Setkeeper alternatives for 2026

Why look beyond Setkeeper at all?

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

• Call sheets, contacts and logistics in one predictable place
• Distribution lists stay maintained across a production
• Clear for a production office that lives in paperwork

Where teams hit limits

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

• The call sheet is maintained, not derived from a schedule
• Creative artefacts are outside its scope

1. TillyBoard — the Setkeeper alternative that starts from the brief

TillyBoard produces the call sheet as a by-product of the schedule rather than as a document to maintain.

A fit for commercials, brand films, corporate and social work — wherever a brief lands and has to become a plan a crew can shoot from, quickly. Free to start, no credit card.

Setkeeper vs TillyBoard: feature comparison

The table only records what each vendor documents on its own site — "Not stated" means we could not evidence it there, not that it is missing.

As of October 2026. Source: setkeeper.com · TillyBoard: tillyboard.com

Setkeeper pricing compared

Setkeeper prices by production budget, not by user; the pricing page does not say whether a price is one-off per production or recurring, and onboarding and support are included for the duration of the production.

TillyBoard bills per workspace, not per person: the Studio plan covers up to 25 members, and crew and clients confirm and comment via link without an account. All TillyBoard prices exclude VAT.

As of October 2026. Prices change — the vendor's pricing page is authoritative: setkeeper.com/pricing

Is Setkeeper free? Free plan and trial

Setkeeper offers a free trial but states no length; a permanent free plan is not mentioned. TillyBoard has a free-forever plan for one project.

TillyBoard has a free-forever plan with no credit card: one own project, 1 GB of storage, Tilly AI on the standard quota and 10 AI images a month. That is enough to plan one real job end to end, from brief to call sheet, before deciding on a paid plan.

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Who Setkeeper is the better pick for

Put honestly — here Setkeeper is the stronger choice:

• High-end film and TV productions where leaks are a real risk: forensic barcodes, mandatory watermarks, revocable access
• Production offices that create script sides and merge them with the call sheet into one PDF
• Coordinators who track email opens and downloads per recipient

Who TillyBoard is the better pick for

And here TillyBoard is the stronger choice:

• Commercial, corporate and social jobs with budgets far below the $1 million where Setkeeper's tiers start
• Teams that want to create the call sheet from the plan, not just distribute it
• Planning upstream of distribution: concept, shot list, preview frames, schedule

Other Setkeeper alternatives

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

• 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.
• Assemble: Agency-side teams coordinating several productions at once.
• Sesame: Teams looking for lightweight coordination without a full studio suite.
• Scenechronize: Large scripted productions with heavy paperwork distribution.
• Croogloo: Production offices on longer-form projects.

Setkeeper in practice: what to weigh

Not a star rating, but the points that follow from Setkeeper's design, pricing model and documentation and that make the difference on real jobs:

• Pricing follows the production budget, which makes Setkeeper predictable for long-form productions and oversized for small jobs.
• Security is the core: 2FA, SSO with Okta, Google or Azure AD, burned-in watermarks and PDF download prevention.
• Setkeeper distributes and tracks call sheets; creating them is not documented, and scheduling sits in the separate product ProCal.

Switching from Setkeeper to TillyBoard

TillyBoard has no direct import from Setkeeper. The switch runs through an export and a fresh plan — ideally between two jobs, not mid-production:

1. Keep the archive of watermarked PDFs from Setkeeper; there is nothing to convert.
2. Create a free TillyBoard account (no card) and a project for the next job.
3. Build the shot list — Tilly AI drafts it from the brief — and add cast, crew contacts and locations once.
4. Arrange the shoot days; the call sheet takes times, locations, cast and crew straight from the plan.
5. Send the call sheet from TillyBoard; cast and crew confirm via link without an account.