A moodboard maker that fills
the canvas from one prompt.

Not in Storyflow yet. 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. If you need a free moodboard maker today, Milanote's free plan covers a small board, and Canva and Pinterest are free for collecting and arranging images.

Describe the vibe in the AI chat and the AI lays out a starting board on the canvas: image placeholders grouped by theme, a color palette, type notes, and reference cards arranged the way a moodboard reads. From there you replace placeholders with your own uploads, drag everything into place, and add references until the board feels right.

Yes. Uploading and arranging your own images is included on every paid plan, with unlimited uploads. Drop them onto the canvas next to the AI placeholders, swap a placeholder for your own shot, and lay your stills side by side with swatches and notes. You can also grab frames from YouTube and Vimeo straight onto the board; that works in a desktop browser, after a one-time permission to share the tab.

Storyflow can generate images with AI on the canvas, but image generation is part of the Pro and Max plans, not Plus. Plus is for laying out the board, uploading and arranging your own images, grabbing frames from video, and adding references and notes.

Yes, completely. Every image, swatch, and note is a card on the canvas, so you can drag references around, resize the hero images, recolor the palette, delete what does not fit, and regroup themes. The AI gives you the first cut of the board, and the canvas makes it yours.

Yes. Export the board as a high-quality image or a PDF for decks and presentations, or share a view-only link so a client or a collaborator can explore the full board in their browser without an account.

Storyflow is not a stock-photo library or a full graphic-design editor, so it pairs well with Pinterest for sourcing images and Canva or Figma for final graphics. The difference is what the board does next: the AI lays out a starting board from a prompt, you grab frames from video onto it, and the moodboard becomes a brief, a shot list, or a launch plan on the same canvas instead of a board that stays a board.

Storyflow is the pick when you want the AI to lay out a starting board from a prompt and then carry that board forward into a brief, a shot list, or a plan on the same canvas. Pinterest is the best place to source and collect references. Canva is the strongest if the board has to become a finished, designed layout. Miro and FigJam are better when a group is sorting references live in one session.

Start with the feeling, not the images. Describe the mood in the AI chat so Storyflow lays out a starting board, then fill four clusters with your own references: location and lighting, wardrobe and styling, colour and grade, framing and pose. Add a short note under each cluster saying what you are borrowing, so the crew reads intent instead of guessing. Then share a view-only link with the photographer, stylist and client.

A moodboard is doing its job when someone else can read your intent off it without you in the room. That usually means a small set of hero images that carry the feeling, a colour palette pulled from those images, type or texture references if the output is designed, and a short written note on what each cluster is for. Keep it tight. Fifteen deliberate references communicate better than sixty pretty ones, because every extra image dilutes the direction.

A moodboard answers what it should feel like, and a storyboard answers what happens and in what order. Moodboards come first and stay loose, holding tone, palette, lighting, and reference. Storyboards come after the direction is agreed and get specific about shots, sequence, and framing. Most film and commercial projects need both, in that order. In Storyflow both live on the same canvas, so the approved moodboard sits beside the storyboard it informed.

Yes. Sharing a board, commenting, and inviting collaborators works on any paid plan, and anyone a paid member invites signs up free. Invited collaborators can move cards on the same board at the same moment, and a client who only needs to review opens a view-only link and signs in to comment.