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A Doodly alternative that writes and draws.

Doodly is a desktop-style doodle video builder with a large library of drawn images, characters and hands. StrokeTale writes the script from your topic, draws new pictures for every scene and adds the voice and captions. Here is how they differ.

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Free account with 3 minutes of video a month. You approve the script before you spend anything.

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Checked 28 Oct 2026

StrokeTale and Doodly, side by side.

What each one does, from each product's own public pages on 28 Oct 2026. Prices and features change: the sources are listed below.

StrokeTale compared with Doodly, checked 28 Oct 2026
Topic	StrokeTale	Doodly
How you build a video	Describe it; approve a script; every scene is drawn for you.	Assemble scenes from a library of doodle images, characters and props.
Script and voice	AI script with free revisions, 28 AI voices with speaking styles.	No AI script described on its homepage; voiceovers via its sister product Talkia.
Pictures	New pictures made for your topic, traced into pen strokes.	Thousands of drawn images, 200 characters with 20 poses each, and your own uploads drawn by Smart Draw.
Hands	56 photo hands (5 skin tones, 6 tools, sleeves, left or right), a line hand, or none.	Tens of male and female hands in various skin tones.
Styles	Classic whiteboard, Clean marker, Chalkboard, Modern flat, Soft 3D, Stickman and Watercolour sketch.	Whiteboard, blackboard, glassboard and green screen.
Burned-in captions	6 styles, word by word, plus free SRT and VTT.	Not described on its homepage.
Edits	Change a scene by chatting; only that scene is redrawn, free.	Edit by hand in the builder.
Export	1080p MP4 in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1.	MP4 from 480p to 1080p or custom, 24 to 60 fps.

Choose Doodly if

You want a fixed library of doodle characters and props to arrange yourself.
You need blackboard, glassboard or green-screen output, or custom resolutions and frame rates.
You want to upload your own images and have them drawn.

Choose StrokeTale if

You want the script, pictures, voice and captions made for you from a topic.
You want pictures made for your subject rather than picked from a library.
You make vertical videos for Shorts, Reels and TikTok as well as 16:9.
You want to change any scene by asking, without re-editing the timeline.

Sources, checked 28 Oct 2026

Doodly homepage (features, hands, characters, styles, export) (opens in a new tab)

Doodly is a trademark of its owner. StrokeTale is not affiliated with it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.

See the difference on your own topic.

Scripts, previews and scene edits are free. You only spend credits when you export, and you see the price first. A free account includes 3 minutes of video every month.