Topview is a Singapore AI video agent (TOPVIEW PTE. LTD.) that started with avatar and ad videos and now sells a Drama Studio and a Film Studio: give it an idea, a script or a novel chapter, and an agent plans episodes, characters, storyboards and clips. Plans start at $36 a month billed yearly (Plus, 100 credits). ScreenWeaver starts from a real screenplay and lets you direct every shot.
The verdict: pick Topview for fast vertical drama episodes from one agent. Pick ScreenWeaver if you write the series yourself and want control of each shot.
Every Topview fact below comes from topview.ai (home, Drama Studio, Film Studio, pricing and its llms.txt file), DealStreetAsia, Tech Coffee House and No Film School, all read on 13 November 2026.
What Topview is
Topview's home page calls it an "AI Video Agent for Short Films & Marketing Videos" with the line "Create Any Video, Just Tell Your Agent". The company raised an $8.5 million Series A led by Kamet Capital, a Singapore family office (DealStreetAsia, 5 August 2025; Crowdfund Insider wrote $8.4 million). At the time the press release called Topview an "AI Avatar Pioneer": the film tools came later. Tech Coffee House (12 October 2026) dates Film Studio to July 2026 and quotes company figures of five million registered users and about one million videos a day, which it says were not independently verified.
Today Topview lists five workspaces: Film Studio, Drama Studio, Motion Studio, Board and AI Canvas. The two that compete with ScreenWeaver:
- Drama Studio plans "stories, characters, storyboards, scenes, and video production from an idea, script, or novel". You can start from "a one-line story idea, a short plot outline, a full drama script, a novel chapter, or a serialized story concept". An agent fills a workbench with outlines, episodes, characters, locations, props, scripts and beat sheets, draws "multi-panel storyboard images", then moves approved beats to "Beat-to-Video Episode Production". Its FAQ recommends vertical 9:16 for social platforms. A V2 beta lets the agent "edit shot prompts directly".
- Film Studio 2.0 is pitched for "an AI film from story to screen", with film-genre skills, storyboards, camera controls, shot composition, relighting and a built-in editor.
What the launch coverage leaves out:
- Most of the praise is paid. Both No Film School articles on Film Studio (28 September and 26 October 2026) are labelled "Sponsored Content". The "25+ tools" and "over 200 built-in film style skills" figures come from those pieces.
- The model list is long and moves. Topview's llms.txt names more than 30 models, from Seedance 2.5 and Kling 4.0 to Veo 4 and Sora 2, although OpenAI closed the Sora API on 24 September 2026 (see our Sora alternative page).
- Export is not documented. The Drama Studio page mentions export but names no file format, and no page we read describes a screenplay file you can take elsewhere.
Topview vs ScreenWeaver, side by side
| Topview | ScreenWeaver | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | TOPVIEW PTE. LTD., Singapore, office in Los Angeles | ScreenWeaver |
| Can you use it? | Yes, on the web | Yes, web, installable on any phone browser |
| Price | Billed yearly: Plus $36/mo, Business $44/mo, Ultra $50/mo, Team $56/seat/mo (13 Nov 2026) | Writing free, Auteur $39.99/mo, Studio $149.99/mo |
| Starts from | An idea, an outline, a script or a novel chapter | A blank page or your script (PDF, Final Draft, text) |
| Screenplay editor | Partly: the agent writes scripts and beat sheets | Yes, a full script editor, free |
| Storyboard | Yes, multi-panel boards per beat | Yes, shot by shot, with framing, camera move and duration |
| Characters | Recurring characters, locations and props | Story elements with reference sheets, reused in every shot |
| AI video | Yes, 30+ models listed | Yes: Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 and more, per shot |
| Export | Not specified on its pages | Video, plus scripts to PDF and .fdx |
| Collaboration | Team plan with seats | Studio plan, real-time, unlimited seats |
What ScreenWeaver does that Topview does not
You write the screenplay, not a brief. In Topview the agent drafts the script and the beats. ScreenWeaver gives you a screenwriting editor, free forever, with the script, the boards and the shots in one project, and exports the script to PDF or Final Draft.
You direct each shot. Every ScreenWeaver shot has its framing, camera move and duration, and you redo one shot without rerunning a beat. The AI storyboard generator page shows the steps, and the AI short drama generator page shows a 9:16 episode from page to cut.
A cast that holds. Characters are story elements with a reference sheet that every shot cites. Lock a cast for free with the character consistency sheet before spending a credit.
Credits you keep track of. Topview's monthly credits do not roll over, and its unlimited offers work in the web app only. ScreenWeaver's Auteur plan is $39.99 a month for 6,000 credits and Studio $149.99 for 25,000, both on the pricing section.
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Topview goes further on automation. One agent turns a novel chapter into episodes, beats, boards and clips, with more than 30 image and video models in one place, plus ad, avatar and motion tools that ScreenWeaver does not try to offer. It also has an API, an MCP server and plugins for coding agents. If you want volume, Topview's Business plan is sold for "films, short series and bulk creation".
Which one fits you?
- A creator who needs vertical drama episodes this week: Topview. Paste the idea or the novel chapter and let the agent plan the series.
- A writer or director building a series or an IP: ScreenWeaver. You write the episodes, board them, pick the model per shot, and keep the files.
- Comparing other script-to-series tools: see Pippit vs ScreenWeaver and StoReel Canvas vs ScreenWeaver.
FAQ
Is Topview free? The pricing page we read on 13 November 2026 showed no free plan card. Paid plans billed yearly started at $36 a month (Plus, 100 credits a month).
Who makes Topview? TOPVIEW PTE. LTD., based in Singapore with an office in Los Angeles. Tech Coffee House names Jensen Wu as CEO and co-founder.
What is Topview Drama Studio? An agent workspace that turns an idea, a script or a novel chapter into episode outlines, characters, storyboards and generated video episodes, mainly in 9:16.
Is Topview better than ScreenWeaver? For automated vertical episodes, Topview is the shorter path. For writing a real screenplay and directing it shot by shot, ScreenWeaver does more.
Can I bring a Topview project into ScreenWeaver? Topview's pages do not describe a script export. Paste the script text into ScreenWeaver, which also imports PDF and Final Draft (.fdx) files.
Sources: Topview, Drama Studio, Film Studio, Topview pricing, Topview llms.txt, DealStreetAsia, 5 August 2025, Crowdfund Insider, Tech Coffee House, 12 October 2026, No Film School (sponsored), 28 September 2026. Read on 13 November 2026.
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