One tool that grows with the production. The same project file carries a solo YouTuber and a multi-studio drama - every person who builds a film, from the first idea through planning, into the shoot, and out the other side in post. The bigger you get, the more it saves you.
The spectrum
SOLO PLAN
Script the idea, board it in minutes with the AI Artist, shoot it on a phone, cut the animatic. The whole thing in one file - no four-app juggle, no exports between tools.
From £15/mo
TEAM PLAN
Pitch agencies with style-locked boards that look the same every frame, then turn the brief into a call sheet the same afternoon. Win the work before the competition has finished their deck.
Team plan
STUDIO PLAN
Full crew, real stripboard scheduling, hot-cost as the day moves, auto call sheets that dispatch themselves. The producer sees the money in real time, not a week later.
Studio plan
AGENCY PLAN
Script to breakdown to schedule to shoot day to post, in one continuous spine. Festivals, sales handoff, EPK, watermarked screener distribution - the long-form workflow, end to end.
Agency plan
NETWORK PLAN
A whole slate of projects under one roof. Per-seat permissions so a storyboard artist never sees the budget, an org-wide audit trail, and the producer scorecard across every show.
Network plan
BROADCASTER
Multi-studio, multi-unit, seat governance, compliance vaults, child-performer hours, talent identity across productions. The infrastructure a commissioner expects - without a six-figure software bill.
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Why it works at every size
A one-person edit and a fifty-person drama use the exact same spine: write, board, break down, schedule, shoot, log, budget, deliver. A solo creator touches a handful of those apps; a studio runs all twenty across a slate. You never outgrow the tool and re-learn a new one - you just turn on the parts you've grown into.
And DollyAI is in every app the whole way up - a creative partner that knows your film, remembers it between sessions, and brings in her department heads when the slate gets big.
Onboard twenty staff without losing track of who sees the budget, who signs the call sheet, who watches the storyboard land. Owners keep the keys. Everyone else gets exactly the apps they need - nothing more.
A seat is a person who can edit. A viewer is someone you brought in to read along - a financier reviewing dailies, a guest editor approving cuts, an executive watching the storyboard land. Both count, neither cross-contaminate.
The organisation owner sets a permission matrix per seat. A storyboard artist sees the storyboard apps and nothing else. A 1st AD sees the schedule, call sheet and diary. Your producer sees everything. Your accountant sees just the budget and purchase orders.
Two writers in the script at the same time see each other's cursors. The 1st AD drags a strip on the calendar and every other tab refreshes within a quarter-second. The script supervisor logs scenes wrapped and the producer's hot-cost updates the same moment.
Every save, every share, every permission change writes to one admin-visible feed. When the bond company asks 'who changed the budget last Tuesday?' you have a one-screen answer.
Every cast deal-memo edit, every schedule lock, every call-sheet dispatch, every wrap report - all surface in the producer audit trail with timestamp + actor.
Owners can request a structured dump of the organisation's data at any time. Self-serve, no support ticket required. The receipt arrives the same day.
Closing a production? Owners can request full account deletion with one form. The roll-off respects your invoice history retention obligations.
Bring your whole production company on for a single subscription. Pick the plan whose seat count matches your roster - every other staff member can read along as a viewer at no extra cost.
Math we're happy to show you
A feature-by-feature grid covering the full StoryboardCanvas suite against every meaningful film-tech competitor. Drop more in via the dropdown - every cell is sourced from the vendor's public docs.
StoryboardCanvas
178 fully shipped, the rest partial / roadmap
Avg competitor
Across 13 visible tools
Rows in this matrix
Across 14 groups
Pricing and capability snapshots are taken from each vendor's official pricing page and public product documentation as of May 2026. Marks read as: Y shipped and publicly documented, ~ partial or limited,N not documented as available, R on the public roadmap, ? unable to confirm from public sources. We refresh the matrix whenever a competitor ships a meaningful update.
Spotted something out of date? Tell us at admin@storyboardcanvas.ai subject LEGAL and we will review and update or remove the row within five working days.
The math, in plain pounds
Final Draft. StudioBinder. Movie Magic. Frame.io. Adobe. Storyboard Pro. Boords. Wrapbook. Eight subscriptions. Eight contexts. Eight invoices.
Trelby is free. Krita is free. Storyboarder is free. They're great at what they do - and they don't sync, don't review, don't schedule, don't break down a script. You'll outgrow the free stuff. You'll pay for features you'll never touch in the paid stuff. Or, this.
Pricing snapshot, May 2026. Each row is the entry-level professional plan from the vendor's own pricing page. USD converted at the Bank of England daily reference, rounded generously. Sources auditable on request.
StoryboardCanvas · Solo annual
Solo plan, billed annually at £31/mo. Twenty apps. Style-locked AI image engine. DollyAI™ co-pilot in every app. Real screenplay editor with revision mode. Stripboard. Auto call sheets. One project file. One bill.
Saved per filmmaker, per year
£4,253 · back into the budget
Studio annual at £215/mo gives the whole team six seats and saves £2,820/yr. Agency at £479/mo lands at parity with the legacy stack while replacing eleven separate subscriptions. One project file. One invoice. One login. The maths only goes one way.
Compare plans →The Promise
Founder-owned. Filmmaker-led. Never up for sale.
Every tool in your stack has been bought, hiked or paywalled - we built StoryboardCanvas because we couldn't watch another filmmaker get rug-pulled. Profit-funded, not VC-funded: the price you join at is the price your project keeps, for its whole life. Every upgrade we ship lands on every tier, retroactively - the twenty apps in your plan today are the twenty in your plan tomorrow. No investors to please, nothing to flip.
Free to look around - no card, no sign-up. Or step inside a finished production in the live demo.