Doodly
Summary
Doodly is a program for creating whiteboard videos through a drag-and-drop interface. The final product appears to be filmed as if someone had drawn the whole thing by hand. Some people refer to this as an “explainer” video, as they’re frequently used to produce videos on products, education topics, or for business training.
I’ve spent several days testing Doodly to get a feel for the program and its features. You can see the rag-tag video I put together here. It doesn’t tell a story or use special marketing tactics; the primary goal was to use as many features as possible, not create a technical marvel. I found that most features were simple to understand, though I do have a few complaints regarding the layout of the program, a factor that often made it difficult to edit my video.
If you want to use the program to create advertisements, educational videos, or promotional material, you’ll have a capable platform on your hands. However, this program is not for those with a small budget, and individuals not associated with a larger company fronting the cost will probably want to consider an alternative.
What I Like: Program is easy to learn. Great pre-made character options. Ability to add multiple audio tracks. Import your own media – even fonts!
What I Don’t Like: No built-in voiceover function. Poor free sound library, even at higher subscription levels. Interface can be difficult to use.
What is Doodly?
Doodly is a drag-and-drop animation program for creating videos that appear to be recorded as if someone drew them on a whiteboard.
This is an increasingly common style of video and has proven to be very effective. You could use Doodly to create videos for many different settings, from business material to school projects. Its main features are as follows:
- Begin creating videos with no experience necessary
- Stock image and sound library; you don’t have to make your own media
- Edit your video by changing scenes, media appearance, and style
- Export your video in several combinations of resolution and frame rate
Is Doodly safe?
Yes, Doodly is safe software. Doodly only interacts with your computer to import or export files, and both of these actions only occur when you specify them.
Is Doodly free?
No, Doodly is not free and does not offer a free trial (but this review should give you a good behind-the-scenes view). They have two different pricing plans which can be charged by month or monthly on a year-long contract.
How much does Doodly cost?
The cheapest plan is called “Standard”, at $20/month per year ($39 for individual months). The “Enterprise” plan is $40/mo/year and $69 if you go one month at a time. These two plans are primarily separated by the number of resources you have access to and do not offer commercial rights. If you want to sell videos you make on Doodly rather than just use them as your own content, you’ll have to purchase an enterprise plan. Check the latest pricing here.
How to get Doodly?
Once you purchase Doodly, you’ll be sent an email containing your account details and a download link. Following the link will produce a DMG file (for Mac). Double-click it once it downloads, and there’s a one or two-step installation process before you can open the program. The first time you open Doodly, you’ll be prompted to enter your login credentials. Then you’ll have access to the entire program.
Table of Contents
Why Trust Me for This Doodly Review?
My name is Nicole Pav, and I am a consumer first and foremost, just like you. My hobbies in the creative realm have led to me try a truckload of software that offers video or animation tools (see this whiteboard animation review I did). Whether it’s a paid program or an open source project, I have personal experience with learning programs from scratch.
Just like you, I often have no idea what to expect when I open a program. I personally spent several days experimenting with Doodly so that I could provide a first-hand report with clear language and details. You can watch the short animation video I made using Doodly here.
I believe that users like you have the right to understand a program’s pros and cons without paying excessive fees — especially with software like Doodly, which doesn’t offer a free trial. Even though it offers a 14-day refund policy, it would certainly be easier to read what others say about the product before taking out your credit card to make a purchase.
That is what this review is for. We purchased the Platinum version ($59 USD if you go for monthly) on our own budget with the goal of evaluating how powerful the program is. You can see the purchase receipt below. Once we made the purchase, an email with the subject “Welcome to Doodly (Account information inside)” was sent instantly. In the email, we were given access to the download link of Doodly, as well as a username and password to register the program.
On top of this, I also contacted Doodly support to ask an easy question with the goal of evaluating the helpfulness of their customer support, which you can read more about in the “Reasons Behind My Reviews and Ratings” section below.
Disclaimer: Doodly has no editorial input or influence on this review. Opinions and recommendations in this article are purely our own.
