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StoryboardCanvas all-in-one film production software - a global film crew of writers, producers, directors and designers collaborating from script to screen.
WELCOME TO STORYBOARD CANVAS

AI storyboards - and an app for every person in the script-to-screen process.

Video production still runs on a 2022 workflow - a broken, disconnected chain of documents and files that need a 30-minute conversation to communicate what links with what, and why. If a detail is changed, a human has to update the whole stack. That is the industry standard. It shouldn’t be.

StoryboardCanvas is a complete web application suite - a productivity and workflow toolkit for video, motion picture, TV and film production, a complete script-to-shoot-day and wrap software suite for writers, producers, directors and all the crew involved in the process. A chain of connected, synchronized files that communicate with each other, updating suite-wide via a cross-app spine in 0.3ms, saving teams time, and saving budget for the items that really matter - keeping everyone on the same page 100% of the time.

Change a detail once and every app around it updates. No downloads - all you need is a browser and a connection. Now live worldwide in 26 languages.

Powered by DollyAI™, your omnipresent assistant.

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One project file · twenty apps

“Imagine the Google app suite, ChatGPT and a crew of professional filmmakers had a wild night of passion - their offspring would look something like StoryboardCanvas AI’s software suite…”

Screenwriting app - professional screenplay editor with live scene navigator and an AI writing assistant.
Script
Shot list app - camera, lens and movement per shot, linked to storyboard frames.
Shot List
Storyboard editor - a science-fiction sequence with shot-type and camera-move annotations.
Storyboard
Draw app - GPU storyboard sketching with 450+ professional brushes and layers.
Draw
AI Artist - style-locked storyboard image generation with the DollyAI™ engine.
AI Artist
Animatic app - frame timeline with camera moves, transitions and video export.
Animate
Producer analytics - schedule slip on track at 0.0 days, a four-day wrap countdown at 50% complete, credit burn across all projects, and scenes shot against scenes scheduled day by day.
Producer
The production diary overview - 8 of 8 days wrapped, 13 of 13 scenes shot, 7 pages shot to date, no open issues, BTS stills on file and picture wrap as today's next event, above a milestone bar and an event horizon of the seven days either side of today.
Diary
Production calendar and stripboard - colour-coded scene strips across the shoot days.
Calendar
Film budget app - top sheet, cost report and variance tracking in GBP.
Budget
Screenwriting app - professional screenplay editor with live scene navigator and an AI writing assistant.
Script
Shot list app - camera, lens and movement per shot, linked to storyboard frames.
Shot List
Storyboard editor - a science-fiction sequence with shot-type and camera-move annotations.
Storyboard
Draw app - GPU storyboard sketching with 450+ professional brushes and layers.
Draw
AI Artist - style-locked storyboard image generation with the DollyAI™ engine.
AI Artist
Animatic app - frame timeline with camera moves, transitions and video export.
Animate
Producer analytics - schedule slip on track at 0.0 days, a four-day wrap countdown at 50% complete, credit burn across all projects, and scenes shot against scenes scheduled day by day.
Producer
The production diary overview - 8 of 8 days wrapped, 13 of 13 scenes shot, 7 pages shot to date, no open issues, BTS stills on file and picture wrap as today's next event, above a milestone bar and an event horizon of the seven days either side of today.
Diary
Production calendar and stripboard - colour-coded scene strips across the shoot days.
Calendar
Film budget app - top sheet, cost report and variance tracking in GBP.
Budget
Script breakdown - 12-category colour-coded production elements with scene-by-scene element counts.
Breakdown
Cast management - character profiles, availability and deal memos for a feature ensemble.
Cast
Location scouting - locations with permits, logistics and photo references.
Locations
Props and costume continuity - prop inventory with hire status and scene references.
Props
Picture and unit vehicles - fleet inventory with insurance, plates and driver scheduling.
Vehicles
Call sheet app - cast and crew call times, weather and scene order with one-click dispatch.
Call Sheet
On-set Shoot hub - gear inventory across 13 categories and the full crew roster.
Shoot Day
Script breakdown - 12-category colour-coded production elements with scene-by-scene element counts.
Breakdown
Cast management - character profiles, availability and deal memos for a feature ensemble.
Cast
Location scouting - locations with permits, logistics and photo references.
Locations
Props and costume continuity - prop inventory with hire status and scene references.
Props
Picture and unit vehicles - fleet inventory with insurance, plates and driver scheduling.
Vehicles
Call sheet app - cast and crew call times, weather and scene order with one-click dispatch.
Call Sheet
On-set Shoot hub - gear inventory across 13 categories and the full crew roster.
Shoot Day
The official DollyAI extension for Google Chrome - StoryboardCanvas is built on the web platforms the world trusts.
TRUSTED GOOGLE EXTENSION

Built for the world. Runs everywhere.

