Beatboard reads your script, breaks it into shots, boards every scene — with characters that stay consistent across the whole sequence — cuts an animatic, and hands off clean to Final Cut and Premiere.
Mac-native · runs free on your own machine · no credits, no watermarks
Every tool promises "script to storyboard." Here's where they quietly break — and Beatboard doesn't.
Most AI storyboard tools allow exactly one consistent character per frame — put a second person in and the first one's face changes. Beatboard holds every character's identity across the whole sequence, and lets you block them where they stand.
VERIFIED: nobody else in the field ships this todayDrop in a Final Draft .fdx, a Fountain file, or a PDF. Beatboard pulls the scenes, the characters, and the locations — then proposes real coverage in cinematic grammar. Revise the script, re-import, and your boards survive the edit.
Cut a scrubbable animatic, then hand off the way a real production does: Final Cut and Premiere timelines with your notes and markers, an EDL, shot lists with thumbnails and shoot-day order, and a pitch deck. Not a folder of PNGs.
The whole AI-storyboard category runs on opaque credit meters — and its own users are furious about it. Beatboard is built the other way, on purpose.
Generation runs locally and free on Apple Silicon — the whole pipeline works offline with zero spend. Want the cloud's fastest models instead? Turn them on, and you always see the cost before you generate, with a hard cap you set per project. No surprise bills. No throttled "unlimited." No watermark holding your work hostage.
The field's #1 complaint is our default settingEvery tier runs locally at $0. Paid tiers add cloud generation and team hand-off. Client reviewers are always free — you should never pay to show someone your work.
Beatboard is in private development, with first Mac builds going out to the waitlist this fall. Join to get an early seat and help shape it. No spam — just build notes and your invite.
Made by a solo founder. Built in public — follow the changelog.