Detailed Doodly Review & Testing Results
Doodly has a vast range of abilities, but most can be categorized into four main types: media, sound, editing, and exporting. I tested as many features as I could find throughout the program, and you’ll be able to see all the results here. However, keep in mind that Doodly offers both Mac and PC versions, which means my screenshots could look a little different than yours. I used a mid-2012 MacBook Pro to do my testing.
Once you open Doodly and decide to start a new project, you’ll be prompted to choose the background of the project and a title.
Whiteboard and Blackboards are self-explanatory, but the third option, Glassboard, is a bit more confusing. With this option, the drawing hand appears behind the text as if writing on the other side of a glass wall. Choose “create”, and you’ll be forwarded to the Doodly interface.
The interface is divided into a few sections. The first section is the canvas, which is in the middle. You can drag and drop media here. Media is found on the left panel and has five different tabs for five different kinds of graphics. The mirrored panel on the right is split into two sections: the top contains tools for playing back the scene, while the bottom section lists each element of media you add to the canvas.
Media
With Doodly, media graphics come in four main formats: Scenes, Characters, Props, and Text. These are all tabs on the left side of the screen.
A few things are the same across all media types:
- Double-clicking or choosing the item in the media list will allow you to flip, reorder, move, or resize the media.
- You can change the color of an item by double-clicking and then choosing the small gear icon.
Scene Objects
Scene objects are a unique feature of Doodly. These are pre-built pictures that create a great background for a lengthy voiceover or if you’re conveying interactions within a specific setting. Make sure to remember that a “scene” is a group of items on a specific canvas slide, while a “scene object” is a type of media you can add to a normal scene. These depictions range from a school house to a doctor’s office–but you can only have one scene object per screen. So, if you want to add a car or a character, you’ll have to get them from the Characters or Props panel. You cannot, unfortunately, search the scenes tab, even though this is possible for the other media. You also cannot add your own scenes.
If you choose to add a scene object to your Doodly video, it will appear in the media items lists as all the individual objects it is made up of, not as a single item. From what I can tell, all scenes are available to subscribers regardless of subscription level.
Characters
When it comes to people and characters. Doodly has a very large library. If you have the most basic plan, you’ll have access to 10 characters in 20 poses. If you have the platinum or enterprise plan, you’ll have 30 characters with 25 poses each. I tested using Doodly Platinum, and there was no indication of differentiation between gold and platinum characters, so I can’t tell you which ones are which.
The “club” section is a different matter though. You only have access to this if you have a Platinum or Enterprise plan, and it contains two characters posed in 20 different ways each. These tend to be more specialized. As you can see above, the normal characters are sitting, writing, or displaying a common emotion. The club characters are much more specific. There are yoga and ballet poses, a soldier, and some kind of ninja theme where the characters are participating in martial arts. This may or may not be relevant to the type of video you want to make.
My overall impression of characters is that they are very versatile and offer a good variety of poses. While the search tool might not be very helpful until you pick up on which characters are which, there is a wide range of options available. If you have the “Gold” plan, you should have access to plenty of poses, even if they aren’t as specific as “Rye Kunfu Master”. Plus, you can use the blue “+” to import your own design from your computer.
Props
Props are Doodly’s inhuman or inanimate graphics. These range from plants and animals to speech bubbles to tractor logos, and like other media, they can be resized and edited by double-clicking.
Green badges seem to indicate that the image is for “Doodly Club” only, aka Platinum or Enterprise users. Mousing over the badge will tell you which month it was added. This does mean that Gold users will have a pretty limited selection compared to other subscribers, but you can rectify this by importing your own image with the blue plus sign on the bottom-right corner of the screen.
I tested importing JPEGs, PNGs, SVGs, and GIFs to see how the system processed other images. No matter what file type I import, the program didn’t draw the import like the library images. Instead, the hand moved in a diagonal line back and forth, gradually revealing more of the image.
