Story to Comic, step by step
Choose a starting point
Every comic starts in the create box on Home. Describe your story, or choose “Attach a story or script” to add a .txt, Markdown, .docx, text PDF, Fountain or Final Draft file; attaching costs nothing. Short ideas (“4 panels” or “1 page”) go to the quick planner. “A few pages” and attached files go to Story to Comic, covered in this guide, which takes your text, look and length from the box and opens on stage 3. With “Check the plan before drawing” on, the default in Settings › Preferences, every new comic stops on its plan before anything is drawn. To build a page by hand, choose “Start with an empty page” under “More options”.
Stage 1: Your story
Paste your text, or upload a .txt, .md, .docx, .fountain or Final Draft (.fdx) file, or a PDF with selectable text. Story to Comic reads up to 100,000 characters. Scanned PDFs can’t be read yet. Nothing is drawn or charged at this stage.
Stage 2: Look and length
Choose a title, format and length. Paid plans support 1–24 pages and 1–9 panels per page. Review the maximum planning hold and confirm it before work starts. Changing the source or settings requires a new plan and a new quote. Free story planning is limited to one page, four panels and 12,000 source characters, within the daily planning allowance. Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC. Credit packs increase the balance but do not raise daily limits.
Stage 3: Review the plan
On a paid plan, review the maximum credit hold and press the priced Build plan button. No paid planning starts until you confirm. Once the plan is ready, read the synopsis and scenes, then review pages, panels and optional cast choices. Drawing has a separate confirmation with its total cost.
Stage 4: Your comic
The final stage shows the pages that will be drawn and the cost per page. Story to Comic draws at Standard quality, 15 credits per panel, so the default three pages of four panels cost 180 credits. Choose “Start production” to begin. Credits are held for each panel while it draws and charged only for finished artwork; a panel that fails is not charged. When the comic is ready, you can review the artwork, edit pages in Studio or download them.
Credits and daily limits
Paid story planning starts at 4 credits. A maximum hold is quoted by story size before you confirm; the final charge follows completed work and unused credits return. Drawing is priced separately at 15 credits per Standard panel. Free story planning is limited to one page, four panels and 12,000 source characters, within the daily planning allowance. Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC. Credit packs increase the balance but do not raise daily limits.
Redraw one panel
Open the page in Studio and select the panel. “Redraw” draws it again; to change one thing, type it under “Describe a change” and press “Make this change”. Both are part of Starter and higher and cost 15 credits at Standard quality, shown on the button and charged only when the new drawing finishes, and the rest of the page stays as it is. Unless you turn on Advanced mode (Settings › Preferences, or the “Advanced” switch at the top of Studio), the new drawing is kept automatically and earlier ones stay under “Other versions”, where “Restore” brings one back. With Advanced mode on, the comic’s Storyboard lets you “Reject” a panel with a reason such as identity, outfit, pose or background, or a short note; “Remember this for the rest of the project” is on by default, so later drawings take the correction into account.
Regenerate one scene of the plan
Scene replanning starts at 2 credits. The confirmation shows a maximum hold based on the story scope; the final charge follows completed work and unused credits return. Other scenes stay unchanged, and a failed attempt keeps the current plan.
After the art is drawn
Dialogue and captions arrive as editable bubbles, so fixing the wording in Studio costs nothing; each page has “Open page in Studio · free”. Every plan can export PNG and JPEG, with a watermark on Free, and Starter, Creator and Studio add print PDF, webtoon, WebP, strip and carousel formats.