--- 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: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IoT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-management --- # Storyboard Reviews & Product Details 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. * * * Seller [Crank Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/crank-software) Discussions [Storyboard Community](https://www.g2.com/products/storyboard/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Scott Snider Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Figma](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Figma") Figma 4.7/5(1,582) ](https://www.g2.com/products/figma/reviews) [ ![Adobe XD](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe XD") Adobe XD 4.3/5(513) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-xd/reviews) [ ![InVision](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "InVision") InVision 4.4/5(684) ](https://www.g2.com/products/invision/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/storyboard/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 13 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) MY man y. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/23/2023 "Storybaord first user experience" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you? Shorten UI development and use animations to achieve more cool effects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Sharad C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sharad C.") SC Sharad C. Manager Management Consulting Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/9/2023 "Ease of preparing story for sales pitch and otherwise using Story Board" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DT Deep T. Senior Legal Recruiter Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/16/2023 "Review for Storyboard" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Storyboard? If there is any update on tool then you need to restart Storyboard Designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") CH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/4/2023 "Storyboard - Advancing design to talks" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/6/2025 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![chungyen c.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "chungyen c.") CC chungyen c. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/24/2023 "Storyboard is great software for UI design" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Storyboard? It has quite a clear UI design interface. And the support is fast and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Storyboard? To integrate with SBIO is a little bit complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Storyboard solving and how is that benefiting you? Provide great engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/9/2020 "Storyboard makes developing feature rich UIs easy" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/13/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/4/2020 "It's not just about the technology, it's about the support you get to integrate the technology..." 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Storyboard: Download the 30 day trial. You'll have an interactive UI up and running day 1 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") UA Verified User in Accounting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/24/2021 "Friendly to designers and easy to use" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jonathan V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jonathan V.") JV Jonathan V. (Embedded) Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/7/2020 "Super support // Great portability // Multiple target platforms supported" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic TP Tim P. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/27/2020 "Great Software and Customer Service" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Storyboard? The interfaces and workflow does take getting use to but the learning curve is short. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Storyboard: Give it a try! I have been very please with it capabilities, training material and the customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Storyboard? 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