Scenechronize and Storiara both deal with scripts and the paperwork that follows them, but they sit at opposite ends of the business. Scenechronize is sold by Entertainment Partners as a digital production office, and EP's page talks about closed-loop security, studio archives, and keeping scripts from leaking. Storiara is a self-serve web app that a producer can sign up for tonight and use to break down a script before tomorrow's meeting.
Who each is for
Scenechronize is aimed at productions with a real production office: a coordinator, APOCs, a script department, and a studio or network that cares who can open which draft. EP says it has been used on productions for over a decade and cites all eight seasons of Game of Thrones as an example of keeping scripts safe. Its companion product SmartHub connects multiple Scenechronize projects for studios that need to archive and search documents across shows.
Storiara is aimed at productions where one or two people do the office work themselves. An indie feature, a thesis film, or a web series with a producer who is also the UPM uploads the script, gets a breakdown, boards the days, and sends call sheets, all from one account. Pricing is on the website, and new accounts get a 30-day free trial.
What Scenechronize does that Storiara doesn't
Sides are the obvious one. EP describes automated sides generation for getting the right pages to the right people, which is daily work on a series with a big cast. Storiara doesn't make sides.
Script revision handling is another. EP says Scenechronize compares reports across script revisions and produces summaries such as line counts per character or set and INT/EXT splits. When the blue pages come out, a coordinator can see what changed and push it to the people who need it. Storiara lets you upload a new version and re-pull content, but it doesn't show a diff between drafts. The revision colors system still has to be tracked by whoever manages the script.
Distribution and permissions are built for scale. Each crew member gets a homepage showing only the documents their role should see, and EP describes file-level permission control plus workflows that can be archived and reused on the next project. Storiara has collaborator roles that control which modules someone can open and whether they see the budget, but those restrictions are enforced in the app interface, and public call sheet links are the same for everyone. For a studio show with spoiler concerns, that difference matters.
What Storiara does that Scenechronize's page doesn't describe
EP's page lists breakdowns and production schedules among the documents Scenechronize organizes and distributes, but it doesn't describe building a board or a cast Day Out of Days. EP sells Movie Magic Scheduling for that. Storiara does the building. It extracts scenes with page eighths plus locations, characters, props, wardrobe, and music and effects from the script, gives you a drag-and-drop stripboard, fills the cast DOOD from it, and calculates a budget top sheet with account numbers like 1400 Cast and 3300 Camera from the breakdown and your rates.
Scenechronize has no budgeting. On an EP-equipped show, the budget lives in Movie Magic Budgeting and payroll runs through EP's own services.
One task both ways: getting blue pages to the set
Picture a six-episode series on Day 23. The writers' room issues blue revision pages for Episode 4 that rewrite Scene 31 and add Scene 31A, 5/8 of a page, with a new speaking role.
With Scenechronize, the script coordinator uploads the revision, runs the comparison report to confirm which scenes and characters changed, and publishes it. The new pages appear on the homepages of the people cleared to see Episode 4. Tomorrow's sides are generated with the new pages included, and the call sheet goes out through the same crew homepage.
With Storiara, a new script version can't be activated once scenes are on the stripboard, and on Day 23 they are. So the producer adds Scene 31A by hand on the Scenes page with its eighths, adds the new character in Cast & Crew, and updates Scene 31. The producer drags 31A onto tomorrow's strip, checks the day still fits inside the maximum hours, casts the new role, and emails the updated call sheet. Nobody gets sides, and the producer has to tell the department heads what changed, because Storiara doesn't produce a change report.
For a six-episode studio series, the first workflow is the one the studio will expect. For a 12-day indie, the second covers what that production needs.
Which document comes from where
On a show that uses both EP's tools and a production office, the paperwork splits across several products. On a small show using Storiara, one account produces most of it. This is how the common prep documents line up, based on EP's product page and Storiara's current features.
| Document | Scenechronize | Storiara |
|---|---|---|
| Script revisions | Upload, compare across drafts, distribute by permission | Upload a new version, activate it, re-pull content |
| Sides | Generated automatically | Not available |
| Breakdown sheets | Managed and distributed | Extracted from the script, editable, printable |
| Stripboard and one-liner | Distributed; built elsewhere (EP sells Movie Magic Scheduling) | Built on a drag-and-drop board, printable |
| Cast Day Out of Days | Not described | Filled from the board |
| Budget | Not included (EP sells Movie Magic Budgeting) | Top sheet and line items, Excel export |
| Call sheet | Distributed through crew homepages | Built per date, emailed or shared by link |
| Safety memos and location maps | Distributed through crew homepages | Location maps and parking maps on location records; no safety memo module |
If your show already has a shooting script locked, a scheduler in Movie Magic, and an office staff, most of Storiara's value on that table is duplicated. If none of those exist yet, most of Scenechronize's value assumes people you haven't hired.
Switching between them
There's no import path from Scenechronize into Storiara. Scripts come across as PDF, Word, or Final Draft files, which any production will have. Crew and cast lists can be brought in from CSV or Excel. Going the other way, Storiara's schedule, DOOD, and call sheets print to PDF, which a production office could upload into any document system, Scenechronize included. The breakdown itself doesn't export as data.
Access is also different. Storiara accounts are self-serve. Scenechronize access starts with a conversation with EP, and the scenechronize.com address itself is a login page for existing users.
How to decide
If a studio or network expects controlled distribution, sides, and a production office system with EP support behind it, Scenechronize is built for that and Storiara isn't. If you're a small team without a coordinator and you need the breakdown, board, cast days, budget, and call sheets in one place for a published monthly price, Storiara is the closer fit. See the compare hub for other tools, the production coordinator role page for who usually runs this paperwork, and the guide to script revision colors.