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Browse Origin: Ascension across the entire app suite — script to storyboards to call sheets — exactly as a crew left it.
Every app, every tier
Every plan from Hobbyist to Enterprise ships the full suite. Tiers differ on seats, monthly credits, cloud storage, white labelling and queue priority — never on capability.
The morning briefing your bond company will read first.
Twelve industry-canonical categories, tagged in seconds.
Top sheet to bottom line. Variance the night before.
Stripboard scheduling your 1st AD will not fight you on.
DPRs, BTS gallery, the on-set log that organises itself.
Auto-built. Email + SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
Roster, deal memos, character bibles. Cross-app synced.
Scouting, permits, logistics. Every scout, mapped.
Inventory + costume continuity in one searchable library.
Picture cars and unit. Insurance, plates, drivers.
Crew + equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
The screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
Built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot.
Storyboard frame editor. Boards your director will sign.
Professional brushes. GPU canvas. In your browser.
Style-locked image generation. Your own custom artist.
Screenplay to playable animatic in one click.
The launchpad. Every project at a glance.
Every asset, every version, every project. Searchable.
Real-time channels, project-scoped. No more lost threads.
One login to sync the industry
One production tool that replaces a £4,500+/year stack of single-purpose software for as little as £19/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.
No sign-up needed — step inside a real production (Origin: Ascension) inside the actual app suite. Fully read-only; nothing you touch is saved.
The whole production — script to wrap — captured from a real feature inside the actual suite.
Onboard twenty staff without losing track of who sees the budget, who signs the call sheet, who watches the storyboard land. Owners keep the keys. Everyone else gets exactly the apps they need — nothing more.
A seat is a person who can edit. A viewer is someone you brought in to read along — a financier reviewing dailies, a guest editor approving cuts, an executive watching the storyboard land. Both count, neither cross-contaminate.
The organisation owner sets a permission matrix per seat. A storyboard artist sees the storyboard apps and nothing else. A 1st AD sees the schedule, call sheet and diary. Your producer sees everything. Your accountant sees just the budget and purchase orders.
Two writers in the script at the same time see each other's cursors. The 1st AD drags a strip on the calendar and every other tab refreshes within a quarter-second. The script supervisor logs scenes wrapped and the producer's hot-cost updates the same moment.
Every save, every share, every permission change writes to one admin-visible feed. When the bond company asks 'who changed the budget last Tuesday?' you have a one-screen answer.
Every cast deal-memo edit, every schedule lock, every call-sheet dispatch, every wrap report — all surface in the producer audit trail with timestamp + actor.
Owners can request a structured dump of the organisation's data at any time. Self-serve, no support ticket required. The receipt arrives the same day.
Closing a production? Owners can request full account deletion with one form. The roll-off respects your invoice history retention obligations.
Bring your whole production company on for a single subscription. Pick the plan whose seat count matches your roster — every other staff member can read along as a viewer at no extra cost.
From our beta · what the testers said
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.”
“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.”
Stripboard, day-out-of-days, gantt and per-day call sheets — built from the breakdown, not typed up twice. Drag a strip and the call sheet, budget and diary keep up.
See the Calendar →The math, in plain pounds
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.
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
Solo plan, billed annually at £31/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 £215/mo gives the whole team six seats and saves £2,820/yr. Agency at £479/mo lands at parity with the legacy stack while replacing eleven separate subscriptions. One project file. One invoice. One login. The maths only goes one way.
Compare plans →Credits · the price list
Every AI action shows its price before you click and charges only on success — quick chat micro-bills from a quarter of a credit.
Shot list to storyboard to animatic, in one file. Frame the screenplay, draw over it with 450+ pro brushes, then play it back as a timed previs — no exporting between four apps.
See the Storyboard editor →Dolly reads your project once — script, breakdown, schedule, call sheets, storyboards, every connected app — and stays mounted on every page from there. And she remembers: locked creative decisions, your standing taste, the bible of your film, carried between sessions.
Ask her anything and she answers from your live production data, not a guess — then offers to act on it. Agent mode proposes the addition; nothing is written until you approve it. Flip on double-check and she scores her own answer against the project's real facts before you ever see it. And when a question belongs to a specialist, she brings in the family — Marlowe on script, Sable on the money, Cass on the day, Indra on casting, Vee on continuity.
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.
Script, breakdown, schedule, cast, locations — all in sync. Edit one, the rest follow.
Locked decisions, your standing taste, the creative bible — carried between sessions, for the whole production.
Agent mode answers from live project data and proposes additions. Nothing is written until you approve each one.
Flip on double-check and every substantial answer is scored against your project's real facts — and revised — before you see it.
Marlowe (script), Sable (line producer), Cass (1st AD), Indra (casting), Vee (continuity) — specialists one click away.
Director's notes on your storyboard frames, plus a risk-ordered production briefing whenever you ask.
