Documentation & Tutorials

  • Welcome to the Storyboard Creator AI documentation hub. Click a topic below to learn more.

  • Creating Your First Storyboard

    Begin in the Storyboards tab, which lists all of your projects. Tap "New Storyboard" to create an empty project, give it a name, then open it and tap "Generate from Text" to describe the story you want. You can also give the storyboard a synopsis and notes, which the cover page of your PDF export can use later.

  • Understanding the User Interface

    The app is organized into four tabs for a clear and efficient workflow:

    • Storyboards Tab: your hub for storyboard projects. It lists everything you have made and holds the "New Storyboard" button.
    • Videos Tab: the video queue and history. Queued clips wait here until you generate them, and finished clips play back from here.
    • References Tab: your library of character, location and style images, which you attach to a storyboard to keep the look consistent.
    • Settings Tab: default image and video models, image style and aspect ratio, notifications, credits and subscription.

  • Setting Up Your Preferred AI Models

    In the Settings tab you control the models and the look used for generation:

    • AI Models: choose the default image model (Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2, Z-Image, Flux 2, Wan 2.7, Bria 3.2 or Google Imagen 4) and the default video model (Google Omni 1.1 Flash or MiniMax H3).
    • Image Customization: pick the style (realistic, digital art or sketch) and the aspect ratio (16:9, 9:16 or 1:1) to match your project.
    • Account: check your remaining credits, open the pricing sheet to see what each model costs, refill credits, manage your subscription and turn notifications on.

  • Generating Shots from Text Prompts Effectively

    The core of storyboard creation is generating shots from your idea.

    1. Initiation: open a storyboard and tap "Generate from Text".
    2. Prompt: describe the story or scene. A single sentence is enough, and more detail gives the AI more to work with. Prompt Tools can write a prompt from your references, update your prompt so it names them, or refine what you wrote into something more visual.
    3. Options: choose the image model, set how many shots to generate (8 to 40), decide whether the AI may ask follow-up questions, and turn on "Skip Image Generation" for a text-only first pass.
    4. Execution: tap "Generate". If follow-up questions are on and your idea leaves something open, answer up to three quick questions first.
    5. Output: the generated shots appear in your storyboard with their details and images. Run it again to append more shots for another scene.

  • Advanced Shot Editing and Customization

    Select a shot to open the Edit Shot view, where every part of the frame is yours to change.

    • Manual Detail Editing: edit every generated field, including action, characters, location, lighting, camera angle, dialogue and notes.
    • Custom Image Prompt: write your own prompt for the image instead of building it from the shot details.
    • Edit Image by Text Prompt: describe a change in plain words and the app produces a new version of the current image.
    • Change Camera Angle: use the horizontal angle, vertical angle and zoom sliders to re-shoot the same frame from a different viewpoint.
    • Image History: browse every version, tap one to make it current, and delete the ones you do not want.
    • Face Swap and Custom Images: swap in a face from your photo library, or use one of your own photos as the shot image.
    • Create Video from Shot: add the shot to the video queue. Queuing is free, and nothing is generated until you tap Generate on the Videos tab.

  • Image Generation: Styles, Prompts, and History

    Achieve the look you want with precise control over image generation.

    • Image Styles: choose realistic, digital art or sketch in Settings. The Google Imagen 4 family does not support sketch or digital art styles.
    • Aspect Ratios: choose 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1.
    • References: attach character, location and style images so faces and places stay the same across shots. Supported by Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana 2 Lite, GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 2 LQ.
    • Bulk and History: regenerate images for every shot at once, then step the whole storyboard back or forward a version at a time to compare passes.

  • Creating Videos from Your Storyboards

    Bring your still frames to life by generating short video clips.

    • From storyboard shots: tap "Create Video" in the Edit Shot view, or "Send All to Video" from the storyboard toolbar to queue every shot that has an image.
    • From imported images: import a picture from your photo library straight into the Videos tab.
    1. A motion prompt is drafted automatically for every image you queue.
    2. Edit that prompt before you generate, as often as you like. Queuing is free.
    3. Generate one clip, or run the whole queue in bulk.
    4. Rendering continues in the background and a push notification tells you when a clip is ready.

  • Managing Characters, Locations and References

    The References tab is your library of character, location and style images. Add a reference from your photo library, generate one with AI from a description, or pick one from the curated library included in the app. Attach references to a storyboard and every frame is drawn against the same faces and places, and each shot can also be assigned one of the storyboard locations so the frame is set where it belongs.

  • Exporting Your Projects (PDF, Screenplay & ZIP)

    When your storyboard is ready, open the Export menu in the storyboard toolbar:

    • PDF Export: a laid-out storyboard document with a live preview. Set the cover page, portrait or landscape pages, shots per page, font size, image frames and which fields appear on every shot.
    • Screenplay Export: a screenplay-formatted PDF built from the same storyboard, with scene headings, action and dialogue.
    • ZIP Archive Export: every shot image and video, your reference images, a CSV of the shot data and a full JSON manifest of the project.

  • We are continuously updating our documentation. If you have specific questions or need help with a topic not covered, please contact us.