“These guys saved us from spreadsheet hell. Half our pre-production process used to live in Slack, the other half in random PDFs and Google Docs nobody could find. Having the boards, notes, call sheets and revisions all connected genuinely sped the whole job up.”

Every app, every tier
Twenty synchronised apps. One project file.
Every plan from Solo to Network ships the full suite. Tiers differ on seats, monthly credits and queue priority — never on capability.
Producer
The production cockpit. Every department checks in here.
Breakdown
Tag every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds.
Budget
Top sheet to bottom line. Variance in real time.
Calendar
Stripboard scheduling your AD will not fight you on.
Diary
DPRs, BTS gallery, the crew log that organises itself.
Call Sheet
Auto-built. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
Cast
Roster, deal memos, character bibles. Automated.
Locations
Scouting, permits, logistics. Every scout, mapped.
Props
Inventory + costume continuity in one searchable library.
Vehicles
Picture cars and unit. Insurance, plates, drivers.
Shoot
Crew + equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
Script
The screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
Shotlist
AI-built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot.
Editor
Storyboard frame editor. Boards your director will sign.
Draw
Procreate-class brushes. GPU canvas. In your browser.
AI Artist
Style-locked image generation. Your custom artist.
Animate
Screenplay to playable animatic in one click.
Dashboard
The launchpad. Every project at a glance.
Files
Every asset, every version, every project. Searchable.
Team Chat
Real-time channels, project-scoped. No more lost threads.
One login to sync the industry
Software prices are rising. Crews are shrinking. We built something different.
One production tool that replaces a £4,500+/year stack of single-purpose software for as little as £29/month. Built around the people on set, not the people replacing them. Script to wrap, in one project file. DollyAi™ sits beside you in every app: a co-pilot for the human filmmakers who still make every real decision.
Closed Beta · what the testers said
The filmmakers who broke it first helped us build it.
Thirty-six anonymous beta testers — producers, directors, screenwriters, storyboard artists, designers, animators — pressure-tested the platform through Spring 2026. Names private, words in full. Scroll for more.
“Honestly? We came in expecting another gimmicky AI app. Stayed because the producer workflow stuff was actually solid.”
“The frame approval system ended up being weirdly addictive. Tiny thing, but being able to comment directly onto storyboard frames instead of sending giant feedback emails back and forth made revisions so much faster.”
“As a producer I care about one thing: time. If software saves me time, I keep using it. Storyboard Canvas saved us time almost immediately.”
“The beta was chaotic at first in the best possible way. New tools kept appearing every other week. One minute it was storyboards, then suddenly we had scheduling tools, script syncing, shot planning, notes, animatic timelines… felt like the software was evolving in real-time.”
“We used it on a music video shoot and the director stopped asking for PDF exports after day two because everyone was already working inside the project directly.”
“Most production software feels like it was designed by accountants. This actually feels made by filmmakers.”
“I'm a storyboard artist and was VERY sceptical going in. Thought it would just be another AI image generator pretending to understand production. But the continuity tools and frame organisation stuff is genuinely useful. It doesn't replace artists, it just cuts out loads of the repetitive admin around the job.”
“The call sheet builder saved our arse on a commercial. Client changed timings late in the evening and instead of rebuilding everything manually we updated it once and the whole production flow adjusted around it.”
“There's still bugs occasionally, but weirdly that made us trust it more because the dev team actually responds. We flagged an issue with frame ordering at like 11pm and woke up to a patch.”
“The writer tools surprised me most. I thought they'd be basic, but the script environment actually encourages visual pacing. You start thinking in shots while writing.”
“I've never seen software update this aggressively before. Sometimes you'd log in after a weekend and entire sections had changed.”
“The AI image generation is good, but the actual production pipeline around it is the real value. That's the bit competitors are missing.”
“We shaved days off pre-production during a branded campaign because producers, creatives and storyboard artists weren't constantly waiting on exports from each other.”
“The budgeting side needs more development still, but even in beta it gave us a clearer overview of where resources were going across the production.”
