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StoryboardCanvas vs. Canva

Canva has storyboard templates. StoryboardCanvas has a storyboard tool built for film - Draw, AI Artist, an animatic, and a shot list that feeds your shoot day.

Canva is a brilliant general design tool with drag-and-drop storyboard templates. It's built for graphics, not productions - there's no breakdown, no shot list, no schedule and no animatic playback. StoryboardCanvas is the purpose-built version: draw or AI-generate boards, animatic them, list the shots, and hand the data to your call sheet and shoot day.

Feature-by-feature

Side by side.

Feature
Canva
StoryboardCanvas
Built for
General graphic design
Film production, script to wrap
Storyboards
Templates you fill in
Draw + AI Artist + frame editor
Animatic
No
Yes - timing, transitions + audio
Shot list + schedule
No
Yes - synced to the board
AI for film
Generic image generation
Style-locked storyboard frames via DollyAI
Starting price
Free / Pro ~$15/mo
£19/mo full suite

Pricing and feature comparison verified November 2025 from each vendor's public pricing page. We refresh whenever a vendor publishes a new tier. Canva pricing: Free / Pro ~$15/month.

The verdict

"For posters and decks, Canva. For boarding a script and carrying it to the shoot day - storyboards, animatic, shot list, call sheet - StoryboardCanvas is the purpose-built tool."

Storyboard Canvas · the complete production suite

The complete script-to-screen suite - start free

Twenty synchronised apps, one project file. Every app on every plan - pick a tier by team size, not features.

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