See who carries your script.

Every character, how much they speak, how many scenes they are in, and the page where they walk out of the film and do not come back. It is the table a producer asks for, and the one that tells you your second lead vanishes for thirty pages.

Drop your screenplay here

You can also pick a file from your computer.

PDF, Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain (.fountain, .spmd) and plain text. Nothing is uploaded.

What to look for in it

The gap

Compare the first and last scene of each character with how many scenes they are in. Somebody who appears in scene 4 and scene 78 and nowhere between is not a supporting character, they are a plot device, and the reader will feel it even if they cannot name it.

The share

If your lead does not hold the largest share of the dialogue, that is worth a reason. Sometimes it is the point. Often it means the film has quietly changed hands and the writer has not noticed yet.

Now write in it.

Screenplay Editor formats your script while you type in Google Docs. Enter and Tab move you between a character, a line of dialogue and the next scene, the way Final Draft does. It is free to start.

Install it
?

Questions about the cast

I write my own films in Google Docs, so I built the tools I kept wishing existed.

Ask me something
How does it know who is a character?
It reads the character cues in your script, the names in capitals above each speech, and strips the extensions like (V.O.) or (CONT\u2019D) so the same person counts once.
What if the same character is spelled two ways?
They come out as two rows, which is exactly what a production report would do. If you see it here, fix it in the script before anyone else builds a schedule from it.
Does it count non speaking characters?
No. A character who never speaks has no cue in the script, so nothing on the page marks them. The breakdown sheet is the tool for who is present in a scene.
Is my script uploaded?
No. Everything runs in this page on your computer.

The other free tools

Open your screenplay in Google Docs

A PDF, a Final Draft file or a Fountain file becomes a document that opens already formatted.

Check your format before you send it

The notes a reader would write, before a reader writes them.

Turn your script into a breakdown sheet

Every scene, its location, its time of day and its cast, in a coloured spreadsheet.

Lay out your beats and start writing

Fifteen beats at their real page numbers, in a document already divided.

Make a title page that looks right

Four fields, and the title page a reader expects.

How long does your script run?

A real estimate, and where the time actually goes.