A screenplay score out of 10, a grade, and eleven reasons behind it
A screenplay score is only useful if it shows its working. This one returns a number out of 10, a letter grade, and eleven category scores each with its own notes — so the number is a summary of an argument rather than a verdict from nowhere.
The sample run scored a real feature 7.7 out of 10, Grade B, and ran three pages.
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What “A/B compare” means in practice
- Character Voice
- “Rewrites only this character's dialogue — action and other characters stay untouched.”
- Alternate Takes
- “Two contrasting rewrites of this scene, compared side-by-side — pick one, or blend the best of both.”
Both quoted from the editor itself. Every suggestion lands next to your original with a Merge button; declining it leaves the scene exactly as you wrote it.
What it catches
- An overall score out of 10 and a letter grade, with a prose summary of the assessment.
- Eleven category scores, each carrying its own notes: Story, Theme, Pacing, Dialogue, Structure, Originality, Emotional Impact, Characterization, Commercial Appeal, Visual Storytelling and Production Readiness.
- Highest-priority improvements, ranked rather than listed.
- Top strengths, also ranked.
From a real report
From a real Screenplay Scoring run on a 121-page feature. Scores exactly as returned.
- Grade
- B
- Overall score
- 7.7 / 10
- Category scores
- Story 8 · Theme 8 · Pacing 8 · Dialogue 7 · Structure 8 · Originality 7 · Emotional Impact 8 · Characterization 8 · Commercial Appeal 7 · Visual Storytelling 8 · Production Readiness 8
- Also returned
- Highest Priority Improvements and Top Strengths, both ranked
Two scales, and why they do not disagree
Screenplay Scoring reports out of 10 with a letter grade. The Coverage Report reports out of 100. Run both on the same script and you will see, for example, a 7.7 and a 76 — which agree, but only once you know they are different instruments.
We label each explicitly rather than normalising them, because the /10-with-a-grade format is what a writer recognises and the /100 format is what sits properly inside a coverage document.
What a score is for
Mostly, for comparing your own drafts. A single score in isolation tells you little; the same script scored before and after a rewrite tells you whether the rewrite worked, and the category breakdown tells you which part moved. Originality at 7 next to Structure at 8 is a more actionable sentence than any overall number.
It is also the fastest way to decide whether a draft is ready for the more expensive kind of read — a human one.
Reading a low category honestly
A 7 next to a row of 8s is the interesting row, and it is usually not the row people expect. Originality scoring lower than Story generally means the script is well told and familiar — which is a positioning problem rather than a writing one, and the answer is often a sharper logline rather than a rewrite. Pacing scoring low against a high Structure score usually means the shape is right and the scenes are long.
Dialogue is the category most worth cross-reading against something else. A 7 here alongside a per-character breakdown showing two characters with near-identical speech lengths and vocabulary is a much more specific diagnosis than the number alone, and it points at a fix — one character's voice, rewritten on its own — rather than at a general instruction to write better dialogue.
Production Readiness is the category writers ignore and producers read first. It is scored from what the script implies about the shoot: location count, cast size, night exteriors, stunts and effects. A high story score with a low production-readiness score is exactly the script that gets loved and never made.
Exports
Reports export to PDF, Word and Excel. Revised pages export to FDX and Fountain, so the script goes back into whatever you write in.
What a screenplay score does not do
- It does not predict whether your script will sell. Commercial Appeal is one category of an assessment, not a market forecast.
- It is not a competition result and carries no standing with anyone. No festival, manager or producer knows or cares what this scored.
- It does not tell you what to change on its own — the ranked improvements do that, and the feedback report does it in more depth.
- It should not be compared against the coverage report's /100 as if they were the same scale.
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Frequently asked questions
How is my screenplay scored?
Across eleven categories — Story, Theme, Pacing, Dialogue, Structure, Originality, Emotional Impact, Characterization, Commercial Appeal, Visual Storytelling and Production Readiness — each scored out of 10 with its own notes, plus an overall score and a letter grade.
What is a good screenplay score?
Treat it comparatively rather than absolutely. The sample feature scored 7.7 with a Grade B. What matters more is which categories are lowest, and whether the number moves after a rewrite.
Why does the coverage report give a different number?
Because it is a different scale: coverage scores out of 100 across eight categories, scoring reports out of 10 across eleven with a letter grade. A 7.7 and a 76 on the same script are consistent, not contradictory.
Will my script be used to train AI?
No. Zero Data Retention is enabled on every model used, and your material is never used to train, fine-tune or improve any foundation model. See section 3.1 of the privacy policy.
Can I score a script written in Hindi or Tamil?
Yes. The score report is generated in the language of the script, across 17 supported languages.
What does it cost?
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