AI-assistedWhiteboard Animation Maker

A whiteboard animation maker that turns a script into an explainer video.

Paste your narration and Split my script cuts it into 3 to 10 scenes, one idea each, with a matching icon picked from 236. Then watch it draw: a marker draws every icon stroke by stroke with the pen tip on the line, the sentence is written beside it, and the camera pans across one big board to the next point. Six board styles, three ratios, your own voiceover if you have one — 720p free, clean 1080p with commercial use on any paid plan.

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236: Icons, drawn live; Lucide line drawings under the ISC licence, searchable by name and keyword.
6: Board styles; Whiteboard, chalkboard, ruled paper, blueprint, sticky notes and corporate clean.
4: Scene layouts; Icon left, icon top, text only and a big number over the line.
3 min: Longest video; Ten scenes at four to eight seconds each; the cap holds even with a long voiceover.

Icons are traced along their outline with the pen on the tip
Style cards render your own first scene, not a sample
Splitting a script needs an account — everything else does not
No watermark on any paid plan

What it is

A whiteboard animation maker built on scenes, not a blank canvas.

A whiteboard animation — a doodle video, under its other common name — is the oldest reliable format for explaining something: a hand draws a simple picture while a voice explains one idea, then moves on to the next. The tools that own the format hand you an empty board and an asset library and let you place, time and animate every element yourself. This explainer video maker starts one level up — at the scene. Each scene is one sentence of up to 110 characters, one icon from a library of 236 line drawings, one of four layouts (icon left, icon top, text only, or a big number over the line) and an optional smaller second line. Write three to ten of them, or paste your narration and let Split my script cut it into scenes with an icon chosen for each. From there the drawing is automatic: the icon is drawn along its own outline with the marker tip riding the line, the sentence is written in next to it, and the camera pans across a single wide board so the points you have already made stay behind you. Six styles change the board, the pen and the typeface, from a plain whiteboard to a chalkboard, ruled paper, a blueprint grid, sticky notes or a clean corporate slide. Nothing renders on a server: the video is drawn in your browser tab as you edit and encoded there when you download it.

6 board styles, 236 icons, 4 scene layouts 3–10 scenes, 4–8 seconds each, up to 3 minutes 720p free, clean 1080p on any paid plan

How it works

How to make a whiteboard explainer video in three steps

Paste your script, or write the scenes yourself

Start from a script is the script-to-video route: it takes up to 1,200 characters of narration and splits it into 3 to 10 scenes, each with a line, a layout and an icon chosen from the library. Splitting needs a free account and runs three times a day on the free plan. Prefer to do it yourself? Five example scenes are already on the board — edit them, add up to ten, reorder with the arrows.

Set the icon and the layout for each line

Click a scene's icon to search all 236 by name or keyword — money, team, cloud, arrow. Pick the layout that suits the point: icon left for a plain statement, icon top for a centred one, text only for a line that carries itself, big number for a figure such as 73% or 3 steps. Add a smaller second line of up to 80 characters where it helps.

Choose a style and download

The six style cards are rendered with your own first scene, so you compare finished frames rather than colour swatches. Set the accent, pick 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, add a voiceover or a soundtrack, then download an MP4. Free accounts export 720p with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use; any paid plan exports clean 1080p cleared for commercial use, and Pro adds 4K.

Actually drawn

The pen stays on the line — every icon is drawn stroke by stroke

This is the part most browser tools skip. An icon here is a real outline, and it is drawn along that outline from start to finish while the marker sits on the tip of the growing line, exactly the way the desktop doodle programs do it. Nothing fades or pops in. Each style brings its own pen — a chisel marker, a stick of chalk, a blue ballpoint, a white technical pen — and the strokes take on that pen's weight. One honest limit: the sentence beside the icon is written in from the left with a second pen running along its baseline, rather than being formed letter by letter, because the typefaces are fonts and not traced outlines.

