StoryBoom
StoryBoom is a web-based storyboard app for filmmakers, animators, educators, marketers, and creative teams.
It blends the clarity of traditional paper storyboards with the flexibility of digital tools.
Add images, notes, timing, and filmmaking-style marks to scenes, and easily organize and rearrange for playback as slideshows or timed sequences.
Share securely, gather feedback through in-app comments, and export your work as PDFs or high-definition images.
With a customizable interface, managing multiple projects is simple.
StoryBoom works in any modern browser on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
Truly free starter plan, with professional essentials included:
• Full features unlocked — no paywalls, no card required
• Flexible layouts — resize and reorder scenes anytime
• Collaboration built in — invite up to 3 teammates
• Generous limits — 5 boards / 80 scenes to start free
• Export anytime — PDF, zipped HTML with full HD images
• No hidden catches!
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Bordio
Bordio is a comprehensive project management software that integrates team management software, task management tools, and a project planning calendar all in one platform. It brings together everything teams need to get their work done, from setting up projects with a project planner and organizing tasks on a kanban board, to collaborating with team members using a task board.
The platform provides a clear view of what needs to be done each day with its online calendar, making overwhelming to-do lists a thing of the past. With features for scheduling tasks on specific days and keeping track of progress with color-coded statuses, Bordio keeps teams focused and acts as an effective project tracker and task tracker.
You can invite guests like clients or freelancers into projects at no extra cost and work together seamlessly. The inclusion of a team task planner and team tracker ensures that every member’s efforts are synchronized and visible.
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Loose Thought
Loose Thought is a paper-like mind mapping tool designed for visual thinkers who want a simple way to explore, organize, and develop ideas. The platform lets users type anywhere on a blank canvas, arrange notes into topic cards, and connect related concepts visually. It supports images, highlights, rich typography, text sizing, embedded links, and cross-linked notes to help users build deeper understanding around a topic. Loose Thought is built for active thinking rather than passive information storage, encouraging users to form connections and shape knowledge in their own minds. The app also includes offline functionality, fast performance, real-time collaboration, mobile access, full keyboard support, and markdown import and export. Loose Thought helps students, writers, researchers, creators, and deep thinkers turn scattered ideas into structured visual knowledge maps.
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Freeform
Freeform is Apple’s collaborative digital whiteboarding app that gives you an unlimited, flexible canvas to bring ideas to life and work visually with others in real time across your Apple devices. It supports adding photos, video, audio, documents, PDFs, web links, sticky notes, and more anywhere on a board so you can create mood boards, diagrams, project plans, research collections, or creative collages with almost any file type, and draw or write with touch or Apple Pencil on compatible devices. It includes over 700 shapes and alignment guides for clean layouts, a built-in scanner to import and annotate paper documents, and boards that sync via iCloud so changes update on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can invite collaborators via email, link, or Messages and brainstorm with up to 100 people at once, with optional integration to start a FaceTime call while you work.
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