The web-based Movie Magic alternative for production budgets
Get budgets in the browser with your team in real time, and keeps going after the budget: purchase orders, crew expense reports, and actuals in the same grid. With AI, in Spanish and English, free to start.
Why teams look for a Movie Magic alternative
Movie Magic Budgeting is the historical standard for budgeting film and TV, and it is a deep tool. But it is a desktop application for Mac and Windows, it is paid per seat with no free plan or trial, each license is single-user, and it does not edit in the browser. And it stops at the budget: actuals tracking lives in another system. For commercial production companies, agencies, and small teams, especially outside the United States, that means paying for power you do not use, fighting file versions over email, and losing track of the money once the shoot starts.
What makes Get different
- Everything in the browser, with the team. Nothing to install, and anyone you invite edits the same budget in real time with the access they should have.
- The budget does not end at the budget. Approve a purchase order and the amount leaves the available balance that day. The crew reports receipts from set through a link, no account needed. Every expense lands on its line and the variance shows during production.
- Phases. The original quote, the approved one, and the rebalance as side-by-side columns, with locking and diff.
- AI. Describe the project or attach your previous budget and the agent drafts categories, items, and totals; then it bulk edits and analyzes.
- Built for Latin America. Spanish and English, taxes and withholdings for 24 countries, several currencies, and in Chile a connection to the SII and the main banks.
- Client delivery. A visual PDF editor with your brand, a link with confirmed views, and Get Sign for signatures by email.
- Get for iPhone. Budget, receipts, and expenses from set.
Where Movie Magic still wins
We believe in an honest comparison. Movie Magic has decades of depth for large-scale film and television, works fully offline, and its PDF is the format studios, networks, and completion bond companies expect. If your work revolves around large studio productions with those requirements, it remains the safe choice. Get is built for the speed, collaboration, and cost control of commercial, agency, and independent production.
Get vs Movie Magic
| Get | Movie Magic | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | Web and iPhone app, nothing to install | Mac and Windows desktop |
| Price | Free with 3 budgets. Pro from USD 35 per month, includes 1 user, USD 19.99 per extra user | USD 42.99 per month or 299.88 per year per seat, no free plan |
| Real-time collaboration | No, one user per license | |
| AI to build and edit the budget | ||
| Budget phases | Budget comparison | |
| Purchase orders, expense reports, and actuals | Yes, in the same grid | No, handed off to accounting |
| Spanish and Latin American taxes | ||
| Branded PDF and signatures by email | Industry-standard PDF | |
| Offline work | ||
| The format studios expect | ||
| Large-scale film and TV budgets | Growing |
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