Cineboard
Cineboard is a visual pre-production workspace for directors, cinematographers, and small creative teams.
What Cineboard is
Cineboard is a visual pre-production workspace for directors, cinematographers, and small creative teams. Its Moodboard collects reference images, notes, and links on a canvas that users can arrange and connect. Storyboard Shot Cards keep images, actions, director notes, and technical details such as lens, camera, shot size, angle, movement, and FPS together. The Shooting Plan schedules shots in shooting order while retaining the storyboard's narrative order, with dates, locations, start times, buffers, and weather and daylight context. Users can export a storyboard as a PDF and a shooting day as a Paper Schedule. Frame Lab can generate and revise frames from character, location, and styling references, but is optional. Cineboard is desktop-first, works best in current Chrome, Safari, or Edge, and supports iPad for review and light editing. Internet access is required for cloud saving, collaboration, and generation.
Good
- Moodboards combine references, notes, and links
- Shot Cards hold creative and technical details
- Shooting Plan preserves narrative order
- Storyboard and shooting day exports are available
Watch out
- Requires an internet connection for key functions
- Free plan limits projects, cards, storage, and exports
- Free plan excludes AI image generation and team collaboration
Who it suits
It suits directors, cinematographers, and small creative teams organizing visual references, storyboards, and shooting schedules. iPad use is suited to review and light editing rather than its desktop-first workflow.
Verdict
Cineboard brings reference gathering, shot planning, and production scheduling into one pre-production workspace. Review the tier limits and internet requirement before choosing it for a team workflow.
Plans and prices
From Cineboard's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1 project · 20 Shot Cards · 50 moodboard items · 5 GB workspace storage · 2 exports/month · 20 AI Node chats/month · no AI image generation or screenplay writing · no client sharing or Team collaboration |
| Plus | $9.90 a month | Unlimited projects, Shot Cards, moodboards and Shoot Plan exports · 50 GB storage · QR briefs · client presentation links · screenplay editing · 250 film searches/month · no AI image generation or screenplay writing · no Team collaboration · Per month |
| Pro | $29 a month | Everything in Plus · unlimited storage · 80 monthly AI credits · 500 film searches/month · AI writing and image generation · personal credit top-ups · no Team workspace, invitations or live collaboration · Per month |
| Team | $59 a month | All Pro creative tools · shared workspace · 4 seats · 200 shared monthly AI credits · 500 shared film searches/month · private personal projects · collaboration, tasks, @mentions, notifications · priority support · Per month; launch price, save $20 (displayed alongside $79) |
The facts
Each one read from Cineboard's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Collaboration
- Active collaborators receive synchronized project changes and presence, and Shooting Plan tasks can be assigned to teammates.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Exports
- Users can export the Storyboard as a PDF and the shooting day as a Paper Schedule.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Frame Lab
- Frame Lab generates and revises frames from character, location, and styling references, and is optional to the workflow.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Moodboard link previews support websites, articles, products, images, YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Internet requirement
- Cineboard requires an internet connection for cloud saving, collaboration, and generation.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Moodboard
- Moodboard collects reference images, notes, and links on a canvas and lets users arrange and connect them.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Cineboard is a visual pre-production workspace for directors, cinematographers, and small creative teams.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- Cineboard says it uses reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures to protect data and does not intentionally store full card details.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Sharing limit
- Presentation links are view-only snapshots that last 30 days, can be refreshed with Sync Changes, and can be revoked.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Storyboard
- Storyboard Shot Cards keep images, actions, director notes, and technical details such as lens, camera, shot size, angle, movement, and FPS together.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Support
- Support handles product, account, billing, refund, privacy, and safety questions by email and publishes no response-time promise.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Newark, Delaware, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker
- Cineboard says it was created by director Mali Arsan and is operated by Cineboard, Inc., a Delaware company.checked 3 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform
- Cineboard is desktop-first, works best in current Chrome, Safari, or Edge, and supports iPad for review and light editing.checked 3 Oct 2026
Money
- Shoot planning
- Shooting Plan schedules shots in shooting order while retaining Storyboard narrative order, with dates, locations, start times, buffers, weather and daylight context.checked 3 Oct 2026
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