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The honest difference: a doodle library you assemble by hand, or illustrations generated for your script.
Look rules apply to every board. Production notes are read by both the script writer and the storyboarder. Short and absolute works best: 80-300 characters.
A one-minute video takes a few minutes to render.
This looks like a full script. To keep every word exactly as written, switch to 'I have a script'. In 'Write it for me' the writer condenses it to the chosen length.
The same three reasons come up: every video looks like every other Doodly video because the library is shared; assembling a scene by hand takes an afternoon; and the product now ships as part of the Voomly Cloud bundle rather than as a focused tool. Doodly also has no AI features at all, so the script, the drawing choices and the voice are all still yours to produce. If none of that bothers you, Doodly still works.
Precise manual control. You place every doodle, set every path, and nothing surprises you. If you enjoy composing scenes and your topics reuse the same visual vocabulary, a library tool is hard to beat.
Every scene is built by hand and the library limits what you can say. Two videos on different topics share the same characters. Timing is dragged on a timeline rather than derived from the narration, so the picture and the voice drift.
You describe the topic or paste a script; each board is illustrated for it and the timing is computed from the narration's word timestamps. You trade per-element placement for going from script to finished video in minutes, with pictures that are about your subject.
Drawings: Doodly, a shared library; StrokeVideo, generated per board. Script: Doodly, you write and record it yourself; StrokeVideo, written for you or pasted verbatim and narrated in fourteen languages. Timing: Doodly, manual; StrokeVideo, word-level automatic. Styles: Doodly, four board types over one doodle library; StrokeVideo, twenty styles. Platform: Doodly, desktop app inside the Voomly Cloud suite; StrokeVideo, browser. Price: Doodly, $49 to $79 a month; StrokeVideo, one free video a day, then minute packs that never expire.
Switch if you make more than one video a month and want each to look like its subject. Stay if you need pixel-level control over every scene, or if you hold an older lifetime licence from when Doodly sold one and your output is fine.
| Feature | StrokeVideo | Doodly | VideoScribe | Canva |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the drawings come from | Generated for each board of your script | Shared doodle library, placed by hand | Image library, your uploads, or AI images metered per month | Templates and stock elements |
| Script | Written for you, or pasted and used verbatim | You write and record it | You write it, or an AI script and voiceover within a monthly quota | You write it; text-to-speech add-on |
| Drawing timed to narration | Automatic, word level | Manual, on a timeline | Manual, on a timeline | Manual |
| Drawing styles | 20 | Four board types, one shared doodle library | Library styles | One whiteboard effect |
| Narration languages | 14 built in | Whatever you record | 45+ AI voiceover languages, 75-150 minutes a month by plan | Text-to-speech languages |
| Time for a 3-minute video | About 5 minutes, unattended | Half a day to a day of editing | Half a day to a day of editing | A few hours |
| Runs | In the browser | Desktop app, sold inside the Voomly Cloud suite | Desktop app and web | Browser and apps |
| Price | Free daily video; one-time minute packs | Subscription, $49-79 a month ($490-790 a year) | Subscription, three tiers per licence | Free tier; Pro subscription |
| Manual control per element | Script, storyboard and timing as text | Full drag-and-drop control | Full drag-and-drop control | Full |
It is a different workflow. If you need per-element manual placement, a library tool still fits better.
The script, the storyboard and the board timing are editable text.
Minute packs are one-time purchases and never expire.
No. Paste the script and the video is rebuilt with generated drawings.
Yes. Styles range from classic black marker to crayon and Sharpie, and the ink is traced stroke by stroke.
Yes. Render one free video a day and watch it end to end.