Turn any document into an animated explainer video

Yes. The Free plan gives you 3 videos every 30 days, with no credit card. When you need more, Plus ($5 a month) and Pro ($15 a month) add more videos, longer documents and videos, our best narration voice and no badge. You can cancel any time.

Yes. On the Free plan you can buy a one-time pack of 5 videos for $5 or 10 videos for $9 (plus tax where it applies). Pack videos never expire and are used after your 3 free videos for the 30 days. They're made like Free videos; for longer documents, our best voice and no badge, choose Plus or Pro.

Anything that explains something in text: lessons, how-to guides, help-center articles, onboarding docs, technical explainers. You can upload a PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown, HTML or plain-text file, paste text, or paste a link to a public web page, PDF or Google Doc. PDFs that are mostly pictures — assembly instructions, diagrams, scanned pages — work too: DocReel reads the pictures and describes each step. You can also pick photos of your notes, a textbook or a whiteboard (JPG or PNG, up to 5 at a time on Free): they become one video. Old .doc files and PowerPoint don't work yet; save those as .docx or PDF first.

DocReel works best with short documents: a video explains a few pages well. On Free a video covers up to about 10 pages (Plus about 20, Pro about 35), and for a longer PDF you choose which pages and runs up to about 3 minutes (Plus 5, Pro 7). For a long manual or report, upload the chapter or section you want explained. Files can be up to 5 MB on Free, 10 MB on Plus and 20 MB on Pro; pasted text up to 30,000 characters on Free (about 10 pages).

Very long picture-only documents, like whole assembly manuals or scanned books. DocReel reads pages that are mostly pictures (slides, diagrams, scans) with AI, up to 10 per video on Free, 20 on Plus and 35 on Pro; for longer ones, upload just the pages you need or paste the steps as text. Spreadsheets, forms and long reports also make poor videos. And you can have one video in the making at a time on Free.

It uses the pictures already in your document (photos, artwork, diagrams) and shows them in the scenes that talk about them. It can't create new photos, realistic people or animals, video footage or music. The rest of each video is animated diagrams, icons and captions.

Yes — choose Paste a link. For Google Docs, Slides and Drive files, set Share → General access to “Anyone with the link” first. Pages behind a sign-in (Notion workspaces, intranets, paywalls) can't be read; open them, copy the text and use Paste text instead. DocReel downloads the page once to make your video, and nothing on the page is run.

Yes. On your video's page, choose Make a new version and tell us what should change — "scene 3 was confusing", "simpler words", "make it shorter". DocReel remakes the video from the same document with your feedback. A new version counts as one of your videos; on Plus and Pro, the first new version of each video is free. Documents are kept for 30 days, so you can do this within a month of uploading.

Yes. Before you upload, pick who it's Made for — Kindergarten to Grade 2, Grades 3–5, Grades 6–9, high school or adults — and DocReel adjusts the words, sentence length and examples to suit. You can also add Instructions — like "focus on section 2" or "explain it as a story". Pick a Length too: short (about a minute), medium or long. For school ages you can also tick End with a quick quiz: the video closes with 2–3 questions, a few seconds to think, then the answers. Your choices are remembered for next time. More ideas on the DocReel for teachers page.

The narration and on-screen text follow the language of your document — the gallery above includes videos made from Spanish and Arabic lessons. On Pro you can also pick a different video language (15 to choose from), and the script is written in that language.

Usually about 5–15 minutes, sometimes longer for a long document. You can close the page — we email you a link when your video is ready.

Uploaded documents are deleted after 30 days. Videos are kept for 30 days on Free, and for as long as your plan is active on Plus and Pro. If a plan ends, its videos stay for 30 more days, so there's time to download them. To write the script, your document's text is sent to Anthropic's Claude; the narration text is sent to Google's Gemini to generate the voice (with our own server or OpenAI as a backup). See the privacy policy.

On Pro you can check and edit the script before the video is made: reword any line, then press Make the video. After that, Make a new version remakes the video with your feedback. A full editor for scenes, voices and timing isn't available yet; email us if you'd like early access.