TillyBoard vs Miro

What Miro is for

Collaborative online whiteboard where teams brainstorm, plan and build together, with official storyboard and moodboard templates and AI on the board.

Teams that already work in Miro and want a free-form board for early storyboards and moodboards.

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.

Where Miro is strong

A comparison that only lists your own upsides is not one. This is what speaks for Miro:

• 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 the limits are

And these are the points where teams run into limits in practice — not as a flaw, but as a consequence of the design:

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

Where TillyBoard takes a different route

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.

TillyBoard turns a brief into a shoot-ready package: shot list, storyboard, schedule and call sheet that stay connected. Change the creative direction and the affected shots are flagged rather than quietly left behind.

Which tool when

In short: Teams that already work in Miro and want a free-form board for early storyboards and moodboards. If your bottleneck is instead getting from a brief to a plan that holds, that is where TillyBoard starts.

The useful question before switching is not which tool does more, but where the process stalls today. Three bottlenecks come up again and again in production teams, and they call for different tools:

• The plan comes together too slowly: days pass between the brief and a shoot-ready shot list, with the client already chasing.
• The paperwork drifts apart: shot list, schedule and call sheet live in three files, and after the second change none of them agrees with the others.
• Distribution eats the time: the plan is done, but every version has to be sent to twenty people by hand and chased up.

What to check before switching

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

Switching tools mid-production almost always costs more than it saves on that job. The sensible moment is between two projects, with a pilot small enough to run twice if it comes to that. Check first whether the export formats match what post and accounting expect — migrations fail there more often than on features.