Nugo vs Boords
Boords is storyboard and animatic software with strong client sign-off. Nugo starts earlier, from references and a moodboard, turns them into a shot list, and gets that plan approved, then runs it on your phone on set.
Side by side
Updated · Ade, founder of Nugo
| Topic | Boords | Nugo |
|---|---|---|
| Visual plan | Storyboards from scripts, with uploaded or AI-generated frames, and timed animatics. | Moodboards of references tagged by purpose. No storyboards or animatics. |
| Shot list | Shot lists alongside the storyboard. | Shots made from references, each with its still, size, angle, movement, lens, FPS and talent. |
| Client sign-off | No-login reviews, approvals recorded per version with name and time, and version history side by side. | A review link with view, comment or approve, no account. Approvals record who, when and which version. |
| After sign-off | Version history to compare versions. | An edited approved page says Changed since client approval, and the approval diff lists each change in words. |
Boords's details are from its own website, checked on 14 October 2026. Plans change, so check its current pricing before you decide.
Choose Boords when…
- You need storyboards or animatics, drawn, uploaded or generated.
- You're an agency that sells ideas frame by frame and reviews them that way.
- You write two-column scripts with voiceover timing.
Choose Nugo when…
- Your plan starts from reference images, not drawn frames.
- You shoot stills as well as video, and need one list for both.
- You want the approved shot list on your phone on set, with or without signal for projects you've opened.
What Nugo doesn't do
Nugo has no storyboards, animatics, AI frame generation or two-column scripts. Both tools let clients approve without an account.
Boords and Nugo pricing.
- Boords
- A free plan with 5 active storyboards, then paid plans from $39 a month, or $26 a month billed annually (checked 14 October 2026).
- Nugo
- Free for 1 active project, with client review, Shoot Mode and offline access. Individual is $12/month ($96/year) for unlimited projects; Studio is $49/month ($441/year) for up to 5 editors. Clients on a review link are always free.
Sources: Boords pricing, Boords collaboration. Nugo pricing.
Questions
If you plan with reference images rather than storyboard frames, yes. If you need storyboards or animatics, Boords does that and Nugo doesn't.
Yes. Boords has no-login reviews with approvals per version. Nugo's review link lets clients view, comment or approve in the browser, and records who approved, when and which version.
Yes. Add storyboard frames to a Nugo moodboard as images, and make shots from them, so each shot keeps its frame as the still.
The features behind it.
Moodboards
Images, audio, video links, notes, frames and drawing on one canvas.
Creative Lock
Approved copies that stay put, and a warning when anything changes.
Shoot Mode
The shot list on your phone on set: progress, scenes, Captured or Skipped, offline.
Other comparisons
Plan the next shoot in one place, not across ten apps.
New commercial projects open with Brief, Creative Direction, Moodboard, Shot List, and Client Review already in place.
