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Two tools that were direct rivals, and are no longer trying to be the same thing.
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.
This page is written by StrokeVideo, which competes with both. So take the closing recommendation with that in mind and use the facts, which were checked against both companies' public pricing and feature pages in September 2026. Where we think one of them is genuinely the better buy, we say so.
For years these were the same product with different libraries. That stopped. VideoScribe has added AI tools for images, scripts and voiceovers, metered by plan. Doodly has added no AI at all and is now sold inside the Voomly Cloud bundle alongside Toonly, Talkia, Pyks and People Builder. Choosing between them in 2026 is no longer a choice between two doodle libraries; it is a choice between a tool that is still moving and one that is being packaged.
Doodly is forty-nine dollars a month for Standard and seventy-nine for Enterprise, or four hundred and ninety and seven hundred and ninety annually, and it comes with the rest of the Voomly suite whether or not you want it. The lifetime licence it was once known for is no longer on the pricing page. VideoScribe is a per-licence subscription across three tiers, materially cheaper per seat, with the caveat that its lowest paid tier excludes AI voiceover entirely.
Doodly ships a large custom-drawn doodle library, over a thousand character images with poses, plus props and scene backgrounds, and four board types: whiteboard, blackboard, glassboard and green screen. VideoScribe has a much larger image and icon library, your own uploads, and now a monthly allowance of AI-generated images, from five a month on the free tier to a hundred on the top tier. Both share the same structural limitation: the artwork is not specific to your topic, so videos made with either tool have a recognisable look.
VideoScribe has the more mature timeline, camera moves, pans and zooms, and years of tutorials behind it. Doodly is simpler and faster to learn, and its Smart Draw path tool for imported images is genuinely good. In both, the narration is recorded or generated separately and aligned by hand, which is the step that consumes the afternoon.
If you want the mature timeline, camera moves and some AI assistance, and you are buying seats for a team, VideoScribe. If you want the biggest hand-drawn doodle library, a simpler editor, and you will use more than one product in the Voomly bundle, Doodly. If you are choosing Doodly specifically for a lifetime licence you read about, check the pricing page first, because that offer is not there now.
Both tools assume you want to assemble the video. You place the assets, you set the paths, you drag the timing. That is the right assumption for a few high-control projects a year and the wrong one for volume. If the bottleneck in your work is making a picture for every line and timing it to the voice, neither tool removes it; they only make it faster to do by hand.
| 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 |
VideoScribe for timeline control, camera moves and metered AI tools. Doodly for a bigger hand-drawn doodle library and a simpler editor. VideoScribe is the more actively developed of the two.
Not on its pricing page. It is sold as a monthly or annual subscription inside the Voomly Cloud bundle.
VideoScribe does: AI image, script and voiceover generation, metered per plan. Doodly has none.
VideoScribe, on a per-seat basis. Doodly's price includes the rest of the Voomly suite, which is only value if you use it.
No. Both place artwork from a library. VideoScribe can generate images within a monthly quota, but they are placed by you rather than composed as a board.
Yes, in both. That is the part of the work neither tool removes.