Turn words or sketches into a hand-drawn video.
Paste code or text, or draw your own sketch. Scribe replays every stroke with the Todrawn pen and exports a whiteboard animation. Preview without an account; sign in to export, and Free exports end with the Todrawn Scribe end card.
How it works
Paste code or text, upload a file, or sketch directly with a mouse, finger or pen.
The Todrawn pen writes your words or replays your drawing stroke by stroke at a consistent pace.
Sign in and export the animation at 720p or 1080p, 24 or 30 fps, vertical or wide. Rendering still happens in your browser.
What is this?
Todrawn Scribe is a free tool that turns code, text or your own freehand sketch into a whiteboard animation. A virtual pen writes or redraws the work stroke by stroke at a pace you control, and the result exports as a video for shorts and reels, tutorials, slides and docs. Composing, playback and video encoding all happen in your browser, so your code, text and drawings are never uploaded and there is nothing to install.
It is not a screen recorder, and it is not always the right choice instead of one. A recording keeps the environment: the editor, the terminal, the cursor finding the right line. Scribe keeps only the part you want remembered, drawn as strokes on a clean board, so the output does not depend on your window size, your colour theme or whatever else was open. Reach for a recording when the environment is the lesson, and for Scribe when the reasoning is.
Who it is for
Explain a branch, a call site or a config change without touring your desktop. Paste the snippet, pick a syntax profile, and let the pen walk through it line by line.
Build a short lesson that reads like handwriting on a board. Vertical 9:16 fits shorts and reels; wide 16:9 drops straight into slides.
Turn a paragraph of docs or a release note into a clip that sits beside the text. Upload a plain text or code file up to 1 MB and the pen does the rest.
Boards hold what comes next
Todrawn boards are the supporting workspace for drawing, diagrams, images and shared refinement. They keep a rough idea spatial while Scribe gives one explanation its finished rhythm.
When the video is done, keep planning in a Todrawn board with precise ink, images, shapes and autosave. Free includes 3 boards and 5 images per board.
Invite people by email or board password. Cursors, strokes and edits land live for everyone, with up to 4 people on Free and 10 on Premium.
Questions
Draw your own diagrams and notes on a free Todrawn whiteboard.
Start drawing free