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Powtoon gives you a project to finish. StrokeVideo gives you a finished video.
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.
Powtoon has stacked a lot of AI on top: image generation, clip generation, text to speech, avatars, translation and dubbing. What it has not changed is the shape of the work. The AI drafts a project and you still finish it scene by scene in the editor, the free plan exports with a watermark, and the look stays template-first. People who just need a narrated explainer from a script find the editor more work than the video is worth.
A deep catalogue of business templates, presentation-style videos, brand kits and team features. If your organisation makes many slide-like videos in one visual identity, it is built for that.
Time in the editor, not money at export. Removing the watermark is cheap now, from about fifteen dollars a month billed yearly, but that tier caps you at five exports a month and the real cost is still the scene work: a three-minute explainer is one to three hours in the editor.
Paste the script or type a topic; the storyboard, illustrations, narration and stroke-by-stroke drawing are all generated. There is no scene editor because there is nothing to assemble: you change the script and re-render. Twenty drawing styles, fourteen languages, MP4 with no watermark.
Output: Powtoon gives an editable project, StrokeVideo a finished MP4. Look: templates and stock characters versus illustrations drawn for your sentences. Effort: hours of editing versus minutes unattended. Watermark: on Powtoon's free exports, never on StrokeVideo.
Switch if the video is the goal and the editor is the obstacle: teachers, course creators, faceless channels, anyone with a script. Stay with Powtoon if you want brand-controlled presentation videos that a team edits together.
Paste the script into the generator above, pick a voice and a style, and render. The first video each day is free.
| Feature | StrokeVideo | Powtoon |
|---|---|---|
| Where the drawings come from | Generated for each board of your script | Template scenes plus AI-generated images and clips; you edit the scenes |
| 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 | 20 | Whiteboard is one of several looks |
| Narration languages | 14 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, ever | Yes, on free exports |
| Works on a phone | Yes, in the mobile browser, full features | Desktop browser recommended |
| Runs | In the browser | Browser |
| Price | Free daily video; one-time minute packs | Free plan with watermark; watermark removed from about $15 a month billed yearly |
| Manual control per element | Script, storyboard and timing as text | Full scene editor |
No. The script, storyboard and timing are plain text; change a line and re-render.
Yes. Put the hex codes in the director notes and every board follows them.
No. Free videos export clean.
Up to about ten minutes from a pasted script.
Not yet; one Google account per user.
Yes, with the 'Number cards' chip under the director notes.