Storytelling Tools for Teams: Miro, Figma, Canva, Adobe Express

Key Takeaways

• For a creative team telling one story across a campaign or brand film, Storyflow is our pick as the shared home: the brief, story, frames, assets and sign-offs sit on one board that anyone on the job can open, while finished assets get made in the tools built for them.
• The Storyflow 5-Wall Sequence is our own rule, not research: a team story moves through Brief, Story, Frames, Copy and Assets, and Sign-off, with one drafter and at most two reviewers per wall. Three people have three lines of conversation, and five have ten.
• A storytelling tool decides what the story is. A presentation tool delivers a story that has already been decided. Teams who start in slides polish an argument nobody agreed.
• Miro and FigJam are strong for the workshop, Figma Slides and Canva for the finished deck or asset, Adobe Express for quick branded assets with social scheduling, Boords for storyboards with client comments, and Frame.io for frame-accurate video review.
• As of November 2026, Storyflow has a Free plan at $0, with Plus at $7.99 a month billed annually. Miro Starter is $8 per member billed yearly, a Figma Organization Collab seat is $5 a month billed annually, Adobe Express Teams is $7.99 per licence a month on an annual plan, and Boords Pro is $50 a month billed yearly for up to 5 users.
• Storyflow does not make video, does not schedule social posts and has no frame-level approval status. It holds the story and hands off to the tools that finish it.

How a Creative Team Runs a Story in Storyflow: The 8-Step Method

A campaign run on one Storyflow board keeps the story in one place. You know how the failure looks: the strategist's message lives in a deck, the script in a document, the frames in a storyboard tool and the approvals in someone's inbox. Three weeks in, the film and the social cuts are telling slightly different stories, and nobody can say when that happened.

1. Open a Storyflow project for the campaign and build five walls left to right: Brief, Story, Frames, Copy and Assets, Sign-off. Name one drafter on each.
2. Draft the Brief wall in Storyflow: audience, the one message, the deliverables and who approves. Two reviewers at most, then record the sign-off on the wall.
3. Write the story on the Storyflow board as a Story wall of 5 to 8 beats, using a framework if it helps, and keep the one message in sight at the top.
4. Build the Frames wall in Storyflow from the agreed beats: reference images, storyboard frames or shot cards, one per beat at first.
5. Move to Copy and Assets on the Storyflow board: script, captions and asset list in a table, each row tied to a beat, so a social cut can be traced back to the story.
6. Make the finished work in the specialist tools, in Figma, Canva, Adobe Express or your editor, and put a link card back on the Storyflow board for each.
7. Review in the right place: story notes on the board, frame-accurate notes in a video review tool. Copy each decision to a plain note on the Sign-off wall.
8. Present the five walls with Storyflow's presentation mode to the approver, or send a view-only link, then export the deck or board as a PDF for the record.

Most team storytelling problems are not creative problems. They are sequence problems: people reviewing frames before anyone has agreed the story.

A fictional apparel brand's campaign plan on a board. Goals, budget and timeline sit in walls beside each other, which is the frame a team story has to fit.

The Storyflow 5-Wall Sequence, and Why the Order Is Fixed

The Storyflow 5-Wall Sequence gives every handoff in a team story a date and a name, because a team can make a beautiful story and still fail at the handoffs.

The Storyflow 5-Wall Sequence, defined

The Storyflow 5-Wall Sequence is the rule we recommend for a team story: on one Storyflow board, five walls run in a fixed order (Brief, Story, Frames, Copy and Assets, Sign-off), each wall has one drafter and at most two reviewers, and no wall opens until the one before it has a recorded sign-off. It is our editorial recommendation from production logic, and no research is claimed for it.

Why five walls

Each wall answers a different question, for a different reviewer. Brief: what are we saying, and to whom? Story: in what order does it unfold? Frames: what does it look like? Copy and Assets: what exactly gets made? Sign-off: who agreed, and when? Merging Brief and Story means a marketing director approves a story without a stated goal, and adding a sixth wall usually means adding a meeting.

Why one drafter and two reviewers

The cap is arithmetic. People on a piece of work have n(n-1)/2 possible conversations between them: three people have 3, five people have 10, eight people have 28. One drafter with two reviewers keeps that at three. Stakeholders above the cap still get a view-only link. They just do not get a vote on this wall.

