A Renderforest alternative that draws your script instead of arranging stock scenes

Renderforest gives you a library of whiteboard scenes to arrange. StrokeVideo draws a new board for every sentence you wrote.

Style
Director notes (optional)

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.

Made with this tool

Product explainer video exampleStyle: creativeLength: 1:45 Open the video page

Why people look for a Renderforest alternative

Two reasons come up. The first is the watermark: Renderforest's own help pages say its videos come with a watermark and that you need a paid plan to remove it. The second is fit: the whiteboard tool works by picking ready-made scenes from a library, so the video can only show what somebody already drew.

What Renderforest does well

Breadth and speed. It is a template platform for videos, logos, mockups and websites, with a whiteboard pack of over a thousand scenes, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and a separate AI video generator. If a stock scene matches what you want to say, you can have a video in minutes.

Where it costs you

When the scene you need is not in the library. A whiteboard explainer about your own product, your own process or a specific lesson needs pictures of that thing, and a scene pack cannot supply them. You end up choosing the nearest scene and editing the text around it.

What StrokeVideo does instead

Every board is an illustration generated for the sentence spoken over it, then traced stroke by stroke in time with the narration. Paste a finished script and it is used word for word, or type a topic and the script is written for you. Narration in 14 languages, MP4 with no watermark, in the browser or on a phone.

Side by side

Pictures: stock whiteboard scenes you arrange versus a drawing made for each of your sentences. Script: you build scene by scene versus paste and render. Watermark: on Renderforest's free videos, never on StrokeVideo. Scope: Renderforest also makes logos, mockups and websites, StrokeVideo only makes whiteboard videos.

Who should switch, and who should not

Switch if the whiteboard video is the point and your subject is specific enough that stock scenes do not fit. Stay with Renderforest if you want one subscription that covers intros, promos, logos and mockups as well, and a generic scene is good enough.

Try it with your script

Paste the script into the generator above, pick a voice and a style, and render. The first video each day is free.

FeatureStrokeVideoRenderforest
Where the drawings come fromGenerated for each board of your scriptA library of ready-made whiteboard scenes you pick and arrange
ScriptWritten for you, or pasted and used verbatimIn the whiteboard tool you build scene by scene; script to video lives in a separate AI video product
Drawing timed to narrationAutomatic, word levelScene by scene, adjusted by hand
Drawing styles20One whiteboard scene pack among many template packs
Narration languages14 built inAI voiceover built in
Time for a 3-minute videoAbout 5 minutes, unattendedAn hour or more arranging scenes
Watermark on the free planNone, everYes, on free exports
Works on a phoneYes, in the mobile browser, full featuresBrowser, plus iOS and Android apps
RunsIn the browserBrowser
PriceFree daily video; plans priced for your regionFree plan with watermark; paid plans remove it
Manual control per elementScript, storyboard and timing as textFull scene editor

Frequently asked questions

Do Renderforest videos have a watermark?

Yes on the free plan. Renderforest's own FAQ says its videos come with a watermark and recommends a paid plan to remove it. StrokeVideo's free videos have no watermark.

Is StrokeVideo free?

1 video a day are free, up to 4 minutes, with no watermark and no card.

Can I use my own script?

Yes. Paste it and it is narrated exactly as written, with one board drawn per sentence.

Does StrokeVideo make logos or intros too?

No. It makes narrated whiteboard videos and nothing else.

How long can a video be?

Up to about 15 minutes of narration in a single video.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes, in the phone browser. There is nothing to install.