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Basics
Learn what Golpo is and what a whiteboard explainer video actually does before you build one.
BasicsGolpo AI is the world's best AI video generator for explainer videos, backed by Y Combinator and other leading VCs and founded by Stanford researchers. Turn a prompt, document, script, your own narration, or a single selfie into a finished, narrated explainer video in minutes — with Picture in Picture, voice cloning, 45+ languages, and frame-by-frame editing.
BasicsA whiteboard explainer video is a short narrated video where an idea is drawn or built step by step on a whiteboard-style canvas. This is the canonical 2026 guide — definition, how it compares to whiteboard animation and doodle videos, cost benchmarks, real use cases across training, education, customer support, sales, and YouTube, and how to make one in minutes from a prompt, script, or PDF with AI.
BasicsWatch one video combine English, German, French, and Hindi, then try English–Spanish and English–Bengali lessons. Copy the exact Script Only scripts and saved settings behind all three.
BasicsCompare the best AI explainer video generators in 2026 by the job they actually perform: visual explanation, avatar presentation, generated footage, content repurposing, or editable character animation. This evidence-based guide covers Golpo AI, Synthesia, HeyGen, Vyond, InVideo, Pictory, Canva, and Animaker, with a practical evaluation matrix and a fair pilot method.
BasicsChoose the right explainer format by what viewers must understand, trust, or verify. Includes a decision table, real Golpo example, briefs, and FAQs.
BasicsTwo minutes is the engagement sweet spot for an explainer video — long enough to teach something useful, short enough that people actually finish watching. Here's how to make one from scratch using a free AI video generator, plus the practical limits to look out for.
BasicsMake a difficult relationship visible without assembling the animation by hand. Golpo drafts a whiteboard explainer from a technical source, an approved script, or a recording, then lets you review the script, set the scenes, correct a label, and reuse the setup.
BasicsThere are more than fifty AI video generators worth naming in 2026, and no single tool wins every use case. We ranked nine on five jobs (whiteboard explainer, corporate talking head, content repurposing, social short form, cinematic creator) and named the honest winner of each. Golpo publishes this list, so we held ourselves to the same criteria as everyone else.
BasicsKeep the presenter on screen while Golpo builds an animated explainer around their narration. See seven real examples, then learn how to record a webcam video or upload a speaking video and place it in a round overlay or split-screen layout.
BasicsTurn one idea into a complete AI explainer video. This 2026 workflow covers prompting, script review, storyboarding, narration, visual style, generation, editing, and an honest comparison with Canva, Synthesia, InVideo, and Pictory.
BasicsCreate one authorized voice clone, select it for future prompts or scripts, and let Golpo automatically narrate complete illustrated videos in the same recognizable voice. Includes recording, consent, quality review, governance, and an honest comparison with ElevenLabs, HeyGen, Synthesia, and Descript.
BasicsA complete, practical workflow for creating an AI explainer video from a prompt, script, document, or recording. See three real Golpo examples, choose the right input path, plan the script and storyboard, direct the visuals, review the result, and publish it.
BasicsFind the Golpo video closest to what you need and inspect how it was made. Thirteen examples cover prompts, exact scripts, uploaded audio, product briefs, Custom Style, and recorded Picture in Picture. The players are faceless or Picture in Picture. A section below explains when to turn on a photo-based AI Presenter.
BasicsChoose the right explainer video length, then fit the approved narration within Golpo Script Mode's allowance of up to 1,050 characters per selected minute. The live character counter is the final authority.
BasicsWatch five real Golpo Custom Style videos inspired by the broad visual languages of RSA Animate, MinutePhysics, The Swedish Investor, Practical Engineering, and The Paint Explainer. See the exact reference image and prompt used for every example.
BasicsStart with an idea, an exact script, or your own voice. Golpo drafts or follows the narration, plans the scenes, designs them, narrates, syncs, and returns a finished explainer. Nine briefs show Prompt Mode, Script Mode, and Own Narration as a library you can open.
BasicsI pasted a difficult Harvard NIM problem into Golpo AI and asked for a tutorial. Here is the finished six-minute explainer video, the settings I chose, and an independent check against Harvard's published solution.
BasicsI used a coding assistant and the Golpo API to turn five difficult Harvard problems into checked, illustrated explainer videos—while catching two incorrect first drafts before rendering.
BasicsThere is no honest universal turnaround time for an explainer video. Source readiness, duration, review, factual risk, branding, and revisions matter more than a headline promise. Golpo compresses scripting, narration, scene generation, and assembly when a team already has source material.
BasicsAn explainer establishes the problem, mechanism, and value. A product demo proves what the interface does. A tutorial teaches a repeatable task. Golpo can connect these jobs in one coherent video by combining generated scenes with approved screenshots, inserted clips, or screen recordings.