Why the order is fixed

A storyboard drawn before the story is agreed gets redrawn. A caption written before the frames are agreed gets rewritten. It is not about bureaucracy. It is about the cost of a change, which grows at every wall. A note at Brief changes a sentence, and the same note at Assets changes a shoot.

When to loosen the rule

Three people working on one social series can merge Frames and Copy into a single wall, since they sit together and change costs are low. A brand film for a regulated client may need a third reviewer on Copy for legal. Keep the order even when you merge walls: that is the part that protects you.

A launch board with phases as columns, read left to right. The sequence is visible at a glance, so nobody has to ask what stage the work is in.

Who Drafts, Who Reviews, What Stays Connected

Each wall has a named drafter and at most two reviewers, which answers the question tool comparisons skip: who touches what? This table assigns it for a typical campaign or brand film. Rename the roles to fit your team.

One message at the top of every wall

Put the Brief's one message on a note at the top of the Story wall and again on the Copy wall. It takes seconds, and it is the cheapest way to catch a story drifting. When a beat cannot be connected to that sentence, either the beat or the sentence has to go.

Assets tied to beats

Every asset row in the Copy and Assets table names the beat it comes from. When the client changes beat 3, you can see which cut-downs, captions and carousel pages are affected. That connection is what separates a team story from a pile of files with a shared hashtag.

Sign-offs recorded as notes, not comments

Board comments take replies, and Resolve deletes the whole thread. So write the decision, name and date in a note on the Sign-off wall before you resolve anything. Storyflow has no frame-level approval status, so that note is the status.

Stakeholders above the cap

View-only links open with no account. Send one to anyone who wants to look, and be plain that feedback goes through the wall's reviewers. Anyone you invite to edit or comment can join free, and Free can invite anyone.

A production company's hub, the level above one job: each campaign or film gets a project with its own five walls.

Storytelling Tool vs Presentation Tool: Which Does a Team Need?

A storytelling tool decides what the story is and a presentation tool delivers a story already decided, so the five walls are the story and the deck comes off them last.

A deck forces an order too early

Slides ask you to commit to an order on slide one, before you have tested alternatives. For a story that is still moving, that is the wrong shape, which is why the workshop belongs on a canvas. Read what is visual storytelling if you need that argument for a colleague.

A board is a poor final delivery on its own

Some approvers want a document they can forward to their boss. Boards are hard to forward as an argument. So take the last step seriously: from a signed-off board, ChatGPT can build a deck through the plugin, and the in-app AI can build a pitch deck or one-pager, which present fullscreen and export as PDF. If a client needs a .pptx, Storyflow does not export one, so finish in Figma Slides, Canva or PowerPoint.

Figma Slides sits in between

Figma Slides can turn a FigJam board into a deck outline, has presenter notes, live polls and clickable prototypes, and imports .pptx files. For a team already in Figma, FigJam then Slides is a tidy path, as long as the story work happens before the Slides stage.

Digital Storytelling Tools by Job: Draft, Review, Connect

Storyflow leads this table because it is ours and connection across the job is its basis. Three questions separate the tools: is it good for drafting a story, can reviewers use it, and what stays connected when something changes? Each other row names the job that tool wins, read from its vendor's pages as of November 2026.

A six-stage photo shoot workflow with a comment on the board. The same left-to-right reading works for any team story.

Most teams need two of these, not nine

A sensible pair is a home for the story and a tool for the asset: Storyflow with Figma or Canva, or Miro and Adobe Express. Add a third only when a specific review need appears, such as Frame.io once footage exists.

Interactive stories need different tools

A branching story for a game or an interactive experience needs a tool that understands branches. Twine is open source and publishes interactive stories to HTML. Read what is transmedia storytelling if your story runs across connected channels, and what is digital storytelling if the team needs common terms first.

Education needs are different too

Classroom tools are a separate category, with separate rules around pupils and accounts. They are compared in the best digital storytelling tools for education, and a beginner's list is in the easiest digital storytelling tools.

Storyboarding Tools for Teams

Storyflow suits teams who want storyboard frames beside the brief, and a dedicated tool suits teams whose main output is the board itself. We list ourselves first.

Boords is the specialist for client-reviewed boards

Boords' pricing page lists client review without an account, unlimited guest commenting, password-protected links, real-time collaboration, version history and an activity trail on all paid plans. If a storyboard is the deliverable and a client will mark it up, this is purpose-built in a way a canvas is not.

