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StoryboardCanvas — the script-to-screen suite for filmmakers
This website is a work in progress. Prices may be subject to change in the primary concern of fair credit usage vs cost for our users — every feature and claim about the software and apps is already a reality; we'll keep refining as the suite develops. See the changelog for updates. Waitlist will continue to be free.

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.

Twenty apps on every tierFull commercial rights, you own everythingWe never train on your work
NEWPrivate Beta — Spring / Summer 2026 · early access open now

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.

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.

BT-001AAnonymous Beta Tester

Honestly? We came in expecting another gimmicky AI app. Stayed because the producer workflow stuff was actually solid.

BT-002BAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-003CAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-004DAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-005EAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-006FAnonymous Beta Tester

Most production software feels like it was designed by accountants. This actually feels made by filmmakers.

BT-007GAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-008HAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-009IAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-010JAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-011KAnonymous Beta Tester

I've never seen software update this aggressively before. Sometimes you'd log in after a weekend and entire sections had changed.

BT-012LAnonymous Beta Tester

The AI image generation is good, but the actual production pipeline around it is the real value. That's the bit competitors are missing.

BT-013MAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-014NAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-015OAnonymous Beta Tester

Storyboard Canvas feels like someone finally realised filmmaking software shouldn't all exist in separate islands.

BT-016PAnonymous Beta Tester

As a designer, I appreciated that the platform still leaves room for human taste and decision making. It speeds up process without flattening creativity.

BT-017QAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-018RAnonymous Beta Tester

Normally by the third revision cycle everybody starts losing track of what version they're even looking at. That basically disappeared during testing.

BT-019SAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-020TAnonymous Beta Tester

The platform still feels ambitious and slightly insane… but in a good way.

BT-021UAnonymous Beta Tester

As someone who manages multiple departments, the biggest improvement was communication. Everyone was looking at the same ecosystem instead of 15 disconnected files.

BT-022VAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-023WAnonymous Beta Tester

It feels less like software and more like a production workspace.

BT-024XAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-025YAnonymous Beta Tester

Half the tools in film production feel like they hate creatives. This didn't.

BT-026ZAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-027AAAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-028BBAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-029CCAnonymous Beta Tester

The software occasionally overreaches, but I'd rather have a platform aiming too high than another boring stripped-back SaaS tool.

BT-030DDAnonymous Beta Tester

The animatic timeline tools are going to be huge once they mature properly. You can already see where it's heading.

BT-031EEAnonymous Beta Tester

As a writer/director, the coolest part was seeing rough scene ideas immediately become visual sequences. It changes the energy of brainstorming completely.

BT-032FFAnonymous Beta Tester

Clients understood ideas faster. That alone made it worth using.

BT-033GGAnonymous Beta Tester

It's the first AI production tool we've used where the human creative process still feels respected.

BT-034HHAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-035IIAnonymous Beta Tester

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.

BT-036JJAnonymous Beta Tester

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 yr
Final Draft 13Screenplay editor (subscription)£66
StudioBinder IndieBreakdown, schedule, call sheets£800
Movie Magic SchedulingStripboard scheduling£235
Movie Magic Scheduling ProPro upgrade£150
Movie Magic BudgetingProduction budgeting£235
Frame.io Pro Team (4 seats)Review and dailies£700
Adobe CC All Apps TeamPremiere, Photoshop, the art department£620
Adobe CC additional seatSecond editor seat£620
Toon Boom Storyboard ProAnimation storyboarding£200
Boords StudioStoryboard collaboration£415
Wrapbook payroll fees (avg)Production payroll£500
Total per filmmaker, per year£4,541

Pricing 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.

StoryboardCanvas · Solo annual

One tool replaces all eleven.

£288/year

Solo plan, billed annually at £24/mo. Twenty apps. Style-locked AI image engine. DollyAi co-pilot in every app. Real screenplay editor with revision mode. Stripboard. Auto call sheets. One project file. One bill.

