Is BacklotHub a Yamdu alternative?

Not for scheduling, breakdowns or budgets: BacklotHub has none of those, and Yamdu does. BacklotHub is an alternative for running the office: the crew roster, hires to payroll, vendors and POs, gear, shipping and events.

Does BacklotHub do stripboards or budgets?

No. Keep a scheduling and budgeting tool, whether that’s Yamdu or another one. BacklotHub builds call sheets from your roster, with weather, sun times and the nearest hospital filled in.

Who counts as a user?

Yamdu counts anyone who can log in as a user, and includes unlimited external contacts. In BacklotHub only office staff are seats. Crew in the self-service portal, vendors who claim their listing, payroll contacts and guests are never charged.

How does pricing compare?

Yamdu’s Studio plan is £215 a month (or £159 billed annually) for 10 users. BacklotHub starts at $199 a month (Lite: 3 active productions, 5 staff seats), in US dollars.

Comparison · checked September 2026

BacklotHub vs Yamdu

Short answer: Yamdu is the stronger pick for pre-production and the shoot: script breakdown, stripboards, budgets and call sheets in one tool, priced by plan and user. BacklotHub doesn’t do scheduling, breakdowns or budgets. It runs the production office around the shoot (crew roster, hires to payroll, vendors and POs, gear, shipping and events) for one flat price per company.

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What is Yamdu?

Yamdu describes itself as a film production management tool that coordinates workflows and keeps all production data in one cloud platform. It covers script breakdown with AI suggestions, stripboard scheduling with live day-out-of-days reports, budgeting, call sheets emailed with confirmation tracking, a cast and crew hub for advertising jobs and hiring, and time cards that export to your payroll provider. It has iOS and Android apps, and says its data is stored in the European Union.^[1][2][3][5]

Yamdu and BacklotHub, feature by feature

“Not published” means we couldn’t find it on Yamdu’s own site. It may still exist. Numbers in brackets point to the sources at the bottom of the page.

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Features of Yamdu and BacklotHub, checked September 2026
Feature	Yamdu	BacklotHub
How it’s priced	Plans with users included, plus per-user add-ons^[5]	Flat monthly price per company
Crew, vendors and guests without paid seats	Unlimited external contacts; anyone who logs in is a user^[5]	Yes
Shooting schedules and stripboards	Yes^[2]	No
Script breakdown	Yes, with AI suggestions^[2]	No
Budgeting	Yes^[2]	No
Build call sheets	Yes^[3]	Yes
Send call sheets by email or text from the app	By email, with confirmation tracking^[3]	Not yet: build and print
Crew database for your company	Cast and crew hub with job adverts and hiring^[2]	Yes
Digital start paperwork and timecards	Time cards; start paperwork not published^[2]	No
Payroll processing	Exports time cards to your payroll provider^[2]	No
Crew hires sent to payroll, confirmed from a link	Not published	Yes
Purchase orders with approval	Not published	Yes, second approver required
Vendor records and insurance (COI) expiry tracking	Not published	Yes
Gear and asset tracking	Not published	Yes, sequential asset tags
Shipping requests, labels and live carrier status	Not published	Yes; label buying on Studio and up
Event RSVPs, guest lists and door check-in	Not published	Yes
Single sign-on (SSO)	SSO / SAML on the Signature plan^[5]	On the roadmap (Enterprise)
Native iPhone and Android apps	Yes^[5]	Coming soon; works in the phone browser today

Pricing: Yamdu and BacklotHub

Yamdu

As published on Yamdu’s own site, September 2026.

Flex: £35 a month for 1 user (+£16 per extra user a month) and 1 project (+£35 per extra project), 25 GB storage.^[5]
Studio: £215 a month, or £159 a month billed annually, for 10 users (+£8 per extra user a month) and unlimited projects.^[5]
Signature: price on request.^[5]
Free trial, with no automatic charge when it ends.^[5]
Prices as shown to UK visitors, in pounds. Yamdu may show other currencies elsewhere.^[4]

BacklotHub

One flat monthly price per production company, in US dollars.

Lite · 5 staff seats$199/mo
Studio · 15 staff seats$399/mo
Pro · 40 staff seats$599/mo
Enterprise · unlimited seatsCustom

· Annual billing: 12 months for the price of 10.
· Extra staff seat: $20/month.
· Crew, vendors, payroll contacts and guests are never seats.

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Which should you choose?

Choose Yamdu if…

You want one tool from script breakdown and stripboard to call sheet, with AI breakdown suggestions.
Budgets and schedules need to live next to the call sheet.
You want call sheets emailed with confirmation tracking today.
You need native mobile apps, data stored in the EU, or SSO on an enterprise plan.

Choose BacklotHub if…

You need the office side Yamdu doesn’t publish: vendors with insurance expiry tracking, purchase orders with a second approver, asset tags and drive indexing, and shipping with live carrier status.
You run screenings, premieres and festival weeks with RSVPs and door check-in.
Crew, vendors, payroll contacts and guests should use portals and signed links without counting as users.
You run several shows at once and want one flat price per company.

Questions people ask

Is BacklotHub a Yamdu alternative?: Not for scheduling, breakdowns or budgets: BacklotHub has none of those, and Yamdu does. BacklotHub is an alternative for running the office: the crew roster, hires to payroll, vendors and POs, gear, shipping and events.
Does BacklotHub do stripboards or budgets?: No. Keep a scheduling and budgeting tool, whether that’s Yamdu or another one. BacklotHub builds call sheets from your roster, with weather, sun times and the nearest hospital filled in.
Who counts as a user?: Yamdu counts anyone who can log in as a user, and includes unlimited external contacts. In BacklotHub only office staff are seats. Crew in the self-service portal, vendors who claim their listing, payroll contacts and guests are never charged.
How does pricing compare?: Yamdu’s Studio plan is £215 a month (or £159 billed annually) for 10 users. BacklotHub starts at $199 a month (Lite: 3 active productions, 5 staff seats), in US dollars.

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The BacklotHub features in question

Checked September 2026 · sources

Everything we say about Yamdu comes from Yamdu’s own website or help centre, read in September 2026. Prices and features change, so check their site before you decide. Where something isn’t published, we say so rather than guess. Spot something out of date? Email us and we’ll fix it.

[1]Yamdu: about Yamdu: yamdu.com/en/ai-info/
[2]Yamdu home page: yamdu.com/en/
[3]Yamdu call sheets: yamdu.com/en/lp/call-sheets/
[4]Yamdu pricing page: www.yamdu.com/en/pricing/
[5]Yamdu plan table (embedded on the pricing page, UK): app.yamdu.com/Account/selectSubscription?embed=true&language=en&country=GB

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