Storyboarder is free, and its age is a question

Storyboarder is free and open source on Mac, Windows and Linux, with drawing tools, timing and exports to editing software. Its page offers version 1.0.0 and its footer reads 2019, so check its GitHub repository for recent work, and test it on your machine, before you plan a team around it.

Miro's templates are a good free start

Miro's storyboard collection lists 32 templates covering film and animation, UX and marketing, included on every plan, including Free, with more community examples in Miroverse. They are layouts to fill by hand. For a team with a whiteboard already, that is often enough. Our storyboard maker, commercial storyboard and marketing storyboard pages show our version.

Digital Storytelling Tool Pricing and Features

Storyflow has a Free plan at $0, and team tools get expensive through seats and the people who only review. Prices below were read from vendor pages, as of November 2026, in US dollars. We list ourselves first, then the list runs from whiteboards to design tools to video.

Sources: Miro pricing, Figma pricing, Canva pricing, Adobe Express pricing, Boords pricing, Frame.io pricing, Storyflow pricing.

Count reviewers before you count seats

A team of four with eight reviewers looks very different under each model. Boords lets guests comment for free. Figma lets viewers view Design files with no seat. Storyflow view links are free, and invitations join free. Miro needs Business for guests. Write down who only reviews before you compare prices.

Adobe's intro price is an intro price

Adobe Express Teams shows $4.99 per licence a month for the first year, then $7.99, with a 2-seat minimum. Budget for the later figure.

Our limits on the money side

The Free plan is $0 with no card: capped projects and uploads and 25 plugin or connector actions a week through ChatGPT or Claude, with no in-app AI. In-app AI starts on Plus, and Max adds a Team Workspace with roles and permissions. Free can invite anyone to a board.

Template: The Team Story Board

Here is a filled template for a fictional in-house team at a fictional bike maker, Cadence Row, planning a campaign called Long Way Home: one 90-second brand film, four social cut-downs and a carousel. Copy the columns; the names are placeholders. Keep rows in sequence order, because these tables cannot be sorted.

What the Tied to column prevents

When Jonas, the marketing director, moves beat 3 on Friday, Beth can read the Tied to column and list which cuts need rethinking. That list used to be somebody's memory.

Who is in the person columns

If ChatGPT or Claude builds this table, a person column named Owner or Assignee links people who already have access to the board. If any name matches nobody, the whole column stays plain text. Rename Drafter to Owner if you want those links. Through the plugin, to-dos take no date and no assignee, so set those in the app, or put milestones on tickets or in a date column.

An audience board: pains and goals laid out next to the plan, the kind of material a Brief wall links to.

Worked Example: Long Way Home, From One Message to Final Film

This example is illustrative, for the fictional team above: Amara is creative lead, Joel writes, Sun designs, Beth produces, and Jonas is the marketing director who approves.

Brief: a sentence survives a real argument

Amara's first message is "Our bikes are comfortable." Beth asks what a viewer would feel differently after 90 seconds, and the sentence becomes "A commute can be the best hour of the day." Jonas signs it, and that note goes at the top of every later wall.

Story: four beats, one argument

Joel drafts eight beats and cuts to four. The arc is simple: alarm, city waking, a flat tyre and a stranger helping, arriving late and happy. Amara likes beat 3 but asks whether the stranger is one beat too many. Rather than debate in a thread, Joel writes a second version of the beat on a note beside the first, and Amara chooses. The choice goes on the Sign-off wall with her name and date.

Frames: nothing drawn before the story is agreed

Sun collects references early but shows nothing until Story is signed off. She keeps those references on a separate board in the project until then, so reviewers are not tempted to skip ahead. When Story closes, her dawn street references and first frames go onto the Frames wall, one per beat. Beth checks each against shooting days, and flags that a dawn street scene and a city-wakes scene mean two early starts.

Copy and Assets: every row traces back

Joel writes the film script in a document on the board, with captions in the table. Each social cut names its beat. Sun builds the carousel pages in the design tool, and a link card goes back on the board. When Jonas later asks for a shorter carousel, the Tied to column shows that page 4 is the only page carrying beat 3, so that is the page that goes.

Review: two places, one record

After the shoot, the cut goes into Frame.io, because frame-accurate notes belong on the video. Story-level notes stay on the board. Beth copies each decision to the Sign-off wall. Jonas sees the final film and the whole sequence in one presentation run. When his boss asks why a flat tyre appears in a bike advert, Jonas has the reason on the Story wall.

Asking what changed

On Monday, Beth asks ChatGPT through the plugin what changed on the board in the last week and who changed it, and reads the answer into the status meeting. That replaces a round of messages.