“Storyboard Canvas feels like someone finally realised filmmaking software shouldn't all exist in separate islands.”
“As a designer, I appreciated that the platform still leaves room for human taste and decision making. It speeds up process without flattening creativity.”
“The shot list generation got scary good over time. Early beta was rough. A few months later it was suggesting coverage ideas that actually made sense editorially.”
“Normally by the third revision cycle everybody starts losing track of what version they're even looking at. That basically disappeared during testing.”
“We initially only cared about generating boards quickly for agency pitches. Ended up using the script tools, scheduling, annotations and presentation modes way more than expected.”
“The platform still feels ambitious and slightly insane… but in a good way.”
“As someone who manages multiple departments, the biggest improvement was communication. Everyone was looking at the same ecosystem instead of 15 disconnected files.”
“The drawing app integration was what sold our storyboard team. Being able to paint over AI generations or adjust compositions directly inside the workflow felt surprisingly natural.”
“It feels less like software and more like a production workspace.”
“The continuity tracking genuinely helped on a longer-form job. Matching eyelines and geography across scenes became much easier when the boards, notes and shot progression all lived together.”
“Half the tools in film production feel like they hate creatives. This didn't.”
“The producer dashboard became our central hub during prep. Scripts, boards, references, shot notes, revisions, locations — all in one place. No more digging through ancient email chains trying to find Version_12_FINAL_FINAL_v2.pdf.”
“I think what impressed us most was that the developers clearly understand filmmaking language. Coverage, pacing, lenses, blocking, continuity… it's not just generic tech buzzwords pretending to be cinema.”
“We started using it for commercials and now we're testing it internally for drama development because the workflow is honestly smoother than some enterprise-level production tools.”
“The software occasionally overreaches, but I'd rather have a platform aiming too high than another boring stripped-back SaaS tool.”
“The animatic timeline tools are going to be huge once they mature properly. You can already see where it's heading.”
“As a writer/director, the coolest part was seeing rough scene ideas immediately become visual sequences. It changes the energy of brainstorming completely.”
“Clients understood ideas faster. That alone made it worth using.”
“It's the first AI production tool we've used where the human creative process still feels respected.”
“Six years working on commercials and music videos. Honestly never seen pre-production this consolidated in a single tool. Half the meetings I used to have just don't need to happen anymore — everyone's looking at the same boards, the same shot list, the same call sheet, updated live. That's the bit no one's solved before.”
“Three of us spread across London, Bristol and Berlin worked the same project in real time for two weeks. The fact that the director, producer and storyboard artist were all inside the same project file — boards updating live, comments threading on frames, scene revisions reflecting everywhere — was honestly the difference between a manageable week and a complete disaster.”
The math, in plain pounds
The stack you didn't realise you were paying for.
Final Draft. StudioBinder. Movie Magic. Frame.io. Adobe. Storyboard Pro. Boords. Wrapbook. Eight subscriptions. Eight contexts. Eight invoices.
Trelby is free. Krita is free. Storyboarder is free. They're great at what they do — and they don't sync, don't review, don't schedule, don't break down a script. You'll outgrow the free stuff. You'll pay for features you'll never touch in the paid stuff. Or, this.
The stack you're paying for now
1 seat · 1 yrPricing snapshot, May 2026. Each row is the entry-level professional plan from the vendor's own pricing page. USD converted at the Bank of England daily reference, rounded generously. Sources auditable on request.
Math we're happy to show you
One subscription replaces every tool in your stack.
A feature-by-feature grid covering the full StoryboardCanvas suite against every meaningful film-tech competitor. Drop more in via the dropdown - every cell is sourced from the vendor's public docs.
StoryboardCanvas
66 fully shipped, the rest partial / roadmap
Avg competitor
Across 13 visible tools
Rows in this matrix
Across 7 groups
Pricing snapshot from each vendor's official pricing page (Nov 2025 / Feb 2026). Capability claims reflect publicly documented features as of writing. Mark a competitor with a "?" cell when their public docs do not confirm the capability. We refresh the matrix whenever a competitor ships a meaningful update.
