Whiteboard AnimationSpeedPaint alternative: change the drawing after it is drawn
SpeedPaint (speedpaint.co) turns an uploaded image into a hand-drawing video on its website, and inside Canva and Adobe Express, for a flat monthly price. WhiteboardAnimation.ai also draws a finished picture you upload — outlines first, then colour — and lets you change the order, hand and timing after the drawing without paying again, export transparent or layered clips, and draw through an API. We have not run the same picture through SpeedPaint yet, so this page compares what each product says and offers, not what each produced.
| Compared | SpeedPaint | WhiteboardAnimation.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Basic $5.99/month billed yearly or $9.99 billed monthly; Standard $3.99/month 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 | Its terms say new accounts get some free credits; the account we made had 0, and Animate asked us to buy. | 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, up to 5 MB. | 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 (Basic); colour, grey or black-and-white (Standard). | Drawn stroke by stroke from the picture itself: outlines first, then colour region by region. |
| Drawing order and style | Sequence order: Auto, top to bottom, text first or text at the end. Sketch type: colour, shades of grey, or black and white. Set before it draws. | Lines only, or lines then colour; the subject or the background coloured first; and on the timeline, any layer’s lines or colour in any order. Each change replays at once: no redraw, no credit. |
| Hand | Its editor shows eight choices, the first no hand. Its pricing page: one basic hand on Basic, 8 hand styles on Standard. | Six hands, or none. Switching hands never redraws or spends a credit. |
| Output | HD 1920×1080; 30, 60 or 120 fps; a background colour. Sketch and colour up to 15 s each on Basic, 50 s on Standard. File format 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. |
| Changes after drawing | Not stated: every setting is chosen before Animate. | 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 agents | Not stated: we found no API page. | A REST API for agents, on Pro; an MCP server is in development. |
| Best for | Making a hand-drawing video from an image on its website, in Canva or in Adobe Express (its homepage). | 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. On 21 October 2026 we uploaded it to SpeedPaint with a new account: the account had 0 credits and Animate asked us to buy, so we have not made the video yet. Until we do, this section shows only our clip.
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 le cycle de l’eau en animation whiteboard
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 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.
- Your picture has text you want drawn first or last: its sequence order has a setting for that.
- You want its shades-of-grey sketch style.
Using both, or moving over
- Upload the picture you want drawn 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.
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