236 line icons, each drawn along its own path rather than faded in
The pen tip follows the end of the stroke, then lifts when the icon is done
One wide board: the camera pans on, and earlier scenes stay behind you

Script to scenes

Split my script — the one piece of AI in the tool, and it only chooses

Paste up to 1,200 characters of narration, press Split my script, and a model reads it and returns 3 to 10 scenes: your words shortened into a line each, an icon id taken from the 236 in the library, a layout, and a figure for the big-number scenes only when that figure is already in your script. It is a sorting job, not a writing job — it cannot invent a statistic, and made-up numbers, emoji and exclamation marks are rejected before the scenes reach the board. Splitting needs a free account, runs three times a day on the free plan and fifty a day once you have paid, and when the model is unavailable it says so rather than quietly swapping in a different one. Everything it produces is editable, and the tool works perfectly well if you never touch it.

Up to 1,200 characters in; 3–10 editable scenes out, usually in 5–15 seconds
3 splits a day free, 50 a day once you have paid, 6 a minute
No model substitutions: if it cannot run, it tells you instead of guessing

6 styles

Whiteboard, chalkboard, ruled paper, blueprint, sticky notes, corporate

A style changes the board, the pen, the typeface and the furniture around them. Classic Whiteboard is the black marker on white that everyone pictures. Blackboard is white chalk on a deep green board with a wooden ledge and dust in the air. Notebook writes in blue ballpoint on ruled paper with a red margin, and the page scrolls down instead of sideways. Blueprint is a white technical pen on a drafting grid, mono type, sheet numbers in the corner. Sticky Notes pops a pastel note onto a desk for every point, slightly crooked, marker on top. Corporate Clean is light grey with your brand colour on the icons and the pen and a row of progress dots. The six cards in the right rail are live renders of your own first scene, and clicking a name here opens the board in that style.

Each style has its own pen: chisel marker, chalk, ballpoint, technical pen
Blackboard, Blueprint and Sticky Notes are premium; Classic, Notebook and Corporate Clean export on the free plan
One accent colour runs through the underlines, the big numbers and, in Corporate Clean, the icons

Timing and sound

Length follows your writing — or your recording

There is no timeline to keyframe. Every scene runs about four to eight seconds depending on how much you wrote: the icon takes a second and a half, the line is written at roughly a sixteenth of a second per character, and then it holds before the camera moves on. Five scenes come to about half a minute, ten to just over a minute, and the whole video is capped at three minutes. Upload a voiceover — MP3 or WAV, up to ten minutes — and the scenes stretch or tighten so the video lasts exactly as long as the recording, weighted by how much each scene has to say. No voiceover? Pick a soundtrack from the library or export silent.

3–10 scenes, 4–8 seconds each, 3 minutes maximum
Voiceover up to 10 minutes, MP3 or WAV — the video is cut to fit it
16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, each laid out for its own frame rather than cropped

Inside the tool

Scenes on the left, the board in the middle, style and sound on the right

There is no project to set up. The left rail holds Start from a script and the scene cards — line, second line, icon, layout, reorder and delete; the stage in the middle plays the whole explainer above a timeline split scene by scene; the right rail holds the six style cards, the ratio, the running length, the accent colours, the voiceover slot and the download button.

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The Whiteboard Explainer on its five example scenes: Classic Whiteboard paused halfway through writing scene 2, the marker still on the line under a finished icon, the scene cards down the left and the six style cards on the right redrawn from your own first scene.

One card per scene
Each card carries the line and its character count, the optional second line, the icon and the layout. The arrows reorder, the bin removes — down to three scenes — and Add scene goes up to ten.
A timeline that names the scenes
The track under the board is split into scenes rather than seconds. Click one to jump the preview there; the scene card on the left highlights to match.
Style cards drawn from your words
The six thumbnails are real frames of each board with your own first sentence and icon, redrawn a moment after you edit them. A badge marks the three that need a plan or a credit pack to export.

All six

Six boards, the same scene on each

Every tile is one style drawing the same scene at 9:16 — the icon traced along its outline, the pen on the tip, the line written in beside it. Your scenes, your icons and your timing stay put while you click between them.

