Krock.io alternatives

Why look beyond Krock.io at all?

Krock.io has clear strengths — anyone switching should know what they are giving up:

• Review of video, images, audio and PDF with version comparison and 4K playback
• AI storyboard with PDF and CSV export in the same tool as the review
• Integrations with Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro

Where teams hit limits

The search for an alternative almost always starts at one of these points:

• No shot list, shooting schedule or call sheet module on its home and pricing pages
• The free plan is limited to 1 user, 2 GB and 2 projects

1. TillyBoard — brief to shoot-ready plan

Krock.io covers storyboard and review; TillyBoard adds the shoot in between — shot list, schedule, call sheet and packing list.

A fit for commercials, brand films, corporate and social work — anywhere a brief lands and has to become a plan a crew can actually shoot from, quickly.

Storyboards export as PDF or CSV — a usable starting point for the TillyBoard shot list.

Other alternatives

Review platforms solve the feedback loop after the shoot. They are not a substitute for planning but its counterpart — and they get more valuable the more precisely it was agreed beforehand what is being signed off.

Depending on your bottleneck, these are worth a look — each with a different centre of gravity:

• Frame.io: Post-production feedback loops with external stakeholders.
• Previs Pro: Directors and cinematographers who want to block shots in 3D with real camera and lens parameters.
• Studiovity: Script-led productions that want writing, AI breakdown and scheduling in one suite with mobile apps.
• Miro: Teams that already work in Miro and want a free-form board for early storyboards and moodboards.
• Canva: Marketing and content teams that build pitch decks, moodboards and simple storyboards as designed layouts.
• StudioBinder: Agencies and production companies that want a single system of record for the whole crew.

What the choice actually turns on

The useful question is not which tool has more features but where your process stalls today: writing the plan, distributing the paperwork, or getting sign-off. A tool that solves the wrong problem well stops being opened after three weeks.

Just as important is who is meant to work in it. A tool only the production office uses, while the director and DoP stay in spreadsheets, moves the problem rather than solving it — the paperwork then drifts between tool and spreadsheet instead of between two spreadsheets.

Before you migrate

Three things you can settle in half an hour beforehand, and that cost weeks if skipped:

• Export formats: does what comes out match what post, accounting and the client expect — PDF for the crew, CSV for downstream systems, API for anything automated?
• Existing data: do live projects have to move with you, or is a clean break between two jobs enough? The clean break is almost always the cheaper answer.
• Access: who on the crew needs read access, who needs write? Per-seat pricing gets expensive fast as the crew grows.