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Screenplay editor

Plain-text Fountain in, industry-format pages out.

Write in Fountain, the plain-text screenplay format, and watch a correctly formatted page build beside you. Scene headings, cues, parentheticals, transitions and dual dialogue are all handled; print to PDF on Letter pages.

What it does

  • Fountain editor with a live formatted page
  • Scene headings, action, character cues, parentheticals, dialogue, transitions, sections, synopses, notes and page breaks
  • Dual dialogue (^) side by side, in the preview and in print
  • Print / save as PDF in screenplay layout
  • Search every script line with Ctrl K

How to use it

  1. Script → pick the episode's draft
  2. Type Fountain on the left; read the page on the right
  3. Export → PDF / print when you need pages

Step by step

Screenshots of the app, on the sample series. Click one to see it full size.

  1. Script: the episode's draft, Fountain text on the left and the formatted page on the right.
    Script: the episode's draft, Fountain text on the left and the formatted page on the right.
  2. Type plain Fountain: a scene heading, action, a character name, dialogue. The page updates as you type and saves in this browser.
    Type plain Fountain: a scene heading, action, a character name, dialogue. The page updates as you type and saves in this browser.
  3. Print / PDF lays the draft out as industry pages with a title page; print it or save it as a PDF.
    Print / PDF lays the draft out as industry pages with a title page; print it or save it as a PDF.

What it doesn't do yet

  • Production page-locking with A-pages. Locking a draft today freezes that version.

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