Text2Video Board

Between the script and the video: what AI storyboard tools hand back

Rankings of storyboard tools by what their pages describe

Two rankings sort the catalogue's 24 storyboard tools: four steps from a written shot list to generated clips, which HeyGen and SceneMixer lead, and four things done with a script, which HeyGen and SceneMixer lead. As of 2026-09-25.

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Fig. 1 The table sorts tools by steps described, with equal totals sharing a place.

The first ranking follows a board from the first written shot to the last rendered clip and asks, at each of four steps, whether a tool's own pages say it can be done there; the second stops at the board and asks how a script becomes one. Each yes is a point; the catalogue keeps the page and the day it was read.

A description is a promise on a page, not a test of the result. A tool that explains every step in plain words can score higher than one that does the work better and says less; read the order as a record of what each maker chose to explain. Each ranking page sets out its steps, how ties show and what is left out.

Tools on the same total share a place and appear by name, which carries no meaning, and every row links the tool's site and the catalogue field behind each step it earned.

Why the first table uses these four steps: a board that stays a board is a planning document, and a board that becomes video has to survive the trip. The written shot list is what a video model reads, the steady cast is what keeps episode two looking like episode one, the one-shot fix is what keeps a bad take from costing the whole sequence, and the clips are the point of the exercise.

1The rankings

  • Script to storyboard AI — Four things a tool should do with your script: plan the shots in words, hold the cast, rewrite a panel, place the camera.
  • Shot list to video — Four steps from a written shot list to finished clips, counted from what each storyboard tool's pages describe.

Rows are tools whose own pages were catalogued; the catalogue method explains what counts as described, and the board fields hold every reading.