FrameZero
FrameZero is a browser-based whiteboard video editor for explainers, tutorials and video essays. You sketch on a canvas, animate on a timeline and export up to 4K. The free plan needs no account and keeps projects local.
What is FrameZero?
FrameZero is a whiteboard-first video editor that runs entirely in the browser. Its own guides put it plainly: you build visuals directly on the canvas, then control when they appear on the timeline. The terms describe it as a browser-based video creation tool. It is published by LearnVue LLC, doing business as FrameZero, under the law of Virginia in the United States. The editor is organised in three zones. The Canvas is where you draw, place and select elements. The Sidebar holds tools, media and transitions. The Timeline governs timing, sections and layer order. The home page frames the workflow in three steps, Sketch Your Scene, Animate With Ease and Polish and Export, and lists eight capabilities: fast canvas sketching, ready-made templates, motion presets built for explainers, code display with syntax highlighting, voice-over recording, keyframe animation, export up to 4K, and adding assets by copy and paste. A few behaviours shape everyday use. New content starts at the playhead and runs to the end of the current section, landing on the first available layer. A right-click opens a context menu with Edit, Transition In, Transition Out, element-specific actions such as Fill and Stroke, and Delete. Media exists at two scopes: project media, tied to the current project, and account media, reusable across projects on the paid plan, with promotion from one to the other. Placeholders let you lock layout and pacing before the final assets exist, then swap them in by drag-and-drop or from the context menu. The Animate tab gathers every keyframe on an element so timing and easing can be refined in one place. The model is local-first. Free projects live in the browser's IndexedDB and LocalStorage and are never transmitted to the publisher's servers, while Pro adds cloud-backed projects and an asset library shared across projects. No account is needed to begin, and the home page call to action reads Start creating — no signup. The site itself is built with Nuxt, and eight public guides, last updated on 26 February 2026, document the workflows step by step. The limits are stated up front: one scene of one minute on the free plan, five-minute scenes on Pro.
What it does
- Sketch text, shapes and freehand drawings directly on a canvas
- Structure the video into timeline sections that bound when each element appears
- Animate position, scale, opacity and rotation with keyframes and adjustable easing
- Apply one-click entry, exit and in-between transitions from motion presets
- Record a voice-over straight into the project timeline
- Display code with syntax highlighting and animate it
- Export up to 4K from the browser, with nothing to install
When to use FrameZero / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if FrameZero is the right fit.
When to use FrameZero
- Educators and instructional designers who need a short explainer finished in an afternoon rather than a new professional tool to learn.
- Developer advocates and technical writers, thanks to code blocks rendered with syntax highlighting and animated on the timeline.
- Solo creators of tutorials and video essays who want to record the voice-over directly inside the project, without a separate audio tool.
- Product, support and customer success teams that document their own features and need a 4K export without installing desktop software.
- Anyone who wants to test a video editor before committing: the editor opens in the browser with no signup, and the free plan never expires.
When not to use FrameZero
- Anyone producing long-form video: the free plan allows a single one-minute scene, and Pro still caps each scene at five minutes.
- Teams that need collaborative editing, shared review or comments, since the site documents no multi-user or commenting features.
- Developers who want to automate rendering: there is no API and no API documentation anywhere on the site.
- Mobile-first creators, as FrameZero is a web application only, with no iOS or Android app and no browser extension.
- Users expecting AI to generate the video for them: every element is drawn and animated by hand, and no automatic video generation is offered.
How to use FrameZero
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the editor in your browser, with no account required, and start from a blank scene or from the onboarding example.
- Set the scene settings early: output orientation and size, then background colour or style.
- Add your first element from the toolbar: text, a shape, a freehand drawing, a code block or a placeholder.
- Bring in media by pasting an image, dragging an icon or GIF from the sidebar onto the canvas or timeline, double-clicking a sidebar item, or using Import for a file.
- Record the voice-over: open the media and audio controls, choose Record, select your microphone, then start and stop.
- Set the timing by moving the playhead and trimming or moving the element on the timeline, remembering that content follows the bounds of its section.
- Right-click an element to add Transition In and Transition Out.
- Animate precisely: mark a property as animated to create a keyframe at the current frame, move along the timeline and change the value to generate the next one, then refine easing in the Animate tab.
- Reorder the layers to resolve overlaps, since upper layers hide the ones below them.