A dark-mode logo project board, with teammates' cursors on the canvas. Walls run in the order the work moves.

Do This in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect Storyflow to ChatGPT or Claude and a chat builds on the board where the rest of the team works, instead of leaving a first story in one person's chat.

Install the Storyflow plugin in ChatGPT

Open the Storyflow listing, select Install plugin, sign in to Storyflow and choose which projects ChatGPT may use: all, or the ones you pick. Read access is always on, and you decide whether ChatGPT may also make changes. Then type @ and pick Storyflow, or choose it from the + menu, as OpenAI's plugins article describes. Availability depends on your ChatGPT plan, workspace and region. In a Business or Enterprise workspace an admin manages plugins, per OpenAI's admin controls article. The ChatGPT campaign plan page covers the campaign version of this job.

Connect Storyflow to Claude

Claude calls these connectors. Add a custom connector with the address https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp under Customize, then Connectors, per Anthropic's connector guide, and turn it on per conversation with the + button. On Team and Enterprise plans, an Owner adds it in organization settings first, and members then connect. Free users are limited to one custom connector. Setup is on the Storyflow MCP page, and the Claude campaign plan page covers the job.

Different people on a team can use different assistants; each writes to the same board.

Seven prompts for this job

1. "@Storyflow, in my Long Way Home project, build five walls left to right: Brief, Story, Frames, Copy and Assets, Sign-off."
2. "@Storyflow, write the Brief wall from this email: audience, one message, deliverables and who approves. [paste]"
3. "@Storyflow, read the Brief and draft a Story wall of four beats, one note each, using the Pixar Story Spine Tactic as a guide."
4. "@Storyflow, build a table on the Copy and Assets wall with columns Item, Owner, Reviewers, Tied to, Status and Next action. Add one row per deliverable, in sequence order."
5. "@Storyflow, create shot cards for beats 1 and 2 using the reference pictures already on the Frames wall."
6. "@Storyflow, what changed on this board in the last week, and who changed it?"
7. In Claude: "Read the Brief and Story walls. List any beat that does not support the one message, quote it, and wait for me before you change anything."

What lands on the board

Notes, walls, documents, tables, mind maps, diagrams, charts, slide decks and carousel pages, plus shot cards and a strip board for production. ChatGPT can apply ready-made board templates and Storyflow Tactics such as AIDA and the Pixar Story Spine (Tactics start on Plus). See ChatGPT for a creative brief, ChatGPT for storyboards, ChatGPT for a carousel, Claude for a carousel, and for approvers, ChatGPT for a client presentation and Claude for a client presentation.

What to check by hand

• Shot cards take pictures already on the board as frames. Upload references first, then build the cards.
• A photo attached in a ChatGPT chat does not reach Storyflow; the plugin gives you an upload link for the board.
• AI image generation is not available through the plugin, and neither are the in-app AI's menu workflows.
• The plugin cannot read board comments, so bring feedback into a note if you want an assistant to read it.
• An assistant's story is a draft from someone who has never met your client. A drafter still owns the wall.
• Plugin actions use your ChatGPT plan and no Storyflow AI credits. A Free account gets 25 actions a week; Plus, Pro and Max have no weekly limit.
• Miro, Figma, Canva and Adobe Express are also listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory as of October 2026, so an asset can start from a chat, as OpenAI's connected apps article describes.

What the In-App Storyflow AI Adds

This is separate from the plugin. It runs inside Storyflow, starts on Plus and uses Storyflow AI credits. A Free account has no in-app AI.

It builds the first walls from what you have

Brief my campaign, Plan my story and Write a script for my video are menu workflows. The AI asks a clarifying question or two, then stages the result as a proposal you accept or discard, so a teammate can check it before it lands. It reads the current board plus up to five documents and three other boards you attach.

It builds frames and shot lists

Storyboard my script and A shot list from my storyboard work from your script and board. Web references, your own images or empty placeholders can fill the frames, and AI-generated frames are available on Pro and Max.

It makes documents for approvers

From the board it makes a pitch deck, one-pager, lookbook, creative brief, carousel posts, a designed PDF of a board, a Word file or an Excel file. Review what's on this board and What's missing here? give a fresh read before a sign-off meeting. The creative brief template and campaign concept presentation show the kinds of output.

