A real Sketch video. Clipteach made it from the script below, pasted as is: the voice reads the lines, the [notes] direct the scenes.
The exact script that made it
[A big tree, drawn line by line in the middle of the board.]
A tree can weigh tons, so where does all that wood come from?
[A small pot of soil, drawn line by line, with a big red question mark beside it.]
Most people would say: from the soil.
[A willow tree growing in a pot, drawn line by line, with "5 years" written in blue.]
Four hundred years ago, a scientist grew a willow in a pot for five years.
[Two sides, with a line drawn between them: "tree" with "+74 kg" in blue, and "soil" with "-60 g" in red.]
The tree gained seventy-four kilos, and the soil lost barely sixty grams.
[A leaf, drawn big. A sun above it, its rays on the leaf. Small "CO2" bubbles drift into the leaf from the air, and the word "sugar" is written inside it.]
It comes from the air: with sunlight and water, leaves turn carbon dioxide into sugar.
[The words "made of air", written big and underlined in red. Then the camera pulls back over the whole board.]
Sugar becomes wood. A tree is built mostly out of thin air.
Why course creators look for a Doodly alternative
Doodly is a tool for drawing videos yourself, and it gives you plenty of control. You pick a whiteboard, blackboard, glassboard or greenboard, place characters, props and text from its library or your own images, choose the hand that draws them, then record or upload a voiceover and add music.
For one promotional video, that control is the point. A course is a different job. Every scene is built by hand, so a 40-lesson course means 40 builds, and another one each time a lesson changes. The hours go into assembling scenes, not into teaching.
Most course creators already have the hard part done: the lesson is written. What they need is that text turned into a clear video, without becoming animators along the way.
Clipteach works the other way round. The narration comes first: a pro voice reads your text, or you upload your own recording. Then the AI director plans every scene, what appears, where and how it moves, and times each one to the word it belongs to. A [note] in your script steers a scene when you want something specific, and your own screen recordings, pictures and logo go where the script mentions them.
Doodly vs Clipteach at a glance
| Doodly | Clipteach | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you start | A blank board or one of its scene templates | Your lesson, notes or finished script, pasted or taken from a PDF |
| How scenes are made | You place each character, prop and line of text yourself | An AI director draws, charts or types each idea as the voice says it; [bracketed] notes in your script steer it; you edit scene by scene or ask the assistant |
| Voice and timing | You record or upload a voiceover and add it to the video | The narration comes first (a pro voice reads your text, or you upload your own recording), then every scene is timed to the word |
| Styles | Doodles on a whiteboard, blackboard, glassboard or greenboard | Four: Sketch (whiteboard animation), Body (3D anatomy), Tech (UI motion graphics), Data (animated charts) |
| Your own screen recordings | Not mentioned on doodly.com (your own images, yes) | Yes: they play inside the video, where a [SCREEN] note puts them |
| Output | MP4, from 480p up to 1080p | 1080p MP4, wide (16:9) or vertical (9:16) |
| Where it runs | A desktop app for Windows and Mac that needs an internet connection | In your browser |
| Price | Standard $49/month or $490/year; Enterprise $79/month or $790/year | Starter $19/month, Creator $49, Studio $149; 300 free credits to start, no card |
Doodly prices and features checked on doodly.com on October 22, 2026.
Doodly pricing in 2026, and what one lesson costs instead
Doodly is a subscription. Its pricing page lists two plans: Standard at $49 a month or $490 a year, and Enterprise at $79 a month or $790 a year, both with a 30-day refund. Enterprise comes with a bigger library: more characters, props, fonts and video templates. That page offers no lifetime licence: you pay every month, or once a year at a discount.
Clipteach charges for the video you make, in credits. Starter is $19 a month ($190 a year) for 1,800 credits, about 3.3 to 4.7 minutes of video. Creator is $49 a month ($490 a year) for 6,000 credits, about 11 to 15 minutes. Studio is $149 a month ($1,490 a year) for 22,000 credits, about 41 to 58 minutes. Credits roll over and never expire, and you start with 300 free credits, no card. A year costs the price of ten months: two months free. On Creator and Studio you can top up with credit packs any time.
The minutes depend on the style, because pictures cost more credits than words and charts. On Creator, Sketch, the whiteboard style, gives about 12 minutes a month, against 14 for Tech or Body and 15 for Data. So a five-minute whiteboard lesson takes about 2,400 credits: roughly $20 of a Creator plan.
When Doodly is still the better choice
Clipteach isn’t the right tool for every video. Doodly can be the better pick when:
- you want to place every drawing yourself. In Clipteach the director lays out each scene and you edit it; you don’t build scenes one element at a time.
- you already pay for Doodly and enjoy working in it.
- you make marketing doodles rather than lessons. Clipteach is built around teaching from a written script.
Other Doodly alternatives
- VideoScribe works the closest to Doodly: you build a whiteboard animation yourself, scene by scene on a timeline.
- Golpo AI also makes whiteboard videos with AI, from a prompt or a document, for any kind of explainer.
- Powtoon and Vyond animate with templates and characters, mostly for business and training videos.
Clipteach is made for course creators: it starts from the lesson you already wrote and turns it into a narrated video you edit scene by scene.