Storyboarder is a drawing application that lets you quickly visualize stories through sketches and storyboards without requiring artistic skill or complex software.
The tool solves the problem of rapid story visualization by providing a deliberately minimal interface focused on drawing speed over polish. It accepts input from mice, Wacom tablets, Cintiq devices, and Microsoft Surface pens, and offers four brush types—light pencil, pencil, pen, and brush—each with three size options and independent five-color palettes. The application includes drawing aids like grid overlays, center marks, rule-of-thirds guides, angle guides, and onion-skin previews of adjacent frames. It supports importing Fountain screenplays to auto-generate boards from scripts, and allows exporting finished storyboards to various formats. Drawings can be sent to Photoshop for refinement and will update in Storyboarder upon save. The interface deliberately omits layers, treating them as unnecessary complexity for story ideation work.
Story artists, writers, directors, and advertising professionals should consider this tool if they need to test story ideas quickly or create animatics for pitching without the overhead of full production software. The project explicitly rejects feature bloat in favor of speed, making it suitable for rough visualization rather than polished final artwork. Anyone needing layer-based editing or advanced drawing capabilities should look elsewhere.
The project maintains an active issue tracker welcoming bug reports and feature suggestions. Development activity shows ongoing refinement of the core drawing experience and continued support for input devices and export formats.
