Same job, different foundation
Both tools cover the same visible surface: frames, a script, an animatic, a client link. Where they diverge is underneath. Boords is a cloud application; the browser is the product. CineoBoard is a local-first application with a cloud project layer behind it.
That decision changes daily use more than any feature list. Scrubbing a 60-frame animatic, dragging a sequence apart, reworking a panel — all of it happens against local state, at native speed, with or without a connection.
Production management, not just boards
Agencies rarely have one board. They have nine, across four clients, at different stages. CineoBoard models that the way an engineering team models work: scenes and shots as tracked items with owners, statuses, due dates and revision history, viewable across every project at once.
- See every scene waiting on client approval, across all productions
- Assign shots and track what is blocked
- Roll any frame back to any earlier revision
Integrations and programmability
CineoBoard posts into Slack and Microsoft Teams, exposes the whole project model over an API and CLI, and is designed so agentic tools like Codex can drive it: rebuild a board on a script change, batch-renumber shots, or export the deck as a scheduled job.
And the CineoBoard Assistant sits in the board itself at Intercom quality — it answers questions about the production and then carries out the edit you asked for.