Dramatify's home page has workflows for drama, talk shows, sports, children's shows and galas, and a big share of the product is the multi-camera rundown with cue cards and teleprompter exports. Scripted drama is one of several things it does. Storiara covers a narrower job: take a screenplay, pull the production elements out of it, and carry them through a stripboard, a cast Day Out of Days, a budget and call sheets.
The overlap is the drama workflow, so that is what this page compares. If you also produce a weekly studio show, you can stop reading here, because Storiara has no rundown tool and Dramatify does.
The pricing question comes first
Dramatify sells seats with a minimum. Its subscription page lists four self-serve plans plus Enterprise, and the two built for scripted work are these:
| Plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | Seat minimum | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction Starter | USD 10/seat | USD 14/seat | 3 | Screenplays, AV scripts, breakdown, scheduling, .fdx import, 100 MB storage |
| Fiction Standard | USD 13/seat | USD 18/seat | 5 | Budgeting, crew and cast scheduling, auto script sides, semi-automatic call sheets, unlimited storage |
Read-only access for cast and crew is free on every plan, and Dramatify offers a 30-day trial without a card.
Storiara's Producer plan is $39.99 a month for the owner and $19.99 for each extra collaborator. New accounts get a 30-day free trial, after which a paid plan is needed.
Here is what that means for three common team shapes, using monthly billing on both sides:
| Team | Storiara Producer | Dramatify Fiction Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Producer alone | $39.99 | USD 90 (5-seat minimum) |
| Producer + 1st AD | $39.99 + $19.99 = $59.98 | USD 90 |
| Producer, 1st AD, UPM, coordinator, line producer | $39.99 + (4 x $19.99) = $119.95 | USD 90 |
At five editors, Dramatify costs less, and the 40 people on the crew list can log in for free to see their schedules. For one or two people doing their own prep, Storiara costs less because you are not paying for empty seats. On annual billing Fiction Standard drops to USD 65 a month for five seats, which widens the gap for larger teams.
Getting the script in
Both products read Final Draft files. Dramatify's screenplay import pulls scene information, scene notes and most Final Draft tags, and when a revised .fdx comes in it flags the scenes that changed so you can sync without starting over. That matters on a show that gets blue and pink pages every week.
Storiara accepts PDF and Word as well as .fdx. Scene headings are parsed without AI, so INT/EXT, set name and DAY/NIGHT come straight from the slugline, and page counts are measured in eighths from the PDF layout, so a scene comes in as "1 3/8" if that is what it measures on the page. The AI pass then fills the character list, locations, props, wardrobe, and music and effects. Anything it missed you add by highlighting the text in the script panel and choosing a category such as Vehicle, Animal, Stunt or Visual FX.
Dramatify's breakdown also has an AI option, which it says works in 59 languages, and it lets department heads in props, wardrobe, and hair and makeup add notes to their own items without touching the AD's data. If your costume designer wants to work inside the breakdown, that permission model helps.
Building the board
This is where the two differ most.
Storiara's stripboard is manual. You drag scenes into shoot days, set the start and end time of each day, and the board refuses a drop that would push the day past your maximum length. It shows who is available in 15-minute slots in a sidebar, but it doesn't block you from scheduling an actor on a day they marked unavailable, and it doesn't reorder anything for you.
Dramatify gives you more machinery. You can filter scenes by location, INT/EXT, set, characters or time of day, set maximum shooting hours, and let it place the batch starting from the first available day. It supports as many schedule scenarios as you want. The example Dramatify gives is weather: build a two-day wet-weather alternative, keep it private, and swap it into the published schedule if the forecast turns. It also schedules up to five simultaneous teams per day, each with its own call sheet, which is how a second unit or a splinter unit gets its own paperwork.
If your shoot has a second unit or you routinely carry weather cover, Dramatify is the better scheduling tool. If you are boarding a 12-day indie with one unit and want to move strips yourself, Storiara's board is simpler to learn.
Day Out of Days and the budget
Storiara builds a cast Day Out of Days from the board. It fills SW, W, WF, SWF, H and I automatically, and you can set T, R, WD or PW on any cell and later reset to auto. Crew, locations and props don't get rows. Dramatify runs a character and cast DooD and a separate scene items DooD, so the prop master can see on which days the picture car is needed.
On budgets, Dramatify's Fiction Standard plan includes fringes, variables, charges and credits, a two-currency top sheet for co-productions, templates it says come from the Swedish Film Institute, Netflix, Warner, Disney and HBO, and import of a Movie Magic Budgeting file as XML. A line producer who already lives in MMB can move a budget across.
Storiara's budget starts from a setup wizard (production type, union tier, shoot days, prep and post weeks, contingency, completion bond) and calculates a top sheet with 4-digit accounts: 1400 Cast, 2900 Wardrobe, 3300 Camera and so on. It uses rates you typed on cast, crew, equipment and locations, fills gaps from tier tables, and pays cast for the days the DOOD says they work. You can edit any line, lock it against later syncs, and export the budget to Excel. It has no actuals, POs or cost reports, so it is a prep budget. Dramatify describes its budgeting as running from estimates to final costs, and it lets you attach cost specification documents to line items.
Call sheets and the shoot itself
Storiara's call sheet is built per day from the schedule, cast, crew and locations, with weather, your logo and accent color. The nearest hospital is a field you type (with address autocomplete), and the sheet goes out by email immediately or at a scheduled time, plus one shareable link per shoot date. There are no text messages and no read receipts.
Dramatify carries on past the call sheet. Crew enter time sheets, the office produces daily production reports, catering lists come from food preferences and allergies entered on each crew profile, and every crew member gets a personalised schedule they can subscribe to by iCalendar. Storiara stops at the call sheet, so on a Storiara show the DPR and time cards live somewhere else.
Which one to pick
Choose Dramatify if you have five or more people editing, run more than one kind of production, need scenario scheduling or multiple units, or want time sheets and DPRs in the same system as the schedule.
Choose Storiara if one to three people are doing the prep, the script arrives as a PDF or Word file as often as .fdx, and you want the breakdown, board, cast DOOD, budget and emailed call sheets from one upload at a single-seat price. Storiara's Funding page will also match your locations and budget against its built-in list of incentive programs and estimate a value; Dramatify's site describes location tags on budget lines for comparing rebates, not a program list.
If you are still comparing, the film scheduling software roundup puts both next to Movie Magic, Gorilla and StudioBinder, and the compare hub has the rest of the head-to-heads. Before committing to either, board your first week on the free stripboard template so you know which constraints your show actually has.