Features
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Synching reveal paths to music
Just realised that if we could control the timing of the reveal paths within a complex diagram, we’d have an amazing tool to synchronise to a piece of music. I must ask the developers. ie, each reve...
3
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make End User License Agreement savable
When a new Doodly version is released, the user is shown an End User License Agreement dialogue and is prompted to check an "I agree" box before proceeding with the upgrade. However, it is more than ...
3
Votes
Considered
Shorcut keys for Deleting scenes/objects and for play/stop preview
Hey!
I am an editor for over 3 years in another program, and I love yours. To make my life easy and many others, I sugest you implement some easy shortcut keys for:
1. Deleting scenes, objects (delete...
3
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Considered
Preview features
Hello,
It would be good to make the preview a bit more interactive.
(1) Possibility to select the speed of preview. Like in Youtube where you can select different speeds 1, 1.25, 1;5, 2.0.
adva...
3
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make floors a prop overlay area
I am a flooring manufacturing using the system for marketing purposes and I would like to replace the grey floors with input of our images. When I upload a prop of our floor into a scene and move it ...
3
Votes
Considered
Separate the Drawings in an individual Scene within the Timeline
It would be nice if each drawing you add to a scene was displayed in the time interval on the scene in the timeline below. That way, when you add a voice-over and/or music and you want the drawing to ...
3
Votes
Considered
bezier curve edit, node position edit, add/subtract node
when mapping your own image, it would be really helpful to. have a simple bezier curve editor to add more precise curves when needed.
Additionally, closing a line to it's start point would be great t...
3
Votes
Considered
Additional Images for Resellers
I buy Auction Items and turn around and Re-sell them in my Ebay Online Store.
I am suggesting additional images to be considered for Re-Sellers to use.
Additional Images:
Camo Tactical Gear - Camo T-...
3
Votes
Considered
Music sound volume automatically decreased when speaker sound is detected
Having a music track playing and adding narrating speech might be even better if the music track could (using an optional setting) be made to only use X% volume each time you speak.
3
Votes
Considered
Asset Gallery
The Asset control on the left is very limited. With several thousand assets available in an Enterprise Membership its too limiting to only see 5 scenes, or 12 characters, or 18 props at a time. Sear...
3
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Declined
Control Hand Speed of Drawing Hand
When I put in an image, it draws the image but the hand is going about 100 mph across the screen and is all anybody can focus on. The solution I was told was to create a custom draw path for each and ...
3
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Custom Draw Paths - Default to edge of the Image
Can you make the custom draw path points snap to the edge of the image? It is very irritating trying to put them on the edge of the image and coming out with random slivers of the image that are not d...
3
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Increase the stroke widths of your illustrations
I'm finding that many of your modern character illustrations have very thin stroke widths which make them hard to see and therefore less viable options for creating videos with modern and diverse char...
3
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Version history
It would be great if there was a version history of projects so that you could switch back to an older version. Currrently it's overwritten and that's not so nice.
3
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Consistency with image sizes
I'm finding some of the images a lesser quality file than others. For example all of the food plates are really small and if you make them bigger they become pixelated. Would be awesome if they were...
3
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Folders to organize uploads - also google drive access
It would be really helpful if I could organize my uploads in folders. Mailchimp has a great way doing it if you are looking for ideas.
Also google drive access would be helpful.
3
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Allow different Erase Modes per scene
Can we have an option to set a different erase mode per scene instead of for the entire video? Many times, the hand is erasing a blank section of a scene (because I have drawn a blank rectangle to era...
3
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3
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fix voice to video position
It is crazy that all the time I add or change something in my video, I have to rearrange the voice or music snippets as well
3
Votes
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Ancient History
I am a teacher working online now with 6th grade students and teaching World History. This means we study ANCIENT times. As a teacher I am looking for a BUNDLE that would have hunter-gatherers, mammot...
3
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Increase 10mb audio file limit
As a user, I want to be able to upload more than a 10mb audio mp3 so that i do not have to split my 15min audio files into many parts to get them into my doodle.
3
Votes
Declined
Body diversity in the characters
In the basic characters, they all appear to be the same shape and in the premium characters, the women seem to have exaggerated breasts and hourglass figures. Do better?
3
Votes
Declined
More gender diversity in topics - why are almost all "cleaning" characters women?
In this day and age, all genders should be participating in all activities - i.e. there is a premium bundle for business man, but not business woman. And in the household chores bundle, I was astonish...
3
Votes
Declined
Tamil font inclusion
Tamil is an international language used by people across Asia, Oceana, Europe and North America - please include the ability to use Tamil fonts.
