ScreenWeaver vs LTX Studio: an honest comparison
ScreenWeaver or LTX Studio? Prices checked October 19, script, storyboard, models, refunds and teamwork, from the co-founder of ScreenWeaver.
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If your project starts from an idea, a client brief or an image, and you need a finished ad or music video this week, go with LTX Studio on the Standard plan. If your project is a written film, with dialogue and rewrites, and you want every shot to stay tied to the scene it came from, go with ScreenWeaver. On entry price the two sit a few euros apart. The real gap is where your screenplay lives, how a team works together, and what happens when you ask for your money back.
I co-founded ScreenWeaver. So you're reading a competitor's take, and I'd rather you know that before the first table. To keep the bias in check, I stick to what both companies write on their own pages, checked on October 19, 2026, and I flag every time something is my opinion. I didn't run a single generation in LTX Studio for this piece.
The comparison in one table
LTX prices are what its pricing page shows a visitor from France, in euros. ScreenWeaver prices are in US dollars before tax, as on our site.
| Criterion | ScreenWeaver | LTX Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Your screenplay, written in the tool or imported | Uploaded script, concept, image or video |
| Free plan | Screenwriter: free writing with no time limit, generation on the Auteur plan | Free: 800 credits once, personal use only |
| First pro plan | Auteur, $39.99 a month before tax, 6,000 credits | Standard, €35 a month (€28 billed yearly), 28,000 credits |
| Storyboard from the text | Included in Auteur | Included from Standard |
| Yearly billing | No, monthly only | Yes, 20% off |
| Video models | Seedance 2.5 and 2.0, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, MiniMax H3, Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Wan 3.0 | LTX-2.5 and 2.3 on every plan, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 from Standard, Veo 3.1 on Pro |
| Teamwork | Studio, $149.99: real time, unlimited seats, roles | Pro, €125: 3 collaborators per project, each on their own plan |
| Refunds | 14-day withdrawal for consumers, reduced by the credits used | 14 days if under 1,200 credits used |
| Editing and finishing | Generated footage, you cut in your own editor | Timeline, sound design, dubbing, captions, HDR |
| Claude and ChatGPT | MCP server, 22 tools | No documented equivalent for the studio |
ScreenWeaver prices checked on screenweaver.ai on October 19, 2026. Credits don't compare one to one: neither company publishes the cost of a generation on its website.
Screenplay first or concept first
LTX Studio offers four ways in on its homepage: a script, a concept in a few lines, an image or a video.
Look at the verb on the first line: "Upload your script". LTX imports text written somewhere else and turns it into scenes and a storyboard. Neither the homepage, the pricing page nor the help center describes a screenplay editor in industry format, with scene headings, dialogue and version history. For an ad or a music video, nobody will miss it: the brief fits on a page and rarely gets rewritten.
ScreenWeaver goes the other way. It opens on a screenplay editor, with a beat board and story elements (characters, locations, props), and writing stays free with no time limit. You can also import a Final Draft, Fountain or WriterDuet file. The shot breakdown and the storyboard come next, built from your scenes.
My take, and it's a competitor's take: the deciding question is how many times your text will change. Lost Garden, our series, was made entirely in ScreenWeaver, from script to production, and the 17-minute first episode took me 63 hours. On a project that size, a storyboard kept in a separate tool goes stale the moment the text moves, and nobody tells you.
💡 Frank's cut: before you compare tools, count your drafts. If your last project went through more than three rewrites, look for a tool where the screenplay and the shots live in the same file. If it went through one brief and two rounds of client notes, a concept-first tool will get you there faster.
Storyboards and character consistency
Both tools generate a storyboard from your text, and both put it behind a paid plan: Standard at LTX, Auteur at ScreenWeaver.
What matters is what happens to that storyboard when the text changes. Our FAQ puts it this way: images and panels are tied to scene headings, scenes and beats, and when the script moves, the visual layer stays aligned with the structure you wrote. On the LTX side, I couldn't find a help article explaining what happens to shots you already generated when you re-upload an edited script. LTX may handle it perfectly well, but nothing public describes it, so test it first during your 14 days.
For consistency from shot to shot, LTX has a really good idea called Elements: you create a character, prop, location, style or color once, then call it by name in any prompt. I covered it in my full LTX Studio review. ScreenWeaver carries characters, sets and references from shot to shot inside the project. Either way, the principle is the one I lay out in why characters change from one scene to the next: consistency comes from references, never from luck.
Models: who generates what
LTX has something we'll never have: its own model. LTX-2.5, released on August 11, 2026, runs on every plan, free included, and Lightricks publishes LTX-2 as open source with its weights. Partner models cost more: Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 come with Standard, Veo 3.1 only with Pro, at €125 a month. For images, LTX offers Nano Banana 2 and Pro, FLUX.2 Pro, ChatGPT Images 2.0 and Z-Image.