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Classic Whiteboard

Black chisel marker on a white board, handwritten line, red underline.

Blackboard

White chalk on deep green, dust in the air and a wooden ledge below.

Notebook

Blue ballpoint on ruled paper with a red margin; the page scrolls down.

Blueprint

White technical pen on a drafting grid, mono type, sheet number in the corner.

Sticky Notes

A pastel note lands on the desk for every point, slightly crooked, marker on top.

Corporate Clean

Light grey, your brand colour on the icons and pen, progress dots along the top.

Why LazyKiwi

Why make your whiteboard video here

It opens as a finished explainer

Five example scenes are already drawn and playing when the tool loads. Click through all six styles, change a sentence, watch the whole thing rebuild — all before you make an account. You sign in when you download, or to split a script.

No render queue

The board is drawn in your browser tab, so a new sentence or a different style shows up straight away and an export starts the moment you press the button. Nobody emails you a link when it is ready.

Nothing to learn

No layers, no keyframes, no asset library to wade through. A scene is a line, an icon and a layout; the drawing, the timing and the camera move are all worked out from what you typed.

Cleared for work that earns

Any paid plan exports 1080p with no watermark and clears the video for commercial use — a product page, a paid course, a client deliverable, an ad. Pro adds 4K and 60 fps for a video that will be projected.

Your script stays yours

Scenes, icons and voiceover are handled in the browser. The only thing that leaves your machine is the script you hand to Split my script, and only when you press the button; skip it and nothing is sent at all.

Made of drawings, not stock

The 236 icons are Lucide line drawings under the ISC licence, redrawn by the engine as paths so they can be traced rather than played from a video file. There is no stock footage in the output and nothing to attribute.

Browser explainer maker, desktop doodle software or a template site

Three ways to get a whiteboard animation, and what changes when the board is drawn in your browser from a list of scenes instead of assembled on a canvas or rendered on someone else's server.

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What you get here

Icons are traced stroke by stroke with the pen on the line — the thing desktop doodle software is bought for
The input is a scene list, so a five-scene explainer is about ten minutes of typing
Paste a script and have it split into scenes with an icon each, three times a day on the free plan
Unlimited 720p exports on the free plan with a small mark; clean 1080p and commercial use on any paid plan
Six boards including ruled paper, a blueprint grid and sticky notes

Desktop doodle software

Install it, draw on a canvas

Enormous drawn-asset libraries and a hand that holds a real pen
You place, time and animate every element yourself on a blank canvas
Sold as a subscription or a one-off licence, and it has to be installed
Free trials are usually time-limited, with a handful of watermarked exports

A template render site

Pick a scene pack, render on a server

Hundreds of pre-built whiteboard scenes with characters and props
The editor shows stills; the moving preview is rendered on their servers after you sign up
Edits mean finding the template that already says what you need
Full HD and 4K sit on higher tiers than the free watermarked export

Pricing & limits

A free whiteboard animation maker, and what paying unlocks

Every board plays in the live preview with your own scenes, and the free plan gives you unlimited 720p exports with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use. Paying unlocks the rest: a one-time credit pack removes the mark and lets you export the three premium boards; any paid plan adds 1080p and a commercial licence, which is what an explainer on a product page, in a paid course, in a sales deck or delivered to a client needs; Pro adds 4K and 60 fps for video that will be projected. Cloud render is optional, at 5 credits per 20 seconds of finished video.

Unlimited exports

Free · 720p

720p MP4 with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use
Any plan or credit pack removes the mark
All 3 aspect ratios — 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
No card required to open, edit or preview
Every board in the live preview — Blackboard, Blueprint and Sticky Notes need a credit pack or plan to export

1080p on any paid plan

1080p · 4K

Same clip, same edit, rendered clean at 1080p — commercial use included
4K, 60 fps and transparent ProRes on Pro and above

No credits to export

Renders in your browser

Writing scenes, switching boards and previewing the whole explainer re-render locally and spend no credits
No upload queue and no render wait to pay for
Optional cloud render, every frame stable: 5 credits per 20 seconds

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FAQ

Whiteboard animation questions, answered

Is this whiteboard animation maker free?+

Yes, to use and for personal use. Every board, layout, icon and ratio plays in the live preview without an account, and a free account gets unlimited 720p exports with a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner. Three of the six boards — Blackboard, Blueprint and Sticky Notes — export only with a one-time credit pack or a paid plan; the credit pack also removes the mark. For anything that earns money — a product page, a paid course, an ad, a client video — you need a paid plan: clean 1080p cleared for commercial use, with 4K and 60 fps on Pro.

