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Explain a product, a process or an idea in the format people finish watching: a hand drawn on a board, narrated, one idea at a time.
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.
An explainer has one job: get one idea across and be remembered. Whiteboard drawing does that by showing only what the narrator is talking about, adding to the picture as the explanation grows. There is no b-roll to distract from the point and no presenter to judge; the idea is the only thing on screen.
One idea per board. Concrete pictures instead of abstract icons. A visual that arrives on the word that needs it, not two seconds later. A length decided by the idea rather than by habit; most explainers are better at ninety seconds than at three minutes. This maker enforces the first three and helps with the fourth.
Paste the script your team already wrote, or let the writer draft one from a topic. The script is storyboarded automatically, each board illustrated, the narration timed to the drawing. Add a director note for brand colours and a recurring character, and the video looks like yours rather than like a template.
Product explainers for a landing page. How-it-works explainers for a mechanism, a policy or a scientific process. Listicle explainers with a number card at each point. Guided-tour explainers where a single diagram fills in as it is described. Story explainers narrated from a pasted script.
A 1200×800 MP4 with narration included, no watermark, in any of fourteen languages. The script and storyboard as plain text so you can change a line and re-render. A thumbnail frame for your video page.
Agencies deliver excellent explainers in weeks at a few thousand dollars a minute. Template tools deliver in hours but every video looks like the template. This sits between: the pictures are made for your script, and the video is ready in minutes.
Use the generator above. The sample on this page, an eight-minute finance explainer with number cards and a disclaimer card, was made from a pasted script and two lines of director notes.
| 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.
Yes. Put the hex codes in the director notes and every board follows them.
Yes. Describe the character once in the notes; the character sheet keeps them consistent.
Yes. Click the 'Number cards' chip under the notes box; each point opens with a bold numbered card.
Yes. The 'Disclaimer card' chip adds a final board that reads exactly what you specify.
Not yet. Paste your script and choose a voice; uploading a recording is on the roadmap.
MP4, H.264, 1200×800, with the narration track included.
One free video per day. Minute packs are one-time purchases and never expire.