Saved per filmmaker, per year

£4,253 · back into the budget

Studio annual at £189/mo gives the whole team six seats and saves £2,273/yr. Agency at £416/mo lands at parity with the legacy stack while replacing eleven separate subscriptions. The cheap option costs you time. The expensive option costs you twice. We built the third one.

See every tier →

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

68of 74

66 fully shipped, the rest partial / roadmap

Avg competitor

10of 74

Across 13 visible tools

Rows in this matrix

74capabilities

Across 7 groups

Y shipped~ partial- noneR roadmap? unverified
Capability
StoryboardCanvas
Full suite · £29/mo Solo
Final Draft 13
Screenwriting
$249 perpetual
WriterDuet
Screenwriting
$11.99/mo
Celtx
Screenwriting
$14.99/mo
StudioBinder
Production
$42-$340/mo
Movie Magic Sched.
Scheduling
$279.88/yr
Gorilla Combo
Schedule + Budget
$429/yr
Boords
Storyboarding
$44/mo
Storyboard Pro
Storyboarding
$30/mo
Midjourney
AI Image
$10-$120/mo
Runway Gen-3
AI Video
$15-$95/mo
LTX Studio
AI Video Suite
$15-$125/mo
Filmustage
AI Breakdown
$49-$99/mo
Frame.io
Review
$15-$25/user/mo
WritingScreenplay editor, formats, AI script tools.
Full screenplay editor (typed blocks, Tab cycling)
Y
Y
Y
Y
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Revision mode with industry-coloured pages
Y
Y
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Dual dialogue + scene locking + alphanumeric inserts
Y
Y
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Import FDX / Fountain / Celtx / PDF / DOCX
Y
Y
Y
Y
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Real-time multi-user co-writing
Y
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Y
Y
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Auto-save history + named/favourited versions
Y
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Y
Y
Y
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AI continuity check (named character + plot drift)
Y
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AI coverage report on draft
Y
-
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Sides packet for cast / department reads
Y
Y
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Y
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Scene-anchored comments + @mentions
Y
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Y
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Pre-productionBreakdown, shotlist, storyboard, animatic, AI Artist.
AI script breakdown (auto-tag scenes)
Y
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Y
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Manual breakdown tagging in script
Y
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Y
Y
Y
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Y
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Shotlist with lens, movement, frame rate
Y
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Y
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AI shot suggestions from scene text
Y
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Bulk script-to-shotlist parse (NDJSON stream)
Y
-
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Lens x sensor x shot validator
Y
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Storyboard editor with scene_id continuity
Y
-
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~
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Y
Y
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GPU-accelerated drawing engine in browser
Y
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Y
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1000+ brushes + 120+ paper textures
Y
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AI Artist image generation in storyboard
Y
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Y
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Custom artist style-lock from reference bible
Y
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Character continuity engine (same face every frame)
Y
-
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Inpainting on generated frames
Y
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8 generation modes (storyboard / poster / EPK / lower-third / title card / etc.)
Y
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Animatic with 27 camera presets + 9 transitions
Y
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Y
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Y
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9:16 / 1:1 / 21:9 aspect templates for socials
Y
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Y
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Onion-skin + auto-tween for animatic
Onion-skin shipped; auto-tween roadmap.
~
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Y
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Production planningCast, crew, locations, props, vehicles, schedule, call sheet, budget.
Cast database + deal memos + availability
Y
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Y
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Crew roster (16 departments)
Y
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Y
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Equipment manifest (13 categories)
Y
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Y
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Locations + permits + travel matrix
Y
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Y
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Props inventory + costume continuity
Y
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Vehicles + insurance + plate tracking
Y
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Stripboard + DOOD scheduling
Y
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Y
Y
Y
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AI day-order optimizer
Y
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Auto-generated call sheets
Y
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Y
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Call sheet email + SMS dispatch
Y
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Auto-weather widget on call sheets
Y
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Y
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Budget module (6 templates: feature/TV/short/doc/commercial/music video)
Y
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Y
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Variance / forecast / top-sheet / POs / petty cash
Y
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Y
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Two-way Budget <-> POs sync
Y
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Daily diary + DPR (digital production report)
Y
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BTS photo capture into the project file
Y
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AI + automationDolly, image gen, voice, translation, music.
DollyAi cross-app context-aware assistant
16-table parallel context fetch on every prompt.
Y
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Per-row Ask Dolly menus on tables
Y
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Voice-to-script transcription
Y
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Screenplay-aware translation
Y
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Character TTS / read-through (AI voices)
Y
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AI music score generator (commercially cleared)
Tracked in roadmap.
R
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AI Foley / ambient bed per frame
R
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Animate-from-script pipeline
Y
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Y
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Cross-app autoseed (Breakdown -> Cast / Props / Vehicles)
Y
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Stable scene IDs flow Script -> Shotlist -> Editor -> Artist
Y
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Post + handoffReview, comments, OTIO/EDL exports, wrap package.
Time-coded comments on storyboards / animatic
Y
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Y
Anonymous external reviewer share tokens
Y
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Y
Premiere / Resolve / Final Cut OTIO export
Y
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Y
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EDL export
Y
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Y
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Wrap package (single ZIP: scripts + CSVs + diary + call sheets)
Y
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Frame.io two-way bridge
Roadmap; current bridge is one-way export.
R
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Y
Collaboration + accessReal-time, mobile, accessibility, integrations.
Real-time presence + cursor in every app
Y
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Y
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Project-level review tokens (no reviewer signup)
Y
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Y
Mobile responsive (call sheet + diary on phone)
Y
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Y
Y
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PWA install + offline read-only
Y
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PWA offline mutation queue + replay
Phase 2 PWA.
R
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Dark mode (where shipped)
Canvas Draw + partial script writer.
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Y
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Y
Y
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Y
WCAG AA contrast + keyboard focus rings
Y
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Y
Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts
Y
Y
Y
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Y
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Y
GDPR account deletion (with cloud asset scrub)
Y
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Open project format / public REST API + webhooks
Webhook + REST roadmap.
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Y
Pricing + plansTier shape, free tier, gating, stack value.
Entry price under £25 / month
Y
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Y
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Y
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Y
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Y
Annual billing discount available
Y
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Y
Y
Y
Y
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Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Free tier
Closed beta; no free tier (see /pricing FAQ).
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Y
Y
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Y
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Y
Y
Y
No feature gating between paid tiers
Y
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Replaces full pre-production stack on one bill
Y
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Score (Yes = 1, Partial = 0.5)
68
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16
24
6
4
8
10
6
5
9
6
13

