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Comparison · Payroll + Insurance

StoryboardCanvas vs. Wrapbook

Wrapbook handles your cast and crew payroll. StoryboardCanvas runs the pre-production that decides who's on payroll and when - every department, every day, every line of the budget - so by the time Wrapbook fires it's against a schedule that actually holds.

Wrapbook is a payroll company. StoryboardCanvas is a production company in software form. They live in different layers of the same pipeline - Wrapbook pays the people StoryboardCanvas put on the schedule, the call sheet, and the cast deal memo. Pretending they compete is the wrong frame; pretending you don't need both is the wrong call.

Feature-by-feature

Side by side.

Feature
Wrapbook
StoryboardCanvas
Cast and crew payroll
Yes - full service
No - we don't do payroll
Workers comp + insurance
Yes
No
Cast deal memos
Read from external sources
Yes - drafted in /cast, e-sign, auto-budget
Stripboard scheduling
No
Yes - full digital stripboard with AI day-order suggestions
Call sheet generation
No
Yes - auto from shoot day + weather + nearest hospital + SMS dispatch
Script breakdown into 12 categories
No
Yes - full AI pass in under 60 seconds
Storyboard + animatic
No
Yes
Producer DPR + Weekly Cost Report PDFs
Cost reporting from payroll data
Yes - financier-ready auto-assembly by 6am
Project file shared across all apps
Payroll record only
Yes - every department reads from the same project
Starting price
Per-payroll fee
£19/mo - full pre-production suite

Pricing and feature comparison verified November 2025 from each vendor's public pricing page. We refresh whenever a vendor publishes a new tier. Wrapbook pricing: Per-payroll fee · workers comp + payroll.

The verdict

"Different layers of the stack. Run StoryboardCanvas for everything that happens before payday and feed Wrapbook the data it needs to fire payroll. Most working productions use both - and that's how it should be."

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