StoryboardCanvas runs beautifully in every modern browser - Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and Brave - with nothing to install and no plugins to configure. But we build and test on Google Chrome first, so for the fastest, smoothest experience Chrome is the one we recommend.

Download the official DollyAI™ Chrome extension to add your production's assistant to your browser - built on the web platforms the world trusts.

  • DollyAI in every tab - Chat with your production's assistant while you browse and research, without ever leaving the page.
  • Capture anything, anywhere - Send a reference image, a location, a cast headshot or a quick note straight into the right app in your project, in one click.
  • She knows where it fits - Dolly suggests the right app and files your find for you, always aware of the exact production you are working on.
  • Nothing to install for the suite - The whole app suite runs in Chrome with zero downloads. Only the optional DollyAI extension is added to your browser.
Get DollyAI for ChromeWorks in Edge, Safari, Firefox and Brave too.
Built on the platforms the world trusts

Every app, every tier

Twenty connected production apps, one project file.

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.

Free forever

The whole suite. £0. Forever.

Not a trial. Not a demo. All twenty apps - script, breakdown, storyboard, stripboard, budget, call sheets, shoot day, wrap - open, unlocked, and yours to keep.

The only thing Free doesn’t include is AI credits - DollyAI is the one feature that costs real money per use. Add a Booster from £5 the day you want it, or never.

All 20 apps, fully unlockedNo card. No trial clock.You own everything you makeWe never train on your work

Or compare every plan, from Free to Enterprise →

The free tier - the whole StoryboardCanvas suite unlocked: storyboard frames, script, shot list, budget, team chat, call sheets and the drawing canvas, with no card and no trial clock.

What your stack really costs

Eight subscriptions, or one.

Final Draft, StudioBinder, Movie Magic, Frame.io, Adobe, Storyboard Pro, Boords, Wrapbook - eight subscriptions, eight logins, eight versions of the truth. Add up what that stack really costs you a year, then compare.

The legacy stack · 1 seat · 1 yr

£4,541/year

Eleven separate subscriptions across eight vendors - every figure sourced from their own public pricing pages.

StoryboardCanvas · Solo annual

£288/year

£4,253 saved - straight back into the budget

Twenty apps, one project file, one invoice. The maths only goes one way.

The AI image engine

The only storyboard AI that knows what is in your film.

Every other image tool starts from a blank prompt box and forgets your film the moment it answers. Ours starts from the film.

The StoryboardCanvas image engine: choose a house style or upload your own reference, lock it, and every generated storyboard frame holds the same line, shading, composition and colour across the whole project.

It starts from the film

It reads your script, cast, wardrobe, props and locations, so a frame arrives knowing who is in it and where they stand.

Style-Lock Engine

Pick a hand and every frame holds it, shot after shot. One look, locked, across a whole board.

Train your own artist

Upload your reference and the Style Bible learns your line, your tone and your colour. It becomes your artist.

Director mode

Aim the camera in 3D, set the angle and the height, break the 180° line on purpose. The directive writes itself.

Beyond the board

Posters, key art, concept paintings, mood boards, EPK stills and title cards, all in the same locked hand.

And it is yours

Full commercial rights to everything you generate, and we never train on your work. Ever.

See the AI image engine →

Built by a storyboard artist who got tired of arguing with a prompt box.

See it for yourself

Step inside a real production, completely free.

Open the actual software on Origin: Ascension, a finished short film, and explore every app exactly as the crew left it. Read the script, walk the boards, open the budget, print the call sheet. Fully read-only, with no sign-up. Nothing you touch is saved.

Try the free demo20 apps · one project file · 0 seconds of setup
No sign-upNo cardNo downloadFully read-onlyNothing you touch is saved
Live demo · Origin: Ascension
The AI Artist app in the free demo, generating an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame in the project's locked house style.
The Draw studio in the free demo, painting over an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame on the GPU canvas.
The Animate app in the free demo, playing back the timed Origin: Ascension animatic.
The Call Sheet app in the free demo, showing a finished Origin: Ascension shoot-day call sheet.

