OpenScene

Write the NextBig Thing.

OpenScene

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Free for writers. No credit card.

The typing model

Tab and Enter do the formatting.

Scene heading, action, character, dialogue. The software names each line as you write it, so you never stop to pick from a menu.

INT. COUNTY RECORDS ANNEX - NIGHT
Fluorescent tubes hum over a room nobody has dusted since the Carter administration. Boxes to the ceiling. DELIA WHITE, 40s, works a box cutter down a seam of packing tape.
DELIA
Nineteen eighty-six. All of it.
ARMAND fills the doorway, holding two coffees he has clearly been holding too long.
ARMAND
They told me this room was sealed.
DELIA
(not looking up)
They tell everyone that.
Armand sets one coffee down on a box. He does not leave.
ARMAND
You know what's in here.
DELIA
I know what isn't.
She folds the flaps back. Where two thousand pages of 1986 should be: one cassette tape, labeled in her mother's hand.
ARMAND
(quietly)
That isn't a record. That's a message.
Delia turns the cassette over. Nothing written on the B side.
DELIA
Then we need something to play it on.
Armand looks at the ceiling, at the boxes, at the door he came in through.
ARMAND
Fourth floor. Property room. It's a Tuesday.
She is already moving.

Command palette

Everything, one keystroke away.

Press Cmd K. One box finds every command, every scene and every page, and shows you what the software can do without a tour.

Formats

Nobody has to switch to work with you.

.fdx
Final Draft, in and out.
.fountain
Plain text. Opens in anything.
.pdf
Exact US Letter pages, ready to send.

Pricing

Free for every writer.

Writers

Free

Every script, every feature, no watermark. Not a trial, and not a tier.

Schools and productions

Licences

For film programs, classrooms and production offices.

Questions

Before you start.

Is it actually free?
Yes, for every writer. No script limit and no watermark on anything you export.
Can I open my Final Draft files?
Yes. Import and export .fdx and .fountain. Your work is never locked in.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in your browser, on whatever computer you are using.

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