Best whiteboard animation software: 9 tools compared

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• Price: Free (5 credits, 720p, watermark); Starter $15/month or $12/month billed yearly (50 credits, 1080p, no watermark); Pro $39/month or $29/month billed yearly (200 credits, transparent and layered export, API access, commercial licence). Or 20 credits for $10 with no subscription; any pack removes the watermark and unlocks 1080p for good. One credit draws one picture; exporting is free.
• After the drawing: change the hand (six, or none), the timing, lines only, or which part is coloured first, without redrawing or spending a credit.
• Export: MP4 or WebM on paper or a colour; on Pro, transparent WebM, a PNG sequence, or every layer as its own clip; green screen on every plan.
• For agents: an API and a prompt for Claude Code, Codex or Cursor that draws a folder of pictures (developers).

What it does not do: no scenes, text, voice-over, music or stock image library; no picture from a text prompt (you bring the picture: how to prepare one); no 4K (up to 1080p or the picture’s own size); saving the video needs a desktop browser.

• Price: Standard $49 a month or $490 a year; Enterprise $79 a month or $790 a year, with a larger library, more music and more storage.
• Free: a 14-day free trial (with Voomly Cloud) and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
• Your own picture: PNG, JPG, SVG or GIF up to 1920 × 1080, drawn with a wide default path unless you click a custom draw path onto it; its help says SVG gives the best results.
• Output: MP4, OGG, MKV or WebM, 360p to 1080p, up to 60 fps, no watermark; whiteboard, chalkboard, glass board or your own background.
• Best for: marketers building whole doodle videos from ready-drawn characters in many poses.

• Price: Canva Free costs nothing; Canva Pro is $144 a year for one person. Canva says free users get one free SpeedPaint credit and can buy more.
• Output: the drawing is added to your Canva design, where you add text, transitions and voice-over, and download it as MP4.
• Best for: people already designing in Canva who want a drawing clip without leaving it.

• Price: its plan cards list Basic at $10 a month (720p, 5 premium exports), Starter at $19 a month (1080p, 10 premium exports; $228 billed yearly, or $35 month to month) and Pro at $49 a month (2K, 30 premium exports).
• Free: “start creating for free, no credit card required”.
• Output: MP4, GIF or WebM, from SD up to 4K according to its whiteboard page.
• Best for: template-based whiteboard videos next to other animation styles in one account.

• Price: billed monthly, both with unlimited credits: Basic $9.99 (one hand, black-and-white sketch, up to 15 s of sketch and 15 s of colour), Standard $14.99 (8 hands, colour, grey or black-and-white sketch, up to 50 s each).
• Free: its pricing page lists paid plans only.
• Output: HD, 1920 × 1080.
• Best for: many short drawing clips for one flat monthly price.

• You want the whole video in one app — scenes, captions, voice-over, music: VideoScribe, Doodly, InstaDoodle, Powtoon or Animaker.
• You have no pictures and no script, only a topic or a document: Golpo AI writes, narrates and draws the whole video.
• You need 4K: InstaDoodle Pro, or Animaker’s higher plans.
• You design in Canva: the SpeedPaint app keeps the drawing inside your design.
• You want a ready-drawn character library rather than your own artwork: Doodly or InstaDoodle.

Pick WhiteboardAnimation.ai when the picture already exists — an illustration, a diagram, an AI image — and you want it drawn line by line, re-timed after the fact, or exported transparent for your own editor. Start with one picture.