MakeStoryboard
MakeStoryboard is a Munich-based software company that operates the MakeStoryboard online storyboarding platform.
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2017MakeStoryboard is a Munich-based software company that operates the MakeStoryboard online storyboarding platform.
MakeStoryboard Storyboard Platform is a browser-based storyboarding tool published by MakeStoryboard UG of Munich. It assembles storyboards frame by frame, arranges and reorders frames, works in aspect ratios such as 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1, and attaches subtitles, scene descriptions, custom fields, and notes to each panel. Frames can carry automatic or manual durations so a board plays back as a timed animatic, and finished storyboards export as PDF or MP4.
The platform groups its capabilities into storyboarding, animation, collaboration, and drawing tools. Teams share passphrase-protected links, leave comments and annotations, sketch with built-in brushes, shapes, and fonts, and draw on a stock image library; a business offering adds company branding, nested folders, and per-team access for agencies and production groups. MakeStoryboard sells the product on a free tier alongside Individual and Team subscriptions.
Pre-production tooling is a crowded field, split between free and open-source desktop storyboard applications, general-purpose design platforms that ship storyboard templates, and paid professional suites used by studio pipelines. A browser tool competes on accessibility and on how much of the review cycle it can absorb.
Demand for storyboarding sits with advertising agencies and motion-graphics producers as much as with film and animation, and those buyers increasingly expect client-facing review to happen inside the tool rather than over email. That favours products that carry a board from first sketch through timed animatic and approval without a handoff.
MakeStoryboard keeps drawing, animatic timing, and client review inside one browser workspace, so a team does not have to move a board between a sketching tool and a separate editing or presentation tool. Passphrase-protected links and team-only comment threads let a board circulate outside the company without exposing internal discussion.
The platform preserves storyboard history through versioning rather than duplication, and its subscription structure starts from a limited free tier, which lowers the cost of evaluating it against paid-only alternatives. Branding controls on the business offering let agencies present boards under their own identity.
As a company of a few people, MakeStoryboard carries less brand recognition than the established pre-production suites that film and animation studios already standardise on, and its commercial push is aimed at smaller creative teams rather than large studio pipelines.
Its published pricing sits above the free desktop storyboarding applications that already cover drawing and basic animatic export, and the platform does not publish a separately priced enterprise tier or the studio-grade scheduling and shot-management features that the larger suites bundle.