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Markers and whiteboard
Line art
Colour illustration
Business and diagrams
Dark boards
Type what the video should explain. The script is written, every board is illustrated for it, the ink is traced stroke by stroke and the narration lands on the drawing word by word.
A whiteboard animation is a video in which drawings appear as if a hand were sketching them while a narrator explains. Viewers follow the growing line, so their attention stays on exactly the part of the picture being talked about. That is why the format has survived from the RSA Animate lectures through a decade of YouTube explainers: it turns listening into watching.
Step one, a script: type a topic and a length and the built-in writer drafts the narration, or paste your own and it is used word for word. Step two, a storyboard: the script is cut into boards of one idea each. Step three, illustration: every board is drawn as one complete picture, so characters and layout stay consistent. Step four, rendering: the strokes are traced in order and synced to the narration's word-level timestamps. You get an MP4 with the voice baked in.
23 drawing styles, from classic black marker and chalkboard to crayon, infographic, etching and a loose creative style. Narration in 15 languages with several voices each. A guided-tour mode that draws one big picture as the narration names each part. Director notes for palettes, recurring characters, number cards and disclaimer cards. Videos render at 1200×800 (3:2), 1920×1080 (16:9) or 1080×1920 (vertical 9:16) and download as MP4 with no watermark.
Teachers turning a lesson into a video students can rewind. Faceless YouTube channels that need three explainers a week. Marketers who want a product explainer without an agency invoice. Trainers converting a policy or a procedure into something people will actually watch. Anyone who can write a paragraph can make the video.
Library tools give you a shelf of stock doodles to drag onto a timeline; every scene is assembled by hand and the drawings rarely match the script. Canva's whiteboard effect animates a static template. Here each board is illustrated for your sentences, so a video about bronze vessels does not use the same cartoon businessman as a video about photosynthesis, and the timing is computed rather than dragged.
The sample on this page was made from the single line 'how fireflies glow', the Creative style, a two-minute length and the default English voice. The writer produced a script about luciferin, luciferase and oxygen, the storyboarder cut it into nine boards, and the whole thing rendered in a few minutes. Nothing was edited afterwards.
Use the generator at the top of this page. The first video each day is free; longer runs are paid by the minute of finished video, and unused minutes never expire.
| 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.
No. Every illustration is generated from the script. You choose the style; the drawing is done for you.
A one-minute video renders in a few minutes. Rendering time grows roughly with length.
Yes. Choose 'I have a script' and paste it. It is narrated exactly as written; nothing is rewritten or cut.
Narration in 15 languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Bengali, Urdu, Chinese, Swedish. The site itself is in 14 languages; Swedish is for narration only.
Pick one of 23 styles, choose whether ink is outlined first or coloured in one pass, and add director notes for palettes, characters and props.
The script, the storyboard and the board timing are plain text you can change and re-render. Frame-level editing is best done in your usual editor with the downloaded MP4.
Yes. Videos you generate are yours to publish on YouTube, in courses, in ads and inside your company.
