FilmBase is now on the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store
FilmBase is available today. Script breakdown, scheduling, budgeting and cast and crew in one desktop app, where moving a shoot day updates the budget.
· 4 min read
Run your entire production
from one place
Smart scheduling, budgeting, script breakdown, and call sheets in one desktop app. Move a shoot day, and your budget updates instantly.
7 days free, then $39 a month or $349 a year. Cancel anytime.
Product overview video
Five or six tools.
Or one that stays in sync.
Most productions piece together five or six different tools. One for scheduling, another for breakdown, spreadsheets for the budget, something else for call sheets, and a notes app for transport. FilmBase does it all in one place, and the parts stay connected. Let the optimizer lay your scenes across shoot days, pick your dates, then import your cast and props into the budget. They stay tied to that schedule, so moving a day updates every actor's days and every prop's usage on its own.
See every feature Smart Scheduling
Schedule your whole shoot in one click
Set your dates, drop in the script, and hit Optimize. Every scene lands on a day, with locations grouped, day and night kept apart, and actor availability respected. Pin your locations on the map and it plans the driving route too.
Optimizer laying scenes across shoot days
Budgeting
A budget that updates instantly with your schedule
Start from a template, your own rate cards, or a budget you bring in from Movie Magic (.xml) or Excel. Then the schedule does the arithmetic: import a character or a whole department and FilmBase reads their work, hold, travel and prep days off the Day out of Days, each at its own rate. Move a shoot day and your budget updates instantly.
Shoot day moving, budget total updating
Script Breakdown
Modern AI script breakdown
FilmBase's AI tags props, wardrobe, vehicles, and stunts on your own computer, so your script never leaves it. Promote tags to budget line items and track element usage across every scene with the Magic Sheet.
Elements being tagged across a page
Call Sheets
One click, call sheet and sides
Scenes, cast, call times and locations pull straight from your schedule, plus custom rows for anything specific to the day. Weather fills in for any location with a GPS pin, whenever you have a connection, and the hospital and contacts you saved on it come too. The day's sides come out attached to the same PDF, instead of being cut by hand in Final Draft.
Call sheet filling, sides attaching
Storyboards & Shotlist
No storyboard artist needed
Link camera angles and framing to every scene. Shots without art get automatic framing diagrams based on shot size, angle, and subject. Set shot timing and export your storyboard as a video animatic.
Framing diagrams drawing themselves in
Cost Tracking
Know what's spent and what's left
Log spend against every budget line and attach the invoice or proof of payment, so the variance moves as you go. The Payment Schedule shows what falls due when, and Cashflow tracks money in against money out, so you can see a short week before it arrives.
Expense logged, invoice attached, variance moving
Buy it separately, and it adds up fast
A scheduling app, a budgeting app, and an all-in-one cloud tool for breakdown and call sheets. Here's what that stack runs per person, per year.
The usual stack
- Screenwriting app~$250 once
- Scheduling app~$240/yr
- Budgeting app~$300/yr
- All-in-one cloud tool
breakdown, call sheets, shotlists, storyboards, contacts~$1,020/yr
Per person, recurring ~$1,560/yr
Plus a one-time ~$250 for the screenwriting app.
FilmBase, all of it
- Script, breakdown, scheduling, and budget
- Call sheets, shotlists, storyboards, transport
- Real-time team collaboration, private over your own network
- Every feature in one subscription, updates included
$349/yr
or $39 a month
one app instead of four
Comparison uses representative public pricing for category-equivalent tools, per person, in 2026. Exact costs vary by vendor and tier.
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Your production workflow,
simplified
Import Script
Write or import
Break Down
Auto-tag elements
Schedule
Optimize shoot days
Set Budget
Estimate & track
Call Sheets
Generate & distribute
Wrap & Report
Final reports
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A native desktop app,
even with no internet.
As a native desktop application, FilmBase runs locally on your computer. On a closed soundstage or a remote location with zero signal, it keeps working. The schedule optimizer and the script breakdown run inside the app, so nothing is metered and there are no credits to run out of mid-shoot. Your projects are files on your own computer.
Built for production professionals
Producers
Bird's-eye budget dashboards, cashflow tracking, and production Gantt charts.
Line Producers
Detailed budgets with actuals, payment schedules, and variance analysis.
Production Managers
One-click stripboard optimization, call sheets, transport logistics, and DOOD tracking.
Studios
Unified workspace for multiple projects with offline-first security and full reports.
From the blog
Production guides & product updates
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Your whole team on one project, privately over your own network
How FilmBase keeps real-time team collaboration fast and private, peer-to-peer over your own network, with nothing stored on a server.
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Try it on a real project, free for 7 days
Run a full production through FilmBase before you pay anything. Cancel inside the trial and nothing is charged.
$39/mo
Monthly
$349/yr
Yearly, $29.08 a month
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