SetHero is built around one thing, the call sheet, and does it in depth. ProProduction builds the call sheet from the whole production and runs the shoot day after it goes out. Here’s where each one is stronger.
Call sheets are the job and you want the most control over them: your own layouts and templates, texts and emails sent by SetHero with delivery status, and production reports with overtime and meal penalties. Maybe you schedule elsewhere, or you want to pay once for a single project.
You want the call sheet to come out of the whole production (script, shots, schedule, people, locations and budget) and a live board for the shoot day, without counting cast, crew or shooting days.
| Area | ProProduction | SetHero |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Yes Imports PDF, Word, Final Draft, Fountain and plain text. Write new drafts with revision colors, break down with the usual 8 categories plus your own, print sides, a lined script and breakdown sheets, and export Final Draft or Fountain. No two-column AV scripts, and no dual dialogue when writing. | No No script import, writing or breakdown. Scenes come in from a spreadsheet, Scriptation, Cinapse, Think Crew or Scenechronize. Sides go out as a file attached to the call sheet. |
| Shot list and storyboards | Yes List, Board and Grid views. Frames drawn, built from a reference library or shot on your phone, on the gate of your actual camera (108 bodies, 268 lens series). Up to 4 cameras a shot. CSV in and out, and PDF. | No Not offered. |
| Setups and floor plans | Yes Top-down lighting plans with each camera’s real field of view, 269 fixtures and 129 modifiers, buildings and set pieces to scale, and a gear list PDF. | No Not listed. |
| Scheduling and strips | Yes Days planned against a 12-hour day, a stripboard, units, day types, a one-liner and shooting schedule, and a cast day out of days. No import from Movie Magic or other schedulers. | Partly A list of shoot days and a scene schedule in each call sheet. No stripboard. Movie Magic data comes in through a separate paid converter to Excel. |
| Call sheets | Yes A personal sheet for each person, sent by email or link, now or scheduled. Opened and Confirmed for each person, updates only to the people whose details changed, attachments, and Text from your own phone. Weather and the nearest ER are US only, and there are no saved layouts. | Yes Its core. Custom sections, columns and headers, and saved templates. Department and personal calls. Email and text sent by SetHero with delivery and open status, confirmations, attachments, automatic weather, map pins and watermarked PDFs. |
| Crew and contacts | Yes Crew and cast never pay and don’t need an account. CSV and vCard import, holds and pencils, rates, deal memos signed from a link, and job posts. No timecards. | Partly Crew open the call sheet from a link, and a company contact list is shared across projects. Every person on a project counts toward the plan’s size, and collaborators need an account. |
| Locations and scouting | Yes Script places tied to real locations, with permits, parking and the nearest ER. Scout photos from a phone record where you stood and which way you faced. | Partly Locations with map pins and links on the call sheet. Scout photos and permits aren’t listed. |
| Budget and expenses | Yes Templates or your own chart of accounts, labor from bookings, fringes, purchase orders, approvals, floats, and costs and receipts logged from a phone. Reports and CSV for the accountant. Paid plans only, with no link to accounting software. | No Not listed. |
| On set | Yes A live board with ahead or behind and a wrap estimate, takes with clip names and circled takes, QR check-in, and day reports. Camera control for 31 ARRI, RED, Canon and Blackmagic bodies through a Mac on set. | Partly Production reports built from the call sheet, with times, overtime, meal penalties and cast time logs. A live board, check-in and camera tools aren’t listed. |
| On a phone | Partly Everything opens in a phone browser, and crew need no app or account. There’s no app to install, a page has to be open to keep working offline, and Strips and schedule editing are for a computer or tablet. | Partly Crew read and confirm call sheets in a phone browser. No app, and reviewers find building sheets on a phone awkward. |
| Teams and permissions | Yes Studio for up to 10 people, and Organizations with teams, leadership access, 7 roles plus custom roles, view as, share links and your own web address. Single sign-on with Microsoft, Google, Okta or any OpenID Connect provider on Organization and Enterprise. | Partly Company contacts and projects, with 1 to 12 project admins by plan (unlimited on Enterprise). Finer roles aren’t listed. |
| Imports, exports and connections | Partly Calendar feeds for Apple, Google and Outlook. CSV, PDF, Final Draft, Fountain and Avid ALE files. No public API, Zapier, Slack or cloud drive connections. | Partly Imports from Excel and CSV, Scriptation, Cinapse, Think Crew and Scenechronize, and free migration from StudioBinder. Lists export to Excel, and call sheets and reports to PDF. Calendar feeds aren’t listed. |
| Free plan | Yes One project with up to 50 shots and no time limit. Call sheets go by link only, with no PDFs or camera control. | Partly The first project is free for up to 75 people and 5 shooting days, and it’s free for enrolled students. After that, a subscription or a one-time project price. |
| Your data and leaving | Partly PDFs and CSVs of most things, plus a project archive file you can restore here (paid plans, and it doesn’t hold images). No one-click export of everything. Cancel and you’re on Free with nothing deleted. Deleting your account is self-serve, and it’s kept for 30 days in case you change your mind. | Partly Lists to Excel, plus PDFs. A whole-account export isn’t listed. Deleting your account is self-serve, takes effect at once and can’t be undone. |
| AI | Partly Off unless you add your own Anthropic key, and we don’t train AI on your work. Today it suggests a day’s shot order. | No None listed. |
“Coming soon” work isn't counted.
SetHero prices by how many projects you run a year and caps people and shooting days per project, or charges once for a single project. ProProduction charges by plan and doesn’t count projects, cast, crew or shooting days on paid plans.
As listed on October 27, 2026. See SetHero's current prices. “From” is the price at 5 projects a year; it rises with more. Yearly billing saves 25%. Free for enrolled students.
US dollars, plus sales tax where it applies. Crew and collaborators join free on every plan. Compare our plans
SetHero exports its lists to Excel. Most of the rest comes from your script.
Comparisons are based on public information as of October 27, 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us.
It's free for one project, from the script to the live board, and you don't need a card. Crew never pay.