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

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.

Meet Dolly →

Dolly in every app

ScriptScene-heading assist, beat analysis, revision summaries
ShotlistSuggests coverage based on script beats
EditorSequence pacing analysis and missing-shot detection
DrawReference sketches + composition and blocking help
AI ArtistFrame-aware generation with locked style + character
AnimateTiming suggestions from script cadence + scene length
BreakdownAuto-tags props, wardrobe, VFX, stunts, SFX, vehicles
BudgetVariance watch + line-by-line cost-saving suggestions
CalendarDay-order optimizer — finds cheaper shoot orders, flags conflicts
Call SheetAuto-fills pickups, meal breaks, weather, nearest hospital
CastCharacter continuity graph + casting coverage suggestions
LocationScene-to-location matching, scout tips, permit reminders
PropsExtracts every hero + background prop straight from the script
VehiclesPicture-car cues from script mentions + transport logistics
ShootGear recommendations per shoot day + crew-dept reminders
DiaryDaily shoot summary + BTS media organiser + DPR drafts

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.

THE FULL PIPELINE

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.

01

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

Script → Shotlist (one click)

Write inside a full screenplay word-processing suite — typed blocks, dual dialogue, scene navigator, revision mode, comments, approvals. Import Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, PDF, Word (.docx/.doc), RTF, Markdown, HTML, or plain text — each format runs through a parser that respects scene headings, character cues, dialogue, transitions and parentheticals. Full-screenplay bulk-parse streams through DollyAi™ and delivers a structured shotlist per scene.

