The Best Shot List Apps
We make one of these, so read accordingly. Here is a genuinely useful comparison anyway.
There is no best shot list app, only a best one for the kind of work you do. The single most useful question is whether you have a crew. If you do, the production suites win. If you are holding the camera yourself, most of what they offer is overhead, and the thing that matters is whether you can work from the list while filming.
Side by side
| Tool | Best for | Weakness |
|---|---|---|
| StudioBinder | Film and commercial crews | Overkill for one person |
| Shot Lister | On-set check-off for crews | Film-crew framing |
| Boords | Storyboarding and client sign-off | Not a shoot-day tool |
| Milanote | Visual planning and references | No structure or check-off |
| Celtx | Script-driven production | Assumes a script exists |
| Notion | Everything in one place | Setup overhead, one sort at a time |
| Airtable | Relational production data | Per-seat cost, configuration |
| Google Sheets | Free and universal | One sort at a time, poor on mobile |
| Storeyz | Solo creators and small teams | No call sheets, crew or script breakdown |
When to choose something else
- You have a crew, call times and departments — use a production suite.
- You need storyboards for client approval — use a storyboarding tool.
- You want everything in one workspace and already live in Notion.
- Your shoot is simple and filmed in order — a spreadsheet is genuinely fine.
When Storeyz is the better fit
- You are the crew.
- You film out of order and need both the story view and the shoot view.
- You want to work from the list on your phone while filming.
- You run the same kind of job repeatedly.
The question that decides it
Do you have a crew? Everything else follows from the answer. Production suites exist to coordinate people — call sheets, contacts, departments, schedules. If there are no people to coordinate, those features are cost without benefit, and the thing that actually matters is whether the tool works while you are holding a camera.
The feature almost nothing has
Holding story order and shoot order at the same time. Nearly every tool on this list makes you choose, which is why the most common cause of missing footage is a list sorted the wrong way for the job you are doing with it.
Try it on your next shoot
Storeyz keeps your shots in story order for planning and regroups them by location for the day — then you tick them off on your phone as you get them.