Miro alternatives

Why look beyond Miro at all?

Miro has clear strengths — anyone switching should know what they are giving up:

• Free plan plus official storyboard and moodboard templates
• AI image generation directly on the board
• More than 250 integrations and real-time collaboration for large teams

Where teams hit limits

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

• No film-specific modules for shooting schedule, call sheet or equipment lists
• The free plan is limited to 3 editable boards

1. TillyBoard — brief to shoot-ready plan

Miro gives you an empty canvas and templates; TillyBoard gives the shoot its structure — shots with durations, a schedule that recalculates and a call sheet from the plan.

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.

Export the frames of a board as images and drop them onto the TillyBoard concept canvas.

Other alternatives

Whiteboards are ideal for the open phase when everything can still move. Their freedom is also their limit: a frame on a board does not know how long the shot takes, who is in it or which shoot day it belongs to.

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

• 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.
• Yamdu: Longer-form productions with many departments and a dedicated production office.
• Celtx: Teams whose process starts with a screenplay.
• Movie Magic Scheduling: Scripted features and series where the stripboard is the shared language.
• Movie Magic Budgeting: Productions that must deliver budgets in a studio- or broadcaster-specified format.

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.