ScreenWeaver has no in-house model. For video it runs Seedance 2.5 by default, Seedance 2.0, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 (image to video, text to video and Motion Control), MiniMax H3, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 and Wan 3.0, added on October 18. They're available from the Auteur plan, with no extra tier for Veo. For images there are six models, including GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Seedream 5.0 Pro and FLUX 3.
For a director, the concrete difference is Seedance. LTX has 2.0, ScreenWeaver has 2.5, which is the default model in our pipeline. If you'd rather compare engines before picking a platform, my roundup of AI video tools is the place to start.
Pricing, credits and usage rights
On paper, LTX Standard at €35 and ScreenWeaver Auteur at $39.99 before tax land a few euros apart. LTX even drops to €28 a month billed yearly, which we don't offer.
Don't compare 28,000 credits with 6,000. The two units have nothing in common, and neither LTX nor we publish the cost of a generation on our sites. Our terms say the cost shows up in the app before you launch each generation. At LTX, your balance shows at the top of the app. Without generating the same shot in both tools, nobody can tell you which one costs less per minute, and I won't make that number up.
The license matters far more. At LTX, Free and Lite are for personal use only: no clients, no sponsored content, no video you get paid for. The commercial license starts at Standard. Our terms don't split rights by plan: Outerframe Studio, the company behind ScreenWeaver, claims no ownership of what you generate and assigns you any rights it might hold, subject to third-party rights and the terms of the models used. In practice, LTX's Lite plan at €15 is useless if you work for clients.
One last credit detail: in both tools, unused plan credits don't roll over to the next month. At ScreenWeaver, credits from packs you buy on top don't expire with the month.
Refunds: where LTX is more flexible
Most negative reviews of LTX are about money. On Trustpilot, LTX.Studio had a 1.6 rating from 79 reviews on October 19. Among the latest you'll find a cancellation that didn't go through properly, a refund turned down after a few hours of use, and a promised music video that the tool caps at 20 seconds per shot. Those are reviews, not established facts. Here's the written rule.
1,200 credits out of Standard's 28,000 is about 4% of the month. The refund policy help article says the rule only covers a first purchase, and that renewals and upgrades are never refunded. That's not much room to judge a production tool, and it explains some of the reviews.
Our own terms are stricter on one point, and I'm not going to hide it. At ScreenWeaver, the 14-day withdrawal right only covers consumers. If you haven't used a single credit, you get a full refund. If you have, the refund shrinks accordingly, down to zero if you used everything. A professional, and our terms count anyone producing or selling audiovisual work commercially as one, has no withdrawal right.
A freelancer who pays for Auteur on a client project and gets cold feet after three days will be treated better by LTX's 1,200-credit rule than by our terms. Our terms also say a generation that didn't turn out the way you wanted doesn't get its credits back. So start with the writing, which is free, and only subscribe once your screenplay is ready to become shots.
On reputation, ScreenWeaver had a 4.0 from 4 reviews on Trustpilot the same day. That's far too few to mean anything, and Trustpilot notes that we haven't invited customers to review us recently.
Working on the same film as a team
At LTX, you need the €125 Pro plan to add collaborators with edit rights, three per project. Each one has their own account and spends their own credits. Beyond that, it's Enterprise, on a quote.
At ScreenWeaver, real-time collaboration is on Studio, at $149.99 a month before tax: unlimited seats, shared workspaces, Owner, Editor and Viewer roles. For a writer and director duo, LTX Pro is cheaper. For a crew of five on a series, LTX sends you to Enterprise and a sales call, while Studio has a listed price.
Editing, finishing and what happens after the render
After generation, LTX goes further than we do, and for ads that counts. The studio has a timeline, sound design, dubbing, captions, a Brand Kit, SDR to HDR conversion and upscaling. You can finish a video without leaving the tool.
ScreenWeaver stops at the footage: you generate shots tied to the storyboard, with Topaz video upscaling, then cut in your usual editor. If you already have an editor, or editing software you know well, you lose nothing. If you want everything in one window, LTX wins this one outright.
Running your project from Claude or ChatGPT
ScreenWeaver has an MCP server: you connect your account to Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code, and your assistant can read and search your screenplay, rewrite a scene while keeping the old version in history, import a file or create shots in the storyboard. The page lists 22 tools, available on the Auteur and Studio plans.
Two limits to know: image and video generation can't be launched from the MCP, and OCR on scanned pages and automatic panel detection on comic pages cost credits. On the LTX side, Lightricks offers an API for its models, but I couldn't find any documented way to run an LTX Studio project from an assistant.
LTX Studio or ScreenWeaver: which one for your project
Pick LTX Studio for an ad, a teaser, a music video or brand content, especially if you start from a concept and want to cut, score and caption in one place. Go straight to Standard: Lite gives you no Elements, no generated storyboard and no right to deliver to a client. And if you care about its in-house model or local generation with LTX Desktop, ScreenWeaver won't give you either.
