Comparison
Storyboarding vs Storyboard That — for professional production
Storyboard That is a popular tool for educators and beginners — it has thousands of stock characters and templates that make it easy to create comic-style boards without drawing. Storyboarding is built for the opposite end of the spectrum: professional directors, agencies, and content teams who want photoreal AI-generated frames, video generation, and a review workflow that scales to brand clients and label execs.
Stock characters vs AI generation
Storyboard That gives you a library of stock characters and props you compose into a frame. Storyboarding generates a fresh frame for every scene with AI — photoreal, on-brand to your reference images, in seconds. Different audiences, different deliverables.
Photoreal vs comic-style
Storyboard That outputs comic-style boards with stock illustration. Storyboarding outputs photoreal frames suitable for client treatments, agency pitches, and director's books. Choose based on what your final deliverable needs to look like.
Professional review workflow
Storyboarding has per-scene comments, approval checkmarks with names, and tokenized share links — the workflow professional creative teams actually use. Storyboard That's review tools are simpler, oriented toward classroom use.
Export formats
Both export to PDF. Storyboarding also exports to MP4 animatic with per-scene timing, suitable for client previews and editor reference.
Side-by-side comparison
| Feature | Storyboarding | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Target user | Pro creative teams | Education / beginners |
| Visual style | Photoreal AI | Comic-style stock |
| AI image generation | ✓ Nano Banana | Limited |
| AI video generation | ✓ Veo 3 Fast | ✗ |
| Per-scene comments | ✓ | Limited |
| Approval checkmarks | ✓ Named approvers | ✗ |
| Tokenized share links | ✓ | Limited |
| MP4 animatic export | ✓ | ✗ |
| Pricing | Free in beta | Paid tiers |
Frequently asked questions
Is Storyboarding for me if I'm a teacher?
Storyboard That is more aligned with educational use cases (stock characters, classroom features). Storyboarding is built for professional creative teams.
Can I make comic-style boards?
AI generation produces photoreal output by default. You can prompt for illustrated styles but stock comic libraries aren't available.
Which has more templates?
Storyboard That has more pre-built scene templates. Storyboarding's approach is to generate the exact scene you need rather than start from a template.
Are AI-generated frames better than comic-style?
Different deliverables. Pro pre-production needs photoreal; classroom storyboarding can use comic-style. Pick based on what your reviewer expects to see.
Can I migrate from Storyboard That?
Export PDFs from Storyboard That and create equivalent scenes with AI generation in Storyboarding. Direct import isn't supported today.