Meet Dolly. Omnipresent across every app and every surface — text, data, images — so you don't have to be.
Dolly reads your project once — script, breakdown, schedule, call sheets, storyboards, every connected app — and stays mounted on every page from there. The same project file feeds every prompt, so the answers fit your production, not a generic template.
Ask her to draft a 12-category script breakdown, parse a screenplay into a structured shotlist, generate a style-locked frame on your custom artist, predict overtime risk on tomorrow's call sheet, or transcribe a voice memo into your diary. She has the context for all of it because the project file is one file.
The decisions are yours. The repetitive work — the re-typing, the cross-checking, the "wait, did I update that everywhere?" — is what Dolly's there to take. On every paid plan, in every app.
Reads your whole project
Script, breakdown, schedule, cast, locations — all in sync. Edit one, the rest follow.
Suggests, never overrides
Co-pilot, not autopilot. One click to accept, one to ignore. Always auditable.
Holds your art style
Lock a look once and Dolly keeps it for the whole project — no drift, no hallucinated characters.
One assistant, every app
Same Dolly instance across Script, Shotlist, Editor, AI Artist, Schedule, Call Sheet.
Dolly in every app
Twenty apps. One project. Zero replacements.
Built for filmmakers who want their tools to talk to each other and their AI to work for them, not over them. From £29/month — script to screen, on one bill.
Script to shotlist to storyboard to animatic — ready for PPM or shoot.
No other tool carries your project continuously from first draft all the way to a timed animatic and a PPM-ready deliverable. Type a scene, get a shotlist, generate frames with the Draw suite or the AI Artist, drop them straight into the storyboard editor, time the animatic, and hand off a pre-production meeting pack — or walk straight onto set.
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Script
Full word-processing suite
02
Shotlist
Break it down
03
Generate
Draw or AI Artist
04
Storyboard
Compose the deck
05
Animatic
Time it, play it
06
Ready
For PPM or Shoot
Style-locked AI storyboard frames. In 30–60 seconds. On-model.
The reason StoryboardCanvas exists. Pick our award-winning default style — modelled on storyboard artist Mitchell Hughes — or upload a handful of your own references and let DollyAi™ lock that look for the whole project. No drift, no hallucinated characters, no month-long artist wait.
£25–£60 per frame · 2026 UK rates
~£0.30 per frame · 25 credits
Still want a human on the final pass? Great — hand them the best frames as a base plate. That’s what Dolly is for.
See the image engine →Twenty apps. Three families. One project file.
Each app carries its own colour in the in-app nav so you always know where you are. The project file underneath stays one — change a scene heading and every other app updates with you.
The page a producer keeps open every morning.
Ten apps for breakdown, budget, schedule, cast, crew, locations, props, vehicles, equipment, and the diary that saves your bond company.
Breakdown
AI tags every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds. No more hand-tagging.
The 12-category script breakdown every AD wrestles with — automated by Dolly. Runs the whole screenplay, tags cast, extras, wardrobe, props, vehicles, SFX, VFX, stunts, livestock, special equipment, locations, and set dressing in the correct production colours, then pipes every tagged element into the matching app (Cast, Props, Vehicles, etc.) so you never enter data twice.
Budget
Top sheet to bottom line. Six templates. Variance in real time.
A real production budget with six tabs — Cost Report, Variance, Forecast, Top Sheet, POs and Petty Cash, and Rate Cards — plus templates for six common production shapes (feature, short, TVC, music video, doc, series) and AICP / broadcast-network shells with the line numbering every commercial producer and TV line producer recognises. Two-way Purchase Order sync so paid POs roll up to actuals automatically; the automatic SAG / IATSE / DGA / WGA fringe rate engine recalculates whenever you tweak a deal memo.
Cast
Roster, deal memos, availability, character bibles. The cast book, automated.
A production-grade cast and character database that tracks actors, characters, availability, sides, makeup notes, wardrobe fittings, and continuity references across every scene they touch. DollyAi™ reads your script and pre-populates the roster automatically. Includes the built-in Casting Portal — actors record self-tapes from a one-link page on their phone, your casting director reviews videos with sides side-by-side, approve / reject / pin favourites.
