Storyboarder

What is Storyboarder?

Storyboarder is a storyboarding app that helps filmmakers, animators, writers, and other visual storytellers turn ideas into boards quickly on Mac and other desktop platforms. It is designed for planning scenes, shots, dialogue, and action in a simple drawing-first workflow. Users can sketch boards with built-in drawing tools, add and rearrange panels, enter notes and timing details, and build rough animatics to review pacing and sequence. The app also includes tools for generating shot references and supports editing boards in Photoshop when more detailed image work is needed. Storyboarder is published by Wonder Unit, Inc. and is commonly used during pre-production for films, videos, ads, and other narrative projects.

Key features

• Draw boards with simple built-in sketching tools
• Add, duplicate, copy, paste, and rearrange storyboard panels
• Enter dialogue, action, shot type, and timing notes for each board
• Create rough animatics to review pacing and sequence
• Generate reference shots from text descriptions with Shot Generator
• Edit boards in Photoshop and update them back in the project

Safety overview

Status: Safe

Storyboarder is legitimate creative software used to plan visual stories and shot sequences. Access to files, images, tablets, or creative tools is normal for this kind of app. As with any project-based drawing app, keep backups of important storyboards before removing the app or changing project files, especially if you use it in an active production workflow.

Recommendation: Keep Storyboarder if you actively use it for storyboarding, shot planning, or animatics. If you no longer work with its projects, you can remove the app, but export or back up any boards you may want to revisit later.

Common paths

• /Applications/Storyboarder.app

Related apps

• Adobe Photoshop

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