From boards to animatic

Turn Storyboards into Animatics. In One Tool.

Name: Boords
Rating: 4.9 (12 reviews)
Author: Boords

Build, time, and share animatics from your existing boards. The pre-pro tool agencies and brand teams use to lock pacing before the edit.

Create Animatic

Revisions are cheap on a board, expensive on a shoot

A board revision costs ten minutes. A reshoot costs a day, a crew, and a client relationship. Boords turns the board into a timed animatic in one click, so pacing gets signed off before anyone opens an editor.

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Timeline

Build animatics without leaving your storyboard

Upload audio, set timing, preview the sequence, and keep every storyboard edit connected to the animatic automatically.

Integrated Animatic Timeline

Upload your soundtrack or voiceover and time out your animatic with the zoomable timeline.

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Instant, Distraction-Free Playback

Play your animatic as a full-screen video without leaving Boords. Perfect for presentations.

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Keep Your Animatic & Storyboard in Sync

Need to add, move, or delete frames in your storyboard? Any storyboard edits automatically appear in your animatic, too.

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Workflow

From script to sign-off in three steps

Add your script or brief, build the storyboard frames, then turn the sequence into an animatic your team and clients can review.

Add your script or brief

Paste your script or client brief and we'll convert it into a structured storyboard automatically.

Upload or generate images

Generate images with AI or upload your own stills, then adjust frames until the story works.

Boords Collaborative Storyboarding UI Preview

Share for review & sign-off

Share a link with clients, collect frame-level comments, and get your storyboard signed off.

Integrations

Connect preproduction to the rest of your stack

Use Boords as the pre-production platform while your production tools, AI agents, and internal systems stay in sync around the work.

GETList projects

POSTCreate project

PATCHUpdate project

GETRetrieve project

DELETERevoke invitation

GETList storyboards

POSTCreate storyboard

PATCHUpdate storyboard

GETRetrieve storyboard

GETList frames

GETRetrieve frame

PATCHUpdate frame

POSTUpload image

POSTCreate frame

GETList comments

POSTCreate comment

PATCHUpdate comment

DELETEDelete comment

GETRetrieve comment

GETList teams

POSTToggle access

DELETEDelete frame

GETList team members

POSTInvite member

PATCHUpdate member

DELETERemove member

POSTInvite member

PATCHUpdate role

GETList webhooks

POSTCreate webhook

PATCHUpdate webhook

DELETEDelete webhook

POSTDuplicate storyboard

GETList versions

POSTResend invitation

GETCurrent user

Public API

Build storyboards from your own pipeline

Create projects, import scripts, update frames, manage comments, and keep storyboard data moving between Boords and the tools your team already uses.

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Webhooks

React the moment work changes

Send signed event notifications to your services when projects, storyboards, frames, or comments change, then process updates without polling.

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Production

Everything your team needs after the first cut

Add camera moves, manage versions, use stock or AI-generated imagery, and export presentation-ready animatics from one workspace.

Built-In Camera Moves

Our predefined, industry-standard camera movement indicators make your directorial vision crystal-clear.

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Simple Versioning

Effortlessly iterate on your storyboards with simple version management. Create new versions, complete with existing feedback, in seconds.

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Stock Library & AI Image Generator

Search millions of free-to-use images without leaving your storyboard using our Unsplash and Iconfinder integrations, or generate images with our AI Image Generator.

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Multiple Export Formats

Export your storyboards as presentation-ready PDFs, PNG files, and even MP4 animatics.

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Boords automatically does the tedious work caused by rearranging frames of a storyboard. We can do more trial and error without stress and be more creative.

Takeru Nakabayashi

Founder, LiPOGRAM

Boords helps us streamline our storyboarding process and makes it easy to produce storyboards the way we want to. Our clients can provide feedback easily and it's effortless for us to make changes as needed, letting us focus on the creative.

Matthew Creed

Co-Founder, Jammy Custard

Boords made storyboarding faster, flexible and above all, easy to collaborate on. It's adding so much value to the ultimate goal of bringing stories to life.