Script · breakdown · boards · animatic · call sheets · budget

The demo is a view-only copy shared for exploration. Some features need a paid subscription to run.

Mitch, founder of StoryboardCanvas and a working storyboard artist.
Mitchell Hughes
Founder · Storyboard Artist

Build your own style - or pick from ours.

The only AI storyboard generator built by a storyboard artist.

Mitch has spent nearly two decades turning scripts into frames for advertising, film and branded content, long before a camera rolls. The job was never just drawing. It is emotion, pacing, composition and the language of cinema.

He used the popular AI models on his own paid jobs, and they kept missing what a board is for. So he built this one.

You can talk to it in chat, or open the Frame Builder in Director mode. Every dropdown is already wired to your scenes, cast, props and notes, so your prompt is built in seconds.

His line, tone and colour ship as the house style. Pick one of them, or train your own artist in the Style Bible. Either way, the Style-Lock Engine holds every frame to that one hand, whether you want clean line, greyscale tone or full colour.

The boards that built Origin: Ascension

Twenty frames of a real production - drawn, locked and made in StoryboardCanvas.

Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.
Storyboard frame from Origin: Ascension, drawn by the AI Artist in Mitch's locked house style.

The Style-Lock Engine

Pick a style, or build your own - and it stays locked.

01

Built by the founder, a working artist

Mitch is our founder and a working storyboard artist, and he drew every reference frame himself. The line, the tone and the colour are one person's hand, so the look you get is real craft rather than something scraped off the internet.

02

Train your own custom styles

Drop in a few reference frames and run AI Style Sync. Your studio's look becomes a locked artist you can pick from any time, exactly like Mitch's, and every future board can be drawn in it.

03

A lock no prompt can break

Your locked style sits above your prompt rather than beside it. Ask for photoreal and the board stays on style, because the locked look wins every frame, every time.

04

Re-drawn the moment it drifts

Every frame is scored against the reference for line, tone and colour. The instant one falls off the look, the engine redraws it, so drift never reaches your board.

05

Surgical inpainting

Repaint one corner of a frame and only that region is redrawn. It comes back in the same locked hand, and the rest of the board is left exactly as you had it.

06

Synced to your whole project

The Frame Builder reads the scenes, characters, props and notes already in your project. A board lands with your script's own detail baked in, instead of whatever a generic prompt happened to invent.

One locked style, every creative mode:

StoryboardsConcept artPostersKey artMood boardsEPK stillsTitle cardsProduction design
Mitch's reference set

One frame. Three finishes.

Line
Clean pen-and-ink. Fast to read for blocking and sign-off.
Tone
Greyscale marker over the line. Light, depth and mood.
Colour
Muted paint over both. Pitch-ready frames.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.
A frame drawn by the AI Artist in all three house-style finishes - line on top, tone in the middle, colour beneath.

Or lock your own. Drop a few reference frames, run AI Style Sync, and the engine holds every future frame to your studio look - across storyboards, posters, concept art and key art alike.

One connected production workflow

From the blank page to the final wrap, in one place.

Write the script, break it down, build the shot list, board it, schedule it, budget it, shoot it and wrap it - every department reading from the same project file. No exports, no re-typing, no “which version is this?”
See how it works
A filmmaker presenting a storyboard built in StoryboardCanvas, with numbered scene frames and a script-to-screen workflow.
The connective thread

What makes twenty apps feel like one.

A connected suite is only as good as the thread running through it. Dolly is that thread - the same assistant in every app, holding the whole film in her head so the pieces never drift apart.
Explore DollyAI
Dolly, the AI production assistant, present across every app in the StoryboardCanvas suite.
MEET DOLLY

Dolly AI, your AI production assistant - omnipresent across every app and surface, text, data and 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. 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.

Reads your whole project

Script, breakdown, schedule, cast, locations - all in sync. Edit one, the rest follow.

Remembers your film

Locked decisions, your standing taste, the creative bible - carried between sessions, for the whole production.

Acts - with your approval

Agent mode answers from live project data and proposes additions. Nothing is written until you approve each one.

Checks her own work

Flip on double-check and every substantial answer is scored against your project's real facts - and revised - before you see it.

Brings in the family

Marlowe (script), Sable (line producer), Cass (1st AD), Indra (casting), Vee (continuity) - specialists one click away.

Sees the boards, briefs the morning

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. She can even read the open web and bring back the references.

