Excalimate vs Explideo
Excalimate
excalimate.com
Explideo
explideo.appSide by side
| Figure | Excalimate | Explideo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $19/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Whiteboard Animation Software | 8.6 (#6) | 8.9 (#3) |
| AI tools | The maker’s site describes 23 MCP tools and 16 specialized AI skills for diagram and animation workflows. | The product can turn photos into doodles and generate draw-ready images from prompts. |
| Animation | Its visual timeline supports opacity, position, scale, rotation, and draw-progress keyframes. | A whiteboard hand draws elements with natural timing and the editor includes entrance, emphasis, and exit animations. |
| Support | The maker provides a public feedback portal for suggestions, votes, discussions, and tracking request progress. | The contact page invites account questions, feedback, and help requests through a form. |
| What it does | Excalimate turns hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams into keyframe animations. | Explideo is a browser-based whiteboard-video maker that creates hand-drawn explainers and exports MP4 files. |
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In their own words
Excalimate
Excalimate has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Explideo
Explideo is a browser-based whiteboard video maker for creating hand-drawn explainers from narration or a scene-by-scene plan, with MP4 export. Its auto-doodle tool transcribes uploaded audio or video, selects drawn assets and synchronizes them with narration. Users can turn photos into doodles or generate images ready for drawing from prompts. Projects can begin with audio, a template or a blank canvas, and the editor provides pan-and-zoom cameras plus entrance, emphasis and exit animations. Videos can be cloud-rendered or exported in the browser; browser exports are unlimited on every plan. The built-in library includes hand-drawn images, icons and music, and finished videos can be published to YouTube, social channels or an LMS. Explideo works in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox on Mac, Windows or Chromebook. The Free plan is free, billed forever, with one server export per month with a watermark. Starter costs $19 a month, billed month-to-month.