AI Explainer Video Maker Online

An explainer video is a short, engaging video designed to quickly introduce a product, service or concept in an understandable way. The usual length is 60 to 90 seconds and these videos focus on highlighting a specific problem and presenting your solution.

An AI explainer video maker is a digital tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to help users automatically create professional explainer videos from text, ideas, scripts or existing materials like images, videos and audio.

Fotor offers every new user free credits to try this tool at no cost. However, it will cost you plenty of credits to make a video. So, you’d better become a paid subscriber to enjoy explainer video creation. Also, you can complete the daily tasks to earn more credits on our “Credit Reward” page.

To make an effective explainer video, you must avoid unnecessary elements and focus on clarity, pacing and problem-solving parts. The goal is to move a viewer from confusion to comprehension (and action) in under two minutes.

Core Structure of a Great Explainer Video

The Hook & Problem (0–20 sec): Addresses the viewer's pain point or a challenge they face daily.

The Solution (20–40 sec): Introduces your product or service as the clear answer to that challenge.

How It Works / Key Benefits (40–70 sec): Demonstrates how the product functions and highlights the core value it delivers.

Call to Action (70–90 sec): Directs the audience on what to do next (e.g., "Start a free trial," "Download the app," or "Book a demo").

It is quite easy and convenient to make an animated explainer video with Fotor.

1. Describe your ideas for your animated explainer video, including the theme, information and more. Feel free to paste your script or upload your images, videos and audio to guide your result.

2. Our tool will intelligently analyze your inputs, provide more information to help you find more specific information for your video and automatically generate a script for you.

3. Review your script and click “Confirm” to let our tool make storyboards based on it.

4. Once you are satisfied with the storyboards above, Fotor will generate a complete animated explainer video according to them.

5. Preview the result, make more adjustments if you want and then press “Download” to save it.

It depends on the complexity of your video and the performance of your internet. It will usually take less than 10 minutes to create a complete explainer video.

With our explainer video maker, you can create the following explainer videos: 2D or 3D animation, whiteboard animation, live action videos, motion graphics and more.

Yes. Since your finished AI-generated explainer video is directly in our video editor, you can conveniently customize it, including video trimming and cropping, subtitle insertion, volume and playback speed adjustment, etc.

Yes. Rather than relying on a hard sales pitch or obscure technical jargon, an explainer video highlights one specific business topic or solution, which makes it perfectly suitable for one product, service or brand promotion.

Now, only MP4 can be exported from Fotor. We are now working hard to make more formats exportable.

Fotor allows users to use all explainer videos generated by it commercially. However, the subject inside your video should not be a celebrity or copyrighted character if you don’t have the person’s or creator’s consent. You will face severe legal consequences if you ignore the warning.