Shotlist → Generated frames

Every shot auto-wires to the generator of your choice: our world-beating Draw suite for hand-illustrated frames, or the style-locked AI Artist for instant on-model coverage.

Frames → Storyboard Editor

Generated or hand-drawn frames flow straight into the Storyboard Editor with scene linkage preserved. Re-order, pair, duplicate, re-generate in place, add camera arrows, add notes.

Storyboard → Animatic → Ready

Send the whole deck to Animate for a timed animatic with camera moves, transitions, and audio — then hand off as a PPM pack or walk straight onto set. Same project file, no re-import.

See the full step-by-step walkthrough →

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STYLE-LOCKED AI IMAGES

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.

Traditional artist

£25–£60 per frame · 2026 UK rates

Turnaround5–14 days per batch
RevisionsExtra rate, another day per pass
AvailabilityBooked 2–6 weeks ahead
Style driftDepends on the day they had
DeliveryPDF at the end, no live updates
200-frame deck≈ £5,000–£12,000 · 2 weeks
StoryboardCanvas · AI Artist

~£0.30 per frame · 25 credits

Turnaround30–60 seconds per frame
RevisionsUnlimited, instant, included
AvailabilityRight now. All weekend. At 2am.
Style driftLocked style bible, on-model every time
DeliveryLive, shareable, exportable — instantly
200-frame deckIncluded on Studio · ~2–3 hours

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 →
THE PROMISE

The price you join at — your project keeps for life.

Founder-owned. Filmmaker-led. Never up for sale.

Every tool in your stack has been bought, hiked, or paywalled. We built StoryboardCanvas because we couldn't watch another director get rugged. Profit-funded, not VC-funded — so the price you sign up at is the price your project keeps. Every quality-of-life upgrade ships to every tier, retroactively. The features in your plan today are the features in your plan tomorrow.

Price-locked for the lifetime of your project
All 20 apps on every paid plan, forever
Quality-of-life upgrades ship to every tier — never gated
No watermarks. No mid-project paywalls. No rug-pulls.
Founder-owned, profit-funded — never up for sale
Full commercial rights — your work is your work
EVERY APP, A LITTLE CLOSER

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.

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PRODUCER APPS

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.

Replaces: Movie Magic Scheduling breakdown + two days of AD labourOpen the Breakdown app →

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.

Replaces: Movie Magic Budgeting ($499) + a dozen fragile spreadsheetsOpen the Budget app →

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.

Replaces: Breakdown Services + Casting Networks spreadsheetsOpen the Cast app →

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.

Replaces: StudioBinder Locations + Google Maps + a dozen spreadsheetsOpen the Locations app →

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.

Replaces: StudioBinder + Movie Magic Budgeting props modulesOpen the Props app →

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.

Replaces: Assistant Director clipboards + rental paperworkOpen the Vehicles app →

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.

Replaces: Movie Magic Scheduling ($499 one-time) + Gorilla SchedulingOpen the Calendar app →

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.

Replaces: StudioBinder Call Sheets + Sync On SetOpen the Call Sheet app →

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.

Replaces: StudioBinder + Cash Memo + department spreadsheetsOpen the Shoot app →

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).

Replaces: DPR apps + a shared Google Doc that always rotsOpen the Diary app →
DIRECTOR APPS

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.

Replaces: Final Draft ($249) + WriterDuet subscriptionOpen the Script app →

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.

Replaces: Shot Lister + ShotDeck + StudioBinder Shot ListsOpen the Shotlist app →

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.

Replaces: Boords + Canva pitch-deck subscriptionsOpen the Editor app →

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.

Replaces: Procreate ($13) + third-party desktop paint apps for storyboard workOpen the Draw app →

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.

Replaces: a dozen browser tabs and half a dozen paid AI subscriptionsOpen the AI Artist app →

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).

