Rotato does animated 3D device mockups and does them beautifully. Aspects does photographic mockups as part of a wider export pipeline.
Both put a design in a device. They arrive at it from opposite directions.
What Rotato is better at
Motion in three dimensions. Rotato models the device in 3D, so it can spin, tilt, fly in and catch light from an angle you choose, and export that as video. For a launch video or an animated hero, that is exactly the tool and Aspects does not attempt it.
If the brief includes the word "animated", stop reading and use Rotato.
What Aspects does instead
Photographic chassis rather than 3D models. Device mockup composites into real renders — real glass, real edges, real light — at a fixed angle. Less flexible, and for a still it often looks more like a photograph, because it is closer to being one.
Two things follow from that difference:
- The screen can hold a live website. Give it a URL and the page renders into the chassis, so the mockup shows the current site rather than a screenshot from last month. See Capture site.
- It is one tool among six. The mockup shares a canvas, a ratio system and an export pipeline with capture, crop, frame and cut — and with Place in mockup, which puts artwork into a Photoshop scene rather than a device.
The honest limitation on both sides
Aspects cannot animate a device. Rotato is not a capture tool, a cropper or a video cutter. Neither is a shortcoming; they are different products that happen to share one output format.
Which to use
- Animated 3D device video — Rotato.
- Photographic device stills, live-site screens, or mockups as part of wider export work — Aspects.