Production software · compared
A SetHero alternative: KitSlate or SetHero?
SetHero is call sheet and production report software for film and video sets, sold per project or as Starter, Pro, Studio and Enterprise subscriptions.
KitSlate keeps one record per job that the gear list, the call sheet, the quote, the invoice and the releases all read from, from $19 a month. SetHero’s side of the table is from its own pages, read on 3 November 2026. “Not stated” means their pages did not say, not that they lack it.
KitSlate and SetHero
Where SetHero leadsSetHero leads on call sheets and on what happens after they go out. Its drag and drop builder publishes call sheets made for each person by email, text and PDF, with automatic weather, sunrise and sunset times, map links and overtime checks. Each person confirms their own call time from a phone with no account or app, and the producer sees who opened it, how many times and who confirmed, with bounce alerts and one click resend. Production reports spin off a call sheet in one click, with union-ready time logs, overtime and meal penalties. Pricing is flexible: a one-time cost per project, weekly billing for long shoots, or a subscription from $19 a month, with the first project free and free use for students and schools.
Where KitSlate leadsKitSlate keeps the rest of the job beside the call sheet. Your own equipment inventory is priced into gear lists and packed by case, availability is checked across every job, quotes and invoices are priced from the job with card payment through your own Stripe, receipts are read and billed with the receipts attached, releases are signed on a phone, and the Media Center sends rushes that play in the browser.
Side by side
| What | KitSlateProduction software | SetHeroCall sheets |
|---|---|---|
| The shoot day | ||
| Call sheets | Built on cards with the sheet previewed beneath, one sheet per day of a multi-day job. Each person gets their own email with their call time and start location at the top and the PDF attached. The forecast for the address and date goes on with one press, and a venue you have shot at before fills in its maps link, parking, hospital and urgent care. | A drag and drop builder publishes call sheets by email, text or both, with PDF and Excel export. It loads weather forecasts and sunrise and sunset times, adds map links for company moves, sets personal call times and attaches files, and its Smart Assist calculates overtime and flags time typos. Hospital details are not stated.Send instantly via text, email, and PDF.Publish |
| Who has confirmed | Each email carries its own Confirm link. Sent, Opened and Confirmed come back per person, with times; Resend asks someone to confirm again. They confirm and read the sheet on a phone with nothing to install and no account. | Each recipient follows a link and presses Confirm on their own call time. A table shows who has opened it, how many times and who confirmed, with timings, plus bounce alerts and one click resend to anyone who has not opened it. Automatic follow-ups are marked coming soon.See who's viewed and confirmed their call time.Track |
| Schedule and calendar | A calendar that draws each booking across every day it occupies, with holds from Inquiry through 1st, 2nd and 3rd Hold to Confirmed, and drafts that hold space without blocking the date. The day's schedule is built on the call sheet. Google Calendar connects per company, and a feed sends bookings to your phone's calendar. | Their FAQ says SetHero does not currently do scheduling. You set the shoot days in a Shoot Schedules tab, and each call sheet carries the day's schedule and an optional advance schedule for the next day. Scenes can be imported from Excel.Currently, SetHero does not do scheduling or script breakdowns.Product |
| Script, shot list, storyboard | KitSlate has no script breakdown, shot lists, storyboards or stripboard. It starts from the job: dates, crew, gear and paperwork. | Their FAQ says SetHero does not do script breakdowns, and script files cannot be imported. Their own comparison page marks script writing, breakdowns, shot lists and storyboards as not offered. They suggest building breakdowns in another tool and importing scenes from Excel.At this time, you cannot import script files directly into SetHero.Can I import scenes from my script file? |
| People | ||
| Crew and contacts | Every operator, DP, sound recordist and assistant kept once with roles, rates, paperwork and dietary needs, and reused on every job. They can fill in their own details; a change waits for you to review. Crew come in from a CSV on every paid plan. | Cast and crew contacts are kept at company level and shared across projects. Assign people to any number of crew positions or character roles, edit the departments and positions, merge duplicates, sort, filter and group, and turn off emails or texts per person. Contacts import from and export to Excel.Assign your contacts to a crew position or a character role.Manage |
| Clients | A client book kept once and reused on every job. Clients need no account: they pay an invoice on its own hosted page and open what you send them as links. | Not stated |
| Equipment | ||
| Gear list for a job | Pick the kit out of your own inventory and price it at studio, location or rental rates with one switch. Sub-rented gear is tagged Outsourced and goes onto the quote. The list prints as a PDF for the client. | Not stated |
| Equipment inventory | Every camera, lens, light and cable with three day rates that cascade, kits and cases that know what is in them, and locations. One Import reads a spreadsheet, a PDF, a photo of a list or a pile of receipts. | Not stated |
| Packing and check-out | Mark each item packed, returned, missing or faulty on the gear list, grouped by case with a progress bar per case. Every mark writes back to what is available for the next job. No barcode or QR scanning. | Not stated |
| Availability and double-booking | Before a booking saves, its gear, kits and crew are checked against every other job on those dates and you are told. Gear marked in case stays out until it is marked returned. | Not stated |
| Money | ||
| Quotes | The quote pulls its equipment from the gear list and its crew from the call sheet, so it is priced from the job. Edit either side and the two are shown out of step, with the choice to keep them different. | Not stated |
