--- title: Storyboard Reviews meta_title: 'Storyboard Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Storyboard works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: IoT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-management --- # Storyboard Reviews **Vendor:** Crank Software **Category:** [IoT Development Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-development-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Storyboard Crank Storyboard is GUI Design and Development software that enables engineers and designers to create optimized GUIs for embedded devices rapidly and with ease. So much so that device manufacturers at Fortune 500 companies rely on Storyboard to help them create their award-winning, innovative touch screens for their smart kitchens, white goods, cars, and industrial devices. We're their secret sauce. Our proprietary design and development platform encourages GUI designers and software engineers to work side-by-side for maximum efficiency, yet independently so they can validate designs and performance much earlier, handle iterations in design with ease, and get their products to market faster. All applications created in Storyboard are automatically optimized for maximum performance on a range of platforms from resource-constrained microcontrollers to high-powered microprocessors, meaning a broader spectrum of devices can now have brilliantly-designed GUIs, without draining resources to run them. How does it work? Storyboard does not generate source code to be compiled but instead generates a data model that is in turn executed by an engine that is specifically targeted for resource-constrained embedded systems. Storyboard is specifically designed to be extensible and timeless. By not relying on a specific set of GUI widgets but instead leveraging standard file formats for graphics and fonts, Storyboard allows designers to craft GUIs using tools that they are most familiar with such as Figma, Photoshop, Sketch, and 3D modeling software. Later on, when the GUI needs a design update, the interface can be quickly re-skinned with a new look without affecting the underlying logic of the system. ## Storyboard Reviews ### 1. Storybaord first user experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** man y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Convenient and simple UI animation design, simple PSD design import, non compiled development experience, can simulate and test almost the same running effect as the actual platform, without compiling on each platform, very convenient **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** I hope to have enough SBC controls implemented, like QT, to add better support interfaces for some devices, such as serial and can ports, and also hope to have more Chinese support such as Pinyin input method. Storybaord is not very stable in use in ubantu, and I hope to improve it **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shorten UI development and use animations to achieve more cool effects ### 2. Ease of preparing story for sales pitch and otherwise using Story Board **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharad C. | Manager Management Consulting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** It's functionality to collage images and prepare storyboard in terms of visualisation The software typically provides pre-made images and characters to help design your story. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** Storyboard does not provide templates to be used for visual presentation of data which creates difficult while preparing the storyboard Manual feeding of data limits the usage **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in preparing the sales pitch as it require collation of information into visual presentation and also provide animation wherever required It helped me by providing visual story while pitching for sales opportunities ### 3. Review for Storyboard **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deep T. | Senior Legal Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Very user friendly and no specific expertise needed to use this GUI building tool. It has all the necessary features to build amazing UI. It also offers free trial. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** If there is any update on tool then you need to restart Storyboard Designer. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** PLS business unit is using the tool to develop new UI for there software. ### 4. Storyboard - Advancing design to talks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Storyboarding is an excellent tool for making life easy for everyone. It's not only restricted to developers or Business Analysts. Anyone can use it efficiently to create stories. Even a layperson can use this tool. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** The storyboard should be organized a little more accessible and would have options to search with the advanced search. Should have more options to customize and configure. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storyboarding helps us understand and make the notes easier. It's best to identify the workflows and create stories. Teams are able to update the stories by sharing it with multiple audience. ### 5. Storyboard is great software for UI design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** chungyen c. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** It has quite a clear UI design interface. And the support is fast and friendly. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** To integrate with SBIO is a little bit complicated. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide great engine ### 6. Storyboard makes developing feature rich UIs easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** I'm not a developer and have limited coding experience, but I've been able to prototype and deploy a relatively complex UI with Storyboard. The platform is intuitive and user friendly. It's also feature rich, which gives you the best of both worlds. We're planning on leveraging Crank's development services to build our final UI, but it's really nice to prototype and get up and running quickly on our own. We like Storyboard's cross-platform capabilities. Our first UI iteration is running on a Raspberry PI and we plan on migrating to a custom control board with a MPU in the near future. The team at Crank have been very helpful and responsive throughout. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** Crank's online videos and documentation is pretty extensive. Since I'm not a developer, I would benefit from some "best practices" guidelines since there are often many ways to accomplish the same objective, but there are advantages to following certain approaches. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Developing a feature rich UI quickly. 