Every AI action shows its price before you click and charges only on success - quick chat starts at a quarter of a credit.

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 optimiser - finds cheaper shoot orders, flags conflicts
Call SheetAuto-fills pickups, meal breaks, weather, nearest hospital
ProducerAuto-assembles the DPR + Weekly Cost Report by 6am every morning
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
DashboardNext-action briefs, anomaly detection, burndown synthesis, project-aware Cmd-K jumps
FilesUnified image graph across nine surfaces, send-to-Animate / send-to-Editor chips
Team ChatChannel + DM summarisation, action-item extraction, mention-aware notifications
AssetsAsset library search, auto-tagging, duplicate detection, cross-app dispatch

WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND

She keeps watch on the whole production while you sleep.

Hourly production watch

Scans every active project against its own risk rules - unsigned deal memos, a shoot day under-staffed, a budget line about to break - and flags it before it costs you.

Morning briefing

Each day she assembles what needs your attention - self-checked against your real production data - and drops it straight into your notifications.

Weekly board review

She looks at your storyboards with a director's eye and leaves notes on composition, coverage and continuity drift - a standing review you never have to ask for.

Approval inbox

Every change she proposes waits in an inbox, across sessions - approve, undo, or dismiss whenever you're ready. Nothing is written without your say-so.

Plan, then execute

Hand her a multi-step goal and she drafts the plan; one approval runs the whole thing, checkpointed so it resumes exactly where it left off.

Production memory

She remembers locked creative decisions and your standing taste between sessions, and tidies her own memory each week so it sharpens instead of bloating.

Background work is platform-gentle and never spends a credit without an owner - and you can turn any of it on or off per project.

Make it yours · the colour studio

Paint the whole production suite in your brand colours.

Open the colour studio from the droplet in the menu bar - pick a curated palette or set your own accent for every one of the twenty apps. Switch between Light, Dark and Monochrome. Your theme saves to your account and follows you into every app, every session.
The colour studio recolouring every app in the suite to a chosen brand palette, with Light, Dark and Monochrome themes.

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 £15/month - script to screen, on one bill.

THE DEVELOPER PROMISE

Your film production software gets measurably better every fortnight, free, for the life of your project.

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.

Alpha just landed, on top of a fortnight of releases. Every entry is a real commit, dated, deployed.

  • v7.4.0 · JUL 28
    The AI Artist renders your locked style faithfully - and turns your own artwork into a custom artist in one click.
    Lock a hand and the frame comes back in that hand, in Chat and Director alike. Press Analyse Style on your own references and Dolly reads them straight off the pictures and locks a reusable style that generates to match, not a generic sketch. Every frame now lands in your gallery the moment it is ready, and the free demo speaks up the instant you reach for something it holds back.
  • v7.3.0 · JUL 23
    More room, a permanent offer, and a site that stopped repeating itself.
    Cloud storage jumped four to five times on every plan, enforced on every upload. The fifty-percent first month is now permanent and once-per-customer. And the Help Centre finally documents everything Dolly can actually do.
  • v7.2.0 · JUL 14
    A week spent entirely on the way you meet us.
    Every screenshot recaptured from the real studio, the read-only demo pulled out of the footnotes, a redesigned image-engine section, and twenty honest comparison guides against the tools you already pay for.
  • v7.00.0 · JUL 1
    Version seven - a new face for the whole studio.
    Every one of the twenty apps and the whole website rebuilt to one calm, consistent identity, with a brand-kit wizard, fresh full-screen galleries, and the rebranded demo open to walk through. Fifty percent off your first month to mark it.
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 · AUG 8
    A look for every production.
    Save a theme per project, so the noir thriller and the toy commercial each open in their own light. The full appearance studio already ships; this pins a chosen look to a single production.
  • FORTNIGHT · AUG 22
    Read-only share links across the planning apps.
    The shot list and call sheet already mint a no-login share link; next, the same secure read-only share comes to the breakdown, schedule and budget so any collaborator sees exactly what you choose.
  • FORTNIGHT · SEP 5
    Your screenplay, translated - voice intact.
    The interface already speaks fifteen languages. Next, the script itself: translated for a co-production while keeping the rhythm, idiom and each character's voice, with the original always one click away.
  • FORTNIGHT · SEP 19
    Client-branded documents, end to end.
    Every document you send a client - the call sheet, the deck, the board, the PDF - carrying your company's mark instead of ours. One kit, applied across the suite, per production.
Two cadences out, then it's the next bench.
ON THE ROADMAP · VOTE LIVE

Rolling out across the Alpha - you pick the order.