Replaces: Storyboard Pro animatic mode + Premiere rough cutOpen the Animate app →
PLATFORM

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.

Replaces: Notion dashboards + Asana + MondayOpen the Dashboard app →

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.

Replaces: Dropbox + Google Drive + Frame.ioOpen the Files app →

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.

Replaces: Slack + Frame.io comments + group textsOpen the Team Chat app →

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.

Replaces: Scattered folders on 4 different drivesOpen the Cloud Library app →

Private Beta · Spring / Summer 2026

Lock the preorder rate — the price you join at, your project keeps for life.

No payment today. Annual saves 20%. Spots admitted in waves through Spring/Summer 2026.

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THE DEVELOPER PROMISE

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.

JUST SHIPPED

Last fortnight, in production.

Six releases on main. Every entry is a real commit, dated, deployed.

  • v3.0.6 · MAY 20
    Public Launch Audit — Producer app.
    Welcome screen retired, cross-project cache pollution closed, EPK + portfolio framed back inside the app, Dolly pill repainted Producer pink end-to-end.
  • v3.0.5 · MAY 19
    Public Launch Audit — AI Artist.
    Mitchell ships locked in three canon styles. Custom artists carry up to four styles × ten refs. Per-frame style-fidelity scoring. Every dropdown reads the live production database.
  • v3.0.4 · MAY 19
    Public Launch Audit — Draw app.
    Every brush paints distinctly. Textured eraser inverts the same pipeline. Low-flow brushes finally build up. ABR imports keep dual-tip + texture + jitter intact.
  • v3.0.3 · MAY 18
    Public Launch Audit — Storyboard Editor.
    Generated images survive every reload. Frame ↔ shotlist round-trip in one click. HTML export carries full metadata + director comments. Scene heading reads like a printed call sheet.
  • v3.0.2 · MAY 18
    Public Launch Audit — Shotlist app.
    Every cell aligns. Status pill cycles Not-Shot → Shot → NG → Hold. On-set shoot mode brought into canon. Bulk-export to Storyboard hardened against double-click.
  • v3.0.0–3.0.1 · MAY 14
    Public Launch Audit — Script + Editor + MEGA-1 DollyAi.
    Screenwriter's room polished for opening. Context engine across 51 surfaces. Live Context panel. Inpaint canon overpaint popup. Image graph reads 8 tables in parallel.
Every other Friday, like clockwork.
SHIPPING NEXT

What's on the bench right now.

The next two fortnights, scoped, dated, public. No NDA pitches.

  • FORTNIGHT · MAY 27
    Public Launch Audit — Diary + Calendar.
    The shoot-day surfaces. Stripboard, gantt, sidebar filter, BTS uploads, DPR auto-assembly — checked end to end ahead of opening day.
  • FORTNIGHT · MAY 27
    Public Launch Audit — Budget + Breakdown.
    The money pipeline. Six budget tabs, twelve breakdown categories, smart cross-link suggestions, EFC variance + overage flagging — same audit discipline.
  • FORTNIGHT · JUN 3
    Public Launch Audit — Cast.
    Profiles, availability, deal memos, contacts, character refs, AI references, costume continuity. The casting director's home, swept once before launch.
  • FORTNIGHT · JUN 3
    Public Launch Audit — Locations + Props + Vehicles.
    Every scene's physical inventory. Permits, photos, hire status, insurance, scene refs, alerts — the on-set logistics surfaces, ready for opening day.
  • FORTNIGHT · JUN 10
    Public Launch Audit — Call Sheet + Shoot.
    The 1st AD's morning surface. Weather, email dispatch, PDF export, gear inventory across thirteen categories, crew across sixteen departments — one audit pass.
  • FORTNIGHT · JUN 10
    Final countdown polish.
    Mobile every-route sweep. Empty-state copy on every surface. Tooltip on every icon button. Last-mile accessibility ring. Then we open the gates.
Two cadences out, then it's the next bench.
ON THE ROADMAP

Filmmakers asked. We listened.

