See how Splainin brings capture, scenes, narration, animation, reusable assets, and flexible exports together in one focused workspace.
While Splainin automates your pacing by tying narration directly to your assets, it doesn’t box you in. If you move an object to a new scene, its narration and timing automatically recalculate and shift with it—no messy timeline tracking required. Once your layout is locked, power users can dive into a deep sandbox of advanced production tools to customize every detail
Let’s make it fast, visual, and effortless.
Bring your ideas into Splainin and start making them visual.
A standalone-capable screen recorder that also integrates directly with Splainin. Run it on its own to save video, GIFs, or images to local files, or send captures straight into Splainin as reusable library assets. Launch instantly with Ctrl+Shift+S and use five programmable, car-radio-style preset buttons to recall window bounds, aspect ratio, and frame rate. Splainin Capture is a separate application included in the current Splainin download.
Grab crisp stills from your screen in seconds and drop them directly into your scenes. Perfect for diagrams, callouts, and visual references — ready for annotation, layering, and explainer‑style storytelling.
Pull images straight from your browser into Splainin — clipart, diagrams, backgrounds, icons, anything. Drop them directly into scenes or the asset library for instant use in your animations, explanations, and lesson delivery.
Quick facecam clips with smart framing and eye-contact assist. Easily blend personal commentary directly into your visual storytelling. Splainin lets you record standard aspect ratios or crop your feed into a clean circular avatar bubble that sits naturally alongside your scenes. For quick adjustments, you can utilize digital zoom, manual repositioning, and an automated camera-follow toggle. It also includes an AI eye-contact assist to help keep your gaze directed toward your audience, and options for background blurring or transparency (which work best with standard, clear lighting). It is a clean, friction-free way to stay connected to your viewers without needing an external recording suite.
Stay on message while recording with a clean, floating script window that keeps your delivery clear and confident. Read at your own pace, adjust speed on the fly, and maintain perfect eye‑line — with optional mirror mode for professional teleprompter rigs — all without interrupting your recording or your creative flow.
Draw standalone assets or build simple talking animations. Create standalone, resizable sketches, underlines, arrows, and circles to place anywhere on your canvas—no animation setup required. For frame-by-frame motion, overlay your drawing canvas with adjustable transparency and onion skinning. Loop sequences automatically in the stop-motion player, or mark any drawn element as a "mouth" that opens and closes in sync with your narration.
Import animated GIFs or capture your own moments as GIFs for quick sharing and embeds. Drop GIFs directly into scenes for motion accents, looping diagrams, and lightweight animations — or export project moments as GIFs for digital study guides, assignment pages, and fast visual communication.
Separate any image into individual, movable pieces. Draw a polygon around a section, turn it into its own asset, and animate it independently — perfect for diagrams, collages, paper‑doll templates, reveal effects, and stop‑motion sequences.
Animate any SVG or image with natural pen‑draw playback that feels hand‑crafted and engaging. Turn diagrams, icons, logos, and imported artwork into draw‑on sequences that guide attention, clarify ideas, and add explainer‑style motion to otherwise static visuals.
This is where Splainin steps beyond basic recorders. Scenes, world view, and camera movement turn your project into an animation environment — built for creators who need more than Loom, OBS, or Screen Studio can offer.
Add audio directly to any item—by voice recording or typing AI text. Splainin auto-paces the drawing speed to match, automatically triggering the next asset's animation right behind it.
Because the audio lives on the items, the timeline remains incredibly simple. Splainin handles the sequence alignment by default, but leaves you in full control to tweak, shift, or manually override the timing whenever you want.
Build your story one scene at a time, with independent timing, pacing, and content control. Each scene stands on its own — letting you focus, iterate, and refine without affecting the rest of your project — and giving your explainer a clear, structured flow that screen recorders simply can’t match.
Start any project with a ready‑made structure. Choose from built‑in templates or create your own, then use Splainin’s AI Prompt Builder to generate customized lesson outlines from any AI. Unit titles, sections, and scene flow come back in a clean format that drops directly into your project — no double entry, no guesswork, just instant story architecture.
Design beyond a fixed slide. Build on a larger visual world you can pan, zoom, and navigate — giving every scene its own place inside a continuous space. Create richer layouts, anchor ideas spatially, and move through your story with explainer‑style motion that traditional recorders simply can’t offer.
Connect your ideas with fluid, cinematic camera transitions. Ditch jarring cuts and boring slide transitions. Because your scenes live on a single, continuous world canvas, Splainin automatically glides, zooms, and pans the camera from one point to the next. This spatial movement naturally shows your audience how concepts connect, making your final video look beautifully designed, intentional, and highly cinematic.
Control the room with click-to-advance scene breaks. Switch from video export mode to a live presentation environment. Splainin will smoothly execute your camera pans and object animations, then automatically pause at the end of each scene — waiting for your click or keypress before advancing. Deliver flawless, dynamic live presentations with the pacing of a slide deck but the cinematic visual flow of a custom animation studio.
The platform layer that makes Splainin expandable, customizable, and production‑ready.
Keep reusable visuals in one place and build your own growing library of diagrams, icons, characters, and backgrounds. Drag images straight from your browser, drop AI‑generated assets directly into Splainin, or organize project‑specific libraries when you need a clean workspace. Projects stay portable, so your working assets move with the project instead of getting stranded across random folders.
Expand Splainin with additional effects, tools, and integrations — all without changing your core workflow. Install plugins for background animations, props, AI connections, transitions, intros, exit effects, and more. Everything drops into the same clean interface, so your project grows in capability without growing in complexity.
Record your own voiceover or use high-end AI narration. Bring your scenes to life exactly how you want. Plug in your microphone and record your own natural voiceover track directly within the app, or drop in pre-recorded audio files. Prefer a digital voice? Connect your preferred AI provider to generate polished, studio-grade narration that matches your brand's tone—giving you the ultimate flexibility to be human or automated on a project-by-project basis.
Generate visuals directly from annotated placeholders. Connect your own Google Gemini or OpenAI API key, generate one image or a batch, review each result, and import accepted visuals into the project without leaving Splainin. Additional providers can be added through AI Image plugins.
Translate complete projects into dozens of languages. Connect a supported translation provider to translate on-screen text, scene narration, and item narration while keeping every language version and its shared visual assets inside one project.
Apply independent brand marks for creators and clients. Add your own brand mark to exports with full control over placement, size, and opacity. Perfect for freelance studios and firms—you can apply two separate watermarks to a single project, keeping your agency's proof mark visible alongside your client's logo on review drafts.
Deliver finished MP4/WebM videos, animated GIFs, or still frames directly from your project timeline. Export exactly what you see — scenes, motion, narration, and world-view camera paths — all rendered with consistent quality for any platform or workflow.
One project, multiple aspect ratios and scene cuts. Build widescreen (16:9), vertical (9:16), or custom layouts right inside a single project. Easily include or exclude scenes per layout to create tailored versions - like a full 16:9 lesson and a condensed 9:16 social clip - without duplicating project files or assets.
Local-first folder architecture with .splaininpack portability. Splainin keeps your work lightning-fast by storing projects locally as structured folders. When it's time to move, archive, or back up your work, easily export everything into a single .splaininpack file. This packs your entire project, including every video clip, image asset, and narration track, into a portable bundle you can share or reopen anywhere without broken file links or cloud dependencies.