Board tools: six steps between script and video

Twenty-four tools that put a storyboard between a script and a video, each read on six fields: what the board comes back as, how the camera angle is set, how the cast stays the same, how one panel is changed, how the board turns into video and whether it leaves as a file. 4 of them speak to all six. As of 2026-09-25.

Inclusion rule. Tools whose official English pages describe a storyboard step between a script or brief and a video or finished board, and say something about at least three of the six fields. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

1How to read a row

Read left to right, a row follows a board through its life. The first column says what the tool hands back: image panels, panels with shot lists beside them, or a written shot plan. The next two say how the camera and the cast are pinned down, the fourth how a single panel is changed without redoing the rest, and the last two where the board goes next: into video inside the tool, or out as a file.

A cell reading None given means the vendor's pages were read for that field and say nothing about it. It is a statement about the pages, not about the product.

2Every board tool

• AI Drama Generator — panels per scene, shots refined
• Boords — frames, shot lists and animatics
• DirectStudio AI — storyboard drafted from a brief
• Drawstory — shot list from an uploaded script
• Elser AI — Storyboard Studio, shot by shot
• Frameo — panels with camera and captions
• HeyGen — a written blueprint first
• Higgsfield — scenes directed one at a time
• ImagineArt — Scene Jump and six shot controls
• Katalist — shots broken out of the script
• LTX Studio — Elements, presets and Retake
• M Studio — storyboard into a timeline
• MagicLight — Nano Storyboard per shot
• OiiOii — linked panels on a canvas
• Pippit — Story Studio scenes
• SceneMixer — a written shot plan per segment
• ScreenWeaver — boards tied to sluglines
• Story.com — frames per scene, camera in words
• Storyboarder.ai — 3D camera on a single frame
• StoryboardHero — structured script and sketch artists
• StoryShort — scenes made again after the episode
• Toonkit — panels with region editing
• Topview Drama Studio — multi-panel board images
• TrendShort — the storyboard as control layer

3Other ways in

One field across every tool sits under board fields; planning questions are under board queries; the reading rules are on the catalogue method page.