No drawing or experience needed — just your words.

Turn your storyinto an animation.

Write it the way you’d tell it to a friend. We draw the characters, give them voices, and hand you a finished animation you can share.

See how it works

Free account · No card to join · Pay only for what you make

You write this

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Last Night

Maren and Isla wrapped in a blanket beside the lighthouse lamp as gold stars hang in the airYou get this

Made with Animate It

Memoirs. Comedies. Bedtime tales. Whatever you’ve got.

A grandmother’s last night on the light
MemoirA grandmother’s last night on the light
A dragon who is afraid of toast
Bedtime storyA dragon who is afraid of toast
One red stroke of a gown
FashionOne red stroke of a gown
The last train to the moon
AdventureThe last train to the moon
A history, told on a yellow brick road
HistoryA history, told on a yellow brick road
A lesson that takes a century
LessonA lesson that takes a century
A library at the edge of a prophecy
FantasyA library at the edge of a prophecy
Forty-one years, every night
MemoirForty-one years, every night
“Everyone says that.”
Adventure“Everyone says that.”
The version of yourself that walks in first
FashionThe version of yourself that walks in first
A performer’s biggest bow
PerformanceA performer’s biggest bow
“Is there jam?”
Bedtime story“Is there jam?”

How it works

You direct. We draw. Nothing moves until you say so.

Every animation is built in order, like a real production, and each step waits for your approval. Change anything by asking, in plain words.

  1. A sunny farmhouse kitchen with a checkered floor.

    Pip, six, in pyjamas covered in rockets, drags a chair to the counter.

    Beside her, filling half the kitchen, is Barnaby: a round, emerald-green dragon…

    1

    Write it

    Type it, paste it, or upload it. A paragraph is plenty. It doesn’t need to be tidy.

  2. Barnaby character design
    BarnabyAfraid of toast
    Juno character design
    JunoDidn’t believe the ticket was real
    Vivienne character design
    Vivienne“We have red.”
    2

    Meet your cast

    We draw every character from your words. Too tall? Wrong coat? Say so and we redraw. Approve them when they’re right.

  3. Pip’s sunny farmhouse kitchen, before any characters are placed in itPip’s kitchen
    3

    Build the places

    Every location gets painted once, in your style, so it looks like the same place in every scene.

  4. Storyboard shot 1Storyboard shot 2Storyboard shot 3Storyboard shot 4
    4

    Approve the storyboard

    Your cast is posed into your places, one picture per moment. You see the whole animation as stills before a single frame moves.

  5. The brass train racing along the cliff edge where the rails end, now in motion
    5

    Watch it move

    Voices, sound, and motion come together into a finished animation. Download it, share it, keep it forever.

Change anything by asking

“Give him a beard.” “Make it snow.” “She should look braver.” Plain words are the only tool you need, and you can keep asking until it matches what you pictured.

Any voice, even yours

Choose from dozens of voices, or record one minute of Grandma and let her narrate her own history, in her own voice, for everyone who comes after.

Yours, with no strings

Download what you make and do anything you like with it. Show the family, post it, teach with it, sell it. No watermark, no fine print.

Until now

A short animation used to take a studio, a team, six months and $50,000

Now it takes your words and a few minutes.

Joining is free. You pay only for what you make, and you see every price before you say yes.

Someone’s waiting to see what you’d make.

Free to join. Pay only for what you make. Everything you create is yours.

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