Doodly vs VideoScribe in 2026: price, workflow, and a third option

Doodly vs VideoScribe, quick version. VideoScribe is the cheaper yearly license, it runs in the browser, and it has AI helpers for the script, the images and the voice. Doodly makes more sense if you're already paying for Voomly, or you want its character library and a desktop app where you set the drawing paths yourself. With either one, you build every scene by hand. Rather get a finished video straight from a topic? We're the third option, down at the bottom of this page.

Doodly, VideoScribe, and GenPixy AI in one table

We got these prices and features from the official Doodly and VideoScribe pages on 8 November 2026. Heads up, VideoScribe shows prices by country, so yours might look different.

	Doodly	VideoScribe	GenPixy AI
Made by	Voomly	Sparkol	GenPixy
How you build	Drag characters and props, set drawing paths	Place images, set how each appears, move the camera	Type a topic or paste a script
Runs on	Desktop app for Windows and Mac, needs internet	Browser and desktop app	Browser on a phone or computer
Voice	Record or upload, or Talkia (separate)	Your recording, or AI voiceover in 45+ languages on Core and Max	Narration in 70+ languages included
AI help	No AI script writer listed	Script, images, and voiceover, with monthly limits	Makes the whole video
Longest video	Not stated	5, 10, or 20 minutes by plan	10 minutes
Free option	14-day trial	7-day trial, 3 watermarked downloads	Free videos every day
Price	Voomly Cloud $49 a month or $490 a year	Lite $101.01, Core $172.05, Max $216.45 a year per license	Pay per video, no subscription

What a year costs

You can't buy Doodly on its own. It comes inside Voomly. Voomly Cloud is $49 a month or $490 a year and gets you the Standard version of Doodly, along with Toonly, Talkia and some other Voomly tools. Voomly Pro ($79 a month or $790 a year) gets you Enterprise Doodly. VideoScribe goes the other way and sells single licenses. Lite is $101.01 a year, but premium images carry a watermark and you get 5 downloads a month. Core is $172.05 a year. That drops the watermarks, bumps you to 30 downloads a month, and lets videos run up to 10 minutes. Only need whiteboard videos? VideoScribe is cheaper. Planning to use the rest of Voomly too? Then Doodly's bundle can be worth it.

Building scenes in each tool

Doodly hands you a big library of characters and props, a blackboard mode, and control over the exact path the hand takes for each image. VideoScribe is one huge canvas instead. You drop images on it, decide how each one shows up (drawn, pulsed, bounced in, and a few more), then set camera moves between them. Its AI tools can draft a script and make images, and on Core and Max they'll generate a voiceover in 45+ languages too. On the Doodly side we didn't find an AI script writer listed. For voice you record your own or use Talkia.

Either way you're still putting every scene together and timing it to the voice yourself. Love having full control? Great, that's the point. Need a lot of videos? That's where it starts to hurt.

A third option: let the video be made for you

Maybe what you want is a finished explainer, not a project to assemble. That's what GenPixy AI does. Start from a topic or your own script and you get back the drawings, the narration, word-by-word captions, music, an SRT file and a thumbnail. You choose Landscape or Portrait, anything from 30 seconds to 10 minutes, and one of three looks. The trade-off is real: you don't control each drawing path. What you get instead is the video in minutes, in more than 70 languages.

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