Screenwriting, in a browser tab
Ideas, story line, treatment, structure, cards and script — in industry-standard format, with drafts you can compare, notes from readers, and co-writers who take turns instead of tripping over each other. One workspace. No installer, no licence key.
EXT. NARROW STREET - NIGHT = Montresor baits the trap with the one wine Fortunato cannot walk away from. Carnival. Masks, torches, a drum beating somewhere out of sight. A river of costumed bodies moves through a street too narrow to hold it. One man stands still in the current. Black cloak, black mask. He is watching somebody. MONTRESOR (V.O.)The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could. But when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. A second man staggers past him — motley, a conical cap, bells that ring with every lurch. Magnificently drunk.
Actual output. Courier, correct margins, and the page numbers your PDF will have.
The pitch in a paragraph, then the treatment — a plain white page, Courier, bold and italics, and nothing else in your way.
Pick a shape and get the acts, sequences and beats as headings you write into: Three Act, Save the Cat's fifteen beats, the Hero's Journey, Kishōtenketsu, Story Circle and a dozen more — including four built for short films, which most tools ignore. Each element tells you the page it lands on, so you can see the midpoint arrive late.
Every scene as a card under its act, with its heading and synopsis editable in place. Drag one and the whole scene moves with it — action, dialogue and all. Draw a box round several and they move together, in the order they were in.
Type, and the format follows: Tab and Enter move between slugline, action, character and dialogue without a menu. Character names autocomplete. Select across lines with the keyboard, find and replace across the whole screenplay, and see the page breaks drawn where they will really fall.
A creative memory that belongs to no project. Capture a fragment in
a sentence, then browse it as cards, search it ("ledger OR cellar",
"wine snob", #poe), connect ideas to each other in your
own words, and develop them by hand — add context with Clarify, derive a new
idea, combine two. Every box takes formatting. No AI in the loop: the ideas
stay yours.
Freeze the version you are about to ruin, with a reason that writes itself. Compare any two drafts line by line, and take a single change back without giving up the rest. Cut the second-act chase without first deciding whether cutting it was a good idea.
Send a frozen draft to a reader as a link. They need no account, read it in the app — on a phone if that is what they have — and write in the margin, line by line. Nothing reaches you until they press Send, and you work through the notes against the script, even in the PDF with page numbers.
Characters and locations are found in the script as you write — scene counts, who shares scenes with whom, where each one is played — and each carries a profile you fill in yourself.
Fountain and FDX in and out, PDF with the page numbers you saw while writing, EPUB for reading on a phone or e-reader, and a bundle that exports every part of the project as its own plain file. Nothing is locked in.
Off until you ask, and two kinds. Cloud backup: sign in with an email address — a code arrives, no password — and projects, drafts and ideas are copied to your account as you write, ready on any machine and in the companion app. Folder backup: choose a folder on your own computer and every project is copied into it, free, no account.
Co-writing here is deliberately asynchronous. Nobody types into the same page at the same moment, nothing is merged behind your back on a server, and nothing you did not choose ever reaches your draft. The lead decides what goes in, one change at a time — which is how a writers' room actually keeps a script coherent.
An attribution overlay and a CSV report say who wrote which line as the draft stands — derived from the drafts you already keep, never stamped onto your script.
Notes go both ways, on a line or on a proposed change, and land in the notification bell and the notes rail of whoever they are for.
Everything is written to your own browser first. A folder backup on your own disk or a cloud backup is there if you want it, off until you ask.
Fountain in and out — plain text any other screenwriting tool can open — plus a bundle that exports every part as its own file.
One pagination engine drives the page count, the page breaks drawn in the script, and the file you send out — so you can see where page nine ends while you are still writing it.
Everything a screenplay needs is free and stays free. Cloud backup across machines, unlimited readers and the full companion app are premium — see pricing.
It takes about four seconds, and there is a sample script waiting.
Start writing