For creators & educators

Turn any illustration intoa whiteboard animation clip.

Upload a finished picture. Get it drawn stroke by stroke — sketch first, then colour, with or without a hand — ready to drop into your edit.

A paper fox with a red scarf at a pond, ink and marker on warm paper.

How it works

You bring a finished picture. We draw it.

Three steps, and no prompt to write: the picture is the brief.

  1. 1Bring a finished picture

    PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB. We draw the picture you bring; we don’t make one from text.

    How to prepare oneOr use one of ours

  2. 2Pick the hand, length and order

    Six hands or none, how long it takes to draw, and when the colour comes in.

  3. 3Export the clip into your edit

    MP4 or WebM, or a transparent layer to sit over your own footage.

For pros & agents

Drop it into your edit, or hand the whole folder to your agent.

A transparent layer for your timeline, and an API your coding agent can drive on its own.

Made to sit on top of your edit.

Export just the drawing on a transparent background, or every layer separately, and place it over your own footage in Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci or CapCut.

  • Transparent & layered exportPro
  • 1080p, generated at full sizeStarter
  • MP4 or WebM, 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1
  • Commercial licencePro
Every export option

Hand your agent a folder of pictures.

Claude Code, Codex or Cursor can turn every picture in a folder into a whiteboard animation and save the clips. One prompt sets it up; no code to write.

Prompt

Read https://whiteboardanimation.ai/llms.txt and use the Whiteboard Animation API, with the key in the WHITEBOARD_API_KEY environment variable as the Bearer token, to turn every picture in ./scenes into a drawing. Save each drawing's download links to ./clips/.

Open this prompt inClaude CodeCodexCursor

Nothing opens? The app may not be installed: copy the prompt and paste it into your agent. Your key is never included.

Setup guide for agents

Pricing

Pick a plan, keep drawing.

Credits renew every month. Change or cancel anytime.

Free
$0
5 credits to start
  • 720p export with watermark
  • Drawings kept 7 days
Starter
$12$15/ month, billed yearly
50 credits every month
  • No watermark
  • 1080p export
  • Keep every drawing
  • Up to 3 waiting in your queue
ProMost popular
$29$39/ month, billed yearly
200 credits every month
  • Everything in Starter
  • Transparent & layered export
  • API access for your agents
  • Commercial licence
  • Priority drawing
  • Up to 20 waiting in your queue

Just need a few? 20 credits for $10, no subscription1 credit = 1 drawing. Credit packs last 90 days, and any pack also removes the watermark and unlocks 1080p for good.

Good to know

Questions people ask.

What people want to know before turning their first picture into a whiteboard animation: what to upload, what it costs, how long it takes and where the clips can go.

One finished picture — PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB. Illustrations, diagrams and flat artwork work best: the kind of picture a doodle video or explainer video is built from.
Yes. A new account on the whiteboard animation maker starts with 5 free credits, and one credit draws one picture. Free exports carry a watermark and are at most 720p. Buying any credit pack lifts both limits for good. Paid plans add credits every month, and credit packs last 90 days.
About fifteen seconds before your hand-drawn animation starts to draw. The video is as long as you choose, and saving it takes a few seconds more.
Pro includes a commercial licence: use your whiteboard animation clips in client work, explainer videos, ads and paid courses. Free and Starter clips are for personal and non-commercial use.

Your picture is one upload away from moving.