- Replace the placeholders with your final assets without redoing the timing, then export from the browser at up to 4K.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for: the editor opens in the browser under a Start creating — no signup call to action, and exports up to 4K are produced in the browser as well.
- The free plan is permanent rather than a time-limited trial.
- Local-first by design: free projects stay in the browser and are never transmitted to the publisher's servers.
- Animation depth that is unusual at this price, with keyframes, easing control and effect ordering for 12 USD a month.
- Native handling of code, with animated syntax highlighting, which is rare among whiteboard tools.
- Pricing is deliberately simple: two tiers only, one paid price, no quote to request.
- Detailed official guides covering each workflow, last updated on 26 February 2026, alongside explicit recognition of the user's content ownership, no sale of personal information and anonymised analytics.
Cons
- The free plan is tightly capped at a single one-minute scene, and Pro still limits each scene to five minutes.
- No API and no API documentation, no mobile app or extension, and no user-facing third-party integrations.
- Free-plan projects can be lost if browser storage is cleared or the device changes, and the terms explicitly decline responsibility for that loss.
- Access to cloud content after cancellation or downgrade is at the user's risk under the terms, and fees are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise.
- The word GDPR appears nowhere, no DPA is published or offered, and no Article 27 EU representative is named.
- The hosting country for user data is never stated: the privacy policy says only third-party cloud infrastructure.
- A thin corporate footprint: no postal address, no about or contact page, and a single email address on another domain (learnvue.co) for support, legal and data requests, for a very young product from an apparently one-person LLC.
Pricing & Plans
FrameZero uses a freemium model with two tiers and nothing else. The Free plan costs 0 USD, requires no account and allows a single scene limited to one minute, with data kept locally on the device. The paid entry point is Pro at 12.00 USD per month, which lifts the ceiling to unlimited scenes of up to five minutes, backs projects up in the cloud and adds an asset library shared across projects. Reaching the one-scene or one-minute limit, or wanting projects to survive beyond a single browser, is what triggers the upgrade. No annual price, annual discount, enterprise tier, contact-sales route or free trial of Pro is advertised. Payments are handled by Polar. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period, and fees are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. Prices as displayed on the pricing and home pages on 23 August 2026.
- start creating instantly with no account required
- one scene with a 1 minute limit
- data stays local on your device. Entry point: the Start for free button
- which opens the editor.
- unlimited scenes of up to 5 minutes
- cloud-backed projects
- shared asset library across projects. Entry point: the Upgrade to Pro button.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how FrameZero handles your data.
GDPR overview
The word GDPR appears nowhere on the FrameZero site: compliance is neither claimed nor denied. What the privacy policy does provide, since 25 February 2026, are rights framed as depending on your jurisdiction: access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate data, deletion, and objection to or restriction of certain processing, all exercised by writing to support@learnvue.co. It names a legal basis for analytics, described as a legitimate interest in improving the product, and states that sub-processors act on the publisher's behalf under contractual agreements and applicable data protection laws. Beyond that the record is thin: no Article 27 EU representative, no data protection officer, no published or offered DPA, no documented international transfers and no standard contractual clauses. Governing law is the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. European professional users should read the compliance posture as undocumented rather than as confirmed.
Who owns the data?
Under the terms in force since 25 February 2026, you own your User Content and the publisher claims no ownership of it. You grant FrameZero a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, reproduce and display that content, solely in order to operate the service. The licence ends once the content is removed from its systems, apart from backup, legal or security copies. You warrant that you hold the rights to whatever you upload. The publisher does not view your content except to deliver the service, to troubleshoot at your request, or where the law requires it. Free-plan projects never leave your browser.