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.

  • WhatsApp dispatch.
    Crews do not read email at 05:40. Call sheets, sides and call-time changes go to the channel they actually have open, alongside the email and SMS routes that already work.
  • An agent for each department.
    A 1st AD agent that drafts tomorrow's sheet. A script supervisor agent that logs the day. Work queued while you are out of signal, waiting for you when you come back.
  • On-set mode, installed on the phone.
    Between setups you are holding a phone, not a laptop. Call sheets, diary, breakdown and schedule, on the home screen. The drawing apps stay on a tablet, where they belong.
  • Everyone in the same document at once.
    Director, producer, AD and artists in one script, board or schedule, every keystroke landing live. No refresh. No arguing about which file is the latest one.
  • Animatics that move on-model.
    Motion that holds your locked hand frame to frame instead of dissolving into someone else's style by the third second. With music and voice, from the boards you already drew.
  • Casting, with the paperwork handled.
    Right-to-work, child-performer hours, likeness consent and publicity rights checked as you cast, plus an AI casting director that reads the self-tapes and surfaces the strongest read for the role.
  • The cut comes back.
    Handoff to Premiere, DaVinci and Final Cut already works one way. The return leg brings the timing, the markers and the editor's notes back onto the boards they came from.
  • MORE · TBC
    And plenty more we are not ready to name yet.
    The vote buttons above are real. Whatever gets asked for most is what gets built next.
You decide what jumps the queue - literally.

All data and claims within this website are based on current software. Go have a look around in our read-only DEMO - please note some of the apps need a paid subscription. Track the developers in the changelog. Thanks for the on-going support - every share helps us keep the prices where they are.

THE FINISHING MOVE

Automatic end credits from your call sheet, in one click.

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

One suite, twenty apps

Twenty connected apps, one project file.

Script, breakdown, shot list, storyboard, schedule, call sheets, budget, producer and more - each one finishing the others' work, every department reading from the same source of truth.
The twenty connected apps of the StoryboardCanvas suite, from script to wrap, working from one project file.
EVERY APP, A LITTLE CLOSER

Every app in the suite, from script to shoot day.

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.

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 script breakdown software, in one pass.

  • Element matrix
  • One-line schedule
  • Day out of Days built straight from the breakdown, with a cast cost roll-up underneath: days worked times daily rate, totalled
  • Strip board that carries each scene's synopsis, cast, elements, page count and estimated screen time
  • Full-script AI breakdown in a single pass, batched in parallel
Replaces: Legacy scheduling apps and two days of AD labourOpen the Breakdown app →

Producer

Production office software, automated.

  • Mission control
  • Slate view
  • Production scorecard: schedule slip, OT exposure, RSVP rate, weather losses, budget variance, all derived rather than typed
  • EPK assembled from the production itself
  • Wrap package
Replaces: The 4am spreadsheet update, the four-tab budget review, the bond-co email chain, the EPK courier brief, the portfolio Google DocOpen the Producer app →

Budget

Film budget software, tax credits to bid.

  • AICP bid builder
  • Union rate finder
  • Cashflow schedule with a budget exhaust point
  • Fringe matrix and payroll loading, plus a tax-incentive estimator
  • Purchase orders that write themselves back onto their budget line when they are paid, so committed spend is never a guess
Replaces: Legacy budgeting desktop apps and a dozen fragile spreadsheetsOpen the Budget app →

Cast

Cast management with a self-tape portal.

  • Deal memos that walk a visible stepper from draft to sent to negotiating to signed, with committed fees rolled up
  • Self-tape portal and a callback comparison tool
  • Availability grid
  • Contacts export as a cast list, a contact sheet, or a redacted PDF for the people who should not have private numbers
  • Child-performer hours and licences flagged on the roster, not buried in a folder
Replaces: Legacy casting-paperwork apps and spreadsheetsOpen the Cast app →

Locations

Location management and scouting.

  • The nearest A&E is a required field
  • Travel matrix
  • Company-move carbon pushed into the production carbon model, which otherwise defaults transport to zero and quietly excludes the largest line on most shoots
  • Permits tracked per location with status, and a map that plots every geocoded location in company-move order
  • Interactive map with pins for every scouted location
Replaces: Legacy location-management apps and map screenshots and spreadsheetsOpen the Locations app →

Props

Prop management and costume continuity.

