Two filmmakers working through a scene on a tablet at a table in a late-night laundromat

CinemaWriter

Write the script.

The screenplay editor inside Cinema Set Free.

CinemaWriter formats scene headings, action and dialogue as you type, and breaks the pages where a printed script breaks them. When you are done, that same file becomes your scene breakdown, your schedule and your call sheets.

Open the web editor See how to install

Free to start
Web, iPad and Android tablet

The same script, wherever you write it

Write in the browser at your desk. Pick the same scene up on a tablet in the van. One draft, on every device you own.

From a blank page to a shooting script

What the editor does, and where writers end up doing it.

Formatting that stays out of the way

Scene headings, action, character, parenthetical, dialogue and transitions, at the margins the industry expects. Tab and Enter move between them. Pages break where a printed script breaks them.

Dual-column dialogue

Two characters talking at once, in real columns.

The Scripts tab with a draft listed by revision number, author and date, beside buttons to open it in the editor or start a new revision

Every revision is its own draft

Compare two of them, branch one, or go back to last month's. Nothing you wrote is overwritten by what you wrote next.

The Import Script dialog: a drop zone that takes a .fountain, .fdx, .pdf or .txt file, or a paste

Bring your script, take it away

Import from PDF, Fountain or Final Draft. Export back out the same way, any time.

Three filmmakers standing around a tablet in a gear room, reading a scene together

It goes where the shoot goes

The same draft opens on a tablet in the gear room, and the people playing the scene read it off the screen you are holding.

A writer typing on a tablet in the open boot of a van, sides taped to the window behind her

Rewrites between setups

A page changes at lunch. Type it in the back of the van, and the draft everyone opens after lunch is the new one.

Four people at a kitchen table running a table read, pages in front of them and tablets in their laps

A table read off one draft

Four people, four screens, one script. Nobody in the room is reading last week's pages.

The Scenes tab after a breakdown, each scene with its heading, time of day, page eighths and the characters in it

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 suite

Get CinemaWriter

Start in the browser. Move to a tablet when you want one.

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One account across all three. Start a scene in the browser, finish it on a tablet.

What you can do, and where

Everything is on every device unless this says otherwise.

What you can do	Browser	iPad	Android tablet
Write with industry formatting	✓	✓	✓
Page breaks and a page count as you type	✓	✓	✓
Dual-column dialogue	✓	✓	✓
A proper title page	✓	✓	✓
Jump straight to a scene	✓	✓	✓
Find anywhere in the script	✓	✓	✓
Undo and redo	✓	✓	✓
Hardware keyboard shortcuts	✓	✓	✓
Export a PDF, Fountain or Final Draft	✓	✓	✓
Import a PDF, Fountain or Final Draft	✓	✓	in the browser
Keep writing with no signal	in an open tab	✓	✓
The same drafts on every device you use	✓	✓	✓
Turn the script into scenes, cast and locations	✓	in the browser	in the browser

Breakdown, scheduling and budgeting live in the dashboard. The tablet apps hand off to it.

Questions people ask

No. Open the web editor and start typing. An account gets your drafts onto your other devices, and hands the script to the rest of production.

Open a blank page

No install, no account, no trial timer. Write a scene and see how it feels.

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