Use ExcaliRec to turn an Excalidraw-style whiteboard into a clean video you can publish, edit, or convert to MP4 when your workflow needs it.
Guide
Excalidraw is excellent for sketching ideas, diagrams, lessons, and rough product thinking. But the native Excalidraw experience is a drawing tool, not a video recorder. If you want to show how an idea is built step by step, a static board is often not enough. Viewers need the order of the explanation: where you start, what you connect next, and which part of the drawing matters right now.
ExcaliRec is built for that recording moment. Open the browser app, start with the built-in Excalidraw-style whiteboard, choose your frame, then draw while you talk. The recorder can follow your active drawing area with FocuSee-style automatic zoom, so small labels, arrows, and boxes stay readable. You can add a camera bubble when you want teaching presence, keep it off for a clean board, or use the teleprompter to keep your talking points nearby.
The workflow is simple: open the whiteboard, choose an aspect ratio such as 16:9, 9:16, 3:4, or 1:1, press record, explain the idea, then stop and download the finished file. The recording is saved locally as WebM. If you searched for how to record Excalidraw to MP4, the honest answer is: record in WebM first, then convert to MP4 only if your editor, upload destination, or client asks for it. That is a normal browser recording workflow, and it avoids claiming a direct MP4 export that the tool does not provide.
ExcaliRec fits teachers, course creators, founders, product teams, consultants, and short-form creators who explain ideas by drawing. It is especially useful when you want a quick video without setting up a separate screen recorder, cropping browser chrome, or manually zooming around the canvas while speaking.
Why it works
A normal screen recorder captures the whole screen. ExcaliRec is narrower: it treats the whiteboard as the video surface. That makes the final clip cleaner, easier to watch on mobile, and faster to repeat when you need multiple versions of the same explanation.
Record from the same browser tab where you draw, instead of capturing a separate window.
Download WebM locally, then convert to MP4 if a platform or editor needs that format.
Use landscape, vertical, portrait, or square ratios before you start recording.
FAQ
Yes. ExcaliRec lets you record an Excalidraw-style whiteboard in your browser with drawing, voice, optional webcam bubble, and automatic zoom.
No. ExcaliRec exports WebM. If you need MP4, convert the WebM file with any standard video converter after recording.
Yes. ExcaliRec is free to use and does not add a watermark to your whiteboard recording.
No. ExcaliRec runs in a desktop browser, so you do not need to install a screen recorder or browser extension.
Yes. Recording happens locally in your browser and the finished WebM file downloads to your device.
Free · No sign-up · Records locally · Export WebM (convert to MP4 if needed)
Open ExcaliRecSee the browser whiteboard recorder and its core features.
Record an Excalidraw-style whiteboard to video in your browser.
Record whiteboard videos without a watermark.
Pick the right aspect ratio for each platform.