Free tools for screenwriters.
Seven of them run entirely in your browser: your script stays on your computer and nothing is uploaded. The last two need a model to draw and to write, so they send a short summary and say exactly what it holds. None of them asks you to create an account. I built them because I write my own films in Google Docs and kept wishing they existed.
Convert your screenplay to anything
Drop in a PDF, a Final Draft file or a Fountain file, and take it out as a Google Doc that is already formatted, a .fdx, or a .fountain.
CheckerCheck your format before you send it
The notes a reader would write on your script: type size, margins, headings, long speeches, names spelled two ways.
BreakdownTurn your script into a breakdown sheet
Every scene, interior or exterior, day or night, its location and its cast, in a coloured spreadsheet.
StructureLay out your beats and start writing
The fifteen beats at their real page numbers for the length you are writing, in a document already divided.
Title pageMake a title page that looks right
Four fields, and the title page a reader expects, centred and spaced the way the industry sets it.
Running timeHow long does your script run?
A real estimate with an honest range, and how much of the film is people talking.
CharactersSee who carries your script
Who speaks, how much, in how many scenes, and the page where they walk out of the film.
LoglinesGet three loglines from your script
It reads your pages first, then writes three loglines on three different angles. Not a form you fill in.
PosterMake a poster for your film
Drop in your screenplay and get the poster that film would have. The one thing here you will want to show somebody.
One conversion at a time
The same converter, with the answer already picked. Each page says what survives the trip and what stays behind, because that part is different every time.
Your .fountain, typed into a .fdx
Fountain hides the type of a line in its punctuation. Final Draft writes it down. This reads the first and writes the second.
Final Draft to FountainYour .fdx as plain text
Plain text you can still read in twenty years, in any editor, under version control if you want it there.
PDF to Final DraftA PDF you can write in again
A PDF records ink, not meaning. The converter measures the columns your script uses and reads the format back out of them.
PDF to FountainA PDF back into plain Fountain
Same reading of the columns, written out as text, with every line that could be misread marked so it comes back right.
Final Draft to Google DocsYour .fdx in a Doc with the right margins
Nothing is guessed, because a .fdx already records what each paragraph is. The margins are the industry ones, to the point.
Fountain to Google DocsYour .fountain in a Doc with the right margins
Forced elements, title page, notes and boneyard all read. The asterisks stay out of your document.