  • Costume continuity
  • Hire burn per day and an insurance schedule of values across the whole prop inventory
  • Quantities the way an art department thinks: one hero plus three doubles, with period, sourcing and what the prop must do on camera
  • Seeded straight from the breakdown's prop tags, so the list starts as everything the script asks for
  • AI-extracted props list from your script
Replaces: Legacy props-inventory modules across multiple desktop appsOpen the Props app →

Vehicles

Picture-car and unit-vehicle management.

  • Driver schedule
  • Counts the runs nobody has agreed to yet and the ones with no driver number to ring, because those are the two that ruin a 06:00
  • Condition-out reports on every vehicle: the photographic paper trail that decides who pays for the scratch
  • Picture vehicles and unit vehicles on one fleet, each with its insurance, day rate and agreement
  • Picture-car and crew-transport tracking
Replaces: Assistant Director clipboards + rental paperworkOpen the Vehicles app →

Calendar

Film scheduling with a stripboard.

  • Schedule fitness scored out of 100, with a compliance flag when turnaround is tight
  • Crew availability matrix
  • Equipment bookings day by day with vendor, daily rate and a live rental spend
  • Pre-production milestone spine
  • Daylight hours and golden hour on the day itself, so an exterior is scheduled against the light rather than against hope
Replaces: Legacy stripboard-scheduling desktop appsOpen the Calendar app →

Call Sheet

Call sheet software, auto-generated.

  • Nine kinds of day, not one: shoot, second unit, splinter, travel, rehearsal, ADR, stills and EPK, tech recce, or a blank sheet you build yourself
  • Arrival board
  • Set status live on the day: prep, blocking, shooting, company move, lunch, wrapped
  • Pre-flight check on memos, permits and insurance before the sheet can be dispatched
  • Catering with dietary flags, transport and basecamp, walkie channels, parking and the nearest hospital, all pulled from the Locations app
Replaces: Legacy call-sheet apps and on-set messaging toolsOpen the Call Sheet app →

Shoot

Equipment and crew, on shoot day.

  • Risk assessment register
  • Kit and crew planner
  • Gear intelligence: daily rate burn, replacement value for the insurance schedule, utilisation, and what is checked out right now
  • Crew payroll normalised per shoot day, with a count of who has an emergency contact on file and who does not
  • Suggested kit per department, drawn from the crew you actually hired
Replaces: Legacy shoot-day apps and department spreadsheetsOpen the Shoot app →

Diary

Production diary, DPRs and continuity.

  • The daily production report writes itself from the day you logged: a director's narrative, the Exhibit G cast-time table, a weekly progress digest and the end-of-day wrap, one button each
  • DPR register shows which shoot days have their report on file and which do not, so the gap is visible before a financier finds it
  • Issues log with severity and lifecycle
  • BTS media filed against the shoot day it belongs to, feeding the EPK and the wrap binder automatically
  • 11 view modes
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

Screenplay software that writes the breakdown.

  • Every scene heading carries a stable scene id, so renaming a heading never breaks the shot list, the boards or the schedule downstream
  • Read-through with AI character voices, or your own browser voices, for a table read you can run alone
  • Screenplay translation for co-productions, with the original always one click away
  • Voice-to-script dictation, and a clearance scan that flags the names and marks a lawyer will ask about
  • Typed screenplay blocks with Tab cycling
Replaces: Legacy desktop screenwriting apps, collaborative-doc subscriptions and script-distribution servicesOpen the Script app →

Shotlist

AI shot list with lens planning.

  • AI generates the first pass of coverage from the scene itself
  • Every shot carries its scene id through to the storyboard editor and the animatic, so nothing loses its place in the film
  • Bulk parse a whole screenplay into shots, scene by scene, streaming as it goes
  • Full shot grammar: angle, size, lens, movement
  • Cinematography parameters per row
Replaces: Legacy shot-list apps and visual-reference desktop toolsOpen the Shotlist app →

Editor

Storyboard editor and frame canvas.

  • Frames arrive from the shot list already carrying their scene, shot size and description
  • Frame-anchored comments for review, with threaded replies and a share link that needs no login
  • Drag, snap, group, and layer frames on a pixel canvas
  • Smart alignment guides and auto-spacing
  • Camera-movement overlays
Replaces: Legacy storyboard apps and pitch-deck subscriptionsOpen the Editor app →

Draw

Pro storyboard drawing software.

