The crop tool has been updated with a faster, more responsive UI and full rotation through any angle.

The subheading shows the storyboard and frame you're working on, so you'll know what you're cropping. Crops are saved as a frame revision - the original is always there if you need it.

Not quite the right angle?

The Camera tab regenerates your image from a different viewpoint without starting over. Pick from a range of presets - angle, height, distance - and Boords renders the same shot from the new position.

Open any frame in the editor and select the Camera tab in the sidebar to get started.

Every reframe is saved as a frame revision, so you can compare angles side by side and revert if a take doesn't land.

If your team uses Slack, you can now connect Boords and receive your notifications as direct messages. Mentions, replies, follows and status changes land in your DMs the moment they happen, with a link back to the comment in Boords.

Slack DMs work alongside the notifications inbox - the same notifications, delivered to where you're already working.

A team owner or admin installs the Boords app on the Slack workspace once. Each teammate then connects their own account from Settings → Account → Notifications to start receiving DMs. Notifications go to the recipient only. Nothing posts to channels or surfaces to the rest of the team.

Every time a frame's image changes, Boords saves it as a revision, so you can always get back to an earlier version without starting over.

Generate, restyle, reframe or drag in a new image, and each one is stored automatically.

Revisions show up in both the storyboard edit view and in the editor. In the editor, you'll see the full history as a row of thumbnails, and clicking any one of them sets it as the active image.

You can also lock a revision to protect it from being overwritten. Handy when a frame has been signed off and you want to make sure it stays that way. Revisions can be unlocked, but you'll see a warning when you do so. All lock and unlock events are tracked in the team activity log.

We've added two new tools to the AI image generator!

lets you sketch a rough layout before you generate.

Open a blank frame, pick up the brush and block out the composition - where the actor stands, where the window is, what's on the desk. Then add a prompt and hit Generate. The AI follows your layout, so you can keep iterating on the prompt without losing the composition you have in mind.


lets you draw over a generated image to highlight where to make a change, without affecting the rest of the frame.

If the result isn't right, the previous version is saved as a revision so you can hop back to it. 


It's particularly handy late in the process, when a brief change comes in and you don't want to rebuild the whole AI-generated frame from scratch.


Both tools are in the Canvas tab in the Editor. Open any frame, head to → to give them a try.

We've built a notifications inbox into Boords, so nothing slips through the cracks! Every mention, reply and comment update lands in one place, accessible from the bell icon in the left rail. A pink badge appears when something's waiting for you.

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All your notifications in one place, organised into unread, read and archived tabs. Click any notification to jump straight to the related comment. Updates in real-time while Boords is open.

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Type @ in any comment to tag a teammate with access to that project. They'll get an inbox notification and an optional email.

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Follow a storyboard to get notified of every new comment on it, including notes from guest reviewers. Or follow an entire project to get notified of every comment across all of its storyboards.

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The inbox and email notifications work separately, and you control both. Set preferences globally in Settings → Account → Notifications, or override them per-storyboard and per-project.

Feedback that slips through the cracks costs time. This puts everything in one place, so that doesn’t happen!

A few things we've added and tidied up this month.

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The project dashboard now shows how many comments a storyboard has, so you can keep tabs on review activity without having to open it first.

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Assets in the sidebar can now be expanded to view them at full size. Handy for checking details before dropping an image into a frame.

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The editor sidebar now has a cleaner way to switch between and , making it easier to jump between adding assets and keeping up with feedback, without losing your place.

We've improved how Boords handles script imports.

Longer scripts, particularly those in screenplay format, are now better supported, so you can upload a complete script and get straight to storyboarding.

Scripts can be uploaded as PDF, TXT, Markdown, HTML, or CSV, up to 2MB.

A few things we've quietly tidied up, tweaked, and improved.

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Projects now support manual drag-and-drop ordering. A new way to arrange your storyboards alongside the existing alphabetical and date-based options.


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You can now resize the sidebar in the grid view, editor, and shareable view. Drag it wider for more room to review comments, or narrow it down to focus on your frames.


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The voice-to-text, annotation, and attachment buttons now sit together in the comment editor, making it easier to find what you need. Comment replies have also been tidied up for a clearer read.


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If a comment has been changed after posting, it's now marked with an "Edited" label, keeping things transparent during review rounds.