In addition, I accidentally discovered the image size limit (1920 x 1080) by trying to import an image that was too big. As an additional note, Doodly does not support animated GIFs. When I imported one, it accepted the file but the image remained still both on the canvas and in the video preview. Other whiteboard programs tend to support SVGs because this allows the creation of a drawing path, but Doodly appears to treat all image files the same, “shading” them into existence.
Note: Doodly does have a video tutorial on creating custom draw paths for your images, but this may be more effort than it’s worth, especially for a complex image. You have to make the paths by hand.
Text
When I first saw the text section, I was disappointed that only three fonts came with the program. About a half-hour later, I realized I could actually import my own fonts! This is something I haven’t seen in many programs, but I appreciate the feature because it means the program doesn’t come with a huge directory of fonts I’ll never use.
If you’re unfamiliar with importing your own fonts, know that they primarily come in TTF files, but OTF files should be fine as well. You can get a TTF file for your favorite font from a free database like 1001 Free Fonts or FontSpace. In addition to the standard fonts, they usually offer artist-made fonts or other neat designs you can browse as well. Just download the file to your computer and click the blue plus sign in Doodly to choose and import the file.
I was able to do this successfully and the font was fully functional inside Doodly. This is a great hidden feature, and something I would definitely make extended use of if I planned to use the software for a long time.
Sound
They say video killed the radio star–but no movie is complete without a great soundtrack. Doodly offers two different soundtrack slots: one for background music and one for a voiceover. You can adjust the volume of these two channels so that they blend or separate.
You can add multiple clips in each channel, so you could theoretically have one track for the first half of the video and different one for the second half. But the clips will need to be pre-trimmed since Doodly only supports adding, moving, or deleting the audio file.
Background Music
Doodly has a fair-sized audio soundtrack library, but I wasn’t very happy with most of the tracks. It’s almost impossible to find one you like without individually listening to all of them (20 if you’re Gold, 40 if you’re Platinum, and 80 for the Enterprise users). The search bar just brings up tracks by indexing the titles. Most of them sound like average stock music. There is also an “effects” section, but it contains a mix of full-length songs and 4-second tracks with titles like “Trailer Hit ##”. I listened to a few with my volume set fairly high and immediately regretted it when a resounding THUD was emitted from my computer’s speakers.
The audio library is a good resource if you can’t find royalty-free music elsewhere, or if you’re okay with stereotypical background songs, but you’ll probably want to make use of the audio import tool.
Voiceovers
While there is a channel for placing a voiceover, you can’t record it inside Doodly. This means you’ll need to use Quicktime or Audacity to make an MP3 instead, and import that to the program. This is annoying, because it will be harder to time your speaking with the video, but is doable.
Video Editing
Editing is the most complex process when it comes to video production. You have all your materials… but now you’ve got to add transitions, timing, scene changes, and a million other tiny details. There are two ways to edit your video in Doodly:
The Timeline
The timeline is located at the bottom of the program interface. You can use this to grab an entire scene and reorder it via drag-and-drop. Right-clicking a scene in the timeline will also give you preview, duplicate, and delete options.
You can also open settings (left timeline corner) to change your video style or edit the graphic of the hand drawing it.
The Media List
If you want to reorder individual elements, you’ll have to use the media list on the right-hand side of the window. This window contains every element you added to the scene, be it character, prop, or text (scene objects are shown as their individual elements).
“Duration” refers to how long it takes to draw that asset, and “delay” causes the video to wait a specified time before it begins drawing the object.
The order of objects in this list determines which is drawn first, from top to bottom. This tiny window does not expand, so if you want to change the order you have to painstakingly drag and drop the frame up one slot at a time. Your best bet would be to add elements to the canvas in the order you want them displayed to avoid this, especially if a scene has a lot of assets in it.
Doodly offers one somewhat customizable way to export your videos: mp4.
You can choose the resolution, frame rate, and quality. The screenshot shows the default settings, but when I exported my demo I chose full HD at 1080p and 45 FPS. The program did not appear to be very accurate at determining how long the process would take:
In the end, it took about 40 minutes to export a clip less than 2 minutes long, which reminds me of the equally lengthy process of exporting with iMovie. A short clip seems to take a disproportionately long time, and I noticed that minimizing the window seemed to pause the rendering process.