  • Send the canvas straight to the Animate timeline as a frame, with its storyboard linkage intact
  • Photoshop ABR brush import, so the brushes you already own come with you
  • Stock ABR brush library + brush studio with full settings controls
  • Custom Tip Painter
  • Custom Texture Creator
Replaces: Legacy desktop drawing and digital-painting apps for storyboard workOpen the Draw app →

AI Artist

AI storyboard generator, style-locked.

  • 3D camera picker
  • The 180-degree rule as an explicit control
  • Camera coverage helper
  • Every camera choice resolves into a real cinematographer directive that goes into the prompt, not a vague style word
  • Frame Builder pulls every choice from your production
Replaces: a dozen browser tabs and half a dozen paid AI subscriptionsOpen the AI Artist app →

Animate

Storyboard to animatic software.

  • Boards from the same project, timed against the script
  • Camera moves, transitions, audio and a video export, plus handoff to Premiere, DaVinci and Final Cut
  • One-click: frames + camera arrows + script timing -> animatic
  • 27 camera presets + 9 transitions + proper timeline editor (trim, ripple, snap)
  • Onion skinning + auto-tweening across keyframes
Replaces: Legacy animatic-mode tools and rough-cut editing appsOpen the Animate app →
PLATFORM

The shared layer underneath every app.

Dashboard, files, team chat, cloud library - the connective tissue every other app rides on.

Every app, every tier

The whole suite on every plan.

There's no feature matrix to study here. Every plan has the whole suite - the only thing that changes as you move up is how many seats, how many monthly credits, storage and the name of the subscription.
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Every StoryboardCanvas app and feature included on every plan tier, from Hobbyist to Enterprise.

FAQ

Questions filmmakers ask about film production software

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. It's live and open to everyone - sign up, pick a plan, and start your production today. Every app is included on every tier; annual billing saves roughly 20%.

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 - 200+ 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). She's powered by a six-engine intelligence stack: production memory (remembers your film and your taste across sessions), agent mode (proposes changes with a field-by-field preview, your approval, and one-click undo), a self-critique loop, the AI Family of specialist department heads you can bring in by name (Marlowe, Sable, Cass, Indra, Vee), proactive briefings (an hourly watch, a self-checked morning briefing, a weekly frame review and an approval inbox), and deeper vision that reviews your actual frames. She can even read a web page or run a search when you ask. 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, micro-billed from a quarter-credit. 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. Your monthly allocation refreshes on your billing date: Free comes with none (add a Booster from £5 whenever you want DollyAI), Hobbyist, Solo and Team credits are use-it-or-lose-it, Studio gets 25% rollover, and Agency, Network and Enterprise get 50–75%. Booster credits are different: they are kept in a separate balance that no monthly refresh ever resets, on any plan including Free, so credits you have paid for stay yours until you spend them. Upgrading carries unused credits across automatically.

Free, plus seven paid tiers: Free (£0 forever), Hobbyist (£19/mo · gateway), Solo (£39/mo), Team (£99/mo), Studio (£269/mo · most popular), Agency (£599/mo), Network (£1,599/mo) and Enterprise (£3,329/mo · self-serve). Annual billing locks in 20% off any paid tier. Every app, every feature, every export format is available on every tier, including Free - no feature gating, ever. Tiers differ only on seats, AI credits and credit rollover. Free gets the same revision-mode Script app and the same DollyAI™ as Enterprise; the only thing it doesn't come with is a monthly credit allocation, and you can buy a Booster from £5 any time.

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.

Your account, billing and the whole marketing site work on any device, including your phone. The production app suite is built for a bigger canvas - a tablet (iPad 10.2" and up), laptop or desktop - because the script editor, stripboard, call sheets and drawing canvas genuinely need the room to work properly; on a smaller screen we show a friendly note pointing you to a larger device rather than cramming the UI. Canvas Draw runs with full stylus pressure + tilt on iPad, Surface and any Chromebook or Windows tablet. The on-set surfaces - call sheets, Shoot Day Live arrival check-in, diary entries, BTS photo capture - are tuned for the tablet you'll actually carry on set. No native install required, ever.

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. You can also explore a finished, read-only demo production right now - no sign-up, no card.

