Gorilla Scheduling vs Talymo

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.

Talymo is production management software for AV and event teams, bringing job planning, gear tracking, crew access, and callsheet generation together. A job can contain dates, location, client brief, crew, equipment, checklist, and callsheet. The gear library records each item’s serial number, status, and location, and checks for overlapping job dates when gear is assigned. QR codes support equipment checkout and return through a mobile-friendly workflow. Callsheets are built from job data and can be shared by link or downloaded as PDFs. Reusable Smart Bundles group equipment into kits, with their contents checked for conflicts. Jobs show a live readiness status—Ready, Missing Items, or Not Ready—based on gear availability and checklist completion. Internal team members can edit; freelance crew can have view-only access. Talymo says it permanently logs every action on each asset. It is aimed at production companies, rather than equipment rental businesses, and runs on Android, iOS, and the web.