TillyBoard vs Storyboard That

What Storyboard That is for

Online storyboard tool with a drag-and-drop editor, a character and scene library and templates, aimed mainly at education.

Teachers, schools and business teams who want storyboards without drawing.

Storyboarding tools are approval tools. They shine when the client decides from images, and say nothing about whether the drawn shots can actually be shot in a day.

Where Storyboard That is strong

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

• Large library of customisable characters and scenes, no drawing needed
• Exports to PDF, PowerPoint, GIF and images
• Well-developed education edition with class management

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 shot list, shooting schedule or call sheet module on its home and pricing pages
• The free plan allows 2 storyboards a week, and they are public

Where TillyBoard takes a different route

Storyboard That lays out panels from a clip-art library; TillyBoard plans a real shoot with shot list, AI preview frames, schedule and call sheet.

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: Teachers, schools and business teams who want storyboards without drawing. 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

Panels can be exported as images and placed on the TillyBoard concept canvas as a starting point.

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.