The main features.
A storyboard app that does a few things very well.
Drawing
Paint behind your lines
Every layer holds a line sheet and a paint sheet. One key flips between them, so you can lay in tone under your lines without touching them.
- Draw the lines. The Brush on the line sheet, with pressure on every stroke.
- Press Q to flip to the paint sheet. The lines stay on top.
- Paint tone with the Paint Brush. Paint over the lines as much as you like; it goes behind them and never touches a line.
- Or let the bucket do it. The paint is cleared to show the faster way.
- One tap of the paint bucket fills the whole figure, tucked under the lines. It closes small gaps in the line work, so the fill doesn't leak.
- Touch up the last specks with the Paint Brush.
Tools
Brushes made for boarding
- Brush, Paint Brush and Felt Pen, tuned for pen displays
- Paint Brush edge from soft to hard
- Lasso to move, scale, rotate and flip line and paint together
Screen capture: brushes and the lasso
Layers
Onion skin
See the panels either side of the one you're drawing, in fixed colours: red before, green after.
- A four-panel board, onion skin off.
- Turn onion skin on with the button or O. The panels before show in red, the panels after in green, fading with distance.
- Step through the panels and the ghosts follow, so you can check the action and the spacing.
- Choose how many to show. Here After is set to 0, so only the panels before appear.
Also: layers with names, opacity and visibility, and reference images dropped in from Finder.
The board
Hundreds of panels, no waiting
- New and duplicate panel in one key
- Thumbnails plus a whole-board bar laid out by time
- Dialogue typed or hand-written on the sheet; studio numbering (12A)
Screen capture: the panel navigator
Timing
Timing, sound and playback
- Panel durations at 24, 25 or 30 fps
- One audio track, saved inside the board
- Playback locked to the sound
Screen capture: playback with audio
Out to editorial
Export what the edit needs
- Movie with audio
- PNG, JPG or TIFF per panel
- Layered PSD, and PSD import
Screen capture: export
Your setup
Your keys, your files, no lost work
- Photoshop keys by default, all remappable
- One
.dbpfile per board: plain PNGs in a zip - Autosave and crash recovery
Screen capture: the Keys screen
What it leaves out, on purpose
No AINothing draws for you.
No accountsNo sign-in, no cloud, no tracking.
No feature pileA board, done well.
No subscriptionFree, and it stays free.