frametell

Frametell is an open-source tool that uses an AI director agent to turn your ideas and material into explainer videos.

Why it matters

An AI director agent that turns an idea or your source material into a narrated explainer video. It's for educators and creators who would rather tell the story than learn video editing.

Highlights

• You approve the storyboard before anything is drawn, and can point at a page to change it.
• It writes narration, voices it with ElevenLabs (or Volcengine TTS for Chinese), draws each page in a chosen style, and renders a 1080p MP4 with subtitles.
• Shows the agent's reasoning, cost and time at every step. The README's example is a 72-second film made in 12 min 52 s for $1.59.
• Runs locally with any model: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, OpenRouter or compatible endpoints.
• Five built-in styles: warm-story, study, chalkboard, whiteboard and tech-dark.

Taken from the project's own README, docs or launch page. Claims about speed or accuracy are the maker's unless stated otherwise.

Worth knowing: AGPL-3.0: if you modify it and offer it as a network service, you must release your changes.

Quick facts

Links

• Official site: https://frametell.ai
• Repository: https://github.com/sitor-ai/frametell
• Release notes: https://github.com/sitor-ai/frametell/releases
• Docs: https://github.com/sitor-ai/frametell#readme

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Checked 2026-10-17 from the tool's own pages. Prices and star counts change, so confirm on the official site. Listing here is not a ranking or an endorsement.