Storytelling Collaboration Tools Compared

Storyflow comes first because it is our product and the job here is holding a team's story together across stages. Each other tool wins a job Storyflow does not, and is described from its own pages, as of November 2026.

1. Storyflow

A fictional apparel brand's ad brief on a Storyflow board, the kind of Brief wall the rest of a team story hangs from.

Storyflow is where a team's story lives from brief to sign-off, with the AI building on the board and reading it back. We will never add AI video generation. The creative work stays yours.

• Best for: in-house teams, agencies and studios running a campaign, brand film or social series with several people touching the story.
• Limit: no video making, animatic or MP4 export, no social scheduling or publishing, no frame-level approval status, no PPTX export, no native desktop or mobile app.
• Price: Free $0 with no card, capped projects and uploads and 25 plugin or connector actions a week, with no in-app AI; Plus $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly), where in-app AI starts; Pro $14 ($19 monthly); Max $39 ($49 monthly) with a Team Workspace and roles, as of November 2026. Free can invite anyone to a board.
• Details: see collaborative storytelling, the digital storytelling tool page, Storyflow for in-house creative teams and the creative team workflow page.

2. Miro

Miro is a whiteboard with hundreds of templates, sticky notes you can sort by tag or colour, integrations with a company's tools and a storyboard template library. Its ChatGPT plugin is listed as "Visualize and structure ideas", as of October 2026.

• Does best: big workshops, especially at companies that already use it.
• Limit: Free keeps three editable boards with no guests or private sharing; guests start at Business.
• Price: Starter $8 per member a month billed yearly, Business $20 billed yearly, Enterprise custom.
• Choose Miro instead when the story starts as a workshop with many participants, or your company runs on it already.

3. Figma, with FigJam and Figma Slides

Figma Design makes the assets, FigJam runs the workshop and Slides makes the deck, and all three are in one account. Its ChatGPT plugin is listed as "Create designs, ship to code", as of October 2026.

• Does best: teams who want the story workshop, the deck and the designed assets with one vendor and one set of seats.
• Limit: built around designers and product teams, per its Slides page. It has no brief-to-sign-off structure of its own, and a marketing director needs a seat to edit.
• Price: Organization Collab $5 and Full $55 a month billed annually; see Figma pricing for Professional.
• Choose Figma instead when your team already lives there and the story is mostly a designed deck.

4. Canva

ChatGPT's directory describes Canva's plugin as "Create, review, edit designs". OpenAI's connected apps article uses it as an example: Canva can turn ideas from a conversation into a presentation. See Canva's help for the current feature list.

• Does best: creating and editing designs from a message already agreed, including from a ChatGPT conversation.
• Limit: a design surface does not hold the reasoning behind a story, so keep the beats and decisions somewhere else.
• Price: see Canva pricing.
• Choose Canva instead when the story is settled and you need the assets fast. Our Canva alternative page covers the overlap.

5. Adobe Express

Adobe Express offers editable storyboard layouts, mood boards and link sharing for feedback, plus an AI Presentation Maker. Its ChatGPT plugin is listed as "Design posts, flyers, and more", as of October 2026.

• Does best: branded social and marketing assets, with real-time co-editing, comments and brand controls on Teams, plus shared social calendars and scheduling.
• Limit: it is asset-first, not story-first, and Adobe's business page lists live co-editing under Teams, which has a 2-seat minimum.
• Price: Free; Premium $9.99 and Firefly Pro $19.99 a month, billed monthly; Teams $7.99 per licence a month on an annual plan, with an intro $4.99 for the first year.
• Choose Adobe Express instead when the same team makes and schedules the social assets, which Storyflow does not do.

6. Boords

Boords is storyboard software for teams, with scripts, AI images, guest commenting and version control.

• Does best: storyboards a client will review and comment on without an account.
• Limit: its focus is the storyboard and script, so campaign planning and research sit elsewhere. Solo and Pro lack client-hidden comments and project-level permissions.
• Price: Solo $26, Pro $50, Team $85, Agency $165 a month billed yearly; $39, $75, $125 and $250 monthly.
• Choose Boords instead when the storyboard is the deliverable, and tracked versions matter.

7. Storyboarder

Storyboarder is a free, open source sketch tool: six drawing tools, a side panel for dialogue, timing and shot type, and exports to Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, PDF and GIF.

• Does best: one person sketching a sequence fast with no budget.
• Limit: it is a local application and its page describes no real-time collaboration. Its page is dated 2019, so check its repository for recent work.
• Price: free.
• Choose Storyboarder instead when one artist is drawing frames and the team reviews the export.