Locations
Scouting, permits, logistics. Every shoot location, mapped and ready.
Scout locations, track permits, attach tech-scout photos, route company moves, and link every location back to the scenes it hosts. Producers live here the week before the shoot. The Permits sub-tab carries colour-coded status chips you cycle with a click (pending → approved → expired → rejected). And the AI Artist app can generate style-locked concept renders of any location — interior, exterior, daylight, night — so your director, DP, and production designer can pre-visualise before you've even scouted.
Props
Inventory plus costume continuity, in one searchable library.
A complete props department in one app. Track what you own, what you need to rent or buy, which scenes need it, who last had it, and how much it cost. DollyAi™ auto-tags props from your script breakdown — and the AI Artist app can design concept renders for any prop so your art department has a reference before you spend a dollar.
Vehicles
Picture cars and unit vehicles. Insurance, plates, drivers, scene refs.
Manage picture vehicles, crew transport, insurance, drivers, and parking. Every vehicle is linked to the scenes that need it and the days it has to be on set.
Calendar
Stripboard scheduling. Eight views. The one tool your AD will not fight you on.
Eight view modes in one app — stripboard, timeline, grid, call sheets, Gantt, crew, equipment, and pre-prod. The real production schedule with DOOD, company moves, meal breaks, and a Dolly-powered day-order optimizer that finds cheaper shoot orders in seconds. The 1st AD Agent — our specialist AI add-on — handles day-order optimisation, conflict detection, weather contingency, and call-time suggestions in a dedicated chat surface; the on-set assistant the AD never had.
Call Sheet
Auto-generated from your schedule. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
Auto-generated daily call sheets pulling from Schedule, Cast, Locations, and Vehicles. Every pickup time, makeup slot, meal break, and weather forecast in one document — emailed or SMS-dispatched to the right crew member on the right day. SMS recipients confirm or decline with a one-tap RSVP from their phone, and the cast roster updates in real time. Each call sheet gets a signed share token so anyone with the link sees the read-only sheet, no account needed.
Shoot
Crew plus equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
The shoot-day command centre. Gear inventory across 13 categories, crew roster across 16 departments, and embedded call-sheet / budget / breakdown modules so whoever is on set can see everything without app-hopping. Every rental, case number, and PO lives here.
Diary
Production diary, DPRs, BTS gallery. The crew log that organises itself.
Your production's live journal. Eleven view modes covering daily progress log, scene completion, BTS uploads, Daily Production Reports, problem log, travel, meals, wrap notes — the paper trail every production needs when something goes sideways. Plus the Live Continuity Tablet (script supervisor + camera assistant + sound mixer share one live record) and the Costume + Makeup Continuity capture (a quick photo at the top of every take auto-tags scene + actor for instant recall next time the scene shoots).
The creative spine — script to animatic, end to end.
Six apps for the writers, directors, DPs, and visual storytellers — with DollyAi riding shotgun the whole way.
Script
The screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
A complete screenplay word-processing suite with menus (File, Edit, View, Help), toolbars, a scene navigator, typed screenplay blocks with Tab cycling, intelligent element assist, dual dialogue, revision mode with industry-colored pages and locked scene numbers, autosave history, named versions, editable drafts, readthrough TTS, comments with @-mentions, live multi-user collaboration, approval workflows, sides generation, episodic workflows, and import/export for FDX, Fountain, Celtx, HTML, RTF, and PDF. Built to replace Final Draft entirely — and to talk directly to every other app in the suite.
Shotlist
AI-built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot mapped.
Shot-by-shot breakdowns with every detail a DP and 1st AC needs: angle, shot size, lens, camera movement, lighting notes, sound notes, setup time, and order. Plus full cinematography parameters per row — aperture, shutter, ISO, ND filter, frame rate, focus mode, stabilisation. The Lens × Sensor × Shot Validator cross-checks your combination against cinematography rules and catches focus + framing issues that only surface on shoot day.
Editor
Storyboard frame editor. Ship boards your director will sign.
