The best whiteboard animation software of 2026

VideoScribe, made by the UK company Sparkol, is the tool most people picture when they think of a whiteboard video. You place images on a canvas, choose a hand (there are several, including different skin tones), and VideoScribe draws each one in while your voiceover plays. You can use it in a browser or download the desktop app, and your projects sync between the two.

The AI tools are useful for a first draft. Paste in a document or your talking points and VideoScribe writes a structured script, and Core and Max plans add AI voiceover (75 and 150 minutes a month). Every paid plan exports 1080p MP4 files and includes the music library.

The plan limits matter more than the features. Lite allows 5 downloads a month and videos up to 5 minutes, and premium images still carry a watermark. Core raises that to 30 downloads, 10-minute videos and 5 million premium images with no watermark, which is the plan most businesses will need. Max adds unlimited downloads, 20-minute videos, a brand kit and reseller rights for agencies.

US prices, from the checkout data the pricing page loads, are $150 a year or $35 a month for Lite, $255 a year or $60 a month for Core, and $320 a year or $75 a month for Max. Yearly billing is much cheaper. The 7-day trial needs no card, gives you 3 downloads and watermarks every video.

Choose it if you want the traditional drawn-by-hand look and plan to make a few videos a month.

Skip it if you need moving characters or lip-sync; VideoScribe draws and reveals images rather than animating them.

Doodly is a drag-and-drop desktop app for explainer, training and promo videos in the hand-drawn style. Scenes can sit on a whiteboard, chalkboard, glass board or your own background, and you choose the hand that draws them. You can bring in your own images and record or import a voiceover, so it suits people who already have illustrations or a script.

Doodly is now sold through Voomly, and you install it through the Voomly Cloud app. Voomly lists Windows 10 or later and macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later, at least 2GB of RAM, and an active internet connection, so it is not an offline tool. There is no phone, tablet or browser version.

The Standard plan costs $49 a month or $490 a year and comes with a Voomly Cloud subscription. Enterprise costs $79 a month or $790 a year and comes with Voomly Pro. Color animation is a separate purchase called Doodly Rainbow, which neither plan includes. The 14-day trial asks for a card and Voomly starts charging it when the trial ends, so set a reminder if you are only testing. Voomly says it honors refund requests sent within 30 days of purchase.

Choose it if you like placing each image and timing each draw yourself on a desktop computer.

Skip it if you want AI to write the script and build the scenes, or if you need to edit on a Chromebook or tablet.

Vyond is a browser-based animation studio with three character styles, and Whiteboard is one of them, alongside Contemporary and Business Friendly. That makes it the pick when one video needs a whiteboard explanation and the next needs characters acting out a customer call or a safety procedure. Every plan includes the whiteboard style.

Vyond is priced for companies that make video every week. Starter costs $699 a year (about $58 a month) or $99 month to month for one user. Professional, which adds team collaboration, costs $1,199 per user a year or $199 a month. Enterprise ($1,649 per user a year) and Agency ($1,999 per user a year) are sold yearly only. Vyond offers a free trial, but its pricing page doesn't say how long it lasts.

Choose it if you run a training, HR or internal communications team and want one library of characters and templates that everyone works from.

Skip it if you make a handful of whiteboard videos a year. VideoScribe Core does the drawn look for well under half the price of Vyond Starter.

Powtoon is a browser-based animated video maker with a whiteboard section of its own. It offers ready-made whiteboard templates for topics such as change management, tech onboarding and health and safety training, and its AI tools can draft a whiteboard script for you. If your first whiteboard video is a training piece, starting from one of these templates saves the most time.

The free plan lets you test the whole process: exports are 720p, up to 3 minutes long and carry a Powtoon watermark. Lite costs $15 a month billed yearly and gives you 5 watermark-free exports a month in 1080p, with videos up to 10 minutes. Professional, at $40 a month billed yearly when we checked, offers unlimited premium exports and 20-minute videos. Advanced costs $125 a month billed yearly and adds lip-sync, custom fonts and reseller rights. There are separate education and enterprise plans.

Choose it if you want to see a finished whiteboard video before you spend anything.

Skip it if you need more than 5 exports a month on a small budget, or if you want the pure hand-drawn look across a whole video; Powtoon mixes whiteboard scenes with its other styles.

Animaker is a browser-based maker for animated and live-action videos, with whiteboard animation listed as a feature of its paid plans. It suits marketers and teachers who want a whiteboard explainer one week and a cartoon or infographic video the next, and who don't want to pay Vyond's prices for that range.

The free plan lets you make and download videos with a limited set of premium assets, but every export carries the Animaker watermark. Starter costs $300 a year (about $25 a month) or $45 month to month and includes whiteboard animations, 10 premium downloads a month, videos up to 15 minutes and Full HD exports. Pro costs $516 a year or $79 a month and adds 30 downloads, 30-minute videos, 2K exports and commercial rights. Max costs $948 a year or $139 a month. A 7-day trial of the paid features is separate from the free plan.

Choose it if you want several animation styles in one subscription and can live with a monthly download cap.

Skip it if you need commercial rights on the cheapest plan; the pricing page lists them from Pro up.

Renderforest takes the template route. Its Whiteboard Animation Toolkit has more than 1,000 scenes and its Whiteboard Animation Pack more than 400, and you build a video by picking scenes, editing the text and adding music or a voiceover. You can add your own logo as a watermark. Everything runs in the browser, and the same account covers logo animations, intros and other marketing videos.

There is a free plan; paid plans remove Renderforest's watermark. Lite costs $108 a year or $15 a month, Pro $228 a year or $39 a month, and Business $468 a year or $59 a month. The yearly plans are much cheaper per month than monthly billing.

Choose it if you need a short whiteboard explainer for a landing page or social post this week and would rather edit scenes than draw them.

Skip it if you want a distinctive video. Other customers use the same scenes, and you have less control over how each drawing appears than in VideoScribe or Doodly.