Community-prioritized. Vote in the changelog comments — top askers ship first.

  • VOTE · OPEN
    Animatic → Premiere XML/EDL export.
    Editorial gets a clean handoff. No more screen-recording the timeline. Top community ask of the month.
  • VOTE · OPEN
    Crew/cast SMS reminders via Twilio.
    Call-time changes go to the phone. No more 'I didn't see the email.' Wired but not yet flagged on.
  • VOTE · OPEN
    Mobile call-sheet view-only public links.
    Public token, no login. Background actors get the right call without seeing the budget.
  • Q3 2026
    PWA offline-first mutation queue.
    Service worker + manifest already shipped. Mutation queue + replay-on-reconnect is the missing piece for on-set use without bars.
  • Q3 2026
    Custom-artist style preview thumbnails.
    Render a 256px preview from each user's bible so the roster pill shows their actual style, not a colour swatch.
  • Q3 2026
    RLS on accounts + billing + credits.
    Service-role boundary is fine for v1. RLS unlocks user-side JWT features — offline editing, mobile native, multi-tenant sharing.
You decide what jumps the queue.

Don't take our word for it. Read every release we've shipped — or tell us what should jump the queue.

THE FINISHING MOVE

One click. Full end credits.

We already know every cast, crew, department, and contributor on your production — we had to, to run your call sheets. So we built a button. Click it and you get a complete production credits roll, alphabetised by department, properly formatted for film and TV conventions, ready to drop into your edit.

Pulls from Cast, Crew, DepartmentsAlphabetised · properly formattedExport PDF, PNG, or drop-in edit strip
Generate your end credits →

Available on every paid tier · no extra cost

FAQ

Questions filmmakers ask

StoryboardCanvas is a complete script-to-screen SaaS suite — 20 production apps covering the entire pipeline from first draft to wrap, plus our two core pieces of IP: the style-locked AI image engine and DollyAi, our cross-module AI director. Closed beta rolls out Spring / Summer 2026 by invitation only. Join the waitlist to lock in roughly 20% off via annual billing — no payment until launch day.

Six director apps (Script, Shotlist, Editor, Draw, AI Artist, Animate). Ten producer apps unified under one production stack (Breakdown, Cast, Locations, Props, Vehicles, Calendar, Call Sheet, Shoot, Diary, Budget). Four platform apps that tie them together (Dashboard, Files, Team Chat, Cloud Library). Twenty in total. They share one project file — change a scene heading once, and the breakdown, schedule, call sheet, and storyboard all update themselves.

It's a full screenplay word-processing suite — not a glorified textarea. Typed screenplay blocks with Tab cycling, intelligent element assist, scene navigator, dual dialogue, revision mode with industry-coloured pages and locked scene numbers, autosave history with named versions and editable drafts, comments with @-mentions, real-time multi-user collaboration, approval workflows, sides generation, episodic support, readthrough TTS, File/Edit/View/Help menus, and import/export for FDX, Fountain, Celtx, HTML, RTF, and PDF. Built to replace Final Draft entirely.

Those are single-purpose tools. StoryboardCanvas covers 22 out of 22 capabilities on our comparison matrix — Final Draft covers 3, Celtx 9, StudioBinder 14, Movie Magic 4, Gorilla 4, Boords 4, Storyboarder 3, LTX Studio 6, Midjourney 4. Change a scene heading once, and every dependent document updates. No copy-paste between five different logins.

DollyAi™ is not a chatbot. She's the AI director layered into every app in the suite - 100+ typed, prompt-engineered actions across every route, with selection awareness (knows which scene / shot / character / prop you've clicked) and image awareness (can see your storyboard frames, character photos, location scouts, props, vehicles, costumes, behind-the-scenes media, and recent AI generations). Per-row Ask Dolly menus on the major tables. Every action starts with a parallel 16-table project-context fetch so she answers with full awareness of your script, breakdown, cast, schedule, and visual style bible - not generic chat. Streaming responses. Credit-gated. Included on every tier.

