FREE AI FILMMAKING
AI that plans the film,
not just generates a clip.
Storyflow is a free AI canvas for the planning side of filmmaking. Describe your film and the AI builds the script breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule on one board, keeping the context of your whole project. It plans the film you shoot, and works alongside generative tools that create footage. No download, no credit card.
Free plan
No credit card
Plans, then you shoot
Used by creative professionals at:
Artlist
Pixar
Nike
Red Bull
The North Face
Porsche
Start from a ready-made template
Pick a board to see what you can build, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.
Pre-Production
Pull the brief, script, shot list, and moodboard into one pre-production hub so the whole shoot is planned in one place.
What is AI filmmaking?
AI filmmaking covers the growing set of tools that use artificial intelligence to help make films, and it splits into two very different halves. One half is generative: tools like Runway, Luma, and Sora that create footage, images, and effects from a prompt. The other half is planning: AI that helps you develop, break down, storyboard, and schedule a film before and around the shoot. Both are AI filmmaking, but they solve opposite problems, and most of the attention goes to the generative side.
The planning half is where a lot of filmmaking time actually goes, and where good AI is genuinely useful. Developing a story, breaking a script into elements, storyboarding scenes, building a shot list, and scheduling a shoot are slow, structured tasks that an AI with the context of your whole project can accelerate without taking the creative decisions away from you. This is the half Storyflow is built for.
Storyflow is a free AI-native infinite canvas for planning films. Describe your project or paste a script and the AI lays out a structured plan drawn from over 200 filmmaking frameworks, then builds the script breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule when you point it at them. Crucially, the AI keeps the context of your whole board, so a request to expand act two or tighten the schedule works from the full project, not just the last message. It plans the film you then go and shoot.
To be clear about what it is not: Storyflow does not generate footage, and it is not a video editor. It plans and organizes the film. That means it sits happily alongside the generative side of AI filmmaking, you can plan a project in Storyflow and use a generative tool for concept frames or a stylized shot, and alongside a traditional shoot and edit. It is the AI that owns the planning, so the rest of the process starts from a clear, complete plan.
HOW IT WORKS
Plan a film with AI in four steps.
No blank page. The AI reads your project and lays out the plan.
01
Open a free canvas
Sign up in seconds, no credit card. Your infinite canvas opens in the browser, ready for the AI to build on.
02
Describe the film or paste a script
Type a prompt about the project or paste a screenplay, and the AI lays out a structured plan with the right framework.
03
Let the AI build the pieces
Ask it to generate the script breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule on the same board, each connected and aware of the others.
04
Refine, collaborate, and shoot
Adjust anything on the board, invite the crew, share a view-only link, and carry the plan into the shoot and the edit.
AI for the planning, on one board.
Script breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule built by AI on one canvas, with the context of your whole project.
AI plans the film from a prompt or script
Build the plan, not just a clip
Describe the film or paste a script and the AI lays out a structured plan, then builds the breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule. It plans the film you shoot, drawn from 200+ frameworks.
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The AI keeps your whole project as context
It knows the whole board
Ask the AI to expand a scene, tighten the schedule, or add coverage and it works from the full context of your project, not just the last message, so the plan stays coherent.
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Storyboard and moodboard, AI-built
Visualize the film
Generate a storyboard from the script and pin the moodboard beside it, grabbing frames from YouTube or Vimeo, so the look and the shots are planned together.
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Works alongside the rest of your process
The plan the shoot starts from
Storyflow plans and organizes, it does not generate footage or edit. It sits alongside generative AI tools and a traditional shoot and edit, giving the process a clear plan to start from.
See film production planning →Free AI filmmaking, no expiry.
Plan as many films as you want on an unlimited canvas. The free plan needs no credit card and never times out.
Unlimited boards on an infinite canvas
Basic AI usage to build plans, storyboards, and shot lists
3 starter frameworks built in
20 file uploads for scripts, PDFs, and references
THE PLANNING SIDE OF AI
AI filmmaking that plans the film, end to end of pre-production.
