AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Fun sketch – Bring your sketches to life
Hello HN, I created a simple website which lets children (of all ages) sketch something and then animate it using AI. It's a small hobby project because I wanted to see what all the hype is about. No account required (but because the sketch app allows image uploads and we all know we can't have nice things on the Internet, I will be moderating the submissions before showing them on the front page). Stack: Excalidraw, Django, Postgres, Redis for caching, ComfyUI for the image to video workflow (Wan 2.2 14B I2V). Let me know what you think. Merry Christmas!
Fun Sketch is a website that allows users to draw simple sketches and transforms them into animated videos using AI. The tool requires no account to use and is designed for people of all ages. Submissions are moderated… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN! We're working on an AI studio product, and have been experimenting with the recently-released ControlNet (https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet) After wasting hours with it, we decided to put together a quick fun project. "Sketch" allows you to draw anything (works w/ touch inputs on mobile too), enter a prompt (it can be as simple as "drawing" and it'll try to guess) and you get something out fast. Keeping it all on a public feed as well, to serve as inspiration. Hope anyone here finds it fun :-)
2023 · clio.so · its alternatives →
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Simply Draw▲789AI feedback meets art - anyone can learn to draw
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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SketchDaily▲105Free educational tool for improving your sketching skills.
2017 · sketchdaily.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I used to spend hours drawing all kind of things as a kid. Sadly though, those drawings are long gone. Inspired by this, I created DoodleDreams. A webapp that brings drawings to life using AI and stores them as memories. You can always look back at the drawings, see who made them, and even know the age they were drawn at. I thought it was a fun way to preserve those memories. What do you think? Viktor
2024 · doodledreams.cc · its alternatives →
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Sketch 101▲230Smart Animate, Color variables gradients + more!
2024 · sketch.com · its alternatives →
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Sketch Logo AI▲259Craft logos, illustrations and tattoos in seconds with AI
2024 · sketchlogo.ai · its alternatives →
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Create your own monster character in seconds.
2018 · sliday.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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A simple & free, beautiful animator for all photos and ads
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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An AI-powered drawing canvas for your imagination
2023 · svg.now · its alternatives →
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Bit Sketchy!▲94A simple drawing party game where no skill is required
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to share my indie product, https://drawing.pics In this post, I'll share all the technical details behind it. So, what exactly is DrawingPics? It's an image-to-image and sketch-to-image generator that runs in a whiteboard, allowing you to draw your draft directly on the canvas and easily generate the desired image. How does it work from a technical perspective? TLDR: Miniconda + Diffusers + Electron + Excalidraw One of the most important aspects of creating this tool was finding a stable diffusion locally inference solution. There are many solutions available, such as…
2024 · drawing.pics · its alternatives →
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Turn any sketch into image with AI magic!
2024 · sketchtoimage.com · its alternatives →
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Convert images to pencil sketches with AI technology
2021 · imagetosketch.com · its alternatives →
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Dibulo▲83Hi HN community! Proud to have recently become a founder myself and now to submit a "Show HN". We are Dibulo, a young startup which is on a mission to redefine coloring sessions for kids! We have built our first worlds, sold our first coloring books and now we want to let the world know about us :) So far we have been praised by parents, and also got pretty good feedback from institutions like daycares and elementary school teachers. What sets our coloring experience apart? Not only do we bring vibrant templates on paper to life on screens, but we also introduce a captivating group activity.…
2023 · dibulo.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on a small project that transforms handwritten notes into animated, shareable cards. While the create functionality isn’t live yet, I wanted to share a sneak peek by creating a handwritten Christmas card specifically for the HN community. I started thinking about this after seeing too many AI-generated cards, cookie-cutter email templates, and overly polished designs that lack any personal touch. A friend recently sent me a handwritten card in the mail, and I found it nice that he took his time to write a handwritten note. I wanted to capture that same feeling…
2024 · handwritten-card.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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GIF.new▲18i use GIFs a lot in my personal/professional life and so I'm pretty passionate about the topic :P about a month ago I found out that this domain was available and couldn't believe it. Waited a good 3 weeks to pull the trigger on buying it (which, btw is hella expensive by default) and in the meantime, hopped from one idea to another on what it should house. original idea was to build some kind of prompt-to-GIF service but very soon realised that i can't sustain the AI bill on my budget (top contender was to use runway). then came the idea of animating charts from data (obvious: i work…
2025 · gif.new · its alternatives →
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Speed Sketch▲13Hi HN, I built SpeedSketch, a free online tool to help artists practice gesture and figure drawing through timed sketch sessions. It started as a weekend project when I couldn’t find a distraction-free, lightweight tool to simulate life drawing sessions. SpeedSketch shows a sequence of figure reference images for a set amount of time (30s, 1min, etc.) to encourage rapid sketching and improve visual memory – similar to how art classes run warm-up sessions. There are no accounts, no ads, no tracking – just open and start drawing. Try it out here: https://speedsketch.co.uk I’d love…
2025 · speedsketch.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! The children in my family love to draw and are beginning to explore digital drawing tools, but they've been somewhat discouraged by the complexity of popular software like GIMP, Photoshop, etc. I was motivated to create a tool that encouraged their artistic creativity and also piqued their technical curiosity. With the release of SDXL-Turbo in late Nov 2023, it became feasible to perform text-guided image to image generation in real-time on a consumer grade GPU. Inspired by this progress and my little cousins' artwork, I put together a web app that integrates an interactive canvas &…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bring Drawing To Life Instantly | DrawMingo AI Animation
2025 · drawmingo.com · its alternatives →
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