One app vs five
What you stop paying for.
Many productions run on a notes app, a screenwriting program, spreadsheets and documents. Here is the same job done both ways, and where one app is the wrong choice.
| Job | With separate tools | In OpenFrame Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Ideas and research | A notes app, a folder of images and bookmarks. | The Idea Vault holds notes, images, links, files and voice notes inside the project. |
| Story outline | Index cards, a document or a whiteboard. | The Beat Board holds acts, sequences, beats and scene cards. Build Screenplay turns cards into scenes after a preview. |
| The screenplay | A screenwriting program. | A screenplay editor in the same project, with drafts, comparison and shooting-draft locking. |
| Breakdown | A spreadsheet or a separate breakdown program. | Tag each scene in the script itself, with suggestions you accept or reject and a shared catalog. |
| Schedule | A spreadsheet or a board in another tool. | A stripboard tied to the breakdown and to cast availability. It warns about problems and never moves scenes on its own. |
| Call sheets | A document typed again for each day. | Created from the shooting day and refreshed when the schedule changes. |
| Backups | Copies you remember to make. | Autosave, Recently Deleted, backups and full project packages. |
What one app gives you
- Change a scene once and the breakdown, the schedule and the call sheet know about it.
- No copying between files, and no version of the truth hiding in an old spreadsheet.
- One place to back up and one project to send.
- Everything stays on your computer, with no OpenFrame account.
Where separate tools may suit you better
- You need several people editing the same document at the same moment. OpenFrame has no live collaboration; people pass files instead.
- You want your work on a phone or in a browser. OpenFrame is a desktop app for Windows 11 and Apple silicon Macs.
- You need accounting or payroll. The budget is a light planning sheet.
Ready when you are
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