTok, window.install() on Mintegral.

Behavior rulesMuted until the first interaction, no store redirect on the first tap, no auto-redirects, works in portrait and landscape.

The full list lives in our Playable ad specs by network (2026).

What are the three ways to turn my game into a playable?

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Most studios mix routes: a hand-built hero playable for a launch, and faster tooling for the weekly variations that keep a campaign alive.

What buyers expect to pay and wait: roughly $3,000 to $8,000 and two to four weeks per new playable from an external studio, and roughly $600 to $2,000 in-house once the setup exists. Nobody has a clean source for these numbers, so treat them as market expectations. One mid-size studio we spoke to put it simply: the market norm is "two weeks onwards", and their target is under a week.

Your game is already the brief.

Upload your APK or HTML build. Genie Playable turns it into a playable ad with your own art, characters and live events, ready for 10 ad networks.

Try it free on your game

How do I make a playable ad from my game, step by step?

01\Pick the moment worth playing

Choose one mechanic a stranger understands in three seconds. Good sources: your core loop at its most satisfying, the live event running now, or a format already converting in your genre. If you can't explain the moment in one sentence, it's too complex. One mechanic beats two.

“Merge plus puzzle looks clever and almost always tests worse.”

Segwise

02\Script the arc

Almost every playable follows the same shape:

03\Prepare your assets

Export characters, backgrounds, UI and sounds from your game, then cut hard. Compress images, use sprite sheets, trim audio to short loops and subset fonts. Base64 inlining adds about a third to file size, so aim for 2 to 3 MB in total and treat 5 MB as the ceiling.

04\Build it

Whatever route you use, keep the logic in plain HTML and JavaScript, make the layout work in 9:16 and 16:9, and keep sound off until the first tap.

05\Package it for each network

This is where engineer time quietly disappears. "A unit that passes on AppLovin can bounce on Unity," as Segwise puts it. Each network needs the right file format, the right click-out call and any required hooks. Mintegral, for example, expects gameReady() and gameEnd() calls. Build once and generate network variants from one source. Hand-editing copies is how bugs creep in.

06\Test before you upload

Then test on a real low-end Android phone. A desktop browser hides most of the problems.

07\Launch and measure

Give each playable enough data before you judge it. A common rule of thumb is about 50 conversions in four days, or 100 in seven. Judge on D7 ROAS and retention, not CPI alone. If you can, add events inside the playable (start, first interaction, win or lose, CTA tap, drop-off point), because network dashboards only show the last step.

08\Plan the next version before this one fatigues

Top-grossing games ship dozens of new playables a month, and most of that volume is variations of a winner. Leading teams put roughly 70% of output into variations and 30% into new concepts. Decide now which single thing you'll change next: the hook, the fail state, the character, the event skin or the end card.

What should I keep from my game, and what can I borrow?

Keep everything that helps a player recognise your game after install: art, characters, UI language, sound. Borrow structure freely, whether that's a proven hook, a pacing pattern or a format working in another genre. Racing and narrative studios often tell us their game "isn't playable". The honest read: a playable doesn't need your full core loop. It needs one true moment from your world.

What are the most common mistakes?

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The next version, not a new brief.

When a playable fatigues, Genie Playable lets your UA or creative team change the hook, the character or the event skin on the last version and ship it again. No dev queue.

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Where does Genie fit?

Genie Playable takes the third route, and adds two more ways in. You can build from your game: your APK or HTML build together with the assets, narrative, mechanics and live events already in Genie. You can start from a format that's already working and rebuild it with your game inside. Or you can start from scratch and describe the playable to Genie Agent.

Genie Core keeps every version on brand, and Genie Playable exports network-ready variants for Meta, AppLovin, Unity Ads, Liftoff, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Pangle and Mintegral from one source, with Moloco coming soon. No developer is needed at any step, and your team makes the final call on every version. Sign-up is free and covers your first two playables. Try it on your game.

Where to go next

First playable? Follow how to make a playable ad step by step, then run it through the playable ad best practices checklist. Once it's live, read how to know if your playable ad is working and how to A/B test playable ads.

What is Sett good at?

Who should stay with Sett?

Why do teams look for Sett alternatives?

How we compared

The six Sett alternatives

1. Segwise: the closest managed swap

2. Genie Playable: self-serve, built from your game

3. Craftsman+: platform and studio in one

4. Layer: prompt-first self-serve agent

5. Playbox: pay per playable

6. PlayableMaker: lowest cost to start

How do the Sett alternatives compare?

What do UA teams miss when they leave a managed service?

Which Sett alternative should you pick?

Where does Genie Playable fit?

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Best playable ad tools in 2026: every approach, compared honestly

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Ready to ship playables from your game?

What does "a playable ad from your own game" actually mean?

Why can't I just ship my game build as a playable?

What are the three ways to turn my game into a playable?

How do I make a playable ad from my game, step by step?

01\Pick the moment worth playing

02\Script the arc

03\Prepare your assets

04\Build it

05\Package it for each network

06\Test before you upload

07\Launch and measure

08\Plan the next version before this one fatigues

What should I keep from my game, and what can I borrow?

What are the most common mistakes?

Where does Genie fit?

Where to go next

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