To prevent abuse of free credits, we use a hashed device signal (browser identifier, basic device characteristics and network). We don't store the raw values.
Markers and whiteboard
Line art
Colour illustration
Business and diagrams
Dark boards
1 finished video a day. No watermark, no card, and the MP4 is yours.
1 video a day, rendered end to end: script, illustration, narration and the stroke-by-stroke drawing. You download the MP4 and you can use it commercially. There is no watermark on the video, no export limit on that video and no credit card required to get it. Free videos end with a 2-second StrokeVideo card; members' videos don't. If a daily video covers what you need, you never have to pay.
The usual pattern in this category is a free tier that renders but will not let you keep the result. Free exports carry a watermark across the frame, or the download is disabled entirely and you can only preview. That is a demo, not a free plan. The distinction matters because a watermarked video cannot be published, which means the free tier produces nothing you can use.
Everything the paid rendering includes. 23 drawing styles, 15 narration languages, landscape or portrait, one board per paragraph or a single guided-tour picture, optional burned-in subtitles and a separate subtitle file. The free video is not a reduced version; it is the same pipeline with a daily limit, and it ends with a 2-second StrokeVideo card.
1 render a day and a cap on length for free videos. If you need several videos in an afternoon, or a longer one, a plan drops minutes into your account every period, charged by the length of the finished video. The plan renews until you cancel; the minutes themselves never expire, so nothing you already paid for lapses if you stop.
Because you get one a day, decide the question before you render rather than after. Write or paste the narration, read it once out loud, and check that every sentence names something that can be drawn. Most wasted renders come from a script that had two topics in it, not from a setting that was wrong.
Lesson explainers, product and feature walkthroughs, onboarding and safety training, faceless channel episodes, conference explainers. Anything where the point is a mechanism or a sequence rather than a face or a place.
| 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 |
It is a standing daily allowance, not a countdown. One video every day, indefinitely.
No. There is no watermark on the video, and free videos can be used commercially. They end with a 2-second StrokeVideo card; members' videos don't.
No. Sign in and render.
Free renders are capped at a shorter length than paid ones. Longer videos need a plan.
Take a plan. It renews every month, quarter or year until you cancel, and the minutes it gives you never expire.
Yes. There is no non-commercial restriction on the output.
