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Step-by-step guides for Doodle Dragon Studio: making your first book, generating illustrations, adding narration, exporting, and managing your plan.
Every guide here is written for the actual app, in the order the screens appear. If a guide is wrong or a screen has moved, tell us and we will fix the page — the email is at the bottom of every article.
Prefer to watch? Each plan has its own series of short narrated tutorials: Free, Studio Plus, and Studio Motion.
Looking for something specific? Use the search box above, or jump to troubleshooting if something is broken rather than unclear.
Tutorials by plan
Short narrated videos, one task at a time, with every screen shown in order.
Free tutorials
Twelve short narrated videos: start a keepsake, add photos and words, record narration, add a second language, and export a PDF or a video.
Studio Plus tutorials
Eleven short narrated videos: plan a storybook with AI, attach a child's drawing as the story anchor, generate consistent pictures, narrate in English and French, and export.
Studio Motion tutorials
Twelve short narrated videos: plan a movie from a child's sketch, review every shot, generate the whole movie in the background, direct a single page's video, and continue one scene into the next.
Start here
If you have just installed the app, these three are the whole tour.
Getting started
Install the app, understand the four main screens, and make your first page in about ten minutes.
FreeCreate your first project
Build a complete six-page picture book from start to finish, using drawings or photos you already have.
FreeExport a PDF or video
Turn a finished project into a page-by-page PDF, a story video, or a portable project archive — and what to do when export fails.
FreeFree: keepsakes About Free →
Photos, words, your own narration, and getting the finished book off your phone.
Add narration and music
Record yourself reading the book, import audio, generate narration, and add background music that ducks under the voice.
Edit photos on device
Adjust light and colour and apply looks — free, offline, and without overwriting your originals.
Edit story pages
Change the words, swap pictures, reorder pages, choose layouts, and understand what happens when a page is deleted.
Back up and move projects
Export a portable .ddstory archive or use optional Studio Plus cloud backup to restore projects on another device.
Studio Plus: illustrated storybooks About Studio Plus →
Illustrations from sketches and photos, AI story plans, whole storybooks, and translation.
Sketch to illustration
Draw or import a sketch, review the description and style, and generate a finished illustration that still looks like the original drawing.
Photo to illustration
Import a photo, review the description the app produces, and generate a storybook illustration based on it.
Write a better prompt
The description field decides what you get. Here is how to write one that produces the picture you actually had in mind.
Plan a storybook
Turn an outline and your child's drawing into an editable storybook plan: the words, the artwork idea, and the layout for every page.
Generate a storybook
Turn a reviewed AI plan into a fully illustrated storybook in one background run, then refine pages, add narration, and export.
Translate your book
Add a second language to a project, translate the cover and pages, record narration for it, and export it — without disturbing the English original.
Studio Motion: video books About Studio Motion →
Movie plans, whole video books, single-page clips, and speaking characters.
Plan a movie
Turn an outline and a child's sketch into an editable shot plan with motion, camera, transitions, voices, and sound for every scene.
Generate a video book
Plan, review, and generate a movie in the background, with a clip for every page, then fix individual scenes before export.
Create AI video
Choose frames, motion, speech, and sound; review a new clip while keeping the current page until you accept it.
Character dialogue
Help the video model identify the intended speaker, keep spoken words separate from directions, and review voice consistency.
Your account and plan
Subscriptions, credits, restoring purchases, and deleting your account.
Manage subscription
Subscribe, restore purchases, change plan, cancel, and understand what happens to your books afterwards.
Studio PlusUnderstand your credits
What a credit is, what each action costs, when credits reset, and when they come back automatically.
Studio PlusDelete your data
How to delete a page, asset, project, local app data, or your signed-in account, and which actions can be undone.
FreeHelp shape Doodle Dragon Studio
Join the free beta on Android through Google Play or on iOS through TestFlight. Make your first story and tell us what worked. Interested in AI creation? Sign in to the app to be considered for complimentary Plus or Motion beta credits.