A world-beating web-based GPU-accelerated drawing engine 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, hot-press, rough, smooth. 15+ blend modes, non-destructive layers with groups / masks / alpha locks, adjustment layers, full stylus pressure + tilt, five smoothing modes, Adobe ABR brush-file import, 60fps rendering — all in your browser with no plugins, no install, no download. Start with stick figures for quick blocking or paint a finished frame.

Credits are the fuel for AI actions — every DollyAi™ chat, script action, breakdown, shotlist parse, and style-locked frame generation consumes credits. Simple actions cost 1–3 credits, image generations and long-context actions 10–25. Credits refresh monthly on your billing date. Solo and Team credits are use-it-or-lose-it, Studio gets 25% rollover, Agency and Network get 50% rollover, Broadcaster gets 100% rollover. Upgrading to a higher tier carries unused credits across automatically.

Six: Solo (£29/mo), Team (£89/mo), Studio (£229/mo · most popular), Agency (£499/mo), Network (£1,199/mo), and Broadcaster (custom enterprise). Annual billing locks in roughly 20% off (about 2 months free) on any of the five paid tiers. Every app, every feature, every export format is available on every tier — no feature gating, ever. Tiers differ only on seat count, monthly credits, queue priority, storage, and rollover policy. Solo gets the same revision-mode Script app and the same DollyAi as Broadcaster.

Annual billing locks in roughly 20% off any tier — equivalent to 2 months free over the year. Solo £24/mo billed annually (£288/yr) versus £29/mo monthly. Team £74/mo (£888/yr) versus £89/mo. Studio £189/mo (£2,268/yr) versus £229/mo. Agency £416/mo (£4,992/yr) versus £499/mo. Network £999/mo (£11,988/yr) versus £1,199/mo. Cancel any time from the billing portal and keep access through the end of your paid period.

Yes. Script imports FDX (Final Draft), Fountain, Celtx, PDF, DOCX, RTF, and HTML — full screenplay fidelity. Breakdown imports StudioBinder CSVs. Schedule and stripboard import from Movie Magic Scheduling and Gorilla Scheduler CSV exports — vendor auto-detected, scene #, I/E, day/night, location, cast, page count, and duration all mapped automatically. Cast sheets from CSV/XLSX. Images from any common format. You can start mid-production without losing a single scene, strip, or deal memo.

Yes. Fully responsive web app — works on iPad, iPhone, and any modern browser. The shoot-day experience is mobile-first — call sheets, scene tick-off, BTS photo capture, diary entries. Canvas Draw runs with full stylus pressure + tilt on iPad and any Chromebook or Windows tablet. No native install required.

Real-time presence with live cursors and selection highlights across every app. Per-frame, per-line, and per-row comments with resolve/reopen threads, @-mentions, and email notifications. Review sessions with share tokens for external reviewers — they can approve, reject, or comment without creating an account. Role-based permissions (Owner, Editor, Commenter, Viewer). Team chat with channels and reactions. Full audit log.

You retain full commercial rights to everything you create on every paid tier. We never train on your projects. Your style bibles, scripts, cast data, and generated frames are yours. We use append-only audit logs for credits and immutable version snapshots for documents so nothing is ever silently deleted or altered.

Three-day grace period with full access, then read-only mode (you can still view and export everything), then after 14 days the account suspends. No data is ever deleted — reactivate any time and everything is exactly where you left it.

No — and we're unapologetic about it. Free-tier theatre costs us real money running your AI calls, and it costs you real time evaluating a deliberately crippled version of a tool you'd actually use. The apps aren't speculative: StoryboardCanvas replaces Final Draft, StudioBinder, Movie Magic Scheduling, Gorilla Budget, Filmustage, and Boords in one suite. It pays for itself on your first short, let alone your first feature. Solo is £29/mo (or £24/mo billed annually) — full capability from day one. Cancel any time from the billing portal and keep access through the end of your paid period. No retention traps, no guilt prompts.