VideoScribe alternatives: 5 tools for making a whiteboard video in 2026

The short answer

If you want to keep drawing yourself, but in desktop software and on a whiteboard, blackboard or glassboard, look at Doodly. For whiteboard templates next to other animated styles, Powtoon. For animated characters in a whiteboard style inside a full studio, Vyond. If a video summary of your own notes is enough, Gemini Notebook, for free. If you want a document turned into a complete, sourced whiteboard video that your experts correct by annotating, EducPilot.

Alternatives by need

For reference, VideoScribe’s pricing page shows, for France, €165 per year for Lite (€13.75 a month), or €34 billed monthly, with a 7-day free trial and no card required.

Why look for a VideoScribe alternative

VideoScribe is still the reference tool for composing a whiteboard video by hand, in the browser or on desktop: a canvas, an image library, drawing hands, a timeline. Its limits come with the plan. On Lite: 5 downloads a month, videos of 5 minutes at most and no AI voiceover. Core (€275 a year for France) moves to 30 downloads, 10 minutes, preview links and 75 minutes of AI voiceover; Max (€350 a year) adds unlimited downloads, 20 minutes, a brand kit and reseller rights. And whatever the plan, the video is built scene by scene. Our EducPilot vs VideoScribe comparison covers the difference in method.

Doodly: the closest, on your own computer

Doodly is desktop software for drawn videos, for Mac or PC: drag an image onto the canvas and a hand draws it. Whiteboard, blackboard or glassboard; your own images can be drawn too (Smart Draw); you record the voice inside the software; MP4 export goes up to 1080p. Its pricing page leads to Voomly Cloud, the subscription that includes it along with Toonly (cartoons) and Talkia (voiceovers). Pick it if you enjoy composing and prefer installed software to a web app.

Powtoon: whiteboard among other styles

Powtoon offers hundreds of whiteboard templates and hand-drawn elements next to its other animated styles, plus an AI “doc-to-video” that turns a document into a whiteboard breakdown. The free plan is 720p, capped at 3 minutes, with a watermark; Lite, at $15 per month billed yearly, gives 5 watermark-free exports a month, in 1080p, up to 10 minutes. Reseller rights come with Advanced ($125 per month billed yearly). EducPilot vs Powtoon.

Vyond: animated characters, whiteboard included

Vyond is an animation studio whose characters come in Whiteboard, Contemporary and Business Friendly styles. Vyond Go also generates a video from text, a document (.doc, .pdf, .ppt, .txt) or a web address; there are avatars, 650+ voices, screen and webcam recording, and 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 formats from Starter. SCORM export, guest commenting and the brand kit require Enterprise or Agency. More expensive, billed per user, but far more complete. EducPilot vs Vyond.

Gemini Notebook: whiteboard without composing anything, for yourself

Google’s tool, called NotebookLM until July 2026, turns a notebook’s sources into a “Video Overview”, with a “Whiteboard” style among eight named styles. It is free with a Google account, but designed for understanding your own documents: Google describes no scene-by-scene correction after generation, and videos on the free version carry a visible watermark. EducPilot vs Gemini Notebook.

EducPilot: whiteboard generated from your documents

EducPilot, a French AI training video software, starts from a PDF, a web page or text, proposes a plan, then produces the complete video: drawing as the voice speaks, synthetic voice, burned-in subtitles, in 16:9 or 9:16. Whiteboard is its default art direction; six others can be picked per project. Every statement cites its page, and your experts correct the video by annotating the frame, from a link and without an account: only the annotated scene is rewritten. Its limits, said plainly: you correct the video, you do not draw it frame by frame; no SCORM; three languages (English, French, Chinese); Word and PowerPoint to export as PDF. See what happens to an uploaded PDF.

Sources

Official pages checked on 23 October 2026: VideoScribe pricing (prices shown for France) and how to create a whiteboard video; Doodly and Voomly Cloud pricing; Powtoon pricing and whiteboard style; Vyond pricing and FAQs; Google, Video Overviews in Gemini Notebook and plans; EducPilot.

Prices as shown by each vendor, in US dollars except VideoScribe (in euros, for France) and EducPilot (in euros excl. VAT); they may change. Spotted an error? Write to bonjour@educpilot.org.