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.

Feature
Movie Magic Scheduling
StoryboardCanvas
Stripboard building
Yes
Yes - modern drag and drop
Day Out of Days reports
Yes
Yes
Syncs with screenplay changes
No - manual re-import
Yes - automatic
Syncs with call sheets
No
Yes - same project file
Cross-episode/board scheduling
Yes
Yes
Platform
Mac/Win desktop
Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
Real-time collaboration
No
Yes
AI day-order optimization
No
Yes - Dolly flags cast and weather conflicts
Starting price
$279.88/yr per seat
£19/mo everything included

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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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.

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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