TillyGen vs SetHero

What SetHero is for

Call sheet and production report tool with distribution and confirmations.

Teams whose main daily pain is the call sheet loop.

Call sheet tools take away the daily distribution pain. The real question is where the call sheet gets its content: is it generated from the schedule or maintained next to it? In the second case every schedule change passes through hands twice.

Where SetHero is strong

A comparison that only lists your own upsides is not one. This is what speaks for SetHero:

• Fast call sheet turnaround with confirmations
• Production reports in the same place
• Simple enough that ADs adopt it without training

Where the limits are

And these are the points where teams run into limits in practice — not as a flaw, but as a consequence of the design:

• A schedule change does not update the call sheet by itself
• Scope stops at the daily paperwork

Where TillyGen takes a different route

In TillyGen the call sheet is generated from the schedule, so a schedule change never leaves a stale call sheet behind.

TillyGen turns a brief into a shoot-ready package: shot list, storyboard, schedule and call sheet that stay connected. Change the creative direction and the affected shots are flagged rather than quietly left behind.

Which tool when

In short: Teams whose main daily pain is the call sheet loop. If your bottleneck is instead getting from a brief to a plan that holds, that is where TillyGen starts.

The useful question before switching is not which tool does more, but where the process stalls today. Three bottlenecks come up again and again in production teams, and they call for different tools:

• The plan comes together too slowly: days pass between the brief and a shoot-ready shot list, with the client already chasing.
• The paperwork drifts apart: shot list, schedule and call sheet live in three files, and after the second change none of them agrees with the others.
• Distribution eats the time: the plan is done, but every version has to be sent to twenty people by hand and chased up.

What to check before switching

The question is whether you want the call sheet authored or derived.

Switching tools mid-production almost always costs more than it saves on that job. The sensible moment is between two projects, with a pilot small enough to run twice if it comes to that. Check first whether the export formats match what post and accounting expect — migrations fail there more often than on features.