Trusted by studios & agencies since 2015

Storyboarding Software Built For Professional Creatives

Boords is the storyboarding software studios, agencies, and freelancers use to spend time on ideas, not formatting.
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Online storyboarding collaboration your whole team will love

Boords is the storyboarding software that keeps your team aligned from first draft to final sign-off. Share secure links for client presentations, collect frame-specific feedback, and track approval status — so everyone knows exactly where things stand.
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Sharing a storyboard via secure link with passphrase protection in Boords
Client feedback and frame-level comments on a storyboard in Boords
Real-time collaborative storyboard editing with multiple team members
Approval status labels on storyboard frames showing approved and needs changes

Client presentations without the meeting

Send secure presentation links and control access — the perfect tool for client presentations and review

Before Boords, tracking feedback was a mess. With Boords we've got versioning, commenting, and presenting all in one place. It helps us with client communication so much.
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.

From script to shot lists: plan every scene before you shoot

Keep your script and storyboard frames in sync throughout the pre-production process. Create storyboards with detailed shot lists, customize fields for your workflow, and make sure every camera angle is accounted for before you step on set.
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Script editor panel alongside storyboard frames in Boords storyboard software
Shot list view with camera angles and scene descriptions generated from a storyboard
Adding custom metadata fields to storyboard frames for production planning

Script and visuals, side by side

Write scripts alongside frames so your team can see the full picture at every stage of the storyboarding process

Since we got Boords, we haven't looked back! We'd been working with custom PDF templates and we knew there had to be a better way, and we found it! It's intuitive, it's visually pleasing, and it's saved us a hell of a lot of time.
Boords helps us spend time on the creative, not the formatting. It's every creative's dream.
Making storyboards is a fun and creative process… until you need to shift some frames around! Boords is an excellent tool for letting you focus on your story while allowing for rapid changes as the creative process takes its inevitable twists and turns.
Paddy O'Connor

Paddy O'Connor

Creative Director, Paradigm

The storyboard creator that does the heavy lifting

Bring your own images, or use AI-powered tools to turn text prompts into consistent storyboard images. Explore visual ideas in any style, build a consistent cast of characters, and pull from millions of stock images and assets.
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AI image generation turning a rough doodle into a polished storyboard frame
Character cast panel with consistent AI-generated characters for storyboard scenes
Stock image and icon library browser inside the Boords storyboard editor

Create storyboard images from text

Describe a scene in plain language and generate images in seconds — the perfect tool for visual storytelling

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.
Boords eliminates menial, repetitive tasks so we can focus on the fun, creative parts of the process.
Karen Hansen

Karen Hansen

Motion Designer, Delicious Empire

Free storyboard software features that go beyond the basics

Preview pacing with animatics before committing to a final cut. Export storyboards as PDFs, images, or MP4 video — and keep every version tracked. Start with the free version and upgrade as your team grows.
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Animatic video player previewing storyboard timing with audio in Boords
Export options for storyboards including PDF, MP4, and shot list formats
Version history panel comparing storyboard revisions side by side
Project folder view for organizing storyboards and creative assets

Test timing before you commit

Preview pacing with audio, share a link or export as MP4 — features you won't find in other free storyboard software

1M+
Storyboards shared for review, feedback, and approval
12M+
Comments on frames for feedback in context, not lost in email
11 years
Independent software built by creative professionals since 2015

We built Boords because pre-production was broken

I'm James, founder of Boords. Before this, I co-founded Animade, an animation studio in London.

Back then, we built storyboards in Photoshop. Or Google Slides. Or InDesign. Whatever got the job done. But tracking versions was a nightmare. "FinalFinal_v3_USE_THIS.pdf"... you know the drill.

Client notes lived in email threads. Nobody could find the version we'd actually locked. Every storyboard looked different because we were rebuilding templates from scratch each time, manually reordering frames, fiddling with layouts. We'd waste hours on formatting instead of ideas.

So in 2015, I built the first version of Boords to fix it. Consistent boards every time. Notes in context, not buried in inboxes. One link to share, and no more guessing which version got approved.

11 years and over 2 million storyboards later, Boords is still independent, still small, and still built around one idea: pre-production should be where you do your best thinking, not where you lose hours to process.

James Chambers, Founder

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Frequently asked questions

11 years of video preproduction sign-off

The sign-off layer for video preproduction

One tool for storyboards, animatics, and client sign-off.
No missed feedback, no expensive reshoots.

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Boords storyboard software interface