AGENT MODE — ask → she proposes with a field-by-field preview → you approve in one click → undo in one click. Plus the proactive modes: hourly production watch, a morning briefing, and a weekly director's review of your boards.
Meet Dolly →Math we're happy to show you
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
159 fully shipped, the rest partial / roadmap
Avg competitor
Across 13 visible tools
Rows in this matrix
Across 7 groups
Pricing and capability snapshots are taken from each vendor's official pricing page and public product documentation as of May 2026. Marks read as: Y shipped and publicly documented, ~ partial or limited,N not documented as available, R on the public roadmap, ? unable to confirm from public sources. We refresh the matrix whenever a competitor ships a meaningful update.
Spotted something out of date? Tell us at legal@storyboardcanvas.ai and we will review and update or remove the row within five working days.
Built for filmmakers who want their tools to talk to each other and their AI to work for them, not over them. From £19/month — script to screen, on one bill.
Live scorecard, day-out-of-days, hot-cost and budget rollup — every app feeds it, so the numbers are real, not a spreadsheet someone forgot to update.
See the Producer hub →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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Full word-processing suite
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Break it down
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Draw or AI Artist
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Compose the deck
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Time it, play it
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For PPM or Shoot
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 →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.
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.
Ten apps for breakdown, budget, schedule, cast, crew, locations, props, vehicles, equipment, and the diary that saves your bond company.
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.
The production cockpit. EFC + variance + hot-cost + bond reports + EPK — every morning, by 6am.
The producer’s home. A scorecard with eight KPI tiles — schedule variance, budget variance, cast confirms, crew confirms, safety incidents, EFC delta, days remaining, days behind / ahead — auto-rolled from every other app in the suite. Yesterday’s hot cost. Today’s overtime risk band. This week’s Weekly Cost Report ready to dispatch. The bond company’s five-document Monday package, pre-assembled. A multi-project portfolio dashboard for EPs and show-runners watching a slate. The morning briefing your bond company will read first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Six apps for the writers, directors, DPs, and visual storytellers — with DollyAI™ riding shotgun the whole way.
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.
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.
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.
Pro-grade brush engine. GPU canvas. Apple Pencil Pro. In your browser.
The world-beating web-based drawing and painting app with a custom brush builder. 450+ 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.
Style-locked image generation. Your custom artist, every frame.
Frame-aware image generation with a real style-lock. Pick the default Mitchell signature artist style - our in-house style profile baked from 30 canonical reference frames - 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.
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. 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).
Dashboard, files, team chat, cloud library — the connective tissue every other app rides on.
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.
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.
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-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.
Public release · June 2026 · waitlist free
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.
Bi-weekly cadence. Public roadmap. Honest changelog. Every quality-of-life upgrade ships to every plan, retroactively. Here's the actual board.
Alpha just landed, on top of a fortnight of releases. Every entry is a real commit, dated, deployed.
The next two fortnights, scoped, dated, public. No NDA pitches.
Alpha is live — and this is everything still to come during it. The vote buttons are real: tap one and the count climbs for everyone. Top askers ship first.
Don't take our word for it. Read every release we've shipped — or tell us what should jump the queue.
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.
Available on every paid tier · no extra cost
FAQ
StoryboardCanvas is the complete script → shoot day software suite — 20 production apps covering the entire pipeline from first draft to wrap, powered by our proprietary IP: DollyAI™ (cross-module AI director), the Style-Lock Engine, the AI Image Engine (eight generation modes), Canvas Draw (GPU brush engine), Frame Brain (animate-aware AI), the Cross-App Spine, the Brand Kit Engine, and the IATSE Turnaround Engine. 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. 450+ 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.
Eight: Hobbyist (£19/mo · gateway), Solo (£39/mo), Team (£99/mo), Studio (£269/mo · most popular), Agency (£599/mo), Network (£1,599/mo), Enterprise (£3,329/mo · self-serve enterprise), and Broadcaster (custom). Annual billing locks in 20% off any of the seven 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. Hobbyist gets the same revision-mode Script app and the same DollyAI™ as Broadcaster.
Annual billing locks in 20% off any paid tier — equivalent to 2.4 months free over the year. Hobbyist £15/mo billed annually (£180/yr) versus £19/mo monthly. Solo £31/mo (£372/yr) versus £39/mo. Team £79/mo (£948/yr) versus £99/mo. Studio £215/mo (£2,580/yr) versus £269/mo. Agency £479/mo (£5,748/yr) versus £599/mo. Network £1,279/mo (£15,348/yr) versus £1,599/mo. Enterprise £2,663/mo (£31,956/yr) versus £3,329/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. Hobbyist starts at £19/mo (or £15/mo billed annually) — full capability from day one. Solo at £39/mo (£31 annual) is the recommended starting tier with team-collaboration upgrades. Cancel any time from the billing portal and keep access through the end of your paid period. No retention traps, no guilt prompts.