Reasons Behind My Review Ratings
Effectiveness: 4/5
You’ll definitely be able to get the job done with Doodly. There is a large library of free images, and a larger library of club media if you have a Platinum or Enterprise plan. The software contains all the necessary features for producing and editing a whiteboard video (aside from a built-in voice recorder). Creating your first video may take a bit longer than expected, but once you get the hang of things you’ll pump out scenes in no time.
Price: 3/5
While Doodly does deliver the features it claims to on the web, it is very expensive compared to other whiteboard video software on the market, especially those aimed at users with little experience. The cost will likely drive off hobbyists, individuals, or educators who can get a similar product for less, although companies may be more willing to pay a few extra bucks.
Ease of Use: 3.5/5
While the interface is fairly simple and doesn’t take long to learn, a few details got in the way of being able to use this program with complete ease. The tiny, non-expanding media list posed unique problems with changing the element order, while the timeline horizontally scrolls for what seems like miles because there is no option to make the interval markers more condensed. However, the program is functional and very capable of making a good quality video.
Support: 4/5
I was pleasantly impressed with Doodly’s support service. At first, I was worried; they don’t have many tutorials on their site, and the FAQ seemed limited. But further investigation provided ample documentation when clicking on a specific category.
Contacting support was an adventure. The “email us” button on their site does not work, but reading the bottom of the page produced a support email I contacted with a simple question. I immediately received an automated email with the support hours, and the next day they sent a good, explanatory reply.
As you can see, the email was sent 18 minutes after support opened for the day, so I’d say they definitely lived up to solve all issues within 48 hours, even if their contact link is broken.
Alternatives to Doodly
VideoScribe (Mac & Windows)
VideoScribe offers a clean interface for creating high-quality whiteboard videos, starting at $12/mo/year. You can read our VideoScribe review, or visit the VideoScribe website. I personally believe that VideoScribe offers a much more full-featured program at a cheaper price.
Easy Sketch Pro (Mac & Windows)
Easy Sketch Pro includes more business marketing features like branding, interactivity, and analytics, despite the amateur look of their program. Pricing starts at $37 for branded videos and $67 to add your own logo.
Explaindio (Mac & Windows)
If you’re looking for a program with a plethora of presets and plenty of extra features like 3D animation, Explaindio runs $59 a year for a personal license or $69 a year to sell commercial videos you create. Read my full Explaindio review here.
Raw Shorts (Web-Based)
Whiteboard videos are great, but if you need more animation and fewer hand-drawn features, Raw Shorts starts at $20 per export for unbranded videos.
Conclusion
With the increasing popularity of whiteboard videos, you’re probably going to want to try your hand at creating one sooner or later, whether you’re an individual or a company employee. Doodly will get you to the finish line with a great character library and plenty of props to assist you along the way. The software does have a few flaws, but due to the lack of material available online related to it, Doodly appears to be a relative newcomer to the animation scene. This means it will likely see some upgrades in the future to help it match up with competing programs.
Everyone works differently, so a program that works for me may not give you the same experience. While Doodly does not have a trial for you to experiment with, they will refund your purchase within 14 days if you are not completely satisfied. You’ll be able to decide for yourself if it’s worth the full price.
So, do you find this Doodly review helpful? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Thanks, heaps for this Nicole, it was an enormous help. It worth trying
I would like to know what is included in the upgrade , is this including, colorful scenes , because I dont find how to upgrade it for $97 , that was originally the price of it, when I called they told me that i could upgrade it anytime for $97. and also I wanna know how much would be have the maximum capacity of the program.
Thank you for your detailed review, very happy. Is the monthly subscription based on the use of the program? Do you need the monthly fee to maintain access to your video, or is it yours after you’re done designing/creating the video?
We used YDraw for our first video. A professional studio out of St. George, Utah. Very good, but spendy. These alternatives sound worth looking into for our next video purposes.
