MovieScripter - Free screenwriting software

MovieScripter is a non-commercial screenwriting app designed for spec script screenwriters that will run in any modern browser on any platform.

Features:

• Non-commercial and free with no intention to ever change this in the future.
• No requirement for registration or login plus no cookies or user tracking.
• Runs in any modern browser on any platform directly from moviescripter.org but also downloadable from the Microsoft Store for closer Windows integration.
• Light-weight in-browser executable with minimal hardware requirements.
• Usable on Chromebooks and larger screen Android and iOS devices like tablets.
• Great performance on old, discarded hardware that has been rejuvenated and accelerated by installing free Google ChromeOS Flex.
• Installable as a Progressive Web App (PWA) in supporting browsers such as Edge and Chrome to run offline like an installed native application.
• Uncluttered, intuitive interface with the option to run full-screen.
• What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) script and title page editor. Exported PDFs mirror what's seen in the editor.
• Automatic Hollywood standard formatting.
• Able to handle very long (200 page+) screenplays.
• Light and dark mode.
• Easily switch page size between US Letter and A4.
• Optional extra ¼″ indent for binding/hole punching.
• Zoomable interface.
• Undo/redo stack.
• Auto-completion of character names.
• Extensive keyboard shortcuts.
• Optionally visible scene list navigator with optional scene color coding.
• Supports unicode and any left-to-right language.
• Default Courier Prime font with option to load a custom font.
• Fonts embedded into PDFs to render non-Latin alphabets such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Devanagari, Cyrillic.
• Color coded free-text notes of any length can be added anywhere in a script.
• Script auto-backup every 90 seconds in case of unplanned/accidental shutdown.
• On-demand writing statistics for a session.
• Import from PDF, Final Draft and Fountain files.
• Export to PDF, Final Draft, Fountain and formatted plain text files.
• Export to PDF with notes included as PDF sticky notes.
• Direct sharing of created PDFs via the platform's native share dialog including via Apple AirDrop and Windows Nearby.
• Dictation feature to write scripts using voice recognition.
• Read-aloud feature to read dialogue with synthetic voice assignment to characters.
• A dual dialogue function which turns consecutive dialogue blocks into side-by-side dialogue.
• Dialogue tuner for vewing/editing all dialogue for a given character.
• Version comparison that color highlights differences between the current script and saved versions.
• Dictionary lookup with display of meanings and example usage.
• Thesaurus lookup with one-click replacement of any word or phrase in a script.
• Instant in-script translation of dialogue to almost 100 languages.
• Instant translation of any menu option's help text to the browser language by right-clicking it.
• Comprehensive, searchable user documentation.
• A feature length example screenplay can be opened via the Help menu for evaluation of features and performance.
• Automatic free software updates with version release notes.
• Directly accessible 24/7 at Moviescripter.org via Google's server network.
• Alternatively, download from the Microsoft Store for tighter PWA integration with Windows.

• AI writing tools. In either Chrome or Edge, MovieScripter can use a free in-browser, multi-lingual AI model which runs locally without server assistance. This provides the following:

  • An AI chat interface to get script feedback or suggestions. Also to get the AI to create a logline or synopsis.
  • Rewriting action, dialogue or notes according to criteria such as style, tone, movie genre or character type.
  • Grammar and spell checking of elements.
  • Minimization of action text to create a succinct, faster read.
  • Thesaurus-like lookup for alternate wording in multiple languages.
  • Dictionary lookup of words given their context.
  • Translation of script elements from one language to another.

  Note that the Google Chrome AI model (Gemini Nano) requires 16 GBytes of RAM and the Microsoft Edge AI model (Phi-4-mini) requires 5.5 GBytes of VRAM. The AI menu options aren't visible when MovieScripter is opened in other browsers. With ChromeOS, only Chromebook Plus hardware with at least 8 GBytes of RAM supports AI model installation.

Other MovieScripter Screenwriting Tools

• Fountain file to PDF converter.
• Google Docs Fountain extensions.
• Logline generators for story inspiration.