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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 as a Slack DM. 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. Drafting in Claude instead? Connect Claude to Boords and it saves the AV script it drafts straight into your project.
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
Scripts are full documents inside Boords, alongside your storyboards. Write free-form or in two-column AV format, collaborate with your team in real time, take frame-accurate feedback from clients through a review link, keep every version, and turn the finished script into a storyboard in one click.
No, and deliberately so. Boords is built for video teams writing commercials, brand films, explainers, and social cuts, not for feature screenplays. There is no Final Draft or Fountain export. If you write screenplays for film and television, a dedicated screenwriting tool will serve you better.
Yes. Share the review link and anyone you send it to can read the script and leave comments anchored to specific lines. No account, no login, no seat. You can set a passphrase on the link, and you decide whether guests can download the script.
Yes. The AV block is a first-class part of the editor, not a table you format by hand. It gives you Scene, Audio / Voiceover, and Visual columns, and it counts the audio words to work out voiceover runtime at your chosen reading speed. The default is 130 words per minute and you can set anything between 50 and 300.
Yes. Press Storyboard and Boords reads the script, identifies the scenes, and builds a storyboard of editable frames with your fields already in place. You confirm the field names, the number of scenes, and the frame size before it runs. This is the part no standalone script tool can do, because the board has to live in the same product as the script.
PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown, and plain text. The PDF export is a real typeset document rather than a screenshot: searchable text, working links, tables and AV columns preserved, and an optional statistics page with word count, reading time, and total voiceover runtime.
Paste it straight into the editor and the formatting comes with it, or attach the file to the Script Agent and ask it to lay the script out for you. There is no separate file-import step when you create a script: a new script starts blank and you paste or draft into it.
Yes. Our guide to how to write a video script covers the method in eight steps, from the brief and the beat list through the two-column AV format, timing, client sign-off, and turning the approved script into a storyboard, with a complete worked example. The free video script template is the same AV format as a standalone editor.
Yes. Scripts are collaborative in real time, with live cursors so you can see who is working where. Edits sync as you type, and if your connection drops your work syncs automatically when it comes back.
They come with you. Creating a version copies the comment threads across by default, still anchored to the right lines, so a new round does not throw away the last one. Each version keeps its own status, and the activity trail records who did what and when across all of them.
The Script Agent works in the editor sidebar. It can draft from a brief, tighten a script you have written, summarise open feedback, and send the script to a storyboard. It is available where your team has AI features switched on, and team admins control that in team settings.
No. Your scripts, storyboards, and images are not used to train AI models.
Scripts are included on every Boords plan. See pricing for the details of what each plan covers.
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.