What is a whiteboard animation, and when is it the right explainer video?+

It is a video of a hand drawing simple pictures and words on a board while a voice explains an idea. It works when the thing you are explaining is abstract — a process, a policy, a pricing model, an idea nobody can photograph — because a drawing can show a concept that a camera cannot. It works less well when you need to show a real product interface; a screen recording or a product video does that better. Most explainers land between sixty and ninety seconds, which here is five to eight scenes.

How do I turn a script into an explainer video?+

Open the tool, click Start from a script and paste up to 1,200 characters of narration, then press Split my script. It comes back as 3 to 10 scenes, each with a shortened line, a layout and an icon chosen from the library, and every one of them is editable. Fix the wording, swap any icon, reorder with the arrows, pick a board style and a ratio, and download. Splitting needs a free account and runs three times a day on the free plan; writing the scenes yourself needs no account at all.

Does the AI write my script or my voiceover?+

No. Split my script only divides the words you paste into scenes and picks an icon and a layout for each — it shortens your sentences, it does not invent claims, and a figure can only land on a big-number scene if that figure is already in your script. There is no script generator and no synthetic voice here. Record your own narration and upload it as MP3 or WAV, or add a soundtrack instead, or export silent. If by AI explainer video you mean a tool that writes the words and speaks them for you, this is not that one — it draws what you wrote.

Can I add my own voiceover?+

Yes. Upload an MP3 or WAV of up to ten minutes and the video is fitted to it: the scenes stretch or tighten so the whole thing lasts exactly as long as your recording, with the extra time weighted towards the scenes that have more to say. Videos are capped at three minutes, so a longer recording is trimmed at that point and the tool tells you by how much. Without a voiceover, the length follows your writing — about four to eight seconds a scene.

Is there a watermark on free exports?+

Yes — a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner of the 720p export, and it cannot be switched off on the free plan. There is no limit on how many you make. Paying removes it: a one-time credit pack exports without the mark, and any paid plan exports the same video clean at 1080p, cleared for commercial use.

Can I use the video at work or for a client?+

On a paid plan, yes. Any paid plan clears your export for commercial use — internal training, onboarding, a product page, a sales deck, a paid course, an ad, or a video you make for a client. Free exports, and clean exports from a credit pack alone, are for personal use. The icons are Lucide line drawings under the ISC licence and the boards, pens and type are all drawn by the engine, so there is no stock footage in the file and nothing to attribute.

Can I upload my own images or characters?+

Not in this tool. A scene is built from one of 236 line icons, your sentence and an optional second line, which is what keeps the drawing consistent and the timing automatic — every icon is a traced outline, and a photograph cannot be drawn stroke by stroke. There are no animated characters either. If you need your own artwork on screen, put the export on a timeline in your editor alongside it, or look at the other Motion tools for logo and product footage.

How many scenes should an explainer have, and how long does it run?+

Between three and ten, and one idea each — if a scene needs two sentences, it is two scenes. Each runs about four to eight seconds depending on how much you wrote, so five scenes is roughly half a minute and ten is just over a minute. The running length is shown under the style cards and updates as you type, and the maximum for any video is three minutes.

What do I get when I download, and does it work for YouTube or Shorts?+

An MP4 at 30 frames a second, encoded in your browser tab, named after the board, the ratio and the length — with a WebM fallback in the few browsers that cannot record MP4. Choose 16:9 for YouTube and presentations, 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, or 1:1 for a feed post; the board is laid out again for each frame rather than cropped from a wide render. Cloud render is there for long videos, at 5 credits per 20 seconds.

