TOOLS FOR VIDEO EDITORS
Plan the edit before
you touch the timeline.
Storyflow is the visual workspace where the cut takes shape before Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut ever opens. Build a paper edit, map the story arc, organize b-roll and selects, mark the beats to the music, and share a review board with the client, all on one infinite canvas. Storyflow does not cut your footage. It plans, structures, and reviews the edit around it. Free forever, no credit card.
Free plan
No credit card
Runs in your browser
Used by creative professionals at:
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Start from a ready-made template
Pick a board, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.
What is a planning layer for the edit?
The timeline is a terrible place to think. By the time you are dragging clips, the story decisions are half-made, the b-roll is scattered across bins, the client's notes are buried in an email thread, and the structure only exists in your head. Every editor knows the version of a project that got rebuilt three times because nobody agreed on the shape before the cutting started. A planning layer fixes that by giving the edit a home outside the NLE, where the arc, the selects, the music, and the feedback all sit in one view you can rearrange with a drag.
Storyflow is that layer: a truly infinite canvas that runs in the browser with nothing to install. You lay out a paper edit as movable cards, block the narrative arc from hook to payoff, cluster selects and b-roll by scene, pin the music track with its beat markers, and hang the client's feedback right next to the section it is about. Because it is one canvas, the structure is not a static outline you screenshot and abandon. It stays live beside the references and notes that shaped it, and it reshapes with a drag when the story changes in the edit.
To be clear about the boundary: Storyflow is not a video editor. Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut still do the actual cutting, color, and export. Storyflow is the planning, structuring, and review layer that wraps around them, so you walk into the timeline with the story already solved. AI helps you get there faster: describe a video in the chat and it lays out a full board of cards on the canvas, reading the current board as context so the structure it drafts matches the project you are actually cutting.
HOW IT WORKS
From footage to a locked plan in four moves.
Start with a blank canvas or a single prompt. Either way the whole edit stays on one board you can walk the client and the team through.
01
Open a free canvas
Start in the browser, no install and no card. You get an infinite canvas with room for the paper edit, the selects, the music map, and the review board all in one place.
02
Structure the story
Block the narrative arc as cards, sketch a paper edit section by section, and grab reference frames straight from YouTube and Vimeo to lock the shape before the cut.
03
Draft the edit plan with AI
Describe the video and let AI lay out a paper edit and beat map as cards. It reads the board already on the canvas, so the structure it drafts fits your footage, not a generic template.
04
Send it for review
Share a view-only link so the client and the team can read the plan in the browser, leave the structure locked, then export the board as an image or PDF to take into the timeline.
The pre-edit stack, minus the bin-diving.
One canvas holds the paper edit, the selects, the music map, and the client review. No more stitching a doc, a spreadsheet, a folder, and an email thread together before you cut.
Paper edit that moves
Structure the cut as cards
Lay out a paper edit as movable cards, one per section or sequence, and reorder the whole video with a drag. The shape of the story reads at a glance before you commit a single clip to the timeline.
See the storyboard maker →
AI drafts the plan
Rough out the edit from a prompt
Describe the video and AI lays out a paper edit and beat map as cards on the canvas. It reads the references and notes already on the board, so the structure fits your project rather than a stock outline.
See the YouTube video planner →
Selects and b-roll, organized
Every clip beside its scene
Cluster selects and b-roll by sequence, drop reference frames next to the section they belong in, and recolor cards so keepers, maybes, and gaps read instantly. The footage map lives beside the story it serves.
See the shot list generator →
One board, no size limit
Room for the whole project
A long-form edit has hundreds of clips, a wall of references, and rounds of notes. With a truly infinite canvas and no object cap on the free plan, nothing gets cut for space and the whole project fits on one board.
See the mind mapping tool →Free forever. No object cap.
Open a canvas and start planning the edit. The free plan carries unlimited boards and no object cap, so a real long-form project never runs you into a wall or a paywall mid-plan.
