Best AI Storyboard Generators in 2026 That Also Make Video

The best AI storyboard generator depends on what happens after the board. Boords is built for client sign-off and hands timelines to editing software. Storyboarder.ai gives the most free AI frames we could count, 30 on its free plan. Katalist, Mootion, LTX Studio and Hyperdream carry the board on into video in the same project. Every price here was read on 10 November 2026.

Key takeaways

• Boords starts at $39 a month. Unlimited clients review and comment without an account on every plan.
• Storyboarder.ai has a free plan with 2 projects, 30 image generations and 3 video generations. Paid plans start at $53 a month, or $29 a month billed yearly.
• Katalist ($19), Mootion ($15) and LTX Studio ($35 for AI storyboards) turn a board into video.
• StoryboardHero is $19 a month for one seat, with unlimited AI images.
• Hyperdream's Storyboard tool is on the $99 Pro plan, the highest entry price on this list. A vector frame costs 1 credit.

What should a storyboard generator do?

Four things, in the order you will need them.

1. Break a script into scenes and shots. A board is a plan, not a set of pictures.
2. Keep characters the same from frame to frame. Otherwise the board can't be approved.
3. Let a client or a team comment and sign off. That is what a board is for.
4. Lead somewhere. A PDF, an animatic, or video in the same project.

This list leans on the fourth. When we asked ChatGPT on 10 November 2026 for tools with "a proper storyboard of scenes and shots" that a team can join, it named Katalist, Boords, Flora and Storyboarder.ai. Three of those are below. We did not review Flora.

How do the eight tools compare?

What does each tool do well?

Boords: sign-off and exports

Boords' headline is "Pre-production sign-off for video agencies and their clients". That is the job it does. Its pricing page says "Unlimited clients review and comment without an account, on every plan." Paid plans include version history and an animatic editor. Team and Agency add client-hidden comments and project-level permissions.

Plans are Solo $39 a month (1 user, 250 AI images a month), Pro $75 (5 users, 1,000), Team $125 (10 users, 2,000) and Agency $250 (30 users, 3,000). Yearly billing brings Solo to $26 a month. The free plan allows 5 storyboards, 3 scripts and 8 sample AI images.

Its homepage lists exports as PDF, slides, images, an MP4 animatic, and timelines for After Effects, Premiere and Resolve. We saw no AI video clips on its pages. The animatic is timed still frames with voiceover.

Storyboarder.ai: the free plan and long scripts

Storyboarder.ai's headline is "From Idea To Storyboard, Screenplay, Shot List, Animatic, Pitch-Deck In Minutes." Its pricing page lists a free plan with 2 projects, 6 shots a project, 30 image generations and 3 video generations. Exports carry a watermark and are not for commercial use.

Paid plans are Starter at $53 a month ($29 a month billed yearly), Pro Unlimited at $77 ($47) and Production Unlimited at $299 ($149). The page marked these prices "Limited Time - Until Nov 30". All three include unlimited image generations. Starter takes scripts up to 10 pages, Pro Unlimited 30, and Production Unlimited any length.

Video is image-to-video from a storyboard frame. Paid plans include 10 to 20 video generations, and more come through a video add-on from $49 a month on top of the plan.

Katalist: ad storyboards that become video

Katalist says it "breaks it into shots and generates a storyboard", then lets you "turn your shots into video". On characters it says: "Cast a character once from a reference and Katalist keeps the same face and look through the entire storyboard and video." Its homepage now leads with ads: "Viral video in <30 minutes."

Its pricing page shows Essential at $19 a month (200 image credits and 700 video credits), Pro at $39 with an Adobe Premiere Pro integration, and Unlimited at $99 with 2 seats and ZIP and .ppt export. A second set on the same page reads $29, $31 and $79 with yearly totals. We could not tell which set is current. There is a 7-day trial.

StoryboardHero: a flat price and unlimited images

StoryboardHero calls itself "the best AI Storyboard Generator". Plans are Solo $19 a month (1 seat), Starter $59 (5 seats) and Advanced $199 (10 seats). Each has unlimited AI images, plus 100, 350 or 1,200 premium AI images a month. Every plan lists PDF export, an online share link, guest commenting and "Export as MP4 video". The page does not say whether that MP4 is an animatic or generated video.

One option we saw on no other page here: frames drawn by the company's sketch artists, sold as credits at $99 for 10. There is a 7-day trial with no card.

LTX Studio: storyboards with its own video model

LTX Studio comes from the company behind the LTX video models. Its storyboard page describes a script split into scenes and shots, characters and objects pulled out as reusable Elements, real-time collaboration, animated storyboards exported as MP4, and PDF pitch decks.