Pick ScreenWeaver for a short film, a series or a pilot where the text matters and is going to change. Write for free first, move to Auteur once your screenplay is ready to become shots, and keep your editing software at hand. If more than three people work on the same project, look at Studio before LTX Enterprise.
One case where I'd skip both: you just want standalone shots from lots of different models, with no project behind them. An aggregator will do that job better, and I compared the options in my piece on Higgsfield alternatives. To see the steps any pipeline has to cover, whatever the tool, read the script, storyboard, production workflow from A to Z.
Sources checked on October 19, 2026: ltx.io homepage and pricing page (prices in euros as shown from France, logged out), help.ltx.io help center (collaborators, Elements, refunds, credits), screenweaver.ai homepage, MCP page and terms, our internal ScreenWeaver product sheet kept up to date from our repositories, both tools' Trustpilot pages, Google.fr results for "screenweaver vs ltx studio" and "ltx studio vs".
- Checked: every price, limit and feature mentioned, on the official page, on publication day. All 10 screenshots were taken that day, logged out.
- Not tested: no generation was run in LTX Studio. Image quality, character consistency and the real cost of a shot aren't judged on any side-by-side test.
- Conflict of interest: the author co-founded ScreenWeaver. No affiliate links in this article.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions readers ask most about this article.
Which one is free, ScreenWeaver or LTX Studio?
Both have a free plan, but they do different jobs. ScreenWeaver's Screenwriter plan gives you the full screenplay editor, the beat board, moodboards, Final Draft and PDF import and export, with no time limit, plus 20 credits when you sign up. Generated storyboards and video production need the Auteur plan. LTX Studio's Free plan gives you 800 credits once, access to the LTX-2.5 and LTX-2.3 models and blank storyboards, strictly for personal use. For writing, ScreenWeaver is free. For trying video generation without paying, LTX gives you more.
Which one is cheaper for a short film?
Nobody can answer that with real numbers today. LTX Standard costs €35 a month, or €28 billed yearly, for 28,000 credits. ScreenWeaver Auteur costs $39.99 a month before tax for 6,000 credits. But the two credit units don't compare, and neither company publishes the cost of a shot on its website. The only real number I can give comes from our own production: episode 2 of Lost Garden, 21 minutes long, cost about $1,850 in generation. To compare, generate the same shot in both tools and watch how much each balance drops.
Can I use the videos for a client?
At LTX Studio, yes, from the Standard plan. Free and Lite are limited to personal use, which rules out clients, sponsored content and any video you get paid for. At ScreenWeaver, the terms don't reserve commercial use to a plan: Outerframe Studio claims no ownership of what you generate and assigns you any rights it might hold. In both cases you stay responsible for the rights to whatever you feed the tool, and for the terms of the third-party models used. A face or a brand you aren't allowed to use doesn't become free because an AI generated it.
Can I import an existing screenplay?
Yes on both sides, with a difference. LTX Studio lets you upload your script to generate scenes and a storyboard automatically, but it doesn't document a screenplay editor to keep working on it inside the tool. ScreenWeaver imports Final Draft, Fountain and WriterDuet files, and the built-in assistant can read a PDF, a scan or a photo of a page. The text lands in an industry-format editor where you keep writing, and the shot breakdown is generated from those scenes. Export goes to PDF and Final Draft. There's no Fountain export.
Which one has the best video models?
Each wins on different models. LTX is the only one with its own model, LTX-2.5, available even for free, and Lightricks publishes LTX-2 as open source. For Veo 3.1, LTX asks for the Pro plan at €125 a month, while ScreenWeaver offers it from Auteur. For Seedance, LTX has version 2.0 and ScreenWeaver has 2.5, its default model. ScreenWeaver also has MiniMax H3, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 and Wan 3.0, which LTX doesn't list. For images, LTX gives you more choice. Both Lightricks and we keep the right to change the list.
Which one should a team pick?
For two or three people, LTX Pro at €125 a month allows three collaborators per project, you included, but each person needs their own account and spends their own plan's credits. For a bigger team, LTX points you to Enterprise, on a quote. ScreenWeaver Studio, at $149.99 a month before tax, gives you real-time collaboration, unlimited seats and Owner, Editor and Viewer roles, with 25,000 credits a month. The right pick mostly depends on team size and on who generates the most.
Does LTX Studio refund more easily than ScreenWeaver?
For a professional, yes. LTX usually refunds a first purchase requested within 14 days, as long as you've used fewer than 1,200 credits, whoever you are. ScreenWeaver applies the 14-day withdrawal right to consumers only: full refund with no credit used, reduced according to the credits consumed otherwise. A professional has no withdrawal right with us. In both tools, renewals aren't refunded and a disappointing generation doesn't give its credits back. Use the free plans before you pay.
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