3
Votes
Declined
Images as Backgrounds
Allow a scene to contain a background that is an image, not a color. This images should also be considered "invisible" by Doodly so it doesn't erase before drawing over it. A simple "Set As Backgrou...
3
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Declined
Ancient Middle Eastern Images - Important to Judaism/Christianity/Islam
I've noticed a lot of people asking for church related images of which I am in agreement. I would ask that in addition to those items already requested in another area, that images (or an image pack) ...
3
Votes
Considered
Resizable Preview
1. Make scene preview resizable.
2. Can zoom edit windows for all the scene withour zooming again.
3
Votes
Considered
Subtitle paragraph align
I hope can have Subtitle paragraph align setting to left, center or right option.
3
Votes
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Allow Simple Definition of Text Styles
A simple method of defining text styles (font, size, etc) would save a lot of time and allow multiple scenes to have a more consistent look. Maybe define simple paragraph styles such as in HTML such ...
3
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Add a new Export File Type - Animated GIF
This would make it much easier to embed presentations into web pages. At the moment I need to export as an MP4 then use a utility to convert.
3
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Have an option to remove the arm from the moving hand
This would speed up the image processing and avoid having an out of focus arm. I am sure the moving hand will still focus the viewer's attention. After all, you don't show the body!
3
Votes
Considered
Scroll the Timeline With Mouse Wheel
Scroll the Timeline With Mouse Wheel when the Mouse Cursor is on the Timeline. Quality of life? :)
3
Votes
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Prevent wipe before draw on items in actions tab
If you have a drawing of a computer screen, a flip-over or something else with an empty surface within the drawing, the wiping hand appears even though the new drawing is only within the empty space. ...
3
Votes
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Multiple project Windows
Provide the ability/option to have multiple project windows open at the same time, with the ability to move/copy/paste scenes and objects between them. As it stands now, you can copy/paste a scene be...
3
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Ability to change the Opacity on background images
When importing an image we should have the ability to change the opacity of an image to allow the words and other images to stand out more.
3
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Reposition the tracks at the bottom of the screen
Hello,
I have been looking more in detail to ergonomics of the app. As I am using more and more panning and zooming together with voice-over I run into the following problem. You can't see both the zo...
3
Votes
Considered
Auto Shutdown PC
Please add Automatically shutdown PC after complete the rendering.
My 8 minute video took 5 hours to rendering.
Thank You.
3
Votes
Considered
Cambio de idioma
Debería tener el programa una función para cambiar de idioma al español. No le entiendo a los tutoriales que vienen en inglés
3
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A Library of people and objects relating to voting, surveys, polls, etc.
A Library of people and objects relating to voting, surveys, polls, etc. especially in this election year.
3
Votes
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Uploading percentage
Need to have an option inside working area to see how much percentage has been uploaded to the server. This is very important as the user can easily see and get to know how much is the waiting time.
3
Votes
Completed
More Backgrounds (that can be used for existing characters)
Having more backgrounds will make Doodly even MORE awesome. I think this feature could really set Doodly apart from other whiteboard animation softwares because all of them lack backgrounds. With back...
3
Votes
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Ordering of the TITLE column
Ordering of Title where we can either move the files we create up or down to define our own sequence? Or at least, it sorts the TITLE ascending or descending if we give an appropriate nomenclature for...
3
Votes
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Stick sound and effects to the scene
I am very frustrated when I set my effects and/or sounds on some middle scene.
When I modify the length of previous scenes, all is lost! My effects and sounds stick to the time on the timeline instea...
3
Votes
Considered
Adjust Timeline scale
To be able to adjust Timeline scale so that Timeline can be maximized or minimized and we can see more details of a (very) short clip and shorted a (very) long clip / Timeline.
3
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To Preview Timeline (i.e. to have Timeline play) from any given point of it by clicking on that point on Timeline with cursor, or any other quick / easy way
To Preview Timeline (i.e. to have Timeline play) from any given point of it by clicking on that point on Timeline with cursor, or any other alternative quick / easy way
3
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Add folder to manage upload images
Please add an option which allow me to create separate folder for upload images, it would be much more efficient to work on a project.
3
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Considered
Disable increasing Draw time when stretch scene
When I make my videos I find it so hard to synchronize my voice-over with my scenes
and when I stretch the scene to match the audio I realize that the drowning time was increased so I mush keep cha...
3
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keys to control audio
When I make videos I find it really hard to listen to my voice=over to be able to adjust the timing with the scenes and I have to relay on-scene preview in order to get it right and that takes a lot o...
3
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multi timer/multiple functions at the same time
to run 2 or more object / multiple functions at the same time
to assign multiple images/text to one timer to do something while having another images/ text running at same time doing something else
e...