Thank you.
They remove assets that were part of your original purchase, if you won’t/don’t want to upgrade – even remove them from projects you are in the process of creating. When I queried things I got 2 types of response 1) condescending 2) removal of comment on fb group page after sarcastic comment from founder Brad Callen. They are highly unprofessional and even included in a response email a prompt to purchase his brother’s upcoming Toonly software. Now both are running the same offer of one time only $67 – same pricing structure, same marketing. Highly likely same treatment. I would definitely NOT recommend. Videoscribe, although subscription-based (reasonable price imho) has been around far longer and are superior; plus they are super helpful.
Are there any characters on Doodly that are African American, Hispanic, or Asian?
I think Doodly is pretty interesting, and I’m glad that software like this exists. I’m not in the market at this time looking to purchase doodle software, but if and when I am, I definitely will be wanting to us software that has characters of different ethnicities. For example, I’m an African American who likes to talk about my Spanish language learning journey online. What character(s) would I use to represent that journey with Doodle?
Fantastic review Nicole, I have just been offered doodle on special offer with a very reasonable one time fee. Your review was thorough and included support which is something I always test myself. Great review keep up the good work.
If owners of Doodly go out of business and the media is stored online, not on desktop, and I pay $67 for a one-time-fee license, is my ability to use the software tied to the lifespan of the owners of Doodly?
Hey Nicole, thanks for the review. I read through everything and it looks very detailed but am assuming the review was from quite a long time ago, as we have the features you mentioned that were cons. And we’ve added lots of new features since. We listen to our fellow Doodlers and are constantly adding new features and requests. We have a requests page here: http://www.doodly.com/requests
Would you be able to re-review Doodly? 🙂
Thanks
Hey Brad, thanks for your comment. We’d be happy to take a look at the new Doodly once Nicole is back and has time to do so, she’s currently busy with other things.
hello, i really like your reviews. i have a question about Doodly:
can you import 2 separate audio files and control the volume for each one?
I have one background file and one voiceover file and i want to have them play at the same time during the video.
thanks!
dave
I purchased Doodly but I am disappointed with limited library and functionality. Also it is not as easy as claimed.
I got irritated when they started pushing me to buy an enterprise. Even if I choose to pay 97$ more, what if I do not get the promise?
At the moment I am unable to start on this.
Thank you so much for this thorough and informative review. Incredibly helpful and an invaluable time-saver.
I work for a digital marketing agency that bought this for a one time price of $400. I’ve used the program to make several explainer videos and more.
I wish management would have asked me to demo it before they bought it, because I’d much rather use a platform like Explaindio.
—WARNING—
The platform looses its luster very quickly and is a highly overpriced accessory.
While it is extremely basic to use and allows for a lot of creativity making each storyboard, you are paying far too much for images that are:
A. Never in color
B. Look ugly (more for characters than props/scenes)
C. Contain characters that are blatantly racist in many regards
D. Have no movement other than the action of being drawn
This means you must have a great source for other materials for your storyboard in addition to a Photoshop subscription + know-how, despite already paying a premium price. The lack of movement also makes them quite boring.
The only thing I’m happy about is that I’m not the sorry sucker that made the decision to put company dollars towards it.
Did you compare privacy with respect to the products you looked at? For example, Doodly appears to have no options to store all files locally. Everything goes to their servers, so I would not be eager to use this when creating explainer videos for proprietary products/services.
Nicole,
I just want to say thank you and compliment you like so many others on the thoroughness and objectivity of your review, Well done! Do you have a blog or column that we can subscribe to?
Hi Nicole, this is Brad Callen, the founder of Doodly. I came across your nice, detailed review today. Thank you for reviewing our software! I wanted to send you a quick message and ask if you have used Doodly in the past 2 years since your review was posted? It is dramatically different. All of the items you mentioned that we lack (including the built in voiceover recording) are included in the software. Plus there are dozens and dozens of new features that weren’t mentioned in your review (because they didn’t exist years ago). Would you be open to re-reviewing Doodly? I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how much our software (and community) have grown. For example, you can check out our Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/doodly and can see just how happy our users are with Doodly. I believe we are truly head and shoulders above any other doodle tool available. Anyway, thanks again and I hope you will choose to give Doodly another look through. Feel free to ask me any questions you have as well. Always happy to help 🙂
This is the best review I read, thank you very much.