Reuse rights
The privacy policy, effective 25 February 2026, states that data is used to provide and maintain the service, authenticate users, sync and store cloud projects, process payments, improve performance and features, and meet legal obligations. It adds that personal information is not sold. Analytics run through PostHog in privacy-focused mode and cover page views, browser and device type, an approximate geographic region derived from an anonymised IP address, and usage events such as export clicks, with no individual identification and no cross-site tracking; the stated legal basis is legitimate interest. Payments go through Polar, so no card number is stored, only billing metadata such as subscription status and transaction identifiers. Pro accounts additionally involve an email address, OAuth identifiers (Google, for example), a basic OAuth profile and account metadata. Because ownership of the content stays with you, the videos you export are yours to reuse without asking permission. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy says anything about training AI models on customer data, in either direction.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The privacy policy, effective 25 February 2026, says only that cloud data is stored securely using third-party cloud infrastructure. No provider is named, and neither a country nor a region is given. Free-plan data never reaches that infrastructure: it stays in the browser through IndexedDB and LocalStorage. The sub-processor list names Polar for payments, PostHog for analytics and OAuth authentication providers such as Google, but leaves the hosting and storage providers anonymous. There is no data-residency commitment and no EU region on offer. For reference, the site's DNS resolves to 216.150.1.1, geolocated in the United States on AS16509 (Amazon.com Inc.) through an anycast node, which indicates where the website is served from and not necessarily where user data is stored. The only firm jurisdictional anchor is the governing law: the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Organisations with data-residency requirements will need to ask the publisher directly, because the site does not answer the question.
Where FrameZero works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting FrameZero.
- Free projects live only in your browser: clearing storage, switching device, uninstalling or losing your browser profile can destroy them, and the terms state that the publisher is not responsible for the loss of local-only projects. Export early and often.
- After cancelling or downgrading, access to cloud features may be reduced or cut off; the terms leave it to you to export your content beforehand.
- The subscription renews automatically until cancelled and fees are non-refundable unless the law requires otherwise, so the renewal date is worth noting in a calendar.
- Total liability is capped at the amount paid over the previous six months, which is 0 USD for anyone who has only ever used the free plan, and the service is provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE, with no guarantee of continuity; features may be modified, added or withdrawn at any time.
- For professional use in Europe, the absence of any GDPR mention, of a DPA and of an Article 27 representative is a genuine gap, and the hosting country of user data is never disclosed.
- The service is reserved for people aged 18 and over, and US export compliance rules exclude users located in embargoed countries or listed as prohibited or restricted parties.
- The only route to a human is a single email address on a different domain, learnvue.co, with no postal address published anywhere on the site: worth knowing before a deadline-critical project depends on the tool.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low to start: nothing to install, everything runs in the browser, and no account is needed to open the editor. An account is required only for Pro features, cloud projects and the shared asset library, through OAuth sign-in such as Google. The home page promises a first draft in minutes and the guides a first scene in 60 seconds. Three behaviours repay early attention: content starts at the playhead, it lives inside a section and follows its bounds, and right-click holds the quick actions. The real curve comes later: keyframes, easing, effect order. Voice-over needs a microphone.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind FrameZero
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Resources
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account to start using FrameZero?
What does the paid plan cost?
What are the limits of the free plan?
Does Pro remove every limit?
Where are my projects stored, and can I lose them?
What export quality can I get?
Can I record a voice-over inside FrameZero?
Is there a mobile app or an API?
Who owns the videos I make, and is my data used to train AI models?
Who publishes FrameZero, and how do I get in touch?
Should you pick FrameZero?
FrameZero is a young product. Its domain was registered on 15 July 2025 and the Wayback Machine's first capture dates from 13 August 2025. It comes from a small American publisher, LearnVue LLC, operating under Virginia law, with no team presented and no postal address published. The positioning is narrow and deliberate: a whiteboard editor for explainers, tutorials and video essays, not a general-purpose video suite. Within that scope, the ratio of capability to price is unusual. Keyframe animation on position, scale, opacity and rotation, adjustable easing, effect ordering and animated code blocks all sit behind a single paid tier at 12 USD a month. The barrier to entry is close to zero. The editor opens in the browser with no signup, the free plan is permanent rather than a trial, and export up to 4K happens locally with nothing to install. Free projects stay in the browser, which is a privacy advantage and a durability risk in the same breath. The trade-offs are real and stated openly: one-minute scenes on the free plan and five-minute scenes on Pro, no API, no mobile app, no third-party integrations, no documented collaboration features, and minimal legal transparency, with no mention of GDPR, no DPA, no named hosting country and one email address on a different domain for support, legal and data matters. The natural audience is people who produce their own explanations: educators and instructional designers, developer advocates and technical writers, solo creators of tutorials and video essays, and product or support teams documenting their own features. For them FrameZero is worth the detour on two conditions, namely that the format fits within the duration caps, and that the absence of formal data-protection documentation is acceptable for the material involved.
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