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Markers and whiteboard
Line art
Colour illustration
Business and diagrams
Dark boards
A doodle video, drawn for your script instead of assembled from a clip-art shelf.
A doodle video is a whiteboard-style animation with a looser, friendlier hand: thick marker outlines, quick hatching, simple expressive characters. It is the format of countless YouTube explainers and classroom videos because it looks approachable and reads instantly.
Tools that ship a library of doodles let you drag the same businessman, the same lightbulb and the same rocket into every video. The drawings are never quite about your topic. Here each board is sketched for your sentences, so a doodle about bronze vessels shows bronze vessels.
Sharpie for bold outlines and flat colour blocks. Crayon for a warm, hand-made feel. Marker for colourful classroom doodles. Playful for exaggerated characters. Classic black-and-white for the traditional whiteboard look. The gallery shows one script in three of them side by side.
The illustration is generated as a complete picture, then the ink is traced in stroke order, outlines first and colour after if you choose. Each stroke is timed to the narration's word timestamps, so the doodle grows with the voice instead of racing ahead of it.
Explainers, lessons, product intros, story videos, listicles with number cards, guided tours of a place or a diagram. Thirty seconds to ten minutes, 15 narration languages, MP4 download with no watermark.
Type a topic or paste a script in the generator above, pick Sharpie, Crayon or Marker, and render. The first video each day is free.
| 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 | 23 | Four board types, one shared doodle library | Library styles | One whiteboard effect |
| Narration languages | 15 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; plans priced for your region | 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 |
Yes, and no. Every account can render 1 video a day, up to 2 minutes, in any style and any of 15 narration languages, and download it as an MP4. There is no watermark on the video. Free videos end with a 2-second StrokeVideo card; members' videos don't. No credit card is needed. When you want more than the free daily videos, a plan renews every month, quarter or year until you cancel, and the minutes it gives you never expire.
Not yet. The drawings are generated in the style you choose; uploading your own artwork is planned.
A one-minute video renders in a few minutes.
Yes. Choose a colour style, and choose whether ink is outlined first or coloured in one pass.
Optionally. Turn on 'Draw with a hand' to show a hand holding the marker.
Yes. Crayon and Playful styles and a slower narration work well for young audiences.
Yes. There is no watermark on any video. Free videos end with a 2-second StrokeVideo card; members' videos don't.
1200×800 by default; 1920×1080 if you choose 16:9, or 1080×1920 for vertical 9:16.
