# wonderunit/storyboarder

✏️ Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.

Repository: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/storyboarder
Homepage: https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Topics: drawing, storyboard, fountain, filmmaking, movies, story, storyboarding
Last push: 2024-03-17T12:03:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3541, "days_push": 899, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3816, forks 389 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:20.921480+00:00)

## What it is
Storyboarder is a free, open-source desktop application for quickly drawing storyboards and playing back animatics. It supports Fountain screenplays, Wacom tablets, Photoshop round-tripping, and exporting boards in various formats.

## Use cases
- visualize a story idea as quick stick-figure storyboards
- turn a Fountain screenplay into storyboard panels
- create and play back animatics to pitch a story
- print storyboard worksheets to draw on paper and import them
- edit storyboard frames in Photoshop and sync changes back
- collaborate on storyboards with a team via GitHub

## When to choose
- you need fast, minimal storyboarding without layers or complex UI
- you work from Fountain screenplays and want automatic board generation
- you draw with a Wacom, Surface, or mouse and want pen-pressure support
- you want a free open-source alternative to paid storyboard software

## When to avoid
- you need layers, marquee selection, or fine zoom detail drawing
- you need real-time team collaboration
- you want an iPad or mobile storyboarding tool
- you need polished, actively developed software - releases are infrequent

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, image-processing, file-upload
- domain: media, desktop-applications, entertainment, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: storyboarding, animatics, fountain-screenplay, drawing, filmmaking, wacom, photoshop-integration, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- wonderunit/storyboarder (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:20.921480+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:26:32.935713+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:20.921480+00:00, sha 01c4a5640cf9)
  - homepage: https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:41.442831+00:00, sha 5a85247b3e5c)
  - site_page: https://wonderunit.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:41.445545+00:00, sha c8708ce69274)
  - site_page: https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:41.447844+00:00, sha 662de726ec77)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.