To find the Facebook promozione, just google “doodly facebook offerte”
Doodly: The information they give is misleading. The icons are a few in order to be obliged to purchase a bigger and then a bigger package. (One woman officer, no house, no furniture etc) Very dissapointed from the purchase. Don’t spend your money to a useless product!
As mentioned in the article, Doodly limits how many of their resources you have access to based on what level of membership you pay for. In my opinion, the base level graphics available are plentiful especially compared to other software. However, if there aren’t enough resources for you, you can always import your own since Doodly supports all major image formats.
Thanks for the review! Very helpful in making my decision. Going to try the others you mentioned to see how they compare.
Brilliant! This review, and the accompanying video, provided pretty much all the info I need for making a decision on whether or not to buy.
Thanks for taking the time to present it in a way that’s quick and easy to take in. Very much appreciated!
I’m glad the review was able to help you make your decision! I always aim to be as clear as possible and cover all aspects of the software.
Thanks for being objective.
Thanks for the very comprehensive review, I wanted to create some education videos for youtube as my children are coming up to SATS period but it is quite expensive software for something I don’t want to monetise.
Thanks for sharing your experience using Doodly. I saw an ad for Doodly on FB and was curious about their program. Right now Doodly is offering a lifetime membership at $67, so it looks like they might have changed their pricing since the review was written.
Very helpfull!
Can you download onto more than one computer. Have seen an offer for a one-time $67 purchase…not sure if I will use it but hate to pass if this is a “once-in a lifetime” deal.
I’m trying to take advantage of the one time for life $67 promo, but i lost your reference off facebook. Please help.
John
Very impressed with the detailed review! Thank you!
Thank you, Nicole. Very useful review of Doodly which I found extremely helpful.
Best regards,
Wladimir
Vienna, Austria
Hi Nicole,
Thank you for this excellent review.
Lianne
Great review, I appreciate the depth of your evaluation of Doodly. I am looking into this program as they are now offering one time pricing which is very attractive and it looks like they have done some upgrades to their customer support experience and other issues. I saw that your review was posted in 2017. Have you had any chance to go back and re-evaluate Doodly or other similar programs? Any suggestions for current reviews?
Thanks!
Great job, thank you!
Hi, thank you so much for your review of Doodly. I went ahead and purchased it and am very pleased with my purchase. I wanted to let you know that I think you may have done this review quite a while ago because they actually do have the built in voiceover recording feature and it works well. Also, your screenshots don’t include many of the things that my Doodly includes. I would recommend that you update your review with a much more current version of the software. They supposedly release new features every 1-2 weeks. Anyway, thanks again for your detailed review. After reading, that’s what lead me to order.
Just came across this offer today.
A great price, but I’m not sure if this is the same product “platinum” as the one you tested. It would seem a one time price is a good value over the long run.
BTW – your review is excellent!
Hello, Can you give me an idea on how long it took you to make a 30 sec or 1 min video?
Thanks for this review – I recently downloaded doodly and am just starting to play with it but still figuring it out. I did want to point out that when you import images, you have to add the draw path if you want it to do anything other than the diagonal scribble. It’s time consuming, but is worth it for the effect.
Nicole,
You’ve done a great job reviewing Doodly. Thank you! I just purchased the program and agree with you on all accounts. I appreciate the extra links you included in your article and you did a great job on your youtube video demonstartion. Thanks again!
Taralee
Thanks a lot Nicole
Hi Nicole,
Good review. The Doodly site suggests that once you have imported your own graphics you can teach the hand how you want them drawn by setting paths on the outline of the drawing. Do you think your experiments at importing graphics were just following the default method of revealing if that “setting paths” step has not been done? They currently have a $67 one off lifetime price for Doodly Standard that I am thinking of paying.
