SpeedPaint alternative: outlines first, then colour
SpeedPaint (speedpaint.co) turns an uploaded image into a hand-drawing video on its website, and inside Canva and Adobe Express. WhiteboardAnimation.ai also draws a finished picture you upload — outlines first, then colour, region by region — for your own edit or for an agent through the API. We have not run the same picture through SpeedPaint yet, so this page compares what each product says, not what each produced.
| Compared | SpeedPaint | WhiteboardAnimation.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Basic $5.99/month billed yearly or $9.99 billed monthly; Standard $3.99/month ($49/year) billed yearly or $14.99 billed monthly. Both with unlimited credits. (Its homepage FAQ says plans start at €9.99/month.) | 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 option | Not stated: its pricing page lists only the two paid plans. | 5 free credits on sign-up, no card; free exports are 720p with a watermark. |
| What you start from | An image you upload, JPG or PNG. | One finished picture: PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB. It does not generate pictures from text. |
| How the picture is drawn | Not stated in detail. Sketch styles: black-and-white sketch (Basic); premium colour, grey colour or black-and-white sketch (Standard). | Drawn stroke by stroke from the picture itself: outlines first, then colour region by region. |
| Output | HD 1920×1080. Sketch and colour up to 15 s each on Basic, 50 s each on Standard. File format: not stated. | MP4 or WebM, up to 1080p, in the picture’s shape or 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16; transparent WebM or PNG frames on Pro. |
| Editing | Sketching duration and quality; one basic hand (Basic) or 8 premium hand styles (Standard). | Length, one of six hands or none, lines only or lines + colour, colour order. No timeline, text or voice-over: you edit elsewhere. |
| Best for | Making a hand-drawing video from an image on its website, in Canva or in Adobe Express (its homepage). An API: not stated. | 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. SpeedPaint has no free plan on its pricing page, so we have not run it yet; until we do, this section shows only our clip. For SpeedPaint’s own results, see the examples on its homepage.
No frames here until we have run the same picture through SpeedPaint ourselves. Its homepage shows examples of its hand-drawing videos.
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
SpeedPaint lists two subscriptions, both with unlimited credits (one credit per video): Basic at $5.99 a month billed yearly or $9.99 billed monthly, and Standard at $3.99 a month ($49 a year) billed yearly or $14.99 billed monthly. Its pricing page says cancelling ends access immediately.
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 SpeedPaint may be the better choice
- You design in Canva or Adobe Express and want the drawing made without leaving it.
- You want unlimited videos for one flat monthly price.
- You want its grey-colour sketch style or its eight hand styles.
Using both, or moving over
- Export the picture you want drawn as a PNG, JPEG or WebP and upload it here; every picture is its own clip.
- Put the clips into your video editor — Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut — and add your voice-over and music there.
- For drawings over your own footage, export with a transparent background.
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