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Paste the narration. Nothing is rewritten. Every sentence gets a drawing and lands on its own cue.
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.
Most script-to-video tools rewrite your script into something the model prefers. This one does not. Choose 'I have a script', paste it, and the narration is synthesised from your text as written. Legal wording, a quote, a joke with specific timing: all preserved.
The script is split into boards of one idea each, usually two or three sentences. Each board is illustrated as one complete picture. The narration is generated with word-level timestamps, and each object in the picture is drawn as the sentence that names it is spoken.
Name things the pen can draw: a clock, a ledger, a queue of people, a curve. Say numbers out loud so number cards land on the right board. Give a disclaimer its own sentence so it becomes its own board. English runs about 150 words a minute; Chinese about 270 characters.
The sample on this page, 'The Wealth Clock', is an eight-and-a-half-minute finance listicle pasted as 1,300 words. It was storyboarded into thirty-nine boards, with a bold number card at each of the five points and a plain disclaimer card at the end, both requested in two lines of director notes.
Paste the text of a PDF, a slide deck's speaker notes or a blog post. The script is used as narration; the pictures are drawn for it. Direct file upload is on the roadmap.
Use the generator above, choose 'I have a script', paste 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 | 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 |
Yes, and no. Every account can render one video a day, up to 10 minutes, in any style and any of 14 languages, and download it as an MP4 with no watermark and no logo. No card is needed. Minute packs, when you want more than one video a day, are one-time purchases and never expire.
Up to about ten minutes of narration, roughly 1,500 English words.
Blank lines between paragraphs are respected as board breaks when they make sense for timing.
Yes. Several voices per language; pick one before rendering.
Yes. Choose the language and the narration and on-screen labels follow.
Yes. The storyboard and the timing are plain text you can read and edit.
Edit the board's line in the storyboard or add a director note, and re-render that board.
One free video per day; minute packs for more.