Milanote vs TillyBoard compared

What Milanote is for

Visual board tool used widely for moodboards and creative direction.

Milanote describes itself as a tool for organising creative projects — film, writing, design, photography, marketing — with its own page on visual planning for filmmakers.

Moodboard tools belong at the very start, before any planning. Their weak point is the handover: references living in a separate board are rarely still at hand four weeks later when the shot list gets written.

Milanote 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: milanote.com · TillyBoard: tillyboard.com

Milanote pricing compared

Milanote charges per person on the individual plan and a flat annual price for teams; which team size the $49 refers to is not clearly stated on the plans page.

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: milanote.com/plans

Is Milanote free? Free plan and trial

Yes — Milanote Free has no time limit and allows 100 notes, images or links plus 10 file uploads; shared boards are unlimited. The paid plans offer a trial whose length is not stated.

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.

Try TillyBoard free

Who Milanote is the better pick for

Put honestly — here Milanote is the stronger choice:

• Free-form creative direction across disciplines, not only film
• Collecting references from the web with the web clipper
• Teams that need apps on every platform, including Android and desktop

Who TillyBoard is the better pick for

And here TillyBoard is the stronger choice:

• Teams that want the moodboard to turn into a shot list and a schedule in the same project
• Productions that need real call sheets with confirmation, not a template
• Crews who want the day plan offline on set in the iOS app

Where TillyBoard takes a different route

TillyBoard keeps references attached to the project so they are still there when the shot list is written weeks later.

A brief becomes a shoot-ready plan: shot list, storyboard, schedule and call sheet that stay connected. Change a shot and the schedule, call sheet and packing list follow.

Milanote in practice: what to weigh

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

• The free limit of 100 items fills quickly: a moodboard of reference stills alone can use it up.
• Shot lists and call sheets exist as board templates — useful as checklists, but without times, confirmations or schedule logic.
• Milanote's mobile apps have no offline mode, according to its help centre.

Switching from Milanote to TillyBoard

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

1. Export the board's images from Milanote as a ZIP and the board itself as PDF.
2. Create a free TillyBoard account (no card) and a project for the job.
3. Drop the images onto the concept canvas and write the treatment next to them.
4. Let Tilly AI draft the shot list from the concept, or write it row by row — about a minute per shot.
5. Generate preview frames, build the shoot day and send the call sheet from the same project.