Storyflow is an AI-native canvas for planning, so every pre-production deliverable is built and connected by an AI that holds the whole project in context.
From idea to a full pre-production plan
The AI builds the whole plan
Plan from a prompt or script: Describe the film or paste a screenplay and the AI lays out a structured plan drawn from over 200 frameworks, so you start from a real plan, not a blank board.
Breakdown, storyboard, shot list, schedule: Ask the AI to build each deliverable on the same board, so the breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule are generated and connected, not typed separately.
Character, world, and story notes: Have the AI draft character profiles, world-building, and story structure, kept next to the scenes they belong to.
Context is the whole point
An AI that holds the project
The whole board as context: Unlike a chat that forgets, the AI keeps the full context of your board, so a request works from the entire project and its suggestions fit what you have built.
Change without losing your work: Ask it to rework act two or compress the schedule and it updates the plan while keeping the cards, notes, and images you placed.
You keep the creative call: The AI drafts and accelerates, but every decision is yours to make on the board, so the film stays your vision.
Honest about where it fits
Planning, alongside the rest
Not a footage generator: Storyflow does not create footage. Generative tools like Runway, Luma, and Sora do that, and you can use them alongside a Storyflow plan.
Not a video editor: It is not an NLE. Pair it with Premiere or DaVinci Resolve for the cut, and use Storyflow to plan what you shoot.
The plan the process starts from: Because it owns the planning, everything downstream, the shoot, the generation, the edit, starts from a clear plan.
For the film you are making
One AI canvas, any project
Features, shorts, and series: Plan a feature, a short, or an episode, with the AI scaling the plan's depth to the project.
Documentary and commercial: Plan a documentary arc or commercial treatment, with the AI drafting the structure your format needs.
Indie and first-time filmmakers: Get a professional pre-production plan for free, with the AI showing how the pieces fit while you learn the craft.
Explore templates for your project
Every template opens as a real, editable board on the infinite canvas. Pick the closest fit and make it your own.
Pre-Production
Pull the brief, script, shot list, and moodboard into one pre-production hub so the whole shoot is planned in one place.
HOW WE COMPARE
Storyflow vs StudioBinder, Milanote, and Notion.
A fair look at the planning tools. Storyflow is the AI-native canvas that builds the plan and holds the whole project as context.
Storyflow
Recommended
Free plan with unlimited boards
AI builds the plan from a prompt or script
Storyboard, shot list, and schedule on one canvas
AI keeps your whole project as context
View-only share link, no sign-up
200+ filmmaking frameworks
StudioBinder
Free plan with unlimited boards
AI builds the plan from a prompt or script
Storyboard, shot list, and schedule on one canvas
AI keeps your whole project as context
View-only share link, no sign-up
200+ filmmaking frameworks
Milanote
Free plan with unlimited boards
AI builds the plan from a prompt or script
Storyboard, shot list, and schedule on one canvas
AI keeps your whole project as context
View-only share link, no sign-up
200+ filmmaking frameworks
Notion
Free plan with unlimited boards
AI builds the plan from a prompt or script
Storyboard, shot list, and schedule on one canvas
AI keeps your whole project as context
View-only share link, no sign-up
200+ filmmaking frameworks
What creators are saying
Join early creators getting structured workspaces and AI that remembers their projects
“Storyflow has sped up my workflow by at least 3x, which means more flow state and more projects I can actually ship. It truly changed the way me and my team create.”
Reilin Joey
Director & YouTuber
“One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.”
Justkay
YouTuber & Freelance Filmmaker
“I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.”
George
@fernwehchronicles
AI filmmaking, answered.
What filmmakers ask about planning films with AI in Storyflow.
AI filmmaking is using artificial intelligence to help make films, and it has two halves: generative tools like Runway and Sora that create footage, and planning tools that help develop, break down, storyboard, and schedule a film. Storyflow is the planning half: a free AI canvas that builds your script breakdown, storyboard, shot list, and schedule with the context of your whole project.
Let AI plan the film, then go make it.
Open a free canvas, describe your project, and let the AI build the whole plan. Free plan, no credit card.