Kingston
They will try to sell you more stuff that isn’t compatible with Doodly and when you complain they will cancel your subscription.
I didn’t find then very professional after paying over 200 dollars.
Nicole can I use Doodly and upload to my WordPress blog?
Hi Nicole
Fantastic and very detailed review. Thanks for the excellent work you have done.
I develop high school Math and Physics education videos for my website Ahaguru.com that helps students prepare for IIT JEE, NEET, AP physics, etc.
So I have been looking for software to make doodle type explainer videos to make it fun for students. Your review was really helpful in making me choose the right software.
Thanks
Balaji Sampath
I’m glad that this review was able to help you teach your students more effectively!
Great overall review. Doodly has new pricing via Facebook. Seems much more reasonable and worthwhile. Thanks for your efforts!
Hi Nicole,
Found your review very helpful. So much of work & details that answerd a lot of questions on my mind.
I work fulltime in a church setting & does a lot of teaching & training. Sometimes, we also need promo videos. Currently, using Power Points most of the time. Used Windows Movie maker occasionally.
I was attracted to the fresh approach VideoScribe & Doodly. However, thus far, all these monthly / annual subscription are a bit pricey for us as a non-profit body. I considered Doodly because it was advertised via Fb that its a ONE time payment (with lifetime license to use) package. However, upon further inspections, I couldn’t find this on their official website.
I’m wondering if you know..? And perhaps you can recommend a free or more affordable software for our educational / training purposes.
I also was unaware of any one-time payments available for using Doodly- perhaps it was a temporary promotion. If VideoScribe and Doodly are out of your price range, you can check out our animation roundup review (https://www.softwarehow.com/best-whiteboard-animation-creator/), which might help you find an alternative that works for you.
Many thanks for a detailed report. Doodly regularly updates with additions so those low scoring points may be addressed in the futurel
Great report, thanks.
Great review Nicole,
Thanks for your time and effort, this has certainly helped me in deciding which product to buy for my occasional educational business needs.
Cheers,
Nick
Thanks heaps for this Nicole, it was an enormous help. Doodly’s reviews mention lots of updates since it was released and they’re currently offering ‘Standard’ membership (which looks like Gold on the plans page judging by the number of characters etc) for a one-time fee of USD67, which I assume would make it do better on your pricing score.
One thing that could be annoying for digital nomads (my plan) is that while the software is installed on your computer, it seems you have to be connected to the internet to use it as it pulls images etc down from the cloud.
Do you have a review of the custom draw path feature? I find their images kind of bland and would probably want to go custom pretty quickly.
Please, is the one-time fee of USD67 still in existence?
Hi,
I bought Doodly, tested it and was dissatisfied with many missing basic features. My comment on FB was removed not even 2 minutes after I had posted it. This shows a very unprofessional manner. I would not recommend this software to any serious marketer.
Daniel
Hi,
I had the same thing. I would never recommend Doodly to anyone.
I bought everything but than they sold software that wasn’t compatible and when I made a complan they said I wasn’t positive enough for Doodly and cancelled my subscription.
They will block anyone with a critical question and will remove you from their group.
Hey Nicole – this review was really helpful – thank you
Quick note- Doodly now has a 30% off educational license. That makes a huge difference. And I like it well, although the voiceovers – difficult.
Also, do you have a review for Animation?
Thanks for the heads up! If you’re interested in comparing several different animation programs, you can check out this roundup review: https://www.softwarehow.com/best-whiteboard-animation-creator/
Hi Nicole,
Wow. Clearly a lot of time and effort go into your reviews. (I also read your review on VideoScribe). They are very fair and balanced. Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Frank
CEO, FollowFox
Thanks Frank!
Hi Nicole:
Thanks for your detailed analysis. I’m new on this matter and I want to use a software that helps me to create presentations that allow me to better catch the attention of my potential viewers. I think, I need to do more research on this matter, however, your insides has saving me a valuable time. Thanks again and keep helping others with your researches.
Alfredo