Gorilla Scheduling vs Shamel Studio

Gorilla Scheduling is film production software for screenplay breakdowns, stripboards, shoot days, cast and crew, and production reports. Its online version runs in a browser, supports collaboration, and requires no desktop installation. It can import Final Draft and PDF screenplays, import Movie Magic Scheduling data, and handle Final Draft .fdx imports and exports and Movie Magic .sex exports. Reports include shooting and one-line schedules, Day Out of Days, cast and crew lists, element reports, breakdown sheets, stripboard reports, and calendar reports. Breakdown Assistant AI helps identify and organize screenplay elements for review in the scheduling workflow. Koala Call Sheets uses information in Gorilla Scheduling to create, customize, PDF, email, and distribute call sheets. Online Work Offline mode supports selected breakdown and scheduling edits, which sync when online. The free Online plan has limited features; collaboration and certain reports and exports require a paid plan. Paid offerings include desktop scheduling and budgeting plans. Supported projects can move between Desktop and Online without rebuilding them.

Shamel Studio provides web tools for film and TV production scheduling, budgeting, call sheets, and production reports. Its scheduling tool can create an initial breakdown from a PDF script in under 20 seconds, then organize work with a stripboard, scene breakdown, Day Out of Days reports, and conflict alerts. Scheduling data exports to PDF or Movie Magic Scheduling 6 and 10 formats. Budgeting can import shoot days, cast, locations, and other schedule elements, and automatically populate union and guild rates and fringes. Call sheets draw on schedule details and support weather forecasts, cast and crew call times, department notes, and PDF distribution. Production reports use call sheet data and offer customizable sections, fields, templates, time tracking, and PDF export. The site currently supports PDF scripts; other formats such as FDX are in development. Properly formatted scripts in several Latin-alphabet languages, including Spanish and French, can be processed. Free access is free and allows one project. Scheduling and Budgeting each cost $23/user/mo (annual); the combined plan is $45/user/mo (annual).