3
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Please add a feature to allow suppressing audio tracks
I often need to export 2 videos. They are the same except for audio tracks. Each time, I have to delete audio tracks I don't need and add audio tracks I need, then adjust them. When I need to switch t...
3
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Add a text-to-speech Human Voice to Doodly
Creating videos with Doodly is amazing, but we need to add our voice or create the voice in separate app, load it and edit it with the Doodly video, which take time. If you can integrate the Text-To-S...
3
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Allow custom subcategories in My Library
When importing images or sounds, it would be great to have a way to categorize those files. This would help to organize the hundreds of files that are only in the My Library category.
3
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Render on GPU
Currently Doodly renders the videos on CPU and it takes hours to have a minute-long video ready. By using GPU this process can be way too faster (e.g. 20X!)
This feature is a must-have for all renderi...
3
Votes
Considered
Modestly dressed women in business
Can you please add images of women who are modestly dressed (long skirts or dresses and headwraps)? I am a modest woman in a professional category but I cannot create images like this for my training...
3
Votes
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3
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disable erase before new item
There are many times when I want to draw one object over another without erasing the first object first. For example, if I'm drawing an X over an object, it makes no sense to neatly erase where the X...
3
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enable later object to be placed/drawn behind an earlier one.
As it stands, objects placed later in the timing by necessity have to be drawn over earlier objects. It makes sense to be able to place an object later, but have it be placed behind objects that are ...
3
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Customize the texts
Can you add a feature that allows us to customize some words into the text
ex: I go to school with my friends
I need to color the pronoun "MY" to attention the students
3
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Considered
All about Aquascaping Scenes, Character Posings, and Props
Hello,
I would like to request more freshwater aquarium fishes, invertebrates, plants, hardscape materials (rocks, driftwood), more aquariums (2D, 3D) complete with soil already in it, please. Some c...
3
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Geometric Shapes
Prop category that are geometric shapes (lines, poly-lines, squares, rectangles, triangles, polygons, circles, ellipses, wedges) where the outline of the shape is also the draw path for the shape.
Th...
3
Votes
Considered
To import power point slides into Doodly
This feature can help to convert ppt into animation video by click of import button.
3
Votes
Considered
Remove an asset in middle of a scene
I think it would be great if you could set an asset to leave in middle of a scene.
3
Votes
Considered
Asset animation
Be able to animate an asset in middle of a scene, make it flash or something to give it extra attention!
3
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3
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Considered
Indian Languages support
It is not supporting Indian Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam languages and can be best if you copy paste options of texts. so that we can text in our other sources and copy and paste the text in Doodle f...
3
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Declined
Alignment tools (like those that are in Microsoft Office PowerPoint)
Alignment tools that would align and snap objects to other objects in the scene. (without having to use the grid)
3
Votes
Considered
web-based (online) version of Doodly
Hereby I propose to create a web-based (online) version of Doodly. This will allow to use Doodly regardless of operating system. It would be easier to maintain only one version online, than for multip...
3
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Voice-over creation positioning
Currently, the + sign for the voice-over creation is only visible in the first scene. If you are working on scene 30 and you want to create a voice-over for this scene, you first have to move to scene...
3
Votes
Considered
SVG Imported Draw Path Improvement
Hi there! So I reached out to your support team because I was having an issue with one of my SVG files. It turns out that the Doodly program can only handle so many loaded draw paths. Now for a nube s...
3
Votes
Considered
Context menu - right click, preview from this point
We have the ability to right click and add panning and zooming at a particular point. Also when the video is playing the play head shows us were we are in the video. We are able to preview a ful sce...
3
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Toonly: New Design - Timeline for Layers
I would recommend a new Design: like Toonly, where the Timeline is used for the objects/layers and the panel on the right for the different scenes.
-> that would make it easier to change the time and ...
3
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When inserting in timeline, allow users to move all elements to the right
Once I've done any voiceover or pan & zoom, I can't insert something new at the beginning of the video without making other tracks of the timeline out of sync. I should be able to group and move every...
3
Votes
Declined
Grid Improvement 101
Your grid does not bisect the scene horizontally or vertically. This makes it challenging (downright maddening) to center any object or text. In its current form, your grid is 8 & 2/5ths wide by 4 & 3...
3
Votes
Considered
Hours spent on Doodly
Would be useful for invoicing purposes if Doodly showed you how long you've been working on the program.
3
Votes
Considered
Text Tools (border, contour, shadow)
It should be great if the text could be set with border, contour, shadow, even backgrounds
3
Votes
Considered
Option to TURN OFF the the scroll function for Delay/Duration times
It's very easy to accidentally engage the new scroll function for adjusting the Delay/Duration times in each scene without even realizing that you've done that. I find that very frustrating. Often I'...
