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 as a free, installable Windows executable with the same features.
- Usable Chromebooks and also larger screen Android and iOS devices like tablets.
- Installable as a Progressive Web App (PWA) in supporting browsers to run offline like a 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 PDF files mirror what is edited.
- Automatic Hollywood standard formatting.
- Able to handle large (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.
- Custom fonts embedded into PDFs to render non-Latin alphabets such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Devanagari, Cyrillic.
- Color coded writer free-text notes of any length added anywhere in a script.
- Script auto-backup every 90 seconds in case of sudden shutdown.
- On-demand writing statistics for sessions.
- 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 sticky notes.
- Direct sharing of created PDFs via the platform's Share dialog including via Apple AirDrop and Windows Nearby.
- Dictation feature to write using voice recognition.
- Read-aloud feature to read dialogue with custom synthetic voice assignment to characters.
- Dialogue tuner for vewing/editing all dialogue by 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 over 100 languages.
- Instant translation of any menu option to the browser interface language by right-clicking it.
- Comprehensive, searchable user documentation.
- A 96 page test script can be loaded 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 and Edge.
AI 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.
- Translation of script elements from almost any language to any other language.
The Google Chrome model (Gemini Nano) requires 16 GBytes of RAM, the Microsoft Edge model (Phi-4-mini) requires 5.5 GBytes of VRAM. The AI features aren't visible when MovieScripter is opened in other browsers.
Below is a screenshot of a typical MovieScripter session in light mode with full-screen mode.