cinemasetfreeCinemaWriter
Write the script.
The rest of the film already knows about it.
A screenplay editor built from scratch — not a word processor wearing a template. Industry-standard formatting, instant pagination, dual-column dialogue, and find across the whole draft. Then your scenes, characters, locations and wardrobe arrive in pre-production without a re-type.
- Free to start
- Web, iPad and Android tablet
- Fountain, Final Draft and PDF import
One engine, three platforms, no re-learning
The iPad and Android apps aren't a web page in a shell. Each is native — SwiftUI on iPad, Kotlin on Android — over a screenplay engine that behaves identically on all three, so a page break on your tablet is the same page break on your producer's browser.
Everything below describes what ships today. Where a store listing isn't live yet, the button says so instead of linking nowhere.
What it does
The parts of screenwriting software that usually get in the way, rebuilt.
Formatting that stays out of the way
Scene headings, action, character, parenthetical, dialogue and transitions with the margins the industry expects. Tab and Enter move between elements the way they should; the format bar is there when you'd rather point.
Real pagination, live
Pages break as you type, with continued-dialogue handling — so the page count on screen is the page count on the printed sides, not an estimate you find out about at the end.
Dual-column dialogue
Simultaneous dialogue laid out in true columns rather than faked with tabs, and it survives export and re-import intact.
Title page and revisions
A proper title page, plus revisions kept as their own drafts so you can compare, branch, or roll back without keeping seven files named FINAL.
Find across the draft
Search the whole screenplay, not the visible page — with results that jump you to the exact element rather than an approximate scroll position.
Import what you already have
Bring in an existing script from PDF, Fountain or a Final Draft export and keep the formatting. Starting over is not a prerequisite for switching.
Autosave you don't think about
Every keystroke is committed locally and synced when you're online. Close the lid mid-sentence; the sentence is still there.
Straight into pre-production
The finished draft breaks down into scenes, characters, locations and wardrobe inside Cinema Set Free — the same script then drives the stripboard, the schedule, the budget and the call sheets.
See the full suiteYours to take away
Export to PDF for distribution or Fountain for anything else. Your screenplay is not held hostage by the tool you wrote it in.
Get CinemaWriter
Start in the browser right now; move to a tablet when you want a keyboard and a lap.
Web browser
The full editor, nothing to install. This is the default build and the one that's live today — sign in and your drafts follow you to every other device.
Any modern browser — Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox
- 01Open the editor — no download, no account needed to try it.
- 02Sign in when you want drafts saved and synced across devices.
- 03Import an existing script, or start from a blank page.
iPad
A native SwiftUI app built for the iPad — hardware keyboard shortcuts, split view, and an on-screen format bar for when the keyboard is gone. iPad only; there is no iPhone build, because a phone is not where you write a feature.
iPadOS 17 or later · iPad only
- 01Email us for an invite — TestFlight betas are invite-only.
- 02Install Apple's TestFlight app from the App Store, then accept the invite.
- 03Sign in with the same account you use on the web to pull your drafts down.
Android tablet
A native Kotlin build — the same screenplay engine ported one-to-one, verified against the iPad behaviour test by test. Runtime-verified on tablet hardware, including IME input, columns and autosave.
Android 8.0 or later · tablet form factor recommended
- 01Email us for the current build.
- 02Allow installs from your browser or file manager when Android asks.
- 03Open CinemaWriter and sign in to sync your drafts.
The tablet apps are in beta: real, signed builds that we hand out directly while the store listings are set up. The web editor is the production build and needs no invitation.
What each build can do
Where a platform differs, it says so — rather than claiming parity it doesn't have.
| Capability | Web browser | iPad | Android tablet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full screenplay editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live pagination and page count | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dual-column dialogue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Title page | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find across the draft | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hardware keyboard shortcuts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import PDF / Fountain / Final Draft | ✓ | via web | via web |
| PDF export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scene breakdown, schedule, budget | ✓ | in the browser | in the browser |
| Offline drafting | cached | ✓ | ✓ |
Breakdown, scheduling and budgeting live in the full Cinema Set Free dashboard — the tablet apps hand off to it rather than reimplementing it.
Questions people actually ask
No. Open the web editor and start typing. An account is what makes drafts sync between your browser and your tablet, and what connects the script to the rest of production.
Open a blank page
No install, no account, no trial timer. Write a scene and see whether the tool disappears the way it's supposed to.