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Golpo AI alternative: draw your own picture, not a generated one

Golpo AI writes and draws a whole narrated explainer for you: give it a prompt, a script, a document or audio, and it generates the script, the illustrations, the voice-over and the pen-drawing animation. WhiteboardAnimation.ai does a smaller job — it draws a finished picture you already have, outlines first and then colour, and you finish the video in your own editor. Pick Golpo when you have a topic and no pictures yet; pick us when the picture exists and you want it drawn as it is. We have not run the same picture through Golpo, so this page compares what each product says and offers, not what each produced.

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Golpo AI facts from its own pages, read October 27, 2026; sources below.
ComparedGolpo AIWhiteboardAnimation.ai
PriceCredits, 1 credit = 1 minute of video. Billed monthly: Starter $39.99 (20 credits), Creator $99.99 (60), Growth $199.99 (150), Business $499.99 (390), Scale $999.99 (800); annual billing up to 50% off. Pay-As-You-Go credits $7.99 down to $3.99 each, 5 at least.Free to start; Starter and Pro monthly or yearly, or a one-off credit pack. One credit draws one picture. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Free optionOne 1-minute video, no card: watermarked, shared by link, not downloadable. Downloading it without the watermark costs $9.99.5 free credits on sign-up, no card; free exports are 720p with a watermark.
What you start fromA one-sentence prompt, a script, a document (PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Google Doc), or audio or video; it generates its own illustrations.One finished picture: PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB. It does not generate pictures from text.
Your own pictureInserting your own photos or images is a beta feature on Business ($499.99/month) and above, also listed for Pay-As-You-Go. Each image is shown as a still, or animated: “Use as is” animates the original, otherwise Golpo redraws it.Drawn stroke by stroke from the picture itself: outlines first, then colour region by region.
HandA drawing pen in its styles; the “Pen in Hand” style is on Business and above (and Pay-As-You-Go).Six hands, or none. Switching hands never redraws or spends a credit.
OutputAn MP4 with visuals, narration and music baked in; landscape, or vertical 9:16 from Creator up. Black and white only on Starter and Creator; colour from Growth. Resolution and transparency: not stated.MP4, WebM or a PNG sequence, up to 1080p, in the picture’s shape or 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16, on paper or any colour, such as a green screen; transparent WebM or PNG frames, and one transparent clip per layer, subject and background apart, on Pro.
EditingEdits by prompt, frame by frame, component by component, and the timing of each visual against the narration; one edit is free, further edits are charged.After the drawing: reorder, trim and re-time its line and colour clips on a timeline, with no redraw and no credit. No text, scenes or voice-over: you finish the video in your own editor.
API for agentsA video API (prompt, script, audio or document in, explainer video out) on Scale ($999.99/month), Business with a $200/month add-on, or an API-only tier from $2.00 a minute down to $1.20. Not on Pay-As-You-Go.A REST API for agents, on Pro; an MCP server is in development.
Best forNarrated explainer, training and course videos generated from a topic or a document, up to 10 minutes, in 45+ languages.Turning illustrations you already have into drawing clips for your own edit, or for an agent through the API.

The same picture in both: not run yet

We compare tools by running one picture — our water-cycle illustration — through both and showing frames from each. Golpo’s free video starts from a prompt or a document, and its tutorial lists inserting your own images on Business, Scale and Enterprise plans only, so on 27 October 2026 we could not give it the picture without buying a plan or credits. Until we do, this section shows only our clip.

Golpo AI: not run yet
Same-picture test pendingGolpo AI’s own examples

No frames here until we have run the same picture through Golpo ourselves. Its homepage shows examples of the explainers it generates.

WhiteboardAnimation.ai (default settings)
WhiteboardAnimation.ai: four frames of the same picture, outlines drawn first, then coloured

The hand traces the outlines first — cloud, mountain, river, arrows — and the colour comes after, region by region, as if someone drew it. Watch the full water cycle animation

What each costs

Golpo sells credits, one per minute of video. Billed monthly: Starter $39.99 (20 credits, 30 seconds to 2 minutes, black and white), Creator $99.99 (60), Growth $199.99 (150, colour), Business $499.99 (390, your own images, voice cloning, 10-minute videos) and Scale $999.99 (800, API included); annual plans cost up to 50% less. Pay-As-You-Go credits cost $7.99 each for 5 to 19, $5.99 for 20 to 99 and $3.99 from 100. The free tier makes one watermarked 1-minute video, $9.99 to download without the watermark.

WhiteboardAnimation.ai: Free to start; Starter and Pro monthly or yearly, or a one-off credit pack. One credit draws one picture. Current prices are on the pricing page. Pricing

When Golpo may be the better choice

  • You have a topic, a script or a document and no pictures: Golpo writes, illustrates and narrates the whole video.
  • You want the voice-over, music and scenes made for you, in 45+ languages.
  • You make long lessons or training videos, up to 10 minutes in one pass.
  • You want an API that turns a document into a finished narrated video.

Using both, or moving over

  • Upload the picture you want drawn — your own illustration, a diagram, or an image you generated elsewhere — as a PNG, JPEG or WebP; every picture is its own clip.
  • Change the hand, lines only, or which part is coloured first after the drawing: none of it redraws or spends a credit.
  • Put the clips into your video editor — Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut — and add your voice-over and music there.

Questions

Questions people ask

WhiteboardAnimation.ai can be used without paying: upload your own pictures and export the drawing clips (what is free today is answered below). It draws pictures you have; it does not write a script or narrate. Golpo’s free tier makes one 1-minute watermarked video you can share but not download.
Golpo’s tutorial lists inserting your own photos and images as a beta feature on Business plans and above, shown as a still or animated. WhiteboardAnimation.ai is built for that one job on every plan: it works out the strokes from your PNG, JPEG or WebP and draws them, outlines first, then colour.
No. It makes the drawing clip; you add narration, captions and cuts in the editor you already use.
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.
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.

What people make with it

Sources (read October 27, 2026)

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