In simple English
Open Doodler is a free desktop program for Windows. It lets you create animated whiteboard videos without paying for expensive commercial software. You arrange vector graphics and text on a canvas. The program draws them stroke by stroke on screen. You can add voiceovers and background music, then export the result as an MP4 video file.
What it is
An open-source whiteboard animation desktop application built with C# and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, a framework for building desktop user interfaces on Windows). It lets users compose scenes, animate vectors, and export finished videos.
What it is good for
Solo creators and marketers who want to make educational videos, product explainers, or social media clips with a hand-drawn look, without recurring subscription costs.
- Completely free and open-source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
- Includes scene templates, voiceover recording, and built-in MP4 export.
- Runs locally on your Windows machine without sending your data to the cloud.
- Only works on Windows operating systems.
- Requires Visual Studio and .NET knowledge if you want to build it from source.
- Uses FFmpeg and local SQLite databases behind the scenes, which adds moving parts to your setup.
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Download the .msi installer from the GitHub releases page and run it on your Windows computer.