| Invoices and payment | The invoice is a frozen copy of the approved quote with its own number and a version history. The client gets a hosted page; with card payment on, it carries a Stripe checkout that pays into your own Stripe account, and the PDF a Pay button and QR code. Wire, Zelle and Venmo are listed with what each costs you. | Not stated |
| Expenses and receipts | Drop PDFs and photos, or send crew a link to photograph theirs on the day. Each receipt is read, kept and checked by you before it goes on the job; the ones you bill become their own section of the invoice, with the receipts attached. Crew send their final invoice through the same link. | Not stated |
| Budgets | No separate budgeting sheet. The quote prices the job and what you expect the expenses to come to, the Expenses tab records what they actually came to, and the reports show the figures. | Not stated |
| Paperwork and files | ||
| Releases and contracts | Talent releases, location releases, NDAs and your own agreements, with signers pulled from the call sheet and deal terms filled from the job. Each signer gets a private link and signs with a finger; the signed PDF is emailed to them and filed on the job with an audit trail. Signing is built in. | Not stated |
| Sending video to clients | The Media Center sends up to 1 TB a transfer. The client gets a page that plays the clips, takes their notes at a timecode and shows you who downloaded what. | Not stated |
| Access | ||
| On a phone | Crew confirm and read call sheets, signers sign and the calendar opens on its Day view in a phone's browser, with nothing to install. There is no iOS or Android app. | Their help centre says there is no standalone phone or tablet app. Cast and crew open call sheets in the phone browser with no account or download, in a layout made to feel like an app, and can tap a name to call, text or email.This release of SetHero does not include a stand alone phone/tablet app.Does SetHero have a mobile app? |
| Connects to | Google Calendar connects per company. Stripe takes card payments on invoices. QuickBooks, Wave and Xero exchange invoices as files you import and export. Documents are emailed under your company's name, and replies come to you. | Cast, crew, scenes and locations import from .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .tsv or .tab files, lists export to spreadsheets, and call sheets export to Excel. A separate tool turns Movie Magic Scheduling breakdown PDFs into Excel and JSON for $10 once or $35 a year, and Scenechronize exports can be imported. A public API is not stated.Importing is currently only supported for “excel”-like file formatsImporting data overview |
| Security | TLS on every connection and AES-256 at rest, in the United States (Supabase on AWS us-east-1). Card details are handled by Stripe. KitSlate does not yet hold a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation and has not commissioned a penetration test; the security page says so. | Their FAQ says SetHero follows industry-standard security including encryption and hashed passwords, and reports 99.99% average uptime with a public status page. Card details go to a billing provider that SetHero cannot see. Single sign-on, certifications and data location are not stated.SetHero operates under industry-standard security guidelines including encryption, hashed passwords, and more.Product |
| Price | ||
| Free plan or trial | The free Profile plan has a public page, the used-gear market and the Media Center with 5 GB a transfer. Jobs, call sheets, inventory, quotes and invoices are on the paid plans. | The pricing page says your first project is free, up to 75 cast and crew and 5 shooting days. Students and schools use it free, and every account has a demo project. Other pages put it differently: the FAQ says there is no free trial or free plan beyond that first project, and help articles describe a 14 day trial or a free tier of 10 people and 1 shooting day.your first project with us is freeFrequently Asked Questions |
| Published price | Solo $19 a month (1 seat), Studio $49 a month (3 seats), Production House $149 a month (8 seats); Enterprise: custom pricing. Paying yearly saves 20 percent. | At 5 projects a year, billed monthly: Starter $19, Pro $49 and Studio $129 a month, for up to 30, 65 and 125 people and 4, 8 and 12 days per project. Billed yearly: $14, $37 and $97 a month ($168, $444 and $1164 a year), and prices rise with projects per year to $199, $259 and $359 monthly. Enterprise is custom. A single project is a one-time cost set by cast and crew size and shooting days, for example $26 for 15 people over 3 days.Price includes all features (texting, custom branding, and unlimited admins).Short Project Pricing |
| Beyond | ||
| What else it does | Beyond the job: the Media Center for rushes and cuts, crew pay checked against the job, twelve reports, a free public page, and a used-gear market where you keep the full sale. | Production reports are created from a call sheet in one click and work out page counts, coverage, overtime and headcounts, with union-ready cast and crew time logs, meal penalties and trend stats. They also run the Movie Magic to Excel converter and offer free data migration from StudioBinder.you can spin off a production report in just one clickInstant creation |
Where SetHero’s figures come from
Read on SetHero’s own site and help centre on 3 November 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
SetHero · read 3 November 2026
- Call sheets
- Who has confirmed
- Schedule and calendar
- Script, shot list, storyboard
- Crew and contacts
- On a phone
- Connects to
- Security
- Free plan or trial
- Published price
- What else it does
KitSlate · its own pages
- Call sheets
- Who has confirmed
- Schedule and calendar
- Script, shot list, storyboard
- Crew and contacts
- Clients
- Gear list for a job
- Equipment inventory
- Packing and check-out
- Availability and double-booking
- Quotes
- Invoices and payment
- Expenses and receipts
- Budgets
- Releases and contracts
- Sending video to clients
- On a phone
- Connects to
- Security
- Free plan or trial
- Published price
- What else it does