Made for learning vs made for delivery
StoryTribe optimises for the first ten minutes: open a tab, drag a character, get a frame. That is exactly right for education, UX sketches and internal marketing decks.
A commercial or a series lives past those ten minutes. It needs the third revision, the client comment on frame 12, the shot list that matches the call sheet, and a record of who changed what. CineoBoard treats the board as a production document from the first frame.
The offline problem nobody mentions
Browser-only tools assume the connection. Pre-production happens in scout vans, on planes and in basements with hostile Wi-Fi. Reframe writes locally first, so the board is never gated on a network round trip; the cloud project layer catches up when it can.
One workspace instead of five tools
CineoBoard is a local-first storyboarding app called Reframe paired with a cloud workspace for projects, scenes and shot management. Boards render and play back on your own machine, then sync to a shared project layer with Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, an API and CLI that agentic coding tools such as Codex can drive, and an Intercom-grade CineoBoard Assistant that answers questions, edits and organises work inside the board.
The practical result is that a StoryTribe workflow usually means StoryTribe plus a spreadsheet plus Drive plus Slack plus email threads. CineoBoard collapses those into one project record, with the notifications posted where your team already talks.
- Scene and shot statuses instead of filenames
- Frame-level comments and approvals instead of email threads
- PDF, PPTX, CSV and MP4 exports from the same source of truth