On its pricing page, the free plan has 800 one-time credits, "Blank Storyboards" and a personal-use licence. Lite is $15 a month with 8,000 credits. AI Storyboards, Pitch Decks and saved Elements start on Standard at $35 with 28,000 credits. Pro is $125 with 110,000 credits and 3 collaborators per project. Full comparison: Hyperdream vs LTX Studio.

Morphic: frames shaped by hand

Morphic describes itself as "an AI video and image studio — from ideation to a finished story." You "iterate on frames, animate characters, use inbetweening to bring scenes to life, train your own style". It is a canvas more than a guided storyboard. The pages we read never use the word storyboard.

Plans are Basic $19 a month (2,400 credits), Standard $24, Pro $45 and Max $170, with a free plan of up to 20 credits. Pro and Max share credits with up to 4 and 9 more users at extra cost.

Mootion: storyboard first, at $15

Mootion's Director Mode is "Storyboard first, then render. Full control over every shot." It breaks a project into scene storyboards, and a Character Library saves characters to reuse. Plans are Standard $15 a month (1,500 credits, up to 8 saved characters), Plus $25, Pro $50 and Max $200. We saw no free plan and no seats for a team.

Hyperdream: a board that becomes the film

Hyperdream is ours, so weigh this part with that in mind. It has storyboards in two places.

Create's Storyboard tool plans a film shot by shot and draws it as AI stills or as "Vector frames". A vector frame costs 1 credit. An AI still costs the price of the image model you pick, 1 to 5 credits. Shapes are 16:9, 2.39:1, 9:16 and 1:1, and the board saves as a "Pitch deck PDF". Motion can turn a storyboard into a moving one at 3 credits a second.

Director's Storyboard step is the fifth of eight steps in a film. Each shot holds a description, shot size, camera move, lens, length, who speaks and the line, narration and sound effects, with a still frame before any video. The Shots step then renders each shot, and Edit cuts them on a timeline.

Both need the Pro plan: $99 a month with 2,000 credits. The planning itself uses the Director allowance that comes with Pro, not credits. "Share for review" makes a link where a client comments on a spot in a frame and approves or sends it back, with no account. On a Team plan, a storyboarding seat is $119 a month and viewers are free.

On a 30-second ad we made for Shilp Group in November 2026, the first stills showed a bungalow and cramped rooms. The client builds apartments. That was fixed at the still stage, before any video was paid for. The numbers are in the Shilp case study.

Where Hyperdream is weaker:

• Price. $99 a month is the highest entry on this list. The 20 free sign-up credits don't open the Storyboard tool.
• Hand-off. A file for editing software is marked "Coming soon". Boords and Katalist list one today.
• Sign-off depth. Review links give pinned comments and approve or send back. Boords is built around sign-off, with client-hidden comments and project permissions.
• Hand-drawn frames. Not offered. StoryboardHero sells them.
• Track record. The current version went live on 9 November 2026, so independent reviews are few.

Which AI storyboard generator should you pick?

• Clients must sign off boards, and editors need a timeline: Boords.
• You want to try a storyboard for nothing, or board a feature script: Storyboarder.ai.
• You make ads and want the board to become video for $19: Katalist.
• A small agency wants unlimited frames at a flat price: StoryboardHero.
• You work alone and want a storyboard tied to its own video model: LTX Studio.
• You want to shape each frame by hand: Morphic.
• You want storyboard-first video at the lowest price: Mootion.
• The board has to become a finished film, for a client, with a team: Hyperdream.

For film tools beyond storyboards, see the best AI film studios in 2026, AI director agents compared and one AI tool for script, storyboard, characters and video.

How do you storyboard in Hyperdream?

1. Open Create and pick Storyboard. Type the idea or paste a script, and choose the shape.
2. Pick a panel style. Vector frames at 1 credit each are enough to agree the shots. AI stills show the look.
3. Save the "Pitch deck PDF", or press "Share for review" and send the link. See client review links.
4. For a whole film, start in Director. Settle Cast and Places first, so the Storyboard step draws each frame from the reference sheets.
5. Approve the stills, then render in Shots and cut in Edit.

The product page is /ai-storyboard-generator, and plans are explained in Hyperdream pricing explained.

How we checked

We read each company's own pricing and product pages on 10 November 2026: Boords, Storyboarder.ai, Katalist, StoryboardHero, LTX Studio, Morphic and Mootion. Hyperdream's numbers are from its live pricing and model data the same day. What we could not confirm: which Katalist price set is current, how StoryboardHero's MP4 is made, and whether Boords makes AI video (we saw none). Storyboarder.ai's homepage says 50 free image generations and its pricing page says 30; we used the pricing page. "Not seen" means not on the pages we read. We did not build the same board in all eight tools, so this compares what each offers and costs, not the quality of the frames. We left out usage rights and privacy terms. Read each tool's terms before client work.