The creative tools — Typo, Callout, Chat, Scene, and Background — are free forever. The production tools — Next and Just Read It — are Starting Frame membership. One line: free to make, member to run.
All the creative tools are free with a Starting Frame account — make as much as you want, export it, keep it. No card, no trial clock.
The quick text-animation set — kinetic type, graphic callouts, and pop & chat bubbles. Drop in a script or an .srt and it animates, ready for the timeline.
Stream graphics for OBS — Starting Soon, BRB, Live, and Ending screens with a live countdown. One browser-source URL, no download.
Motion-design beds — drifting 2D fields and tumbling 3D solids, with luma and depth mattes built for keying in your edit.
Dyslexia and high-legibility reading fonts, contrast, captions — accessibility features are free in every tier, every tool. We don't put those behind a wall, ever.
The Production Suite is Next, Just Read It, Scene, Quote and Release. Each one works on its own, and the free parts stay free: Just Read It runs a two-screen read, Scene sends graphics to OBS, Quote builds and prints a quote, and Release runs one form. Membership is Next (build and run the show) and everything Next connects: each call moves the prompter, cuts OBS or vMix and puts up the graphic. It also adds Just Read It's saved scripts, Quote's invoice step and unlimited Release forms.
Or $240 a year. One price for the whole Production Suite, plus whatever ships next. Running a crew: the Team plan is five seats, $1,500 a year. See each plan.
Two weeks to run a real show on it. Card up front; you're not charged until the trial ends, and only if you stay.
Cancel from your account and you keep access through the period you paid for. No phone call, no retention maze.
Cancel during the 14 days and you're never charged a cent. The trial is a real look, not a trap.
The producer driving the show needs a Starting Frame membership. If you pass control to another member mid-show, they need their own — a membership is a seat at the wheel, not a shared login.
Your invited crew don't. Camera, audio, the stage manager — anyone you invite watches their own live feed as part of the show, no membership required. They follow; the driver leads.
So the rule is simple: one driver, per seat. Pay for the people who run the show, not the people who watch it.
A rundown is an .xlsx. A script is a .docx. They live in your own cloud or on your machine — yours to keep, edit anywhere, hand off. Membership pays for the tools that drive them; it never holds the work itself.
Cancel and you don't lose a thing — the files were always yours, in formats you already own.
Typo, Callout, Chat, Scene, and Background are free forever. Next and the connected Production Suite are membership — $24/month or $240/year, 14-day free trial, cancel anytime. The driver pays for a seat; the crew they invite watch their live feed for free. And your work lives in your Drive the whole way through.
Starting Frame. — the guide · startingframe.com
Membership · free to make, member to run.