Unlimited boards for paper edits, selects, and review
Basic AI usage to draft paper edits and beat maps
Attach clips, PDFs, links, and grab frames from YouTube and Vimeo
Share the board view-only, or invite the team to collaborate free
BUILT FOR THE EDIT
Everything post needs to plan the cut, in one place.
Structure the story, organize the footage, map the music, and hand it off so the client and the team read from the same board before the timeline.
Structure before the cut
A paper edit and story arc you can reshape
Block the arc as cards: Lay the narrative from hook to payoff as movable cards, so the shape of the story is visible and reordering an act is a drag, not a re-typed outline.
Paper edit, section by section: Sketch each sequence as a card with the beat it needs to hit, then rearrange the whole cut on the canvas until the structure holds before you open the timeline.
References stay in view: Keep tone and pacing references beside the section they shape, so the feel you are chasing stays visible while you structure instead of buried in a folder.
AI that reads your board
Draft the edit plan without starting cold
Plan from a prompt: Describe the video and AI lays out a paper edit and beat map as cards. It uses the current board as context, so the structure builds on your references rather than drifting generic.
Bring in the brief: Add up to one Blueprint and three documents with an @-mention, so a creative brief, a transcript, or a script shapes the structure the AI drafts.
Re-prompt to refine: Ask for a tighter open, a different act break, or more b-roll beats. The AI reworks the cards while keeping the sections you already arranged by hand.
Footage and music mapping
Organize the selects and mark the beats
Selects grouped by scene: Cluster b-roll and selects by sequence, mark keepers and gaps with color, and pull frames from YouTube and Vimeo so the footage map sits beside the story it serves.
Map music to the moment: Pin the track and lay out its beat markers as cards, then line the cut points up to the music so the edit hits on the drop instead of guessing in the timeline.
One board, no cap: A long-form project's worth of selects, beats, and references all fit on one infinite canvas with no object limit on the free plan, so nothing gets trimmed for room.
Review and hand off
From plan to a cut everyone signed off on
Client review board: Lay the plan out as a review board and send a view-only link, so the client can read the whole structure in the browser without an account and always see the current version.
Feedback beside the section: Invite the client or the team to collaborate and keep notes next to the exact section they are about, so feedback lands on the structure instead of in a scattered email thread.
Export for the timeline: Take the locked plan into the edit: export the board as a clean image or a PDF in one step, ready to sit beside Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut as you cut.
WHO IT IS FOR
Who plans their edit in Storyflow?
Editors and post teams who would rather solve the story on a board than rebuild it in the timeline.
Freelance video editors
Structure the paper edit, organize the selects, and send a client review board from one free canvas, without paying for a doc, a spreadsheet, and a review app on top of your NLE.
YouTube and content editors
Map the hook, the arc, and the b-roll before you cut, grab reference frames from YouTube, and lock the structure so the edit hits retention instead of wandering.
Post-production teams
Keep the paper edit, the selects, and the client feedback on one shared canvas, then hand off a view-only link so the whole team reads from the same plan.
Documentary and long-form editors
Wrangle hours of footage into a story arc on an infinite canvas, cluster selects by theme, and reshape the structure with a drag as the edit reveals what the film is about.
Agencies and studios
Plan branded edits with the client's references and brief on the board, run review on a view-only link, and walk into the timeline with sign-off already in hand.
COMPARED
How Storyflow compares for planning the edit.
Plenty of tools cover one stage of the pre-edit. The question is whether the whole plan lives on one canvas that AI can fill and the client can review.
Storyflow
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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
Video editing questions, answered.
Everything editors ask about planning a cut in Storyflow.
No, and it is honest about that. Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut still do the cutting, color, and export. Storyflow is the planning, structuring, and review layer around the edit: a paper edit, story arc, b-roll selects, beat mapping, and client review on one infinite canvas, so you walk into the timeline with the story already solved.
The cut is in your head. Solve it on a board before the timeline.
Structure the story, organize the selects, map the beats, and send it for review, all before you open Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut. Free plan, no credit card.