3
Votes
Declined
Population Segmentation
I work in health care and talk a lot about taking large groups of people, segmenting them in targeted groups of people and delivering specific services. It would really help if their were templates, ...
3
Votes
Declined
Offline Mode And Offline Save project laptop And Pc
Offline Mode And Offline Save project laptop And Pc
3
Votes
Considered
women in orthopaedic surgery
I am a medical student who is working in a project called Women In Orthopaedics. I find female doctors insufficient. There are not many characters. There is no female surgeons at all. So please creat...
3
Votes
Considered
Doodly Multi-User with Permission Settings for Rendering with only Owner
Hi Team,
Creating Doodly videos gets more productive and creative if multiple users work on the same Project.
It would be beneficial if the structure of Doodly is done in such a way that, the Owne...
3
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Remove the pop out display while taking voiceover
Hey, doodly team please kindly remove that preview pop-out feature while recording the voiceover. It actually very annoying just an exaggerated feature of no use. It creates problems while doing the v...
3
Votes
Declined
Unlock aspect ratio of assets
Assets with unlocked aspect ratio would allow customization of size thus facilitating customized and multi use of existing props. Example: 2-D shapes (rectangle, oval, arrows, etc) will be usable for ...
3
Votes
Declined
Pause during development playback
Hard to believe this doesn't exist, and maybe I have missed it - but when developing a scene and checking animation via "Preview" there is no way to Stop or Pause until the entire movie ends. I often ...
3
Votes
Considered
Minimize Timeline
On my screen, the timeline takes up a lot of my working area, and there is not any way to hide or minimize it. This significantly reduces the usefulness of the Doodly tool to me. Please make it so t...
3
Votes
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Change Doodle Elements so they are not triggered by inadvertent trackpad scrolling
First of all I believe this is a bug but Support told me I had to post it here, so here it is. I think this is a bug that really needs to be fixed in Doodly. On my mac when using my trackpad to naviga...
3
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Image - Sense of depth
It would be nice to have the option to adjust an image that way so we can give the image the sense of depth.
There are great pre-made scenes having the sence of depth already. However I had too search...
3
Votes
Considered
Subtitle can be associated with object
Most of the time sub-title is following the object visible sequence, if the sub-title can be associated with the object, then we don't have to duplicate so many scenes.
3
Votes
Declined
Sound can repeat by itself
Sometimes we would like a sound byte can be repeated, likes a keyboard effect. If a sound byte can repeat itself by a predefined number of times, we no need to duplicate it dozen of times for a conti...
3
Votes
Declined
Doodly Character Creator
It would be great if I can choose for example a head, haircut, skin color, upper body and legs or something like that. So I would have a chance to use much more characters without Doodly needs to crea...
3
Votes
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Add Indian character, sean and Indian languages
If you added Indian languages as well as Indian characters and situations to it. Had scenes like this been added in the middle it would have been great. Also we do not get to see different fonts...
3
Votes
Considered
Drawing with hand pencil
Please. I really believe you should include a hand with pencil. Since we are dealing with hand drawing.
3
Votes
Declined
Change color of imported characters into greyscale
There should be a feature to change the color of imported characters/images into greyscale to intermix with the existing grey color images.
2
Votes
Completed
Larger Drawing Area
Is there anything in the works that would make it so we can have the option of a full-size screen or resized screen of the drawing board? My ideal situation would be a drag-arrow where the left, righ...
2
Votes
Considered
Increase the default value of Extra time at the end
The number one problem in nearly all first Doodlys is placing text on the screen at the end of a scene, and jumping to the next scene before anyone can read it. If you would change the default value f...
2
Votes
Completed
Invert color of an imported asset
After importing an asset that has color and tracing paths on it. it would be helpful to be able to invert the colors so that same asset could be used, with paths intact, on a whiteboard or a chalkboar...
2
Votes
Completed
2
Votes
Considered
Social Media Templates
Have different size templates for the various social media platforms: 1x1 for Instagram for example. Being able to easily switch between them would be even better. Thanks!
2
Votes
Considered
Give More Screen Estate.
Minimize the menu bar. Keep unnecessary stuffs like name of the user, membership type in "about", Make the big Doodly logo smaller to fit the new menu bar. Put some useful buttons like "my videos", "...
2
Votes
Considered
Colours for the Chalk
If we can have colours for the chalk option other than white, then it could look like charcoal when we make the colour black.
2
Votes
Considered
Characters holding blank Signs
Have the characters holding blank signs so we can put our own text. some with happy expression some with angry protest expression.