No subscription. No cloud markup. No recurring seat fee. Buy Universal once and it is yours indefinitely—every minor update included.
Most creative tools rent by the month. At even $30/mo that's $360 in year one and $1,080 by year three—and it never stops. Genlock is $119 once. Connect your own Higgsfield, OpenArt, or fal account; provider usage stays direct and unmarked-up.
Every row. No asterisks hiding important limits.
| Feature | Free | Universal — $119 |
|---|---|---|
| Projects & workspace | ||
| Projects | 1 | Unlimited |
| Workspace folders (custom media paths) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Series (group projects into arcs) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Git-native collaboration (X-Ray → Source Control) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Story & structure | ||
| Story Editor (chapters → scenes → shots) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fountain screenplay import | ✓ | ✓ |
| Production Canvas (node graph) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Showrunner + Production Gap Report | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shot design & prompts | ||
| Shot Editor (tabbed drawer) | ✓ | ✓ |
| BONE system (generator-agnostic prompt contracts) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured-frame BONEs (spore-image / spore-video / spore-style) | ✓ | ✓ |
| BONE inheritance (project → scene → shot) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shot Builder + reusable macros | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image Builder + Video Builder (Form/Text/JSON) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compiled Prompts directory (copy/export) | ✓ manual copy-paste | ✓ + batch export |
| Assembled Prompt Preview (Natural ⇄ JSON) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Generation & review | ||
| In-app generation (Higgsfield + OpenArt + fal) | — | ✓ |
| Generations Queue (non-blocking, multi-provider) | — | ✓ |
| Approve-as: start frame / end frame / asset / video take | — | ✓ |
| Prompt kept with every asset (AssetPrompt) | — | ✓ |
| Frame chaining (shot N end → shot N+1 start) | ✓ manual | ✓ automated via BONE |
| Soul ID character consistency + in-app Soul training | — | ✓ |
| Built-in provider routes (add your keys) | — | ✓ |
| Edit & deliver | ||
| Timeline (dual-monitor NLE, multi-track, undo/redo) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Production Player (pop-out window) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio Studio (Dialogue/SFX/Music per shot) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video takes (V1–V4, active-take management) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export Package (JSON, CSV, media manifest, status report) | — | ✓ |
| AI & agents | ||
| CLAUDE.md skill auto-generation | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP Autopilot (agent drives workspace end-to-end) | — | ✓ |
| AI Inspector (skill coverage, provider routes, BONE coverage) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Codex + Claude cockpits (in-app CLI execution) | ✓ | ✓ |
| X-Ray Inspector (YAML / Tree / BONEs / Source Control) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Studio resources | ||
| Characters (voice ID + Soul ID) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Locations | ✓ | ✓ |
| The Foundry media manager | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marketplace (installable bone packs) | ✓ | ✓ |
| BONE Builder — browse + preview packs | ✓ | ✓ |
| BONE Builder — save custom .bone.json | — | ✓ |
| Platform | ||
| Offline Ed25519 license verification | — | ✓ |
| Theming (REEL / DRIFT / PAGE + palette library) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keyboard shortcuts + pop-out windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Major version upgrades | — | $29.95 optional |
Universal is sold per-seat. For teams — boutique agencies, YouTube studios, production companies — we offer multi-seat issuance under a single invoice. Same product, same features, no per-seat monthly creep.
Git-native collaboration via X-Ray → Source Control means teams share and version stories using their own GitHub/GitLab/Gitea — no Genlock server in the loop.
Contact us for studio pricing →Filmmakers, YouTube studios, and educators: join the affiliate program and earn a commission on every Universal license you refer. One-time product, one-time payout — no recurring billing to babysit.
mcp execution route in Integrations, Claude Desktop (or Claude Code) can call Genlock's workspace as an MCP server — driving story edits, prompt assembly, generation, and write-back without manual steps.More questions? The full FAQ covers lock-in, privacy, agents, governance, and workflow.