EXPLAINER VIDEO STORYBOARD
Your explainer video storyboard,
done in an afternoon, not a week.
Paste the script and Storyflow's AI lays out the explainer video storyboard: problem, solution, CTA, scene by scene, with voiceover and on-screen text notes on every frame. Free forever, no credit card.
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What is an explainer video storyboard?
An explainer video storyboard is the scene-by-scene plan for a short product video, usually 60 to 90 seconds, that maps what the viewer sees against what the voiceover says. Each frame carries the visual idea, the VO line it covers, and any on-screen text, so the animator, the writer, and the stakeholders are all looking at the same video before a single frame is produced.
Most teams build the explainer video storyboard in a slide deck, with the script in a doc and the brief in a third file. Storyflow puts all of it on one infinite canvas. Paste the script and the AI lays out the storyboard for your explainer video: the problem-solution-CTA structure, scene breaks, and notes per frame. The brief sits on the same canvas, so every scene can be checked against the message it is supposed to land.
From there, the explainer video storyboard becomes the review hub: add voiceover and on-screen text notes to each frame, send clients a view-only link for sign-off, and export an image or PDF when production starts.
HOW IT WORKS
Storyboard an explainer video in four steps.
From script to client-ready board without leaving the canvas.
01
Open a free canvas
Sign up free with nothing for IT to approve: no install, no credit card, just a canvas running in the browser.
02
Add the script and brief
Give the AI chat the explainer script, or place the PDF directly on the canvas, with the creative brief kept on the same board.
03
AI lays out the structure
The AI breaks the script into scenes and generates the storyboard layout: problem, solution, proof, CTA, with notes arranged on the canvas.
04
Annotate, review, export
Add voiceover and on-screen text notes per frame, share a view-only link for stakeholder sign-off, then export the board as an image or PDF.
An explainer video storyboard your whole team can read.
Script, brief, frames, and feedback on one canvas instead of four tools.
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Script and frames on the same board
Keep the script beside the frames
The script stays on the canvas next to the storyboard, so every scene maps to the exact lines it covers. Change a line, adjust the frame, no tab-switching.
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Brief, board, and message in one place
Start from the creative brief
Generate or drop in the creative brief on the same canvas, so the explainer storyboard answers the brief instead of drifting from it scene by scene.
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Problem, solution, CTA laid out by AI
Structure generated in seconds
The AI lays out the storyboard structure that 60-90 second explainers depend on: hook the problem, show the solution, prove it, end on one clear CTA.
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Sign-off links that open without an account
Get sign-off without a meeting
Send clients and stakeholders a view-only link so they review the storyboard for the explainer video in context, before animation makes changes expensive.
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Board the whole explainer before anyone opens After Effects. The free plan has no board limit and no time limit.
A board for every explainer version and revision, no cap
Basic AI usage to lay out scenes from your script
3 starter frameworks built in
Writers and designers join free, stakeholders get view-only access
BUILT FOR EXPLAINERS
More than an explainer video storyboard template.
Storyflow is an AI-native canvas, so the board carries everything production needs to start.
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VO, on-screen text, and timing on every frame
Every frame carries its notes
Voiceover per scene: Pin the exact VO lines to each frame, so pacing problems show up on the board instead of in the first animation review.
On-screen text: Note UI labels, captions, and supers next to the frames they appear in, ready for the designer to pick up.
Direction notes: Transitions, motion ideas, and product moments live on the frame, not in a separate feedback doc.
Re-prompts that respect the script and brief
Iterate until the message lands
Re-prompt the structure: Ask the AI to tighten the hook, cut a scene, or move the CTA earlier. It reworks the layout with your board in context.
Version the story: Duplicate the board to test a feature-led cut against a pain-led cut, side by side on the same canvas.
200+ frameworks: Problem-solution, before-after, three-act in 90 seconds. Pick a framework or let the AI suggest one for the script.
Reference styles and frame grabs beside the board
Define the look before production
Grab frames from references: Capture stills from explainer videos you admire on YouTube or Vimeo, straight onto the canvas next to your scenes.
Style moodboards: Collect illustration styles, color, and motion references beside the storyboard instead of in a separate deck.
Drag and drop anything: Product screenshots, brand assets, GIFs, and PDFs all land on the same infinite canvas as the board.
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From approved board to production handoff
Hand off a board production can run with
Asset and shot lists: Break the approved board into the screens, scenes, and assets the motion designer needs, on the same canvas.
Clean exports: Export the storyboard as a high-quality image or PDF for the production kickoff, the SOW, or the client record.
Team access: Invite writers, designers, and PMs free, and keep one source of truth from script to final cut review.
WHO IT IS FOR
Who storyboards explainer videos in Storyflow?
Anyone who has to explain a product in 90 seconds or less.
SaaS marketing teams
Board the homepage explainer in-house: AI lays out the explainer video storyboard from your script, and the team aligns before briefing a studio.
Explainer video studios
Run every client project through the same canvas: brief, script, storyboard, and view-only review links that cut feedback rounds down.
Freelance motion designers
Turn a client script into a storyboard for the explainer video in an afternoon, get sign-off on structure, and protect your animation hours.
Product marketers
Map feature launch videos scene by scene, with on-screen text and product moments noted per frame, so the demo tells one clear story.
Agencies
Present explainer storyboard options clients can actually read: structure, script, and references on one canvas, shared with a single link.
Explainer video storyboards, answered.
Everything people ask about storyboarding an explainer video with Storyflow.
Break the script into scenes and map each one to a frame with the visuals, the voiceover line, and any on-screen text. In Storyflow you paste the script and the AI lays out the explainer video storyboard for you: problem, solution, proof, and CTA as structured scenes on an infinite canvas, with notes you refine frame by frame.
Ninety seconds of video. One board to get it right.
Paste the script, let the AI lay out the scenes, and get stakeholder sign-off before production starts. Free plan, no credit card.