8. Frame.io

Frame.io is video review, with frame-accurate notes for the editor. It sits downstream of everything else on this list.

• Does best: notes on an actual cut, tied to the frame they refer to.
• Limit: it reviews media; it does not help draft a story. It is not listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory as of October 2026.
• Price: Free for up to 2 users and 2 projects; Pro $15 and Team $25 per member a month, with annual billing saving 13%.
• Choose Frame.io instead when footage exists and notes must land on a frame. Most video teams will want it alongside a story board.

9. Twine

Twine is an open source tool for interactive, nonlinear stories, publishing directly to HTML.

• Does best: a story where the audience chooses the path.
• Limit: its page describes no collaboration features, so a team must arrange file sharing itself.
• Price: free, and works are free to use commercially.
• Choose Twine instead when the story branches. Plan the branches on a board first if several people are writing them.

Which Setup for Which Creative Team

Most of the argument about tools disappears once you name the team. Our product appears in the rows where several people must share the story across stages, and not where one tool already covers the job.

For more options, including Storyflow vs Milanote on this job, read the best collaborative storytelling tools. If you are setting up a canvas for the whole team, the whiteboard for creative teams and creative collaboration platform pages go further.

A creator's posting pipeline, with stages as columns. A social team can track cuts this way; scheduling and publishing happen in another tool.

Mistakes Teams Make With Storytelling Tools, and Fixes

Each comes from the same place: nobody decided what each tool was for.

Starting in slides

Slides feel like progress on day one. Move the story to a board, and open slides only after the story has a sign-off.

Reviewing frames before the story

Reviewers cannot resist commenting on pictures. Keep references on a separate board until the Story wall is signed off, then show them.

Inviting everybody to every wall

Ten people commenting on a beat produce a committee's beat. Hold to two reviewers per wall and send a view-only link to the rest.

Scattering the story across three tools with no links

If the deck, board and storyboard do not link to one another, they will diverge. Put a link card to every finished asset on the board, and name the beat it comes from.

Keeping decisions in comment threads

Resolve deletes a board thread, and threads in any tool get lost. Write each decision on a note, with a name and a date.

Treating an AI story as the story

An assistant will give you a competent four-beat arc in seconds. It has never met your client. Use it to draft or criticise, and let a named person own the wall.

Using a storyboard tool as the project home

Storyboard tools are excellent at frames and thin on briefs, budgets and approvals. Keep frames there if you want, and link them to the board that holds the rest.

Buying seats for people who only look

Before you pay, list who edits and who reads. View links, guest commenting and free invitations are the cheapest thing on any pricing page.

Storyflow's Honest Limits for Creative Teams

Everything above is the case for keeping the story on one board. Here is where it stops.

It does not make video or finished assets

There is no animatic, frame timing or MP4 export, and we will never add AI video generation. Decks and designed documents come from the board, but a polished campaign asset gets finished in a design tool.

It does not schedule or publish

There is no social scheduling or publishing and no calendar view. Dates live in table date cells and to-dos, and table rows are kept in date order by hand. Adobe Express, for one, has scheduling and shared social calendars.

Its review tools are simple

Comments take replies, and Resolve deletes the thread. There is no frame-level approval status or version compare and no due-date reminders. Use the client review board as a structure for simple rounds, and Frame.io or Boords where you need tracked versions.

There is no Gantt or workload view

There is no Gantt chart, dependency map, critical path, workload view or time tracking. A producer running a large slate will still want project management software alongside it.

It is browser-based, and its free plan has no in-app AI

There is no native desktop or mobile app, and it is best built on a laptop. Free is $0, with capped projects and uploads, 25 plugin or connector actions a week and no in-app AI, so a busy team will reach for Plus. For a small project with no budget, Miro's free templates or a shared document can also carry it.

The Bottom Line

Team storytelling fails at the handoffs, so give every handoff a name and a date. Use the Storyflow 5-Wall Sequence: Brief, Story, Frames, Copy and Assets, Sign-off, with one drafter and two reviewers per wall. Choose Miro or FigJam when the job is a workshop, Figma Slides or Canva when the story is settled and needs a finish, Adobe Express when the same team schedules the assets, Boords when a client marks up storyboards, and Frame.io once footage exists. Choose Storyflow for the place where all of that stays connected.

Take your live campaign, write its one message on a note, and build the five walls from ChatGPT or from Claude before the next review.