A drag-and-drop storyboard grid for arranging frames, scenes, and sequences. Snap guides, layers, templates, comment threads, presenter mode — a Google Slides-level canvas built for filmmakers instead of middle managers. Camera-movement overlays (push, pull, pan, tilt, dolly, crane, handheld, gimbal) draw as arrows on the frame so the operator and director are always reading the same shot. Turn any frame into a short AI animatic clip with one click and drop it onto the schedule against the shoot day it belongs to.
Draw
Procreate-class brushes. GPU canvas. Apple Pencil Pro. In your browser.
The world-beating web-based drawing and painting app with a custom brush builder. 1,000+ stock brushes across ink, pencil, oils, watercolour, charcoal, airbrush, gouache, chalk, markers, and bristle sets. 120+ paper and canvas textures — cold-press cotton, hot-press smooth, rough watercolour, vellum, bristol, kraft, linen, newsprint. Non-destructive layers, 15+ blend modes, full stylus pressure and tilt, Adobe .abr brush import — all at 60fps in your browser. Start with stick figures for quick blocking or paint a finished frame. No plugins, no install, no download.
AI Artist
Style-locked image generation. Your custom artist, every frame.
Frame-aware image generation with a real style-lock. Pick the default AI artist - modelled on award-winning storyboard artist Mitchell Hughes - or upload your own reference bible across up to 4 custom artist slots (3 named styles x 10 images each, 30 images per artist) and DollyAi locks that look per project. Storyboard mode shipping today across 16:9 frames with full project context. Surgical inpainting live now from the Draw suite - text-prompt or freeform mask. Attach any generated frame to a scene with one click and it lands in the storyboard editor with scene linkage preserved. The AI Artist surface ships with Mitchell plus 4 custom slots, sync-status badges, drift indicators, A/B compare, saved Collections, and stale-frame detection that flags any frame whose source scene was deleted or renamed.
Animate
Screenplay to playable animatic in one click.
The unified animatic app. Approved frames plus camera-arrow metadata become a motion-timed animatic with 27 camera presets, 9 transitions, easing curves, onion skinning, auto-tweening, and a proper timeline you can edit like a rough cut. Aspect-ratio templates with safe-zone overlays for 16:9, 21:9 anamorphic, 9:16 social, and 1:1 square. Multiple stacked audio tracks for dialogue, music, SFX, and ambient bed - upload your own scratch tracks today, with AI scratch music + AI Foley shipping next. Export MP4 or MOV with timecode burn-in - or send the whole package to editorial via the Wrap to Editorial handoff (Premiere XMEML, DaVinci EDL, OpenTimelineIO).
The shared layer underneath every app.
Dashboard, files, team chat, cloud library — the connective tissue every other app rides on.
Dashboard
The launchpad. Every project at a glance.
Your production cockpit. Every project, every status, every blocker, every approval queue. The landing pad every morning. Role-aware: producers see schedule risk, directors see creative debt, ADs see the day ahead. Dolly drops a daily brief at the top — what needs you, right now.
Files
Every asset, every version, every project. Searchable, shareable, never lost.
The archive your editor will thank you for. Every script revision, storyboard frame, shot list CSV, call sheet PDF, BTS photo and reference image lives here with full version history. Roll back any asset to any save point without losing a minute of downstream work.
Team Chat
Channels for every shoot. No more lost messages.
Real-time channels, project-scoped, with frame-anchored comments and threaded replies. No more lost Slack threads. No more group texts that fall apart at wrap. Every conversation pinned to the line, the shot, or the day it was about.
Cloud Library
Cloud-synced across every device. Reusable across every project.
Your production's cloud file system. Every script, storyboard, shot list, call sheet, character, location, prop and reference image syncs across every device on your team in real time. Reusable across projects so the second production starts halfway finished.
The tool you pay for next month will be measurably better than the tool you pay for this month.
Bi-weekly cadence. Public roadmap. Honest changelog. Every quality-of-life upgrade ships to every plan, retroactively. Here's the actual board.
Don't take our word for it. Read every release we've shipped — or tell us what should jump the queue.
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