Whiteboard Animation
Free
$0
5 credits to start- 720p export with watermark
- Drawings kept 7 days
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.
How it works
You bring a finished picture. We draw it.
Three steps, and no prompt to write: the picture is the brief.
Bring a finished picture
PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB. We draw the picture you bring; we don’t make one from text.
Pick the hand, length and order
Six hands or none, how long it takes to draw, and when the colour comes in.
Export the clip into your edit
MP4 or WebM, or a transparent layer to sit over your own footage.
Examples
Whiteboard animation examples, each drawn from one image.
One for each use case. Open any of them and draw it again with your own hand and pace.
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
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. Then open each drawing's export.url in my browser to save it as an MP4, and move the files from Downloads to ./clips/.
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 agentsPricing
Pick a plan, keep drawing.
Credits renew every month. Change or cancel anytime.
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.
