Project management for
creative freelancers.

In Storyflow, give each project the same four phases (discovery, concept, refinement, delivery) and track three things per project: what you owe, what is next and what the client owes you. Keep one overview across every client, because the daily question is which job needs you today. Our solo studio project planning guide walks through the full method phase by phase.

Write the deliverables and the number of revision rounds where the client can see them, then add every new request to that list marked in scope, out of scope or priced. In Storyflow that list sits on the shared client board. Scope rarely grows through one big ask. It grows through small requests that each feel easier to absorb than to price.

Plan around the heavy weeks, not total hours. Discovery and the final push of a project take most of your attention, and the middle is often waiting on feedback. Put every project's heavy weeks on one overview board and keep about a tenth of each week unbooked. Before accepting a new job, check which of your current projects it would collide with.

Yes. Turn on sharing and the client opens a view-only link in any browser with no account. They see the latest version each time they open or reload it. To leave comments they sign in. Keep your working board private and share a separate client board with the brief, deliverables, current state and what you are waiting on them for.

Yes, and for visual work that is the point. In Storyflow the references, palette and frame grabs sit on the same canvas as the deliverables table and the review dates. The AI has named workflows for moodboards, shot lists and project planning, so the approved look carries straight into the plan instead of living in a separate app.

No. Storyflow has no invoicing, contracts, e-signature, payments or time tracking. It is the planning layer: brief, moodboard, deliverables, dates and client review. Pair it with an accounting tool for invoices, or use an all-in-one freelancer tool such as Bonsai if you want proposals, contracts and billing together and need less of the visual side.

Not during early access. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly). A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free. Clients viewing a shared link never need an account.

Yes. Invite them to the board and they edit it with you in real time, with live cursors, on any paid plan. Anyone a paid member invites joins free, so a subcontractor adds nothing to your bill. They get the brief, the moodboard and the deadlines in one place instead of a briefing call.

Mark it. Add a clear waiting-on item to the board for every asset, answer or sign-off the client owes, with the date you asked. A blocked project looks identical to an active one in a task list, which is why stalls surprise freelancers. With the waiting items on the shared board, the client sees them too.

It lays out a client project from a brief, reads the board you have open, and takes up to five documents and three other boards as context. Ask it what is waiting on the client or which deliverable has no date. Edits apply to the board with one-click Undo. What to charge and what to take on stay with you.

Storyflow runs in the browser with nothing to install, and there is no native mobile or tablet app. A client can open a shared view-only link on a phone. Planning a project is easier on a laptop, where the whole board fits on screen.