Which boards are premium?+

Blackboard, Blueprint and Sticky Notes. All three play in the live preview at full quality and can be built with completely — the paywall is only at the download, where a one-time credit pack or any paid plan unlocks them. Classic Whiteboard, Notebook and Corporate Clean export on the free plan, and Classic Whiteboard is the default.

Use cases

Who makes their explainer video here

SaaS and product teams

The ninety-second "what does it actually do" video for a landing page or a sales deck. Paste the pitch you already wrote, keep it to five or six scenes, and export 16:9 at 1080p from a paid plan so it is cleared for commercial use on a site that sells something.

Training, onboarding and HR

Policies, safety briefings and first-week walkthroughs go down better drawn than read. Record the narration you would have delivered in person, upload it, and the scenes stretch to match it line for line — no editing app in between.

Teachers and course creators

One idea per scene is how a lesson is built anyway. Blackboard looks like the room; Notebook looks like the page the class is taking notes on. Big-number scenes carry the figure you want remembered — one statistic per board makes this a serviceable animated infographic maker too — and 16:9 plays straight from a projector or an LMS.

Agencies and freelancers

Draft a client's explainer in the time it takes to read their script back, try all six boards before the call, then deliver 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 from the same scenes. Client work is commercial use, so export it on a paid plan: clean 1080p, no watermark.

Nonprofits and internal comms

A donor update, a policy change, a quarterly summary — the format makes dry material watchable, and a plain board keeps the attention on the words. Sticky Notes suits a workshop recap; Corporate Clean takes your brand colour.

Shorts, Reels and TikTok

Switch to 9:16 and the board is laid out again for a phone: bigger type, icon above the line, the camera panning down instead of across. Three or four scenes is about right for a vertical explainer that gets watched to the end.

More about whiteboard explainers

Is there a real hand holding the pen?+

Not yet — the pen is drawn by the engine rather than filmed, so what follows the stroke is a marker, a stick of chalk, a ballpoint or a technical pen depending on the board, with no arm or hand attached. Desktop doodle software uses photographed hands, which are image files; here everything on screen is vector, which is why a style change redraws instantly and the export has no stock media in it.

Is the handwriting really written letter by letter?+

The icons are: each one is traced along its own outline from start to finish. The sentences are not. They are written in from the left with the pen running along the baseline, which reads as handwriting at normal speed but is a reveal rather than a letterform being drawn. Making each character trace its own shape would mean turning the fonts into outlines, which is on the list and not in this version.

How does the camera move between scenes?+

All the scenes live on one wide board and the camera pans from one to the next, so the point you just made is still there behind you — the same move the desktop tools use. Notebook is the exception: its page scrolls downwards instead of sideways, because that is what a notebook does. There is no zoom, wipe or cut between scenes in this version.

Can I change the colours or the font?+

The accent is yours: Auto follows the board, or pick from eight presets or a custom colour, and it runs through the underlines, the big numbers and — on Corporate Clean — the icons and the pen. The board colour, the pen and the typeface come as a set with each style, so switching style is how you change them. Corporate Clean is the one built to take a brand colour across the whole frame.

What happens to a very long sentence?+

A line is capped at 110 characters and the second line at 80, and long lines wrap and shrink to fit the board rather than running off it. That cap is deliberate: past about twenty words a scene stops being one idea, the writing takes so long that the timing drags, and the point is easier to read as two scenes. The character count under each line tells you where you are.

Can I keep or reopen a project?+

A signed-in export is saved to your projects with its scenes, style, ratio and cover, so you can come back to it. The example scenes you start from are always there to build on, and a deep link can open the tool on a particular board — handy when you have settled on Blackboard for a series and want every video to start there.

Keep going

Hand it a script. Watch it draw the explainer.

Five scenes are already on the board when you open it. Swap in your own words, try all six boards, and export 720p free or clean 1080p with commercial use on any paid plan.