Comparison · Scheduling
StoryboardCanvas vs. Movie Magic Scheduling
Movie Magic Scheduling is great scheduling software from 2005 - StoryboardCanvas Schedule is that, rebuilt for the browser, synchronized to your script, and priced for indies.
Movie Magic Scheduling has been the industry standard for decades - because nothing else did stripboards well. StoryboardCanvas Schedule is a modern web-based stripboard that reads your screenplay in real time, syncs with your call sheets, and costs a fraction per month.
Feature-by-feature
Side by side.
Pricing and feature comparison verified November 2025 from each vendor's public pricing page. We refresh whenever a vendor publishes a new tier. Movie Magic Scheduling pricing: $39.99/mo or $279.88/yr.
The verdict
"Movie Magic Scheduling is the studio lot's incumbent - desktop binaries, per-seat licences, the workflow every senior 1st AD learned twenty years ago. StoryboardCanvas runs the same stripboard logic in any browser, talks to the breakdown live (drag a scene and the day-page count updates), and lets the director see the same board on their phone without a license file."
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