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Open a project.
Scripts sit next to the storyboards in the project you already have open. Start blank, or drop in a two-column AV structure and begin.
Features / Scripts
The video script editorGoogle never built.
Two-column AV with live runtime, client comments anchored to the line with no login, and one click from approved script to editable storyboard frames.
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Not another word processor
The writing was never the hard part. Getting the thing read, marked up, agreed, and turned into something you can shoot is the part that eats the week.
Docs, email, and a folder
Scripts in Boords
The script lives in Google Docs. The board lives in Boords. Every trip between the two is a chance for the pair to drift apart.
Script and storyboard in the same project, on the same version.
Feedback arrives as a reply-all thread, tracked changes on Final_v3_REAL.docx, and one comment sent by text at 11pm.
One review link. Every comment anchored to the line it is about.
New round, new file. Last round’s feedback stays in last round’s document, which nobody opens again.
New version, comments carried across, both versions still readable.
Someone asks which draft the client actually approved and the honest answer is that you would have to go and look.
Who approved what, when, on which version. One click.
Two-column AV
Two columns, and the runtime adds up
Audio on the left, visuals on the right, the way the format has worked since the first radio spot. The AV block is part of the editor rather than a table you fight, and it counts the audio words as you write. So you find out the 30 is really a 40 while it is still a document, not on the day of the record.
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Getting started
Open a project. Write it. Send the link.
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Write it, or paste it in.
Free-form for a treatment, two-column AV for a spot. Paste from Docs and the formatting comes with it. Your team can write alongside you in real time.
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Send the link.
One review link, no login. The client comments on the line, approves, and the trail is recorded. Then turn the script into a storyboard.
Review and sign-off
Your client comments on the line, not the PDF
Send one review link. Whoever you send it to can read the script and leave a comment anchored to the exact line they mean. No account, no login, no seat to buy for a client who reads two scripts a year. Put a passphrase on it if the work is under embargo. When they approve, the approval is recorded against that version instead of sitting in somebody’s inbox.
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Versions and the trail
Every draft, every comment, still there
A new round is a new version, not a new filename. Comment threads carry across, so round three still knows what round two asked for, and every earlier version stays readable. The activity trail records who commented, who moved the status, and who approved, each with a timestamp. That is the answer to the 11pm question about which draft the client actually signed off.
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Script to storyboard
Script in. Storyboard out.
Press one button. Boords reads the script, works out where the scenes are, and builds a storyboard of editable frames with your fields already filled in. Nothing to copy out, nothing to rebuild by hand. A standalone script tool cannot do this, because the board has to live in the same product as the script, and the sign-off has to live with both.
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The rest of the editor
Exports that survive the handoff
PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text. The PDF is a typeset document, not a screenshot: searchable text, working links, AV columns intact.
Voiceover runtime
AV blocks count the audio words and give you the runtime at anything from 50 to 300 words per minute. Find the overrun before the record session.
Mentions that reach people
Pull a colleague into a thread and they hear about it in their inbox, their email, or Slack. A follow bell per script sets who gets what.
Status your team reads
Draft, In Progress, Needs Review, Changes Required, Approved. The same pills as your storyboards, so one glance covers the whole project.
Real-time co-writing
Live cursors, edits that sync as you type, and a script that keeps working through a dropped connection and syncs when it returns.
Passphrase and permissions
Lock a review link with a passphrase, decide whether guests can download, and turn comments on or off per script.
AI assistance
The Script Agent, in the sidebar
Boords Agent reads the script you have open, the comments on it, and the versions behind it. It edits the document in place rather than handing you text to paste. Available wherever your team has AI features switched on.
Draft from a brief
Hand it the brief and get a first pass to react to. Reacting to a draft is faster than staring at a blank page.
Tighten this script
Ask for the 45 to become a 30 without losing the argument, and see the change land in the document rather than in a chat window.
Summarize open feedback
Eleven comment threads across two versions, turned into the list of things you still have to decide.
Send to storyboard
Ask for the board and it runs the same script-to-storyboard conversion, then tells you what it made.
Boords makes it easy to keep track of versions and makes the storyboarding process more collaborative. It's the type of tool that makes you wonder how you ever lived without it.
Boords has drastically changed our workflow. Before, we spent so much time creating storyboards that we were happy to put in front of clients. Now everyone in our business can create storyboards that are visually pleasing. I can't recommend it enough.
Boords helps us spend time on the creative, not the formatting. It's every creative's dream.
Frequently asked questions
Free to try
Close the Docs tab.
Scripts live in the same project as your storyboards, so there is no new tool to roll out and no account for your client to create.
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Project Activity
Sarah changed the status of Explainer Script v3 to Approved
8 Jul
Dev commented on Explainer Script v3
8 Jul
Tom shared Explainer Script v3 with sarah@beacon.co, dev@beacon.co
7 JulTom created Explainer Script v3, a new version of Explainer Script v2
7 JulSarah changed the status of Explainer Video v2 to Approved
6 JulTom created Explainer Video v2 from Explainer Script v2
6 Jul
Amara marked a comment on Explainer Script v2 as complete
5 Julapp.boords.com
Project Activity
Sarah changed the status of Explainer Script v3 to Approved
8 JulDev commented on Explainer Script v3
8 JulTom shared Explainer Script v3 with sarah@beacon.co, dev@beacon.co
7 JulTom created Explainer Script v3, a new version of Explainer Script v2
7 JulSarah changed the status of Explainer Video v2 to Approved
6 JulTom created Explainer Video v2 from Explainer Script v2
6 JulAmara marked a comment on Explainer Script v2 as complete
5 Jul