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Markers and whiteboard
Line art
Colour illustration
Business and diagrams
Dark boards
Animaker fills templates. StrokeVideo draws every board for the words you wrote, then exports with no watermark.
Three things come up again and again: the free plan exports with a watermark, the whiteboard look is one template style among many rather than a real drawing engine, and the mobile app lacks the features of the web editor. If you want a hand-drawn explainer from a script, quickly, without paying to remove a logo, that is the gap.
A large template and character library, many animation styles beyond whiteboard, AI voices in dozens of languages, subtitles and translation. For a general-purpose animated video with a mascot and scene transitions, it is a capable all-rounder.
Every scene is still a template you adjust. The whiteboard style animates template assets rather than drawing an illustration of your specific topic. Exporting without a watermark needs a paid plan, roughly $15 a month at the entry tier.
You paste the script, or type a topic and let the writer draft it. Each board is illustrated for its sentences, the ink is traced stroke by stroke and the narration is timed to the drawing word by word. 23 drawing styles, 15 narration languages, MP4 with no watermark, and the whole thing runs in a phone browser.
Drawings: template assets versus illustrations generated for your script. Script: edit scenes by hand versus paste and go. Watermark: on Animaker's free exports, never on StrokeVideo. Mobile: Animaker's app is limited, StrokeVideo works fully in the mobile browser. Time: an hour or more of scene editing versus a few minutes unattended.
Switch if you make explainers from a written script and want the hand-drawn look without editing scenes or paying to remove a watermark. Stay with Animaker if you need character animation, scene transitions and a full timeline editor.
Paste the script into the generator above with 'I have a script', pick a voice and a style, and render. The first video each day is free.
| Feature | StrokeVideo | Animaker |
|---|---|---|
| Where the drawings come from | Generated for each board of your script | Template scenes and a character/asset library; AI fills templates |
| Script | Written for you, or pasted and used verbatim | You write it, or an AI draft you edit |
| Drawing timed to narration | Automatic, word level | Scene by scene, adjusted by hand |
| Drawing styles | 23 | Whiteboard is one of several animation styles |
| Narration languages | 15 built in | AI voices in many languages |
| Time for a 3-minute video | About 5 minutes, unattended | One to three hours, editing scenes |
| Watermark on the free plan | None (free videos end with a 2-second StrokeVideo card) | Yes, on free exports |
| Works on a phone | Yes, in the mobile browser, full features | App exists but lacks web features |
| Runs | In the browser | Browser |
| Price | Free daily video; plans priced for your region | Free tier with watermark; subscription from about $15 a month |
| Manual control per element | Script, storyboard and timing as text | Full scene editor |
Yes, and the free videos have no watermark. 1 free video a day; a plan removes the daily limit.
Yes. It is narrated word for word, up to about ten minutes.
Yes, Latin American and Spain Spanish, among 15 narration languages.
Yes. Open the site in your phone browser; nothing to install.
No. Paste the script and the video is drawn fresh.
Describe a recurring character in the director notes and it appears on every board; you cannot pick one from a library.
