"The most painful part of video production, made painless."4.8/5 on G2

The storyboard software built for video agencies & brand teams

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

Boords is the preproduction tool video agencies & brand teams use to create, share, and approve storyboards without losing weekends to v3_FINAL.pdf.

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Without Boords storyboarding was the most painful part of the production process, with Boords it's the most painless. Super easy to use and speeds up the pre-production process immeasurably.

Lewis Darby

Founder, Yard B

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.

Erin Oliver

Head of Production, ENTHRAL

Our studio runs on Boords. We can quickly draw up ideas, add in a script, receive real-time feedback and rapidly iterate changes. It's really a game changer.

Kelly Messori

Producer, CatCow

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

The pre-production loop

Seven connected stages, from script to delivery — each one building on the last.

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Stage 1 -Script

Script and frames in one workspace, so neither drifts.

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Script editor panel alongside storyboard frames in Boords

Boords storyboard grid showing visual frames in production order

Boords animatic timeline with storyboard frames and audio

A shared Boords storyboard with frame-level client comments

Version history panel for processing storyboard feedback

Approval status labels on storyboard frames in Boords

Boords shot list view for moving approved storyboards into production

Before Boords

Feedback scattered across email. 'Final_v3_REAL.pdf' in five folders. Client asks which version they approved.

Chaotic pre-production workflow with sticky notes, scattered files, and unread emails

After Boords

One place for storyboards, animatics, and sign-off. Share a link. No login, no lost approvals.

Boords storyboard software showing an organized project with frames, comments, and version history

Who approved what, when, on which version

Send a link. Your client comments frame by frame and approves the cut. No account, no SSO, no resent links at 6pm on a Friday. Every comment, version, and sign-off stays on the record.

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A shared Boords storyboard with frame-level comments and annotations from a client review

Boords helps us spend time on the creative, not the formatting. It's every creative's dream.

Hope Morley

COO, Umault

Boords is an essential part of our workflow. The ability to share our storyboards with clients gives them the opportunity to visualise the project earlier, give feedback and be assured the project is heading in the right direction.

Matt Lynch

Managing Director, Affirmer

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

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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Boords animatic view of the same scene with timeline and audio

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.

Sofie Edvardsson

Creative Director, Soja

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

Creative Director, Paradigm

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

Every frame starts somewhere

Most teams run preproduction across four or five tools. Docs for the script, Slides for the board, Unsplash for stock, Slack for review. Boords collapses the stack into one. Bring your own images or describe a scene to generate one, then move into the board, the animatic, and the sign-off without switching tabs.

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A Boords frame showing both an uploaded reference image and a generated variant side by side

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.

Andreas Niedermayer

Founder, Polarfux

Boords allows us to keep all our storyboards in one place. It's also very easy to add review notes to share with our design team right inside Boords, which streamlines communication.

Michael Cardwell

Founder, Digital Brew

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.

Nick Patterson

Founder, Storm & Shelter

Integrations

Connect preproduction to the rest of your stack

Use Boords as the sign-off layer 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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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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