Yes - open the live read-only demo from the homepage. It loads a complete, finished production (script, breakdown, 8 shoot days, full cast and crew, call sheets, a £3.4M budget, storyboards and an animatic) so you can click through every app on real data without signing up or entering a card. You can look at everything; saving and AI generation are the parts you unlock when you join.

It's a full line-producing ledger, not a spreadsheet - twelve tabs covering Cost Report, Variance, Forecast, Top Sheet, Purchase Orders, Petty Cash and Rate Cards, plus a Tax Incentive Estimator that ranks film-tax-credit jurisdictions and compares up to three side by side, a Fringe Matrix with SAG-AFTRA / IATSE / DGA / non-union and BECTU preset packs, a Cashflow Schedule with peak-week and budget-exhaust warnings, an AICP Bid Builder that maps every line to a chart-of-accounts code and prints an agency-ready firm bid, and a Union Rate Finder with 30 dated 2026 scale rates and a live cost calculator. Per-line traffic-light readiness, contract uploads, VAT / locale tax handling and accounting exports (generic ledger, Xero, QuickBooks, and an authorised-payments bank file) are all built in. These tools are informational aids - you stay responsible for filings in your jurisdiction.

Yes. The Shoot app has a Safety tab with a 5×5 risk-assessment matrix and AI safety briefings; the Diary runs a due-diligence Compliance board with a daily safety score, an hours / turnaround / meal / daylight / incident check per shoot day, and an incident log. Cast carries a compliance document vault with a 30/14/7/1-day expiry ladder for COIs, work permits and releases, plus a child-performer work-hours tracker with jurisdiction-banded limits. The Calendar flags IATSE turnaround violations automatically. It's organisational support, not legal advice - local law remains your responsibility.

Yes. Script Distribution mints a separate watermarked link for each recipient - every page is stamped with that reader's name, links expire on a date you set, you can revoke any of them instantly, and you see download telemetry per recipient so a leaked PDF traces straight back to who shared it. There's also an AI Clearance Scanner that flags brands, real people, music, trademarks and artwork in your script for E&O review before you go to camera.

The marketing site and the app interface ship in fifteen languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi and Indonesian), switchable from the language chip - your account, the demo and the everyday app chrome all follow your choice. Prices show an estimate in your local currency from live exchange rates, while billing itself is taken in GBP. Your actual work is never translated - your script stays in whatever language you wrote it.

Each paid tier includes a number of seats and a per-seat add-on price (Solo +£19/mo per seat up to 3, Team +£15 up to 10, Studio +£12 up to 25, Agency +£10 up to 50, Network +£8 up to 100). Seats are billed when you add them and end at the close of the current billing period when you remove one. The account owner controls exactly which apps and how many credits each seat can use, and read-only viewers are unlimited and free on every tier - bring in financiers, clients or department heads to look without paying for a seat.

No - that's the whole point. The cross-over importer takes a drop of almost anything: Movie Magic Scheduling, Final Draft, StudioBinder, Gorilla, Yamdu, Celtx or any screenplay file. We recognise the source, run an AI breakdown and route the result into the right apps automatically (Movie Magic stripboards come in structured, with no AI credits charged). Script also imports FDX, Fountain, Celtx, PDF, DOCX, RTF and HTML at full fidelity. You can pick up mid-production without losing a scene, strip or deal memo.

Approved storyboard frames flow straight into Animate, where you drop them on a timeline with 27 camera-move presets, transitions, easing (including Bounce), scratch audio and timing, then export to MP4 / MOV / WebM with audio plus editorial hand-off formats - XMEML (Premiere / DaVinci), FCPXML (Final Cut Pro X), EDL, OpenTimelineIO and SRT captions. The whole creative spine runs Script → Shotlist → Storyboard Editor → Animatic with one project file underneath, so nothing is re-typed or re-imported between stages.

The Producer app is the page a producer keeps open every morning: a live scorecard, hot-cost rollups, an AI overtime predictor, schedule-risk scoring, a deliverables tracker (ProRes master, DCP, stems, captions, QC, chain-of-title, E&O and more on a click-along delivery pipeline), an EPK / sales hand-off package, a PO command centre with approval routing, an immutable cross-app audit trail of every change, and a multi-project portfolio view. Weekly cost reports and DPRs assemble themselves from the spine and are ready to email by 6am.

Beyond your statutory consumer rights, refunds are considered case by case as a goodwill gesture - just contact us. You can cancel any subscription from the billing portal at any time and keep full access through the end of the period you've already paid for; we never delete your data when you cancel.