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.

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Non-commercial, free screenwriting software with free updates.
A free alternative to commercial products like Final Draft, Fade In and Writer Duet.
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 (unless using the AI features).
Usable on Chromebooks and larger screen Android and iOS devices like tablets.
Great performance on old, discarded hardware that's rejuvenated and accelerated by installing free Google ChromeOS Flex ⧉.
A "memory saving" mode for slow hardware platforms.
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 editing with PDFs mirroring 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″ margin for binding/hole punching.
Zoomable interface to suit any screen.
Grid page layout option for wider screens instead of the usual vertical page layout.
Undo/redo stack.
Script auto-backup of changes every 90 seconds in case of unplanned/accidental shutdown.
Auto-completion of character names.
Extensive keyboard shortcuts.
Supports unicode and any left-to-right language.
Default Courier Prime font with option to load a custom font from .ttf files or the system fonts.
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.
Scene list navigator which can optionally be hidden.
Bookmarking of scenes by assigning colors.
Images can be inserted anywhere into title and script pages.
JPEG or PNG images can be inserted anywhere in the title page or script body.
Scene omission option with ability to restore omitted scenes.
Actor 'sides' can be created by only including scenes that contain a particular character.
All dialogue for a specific character can be highlighted in PDFs.
Header and footer text can be defined which appears at the top and/or bottom of every script page.
A watermark background image can be added to all PDF pages including making pages have a non-white background color.
Shooting-script scene/element numbering can optionally be enabled.
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.
A Read-aloud (table-read) feature to read dialogue and using free realistic AI voices in Chrome and Edge.
A dual dialogue option formats consecutive dialogue blocks to 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 text to/from other 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 app integration with Windows.
AI writing tools. In either Chrome or Edge, MovieScripter can use the free Google/Microsoft in-browser, multi-lingual AI models which run locally without server assistance. This provides the following:
- An AI chat interface to with script access for feedback/suggestions/criticism. The AI could also create a logline or synopsis.
- Rewriting of action, dialogue or notes according to criteria such as length, 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.
- Complete privacy of content with nothing sent to servers.
- Full offline AI capabilities without the need for an Internet connection.
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.

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