BasicsProfessional AI explainer video is not created by adding more motion. It comes from an authoritative source, a focused script, scenes that teach, deliberate voice and visual direction, real evidence where needed, and a disciplined review before publishing.
BasicsGolpo turns a family handbook and an arrival procedure into parent videos. The handbook video runs 2 minutes 15 seconds.
BasicsRun distinct shows from one desk. Golpo turns each channel’s source, saved style, and voice into a finished episode: draft or exact narration, scenes, design, narration, sync, and a video you review before it goes public.
BasicsTwo short course videos made in Golpo: which study techniques a 2013 review rated high, and a check that 15% of 80 is 12. The other course guides are listed underneath.
Tutorials
Watch and read complete tutorials that cover every control from first prompt to finished video.
TutorialsA complete walkthrough of every feature, control, input, and dropdown in Golpo AI — from creating your first video to editing frames in the Library. This tutorial explains what each setting does, which plans unlock it, and how to get the most out of every option on the platform.
TutorialsWatch the official Golpo Full Tutorial — Golpo generated this explainer from the written tutorial page. Every feature, control, and setting on the platform is explained end-to-end in a single video.
TutorialsUpgrade or change your Golpo AI subscription with clear steps, credit rollover examples, billing dates, and the special two-day upgrade option.
TutorialsCanva can turn an uploaded image or page into a speed-drawing clip. Golpo goes further: it turns a prompt, approved script, PDF, PowerPoint, Google Doc, or other source into a complete narrated explainer with automatically generated scenes.
Prompting
Use prompt patterns and copyable examples to get clearer structure and visuals on the first try.
PromptingA field guide to writing prompts that produce great Golpo videos. Most of what you'd think to put in a prompt is actually a UI control — duration, visual style, voice, music, language. The main prompt is for content. This cheatsheet covers what goes where, the universal do's and don'ts, and ten category templates (K-12 to Sales to YouTube long-form), each with the recommended UI settings, a Voice Instructions snippet, a sharp main-prompt example, and a real demo video generated from those exact settings.
PromptingThe single biggest lever on AI whiteboard video quality is the prompt. This is a copy-paste library of 50 content-only prompts, organized by use case — business explainer, product, training, SOP, compliance, HR onboarding, sales, education, YouTube, support, research, real estate, internal comms, multilingual, and API docs. Each card gives you the recommended UI settings (duration, style, voice) and a sharp main prompt focused on topic, audience, structure, and CTA. Drop into Golpo, set the dropdowns, generate.
PromptingPaste an approved script and turn it into a narrated animated explainer without rebuilding every scene manually. Learn Script Mode, visual cues, voice direction, editing, and how Golpo compares with Synthesia, InVideo, Pictory, and Canva.
PromptingCompare two real two-minute Golpo videos made from the same topic: one written by Golpo from a prompt and one using a 1,785-character ChatGPT script as the exact narration. Learn duration-based character limits, display-text controls, and the pre-render script review.
Styles
Compare the available Golpo styles and canvas options so the look matches your audience.
StylesA 2026 gallery of every Golpo Sketch and Canvas visual style, including Notebook, Compact and Expanded Canvas profiles, Classic with words, Infographics, Illustration, Custom Style, and all three Pen-in-Hand options.
StylesSee all 11 named Golpo Canvas styles: ten with Compact and Expanded profiles, plus the Compact-only Notebook style and playable Pen, Marker, and Stylus in Hand examples.
StylesTwo of the most-watched educational video formats on YouTube, Khan Academy's calm chalkboard walkthroughs and After Skool's playful hand-drawn narratives, teach completely different kinds of ideas. Here's how to pick the right one for your topic, your audience, and your channel before you commit to a house style.
StylesLearn AI whiteboard animation: choose a source, review narration, direct drawings, check the first render, correct visuals and export a reviewed video.
StylesCreate a reusable visual style for Golpo Canvas or Golpo Sketch from an image, a video, or a written description. This step-by-step guide shows the complete workflow and six real Custom Style examples.
StylesWe took the narration from Natalie Fratto's brilliant Databricks Reel and used Golpo Own Narration to create eight Canvas versions. Watch every style and follow the complete, repeatable workflow.
StylesWhiteboard animation is not automatically engaging, and no video style guarantees views or conversions. It is still valuable when the communication job is to make a difficult concept, process, comparison, or decision visible—and Golpo removes much of the production work that once made the format expensive to scale.
StylesCompare all ten Golpo Canvas styles in Compact and Expanded profiles using matched video pairs, then watch the new Compact-only Notebook style.
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