Turn your script into a breakdown sheet.

Drop in your screenplay and get the sheet a first assistant director works from: every scene numbered, interior or exterior, day or night, its location, who is in it and how long it runs. It downloads as a spreadsheet, coloured so you can find a night scene at a glance.

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 it reads, and what it cannot

What the page says

Scene numbers, interior or exterior, time of day, location, the characters who speak in the scene, the page it starts on and its length in eighths of a page. All of it is written in your script already, so all of it is exact.

What it will not invent

Props, wardrobe, vehicles and special effects are not on the page, they are read out of it. That takes judgement, so it lives in the add-on rather than here, where it would guess. This sheet gives you the skeleton, correctly, in about four seconds.

Want the elements too?

Inside Google Docs, Screenplay Editor reads each scene and pulls out props, wardrobe, cast, vehicles and effects, then colours them into the same sheet. It is free to start.

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Questions about breakdowns

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

Ask me something
What is a script breakdown sheet?
It is the document a production works from: one line per scene, saying where it happens, when, who is in it and how long it runs. It is what a schedule and a budget get built on.
What file formats can I use?
A PDF, a Final Draft .fdx file, or a Fountain file. A PDF works because screenplay format is a geometry: the tool measures the columns your script uses and reads the scenes back out of them.
Can I open the sheet in Google Sheets?
Yes. It downloads as a normal .xlsx file, so Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets all open it, keep the colours and keep the filters on the header row.
Is my script uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole thing runs in this page on your own computer, and nothing is stored.

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.

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.

See who carries your script

Who speaks, how much, in how many scenes, from which page to which.