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1
The Morning Rush
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman reaching for water bottle on nightstand, warm early morning light through curtains
Text Fields
Person waking up, reaching over to grab the bottle from the nightstand. Early morning light.
No sound.
2
Filling Up
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Close-up of hands filling the bottle at a kitchen sink, water running
Text Fields
Character at the kitchen sink, filling the bottle with water. Morning routine feel.
Satisfying running water sound.
3
Out the Door
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman stepping through front door into bright daylight, bottle in hand, confident stride
Text Fields
Character heading out the front door, bottle in hand. Bright daylight outside.
Upbeat morning ambience.
4
At the Office
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman working on laptop with water bottle on desk beside keyboard, modern office
Text Fields
Character settled at their desk, laptop open. Bottle placed prominently beside the keyboard.
Soft office ambience.
5
The Gym
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman mid-workout pausing to drink from bottle, gym equipment in background
Text Fields
Character mid-workout, pausing to take a long drink from the bottle. Gym equipment visible in background.
Gym sounds, exertion breath.
6
The Problem
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman at vending machine looking disappointed, patting empty bag, no bottle
Text Fields
Character standing at a vending machine, looking frustrated. No reusable bottle in sight.
Coins dropping. Disappointed sigh.
7
Never Again
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Close up shot of this woman's hand placing the bottle on a hallway table
Text Fields
Character back home, deliberately placing the bottle by the front door for tomorrow.
Quiet. A soft, resolved musical note.
8
Hero Shot
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Clean product shot, bottle centred on plain background, space for tagline
Text Fields
Clean close-up of the bottle alone, centred in frame. Tagline treatment.
Silence, then a soft music sting.
6 comments
Frame 1
Sarah2h ago
The morning light in frame 1 really sets the tone. Can we keep that warm palette consistent through frames 2 and 3?
James1h ago
Good call — I'll make sure the colour grading stays warm until the office scene shifts cooler.
Frame 5
Alex45m ago
Frame 5 is doing a lot of heavy lifting — the gym scene needs to feel energetic but not chaotic. Maybe tighten the crop?
Frame 6
Sarah30m ago
The vending machine scene is the emotional pivot. Make sure the frustration reads clearly — we lose the ad if this doesn't land.
Frame 8
Tom20m ago
Hero shot looks clean. Should we add the tagline in post or comp it into the storyboard for client approval?
Alex15m ago
Comp it in — the client will want to see how the text treatment sits against the bottle. Less back-and-forth later.
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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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Send secure presentation links and control access — the perfect tool for client presentations and reviewBefore 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.
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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.
Script and visuals, side by side
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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.
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Creative Director, Paradigm
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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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Describe a scene in plain language and generate images in seconds — the perfect tool for visual storytellingBefore Boords, storyboarding was time-consuming and technical. Now I can focus exclusively on creative decisions and make my work better!
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Karen Hansen
Motion Designer, Delicious Empire
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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.
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 software1M+
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Comments on frames
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11 years
Independent
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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