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Feature availability by device

Almost everything works on desktop, tablet and phone. This is the short list of what is desktop and tablet only, and what phones do differently.

Last updated Aug 29, 2026

StoryTribe runs in the browser on all three kinds of device. Tablets get the same desktop editor with a narrower sidebar; phones get a separate editor built for a small screen. Here is what that means feature by feature.

On every device

  • Creating a project.
  • The Story Bible, Script, Storyboard, Canvas and Video views.
  • Canvas editing: characters, the pen, text, search, Elements, multi-select, layer order, undo and redo.
  • Tribe AI image generation, and the image adjustments (phones get the four adjustment filters, not the full Magic Edit).
  • The Video editor with music, voice-over, transitions and MP4 download.
  • Sharing a project you can edit, and publishing personal projects. On any device, workspace projects can't be published to the community; they deliver through Share and export instead.

Desktop and tablet only

  • Table view (the shot list).
  • Magic Edit (remove background, generative expand, retouch, split into layers).
  • Comments. A comment link opened on a phone shows: Open the project on desktop to view comments.
  • Custom canvas sizes (paid plans).
  • The full export dialog: storyboard pages as PDF or PPTX, images, screenplay formats, and the shot list as CSV or XLSX. Phones download JPG, PNG or PDF.
  • Keyboard shortcuts.

Different on a phone

  • Team projects with two or more editors open as view only, with the banner Team project · View only on mobile and the line Edit this project on your computer. A workspace project that only you can edit still opens for editing.
  • Views live in a dropdown under the header instead of a row of tabs, and the tools sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen.

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