SetHero or StudioBinder: which one should you use?
Feature lists will not separate these two. What separates them is the billing unit. StudioBinder charges per seat, so the crew you send to costs you nothing and each of your own seats is billed every month, shooting or not. SetHero charges per project and measures a project by the number of people and the number of shoot days, so a large crew is exactly what moves the price. Pick the one whose unit matches how you work.
Which one, by situation
Between the two you are comparing, this one is not close. StudioBinder bills the seat: your two or three seats are the bill, and the sixtieth crew member costs the same as the sixth. SetHero bills the project and sizes it by headcount, in its own words on its help centre, read on 28 August 2026: it measures project size by the number of people working on the project and the number of days you will be shooting. On a crew of 60 that is the number that moves. Mustyn lands in the same place as StudioBinder by a different route, billing the shoot day published rather than the person, so the answer here is either of those two and not the third.
Now take the same question from the other end, because it reverses. SetHero's pricing is per project, so a quiet month costs nothing and there is no subscription to remember to cancel. StudioBinder is a monthly seat whether you shoot or not, and if you have added a second or third person to the account it is $25 a month each on top. Mustyn sells days rather than months: five shoot days are free for life, then packs that stay good for 24 months. Neither the shot list nor the seat is what you are paying for in that model, which is the point of it.
This is where StudioBinder's seat gets more expensive than it looks. Its tracking is real and it is specific, tracking delivery and confirmations for individual call sheets with bounces and view counts, but it arrives at the $49 Indie tier. The $29 Starter tier builds, customizes and sends, and the help centre article describing what it includes does not mention tracking; the free plan sends only to yourself. SetHero does not tier it: it shows who opened the sheet and how many times, who confirmed their call time, and when a message bounced. Mustyn does not tier it either, and it splits the count by version, so a v2 that nobody has opened is visible as such on the free tier.
Both of them publish it, which is worth saying because it is easy to read this as SetHero's distinction. SetHero, on its own call sheets page: "You have the power to publish your call sheets via email and/or text message and can preview what the messages will look like before sending." StudioBinder, on its: "Call sheets are sent electronically via email and SMS text." Mustyn has no SMS at all. No messaging provider is wired into it, so everything it sends leaves as an email and a link. On a crew that reads texts and lets email pile up, that is not something you work around, and this one is not ours.
That is what the seat buys, and it is the honest answer to why StudioBinder bills the way it does. Scriptwriting, scene breakdowns, stripboards, shot lists, storyboards, mood boards and locations are all on the same account as the call sheet, so the subscription has something to do in the weeks between shoots. SetHero is a call sheet tool and prices itself accordingly, per project, because the project is the work. Mustyn models the call sheet and its sending and nothing around them: no breakdown, no schedule, no storyboard, and none of it is planned into the price. If the tool has to carry the prep as well, this one is not ours either.
Mustyn keeps v1, v2 and v3, shows the diff, and singles out the people the change affects while telling the others what moved. You then see who still has not opened the new one, name by name. Both of the others handle the resend well: SetHero rebroadcasts in one click and can resend only to the people who have not opened it, and StudioBinder republishes too. What neither help centre documents is keeping the earlier versions or showing what changed between them, which is the part that matters when someone confirms a call time that no longer exists.
StudioBinder
$29 – $99 / monthPer seat, 1 to 4 users included by tier, then $25 per extra userThe broadest product here: scriptwriting, scene breakdowns, stripboards, shot lists, storyboards, mood boards and locations sit next to the call sheet, so the seat you pay for has work to do between shoots. Call sheets go out by email and SMS text. Contacts are unlimited from the $29 tier up. From the $49 Indie tier it tracks delivery and confirmations for individual call sheets, bounces and view counts included.
Tracking is the line that costs: the $29 Starter tier builds, customizes and sends call sheets, and the help centre article describing it does not name tracking at all. The free plan can only send to yourself. Seats past the ones included are $25 a month each, so a third pair of hands is a subscription change. And its help centre documents versioning for scripts and projects, not for call sheets: no v1 and v2 on a sheet you have sent, and no record of what changed between two sends.
SetHero
No figure we could readPer project, measured on cast and crew headcount and shoot daysCrew get a personal link by email and text message, with no account and no app to install, on a page the vendor says will feel to them like a custom app. The price follows the project rather than the calendar, so nothing runs between two shoots. It shows who has opened their call sheet and how many times, who has confirmed their call time, and it tells you when an email or a text bounces. Revising and rebroadcasting is one click, and resending to the people who have not opened it is another.
Its free tier stops at 10 people and 1 shooting day; past that you buy the additional people and days the project needs, so the size of your crew is a line on your bill, and you end up deciding who is important enough to receive the call sheet. A G2 reviewer describes the same arithmetic one level up, choosing which client justifies the tool at all. The figures themselves are not readable: sethero.com/pricing hands off to a subdomain that renders nothing without JavaScript. Its help centre documents revising and republishing, but not keeping the earlier versions or showing what changed between them.
Mustynours
$0, then $15 – $109 one-time or $49 – $149 / monthPer shoot day published, whatever the size of the crewBuilds the day from the PDF or spreadsheet the production has already sent, and flags what is missing before it goes out. A personal link each, no account, one tap to confirm. You see who has opened their sheet, per person and per version, on the free tier as much as the paid ones. Published versions are frozen, the diff between them is visible, and a re-notification singles out the people a change affects. Contacts, departments and sheet templates carry from one shoot to the next. Five shoot days are free for life.
No shot lists, no storyboards, no script breakdowns: it models the call sheet and its sending, not the pre-production around them. No SMS: email and a link. It is a young product.
How we checked
- 01Every claim on this page was re-read on the vendors' own pages on 28 August 2026, not taken from software directories, four of which contradict each other in this category.
- 02StudioBinder's figures come from its support centre, where each plan has an article of its own: Free, Starter at $29 with one user, Indie at $49 with two, Professional at $99 with four, and $25 a month for each user beyond those. The $199 and $299 organisation tiers this page carried in an earlier version are not on those pages any more, so they are not published here.
- 03SetHero's figures are not on this page because they could not be read. sethero.com/pricing hands off to a subdomain that renders nothing without JavaScript, so what is published is the unit it states in its help centre and the free tier it names there, 10 people and 1 shooting day. A price we cannot see is recorded as an absence rather than an estimate.
- 04An earlier version of this page credited SetHero with a first project free up to 75 people and 5 days. Its help centre says the free tier is 10 people and 1 shooting day, and that anything larger means buying the people and days the project needs. That line has been corrected, and it is the kind that needs checking hardest, because the correction favours us.
- 05The same version did not mention that StudioBinder sends call sheets by text message as well as email. Its call sheet page says so, so the pick for a crew that reads texts goes to both of them rather than one.
- 06The two are compared on their billing unit first. On a 60-person crew, the unit decides the bill long before any feature does.
- 07The date above is when these pages were read, not when this page was published. Prices in this category move without notice, and one of these two moved between two readings a week apart.