TillyGen vs Shot Lister

What Shot Lister is for

Mobile-first shot list app aimed at running the list on set.

Directors and ADs who work from a phone or tablet on the floor.

Shot list tools live on the floor: fast, mobile, built for whoever is working through the list. Their limit sits at the other end — someone has to have written the list first, and it has to match the schedule.

Where Shot Lister is strong

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

• Built for phone and tablet use on the floor
• Fast reordering while the crew waits
• Low barrier for a director who wants one screen

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:

• Assumes the list already exists
• Little connection to schedule, gear or call sheet

Where TillyGen takes a different route

TillyGen writes the list from the concept and keeps it connected to schedule and packing list.

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: Directors and ADs who work from a phone or tablet on the floor. 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

Complements a planning tool as the on-set view.

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.