Three loglines, from your actual script.

Every logline generator asks you to fill in a form, which means it can only give you back what you already knew. This one reads your screenplay first: who speaks most, where it happens, what people actually say. Then it writes three loglines on three different angles.

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.

Why three, and why these three

A logline has to carry a want, a pressure and a cost, and most drafts carry one of the three well and the other two badly. So you get one of each, built on the same film, and the useful moment is the one where you notice which angle makes your story sound like a story.

None of them is your logline. They are three readings of what you wrote, and the closest one is a starting sentence to argue with.

Write the script the loglines describe.

Screenplay Editor formats your screenplay while you type in Google Docs, so the pages this reads from stay yours and stay in your Drive. It is free to start.

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Questions about loglines

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

Ask me something
What makes a good logline?
One sentence naming who the story is about, what they want, what stands in the way and what it costs. It gives the premise away rather than teasing it, and it never opens with in a world where.
Does my whole script get sent somewhere?
No. Your browser reads the file and builds a short summary: the main character names, the locations, your page count, and about thirty lines of dialogue taken from the beginning, the middle and the end. That summary is what gets sent, and the page shows you exactly what it holds before you press the button.
Why does it need my script at all?
Because a form can only hand back what you typed into it. Reading the pages is the difference between a logline about your film and a logline about the genre you picked from a menu.
How many can I make?
A few a day from the same network, which is enough to try each angle on a couple of drafts. The limit is there because writing costs money on our side.

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.