2) Modifying our UI easily. Changes are not difficult. 3) Running our UI on different hardware during different phases of our product development process. 4) Working with a team with deep expertise. ### 7. It's not just about the technology, it's about the support you get to integrate the technology... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Crank Storyboard was created by designer's for developers! At some stage in your UI Delivery Pipeline the non-technical design team is going to engage directly with the technical development team. Crank is the abstraction layer that facilitates that engagement and brings feature rich UI's as only imaged by designers to the embedded platform as only realised by developers. From 1+ year experience as a software developer embedded into a design team, designers can create world class UI's in their designtools of choice ( photoshop, sketch, etc ) and then import directly into Crank. The designers then hand this Crank Project ( which now exists as a collection of imported UI Screens ) to the User Experience (UX) and Interaction team which bring the UI to life by binding interactive events (click, swipe, animations, etc ) to the screens. This is achieved entirely thought the Crank Storyboard interface without needing a single line of code. The UX Team then hand this over to me, the software developer, which maps those click and swipe events to Storyboard IO Messages which get sent to the product. The deployment to Embedded Target is one of the easiest I've expereienced in my 10+ years as embedded software developer. The support from Crank in scoping, troubleshooting and integrating their product is second to none. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** I wish there was more activity and an active community in the Crank hosted forums and knowledge sharing platforms. This is made **Recommendations to others considering Storyboard:** Download the 30 day trial. You'll have an interactive UI up and running day 1 **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crank serves as the abstraction / translation layer between non-technical designer team and the technical software development team. Please see "What do you like best?" summary. ### 8. Friendly to designers and easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Able to get started and develop an interface in a short time, which is convenient for designers to operate **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** Sometimes it’s not easy to make complex animations, it’s not easy to adjust dynamically, and it’s not friendly to work with multiple people **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm only in the learning stage, I feel easy to get started, there are still many places to explore ### 9. Super support // Great portability // Multiple target platforms supported **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan V. | (Embedded) Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** The support team is awesome. Whenever I have an issue, I contact support and with the very little information they get from me, they respond always very fast with information on how to fix it or even with a new engine. Our product uses a low range processor without an operating system, and the portability is definitely the biggest feature of Crank. Our GUI designers can focus on the design only in the simulator, while the hardware engineers can focus on the embedded side. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** Not all features are available for my processor, which makes total sense, but sometimes it's hard to figure out what will work and what not. The simulator could use a feature that prevents the GUI designer from adding something that will not work on my target (or give a warning). Also, more documentation for my target would be useful. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our main goal to use Storyboard is to shift the focus from 'how do I put an element on my display' to 'how to make a beautiful UI'. We wanted to minimize the amount of time spend on the hardware specific implementations and on the display renderer and put all our effort into making a user-friendly, good looking UI. In this, Crank succeeds very well. ### 10. Great Software and Customer Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Storyboard Designer has a great set of features from 3D capabilities, back-in integration, animation and graphic capabilities. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** The interfaces and workflow does take getting use to but the learning curve is short. **Recommendations to others considering Storyboard:** Give it a try! I have been very please with it capabilities, training material and the customer support. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I teach an interface prototyping course so I am giving students exposure to the next level of creating an interface on actual hardware. ### 11. StoryBoard **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** The ease of using the software and all the functionalities it has. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** you are limited to lua programing language but it was easy to get around it. **Recommendations to others considering Storyboard:** the use of storyboard can help in producing a product quickly, and the use of photoshop can make uis amazing. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** creating a Ui was never easier thanks to StoryBoard ### 12. Very User Friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Injecting Application Events and simulating your GUI without target hardware **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** I do not like that a script failure will halt your process **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a GUI for a medical company ### 13. Used StoryBoard to Quickly and Cleanly build UI prototypes and Finished working UI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Storyboard?** Using Photoshop to create the real UI and turn it into to a working UI was very powerful in convincing management about new operations and added features of our prouduct. Storyboard provided the quick UI idea to functional UI. With the added naming conventions the conversion from design to operating UI was time efficient. **What do you dislike about Storyboard?** No software is perfect. The link between backend and front end was likely the weakest point. The data formatting to get it UI for more than base numbers, did require some work. It was not bad, just not perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Storyboard:** Storyboard has continued to grow from the time I used it. It was growing with new features while I was using it. **What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storyboard provided a UI that was not OS dependent. 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