Screenwriting software that reads your draft back to you

Read your script before anyone else does

Script Coverage returns the document a development executive reads: logline, synopsis, a PASS / CONSIDER / RECOMMEND verdict, per-scene recommendations, comparable films, a budget range and a score out of 100. AI Script Feedback returns the other document — the one written to you, opening with what already works and sequencing what to fix, with quick wins separated from the three-week rebuild.

Screenplay Scoring gives a number out of 10 and a letter grade across eleven categories. The continuity pass reads the script as a production document and flags the contradictions it contains, each with a severity and a specific fix. All of it is generated in the language the script is written in.

The full studio — what each report contains, real excerpts from an actual 121-page feature, and what each tool explicitly does not do — is on the Screenplay Analysis Studio pages.

From beat sheet to locked draft

Start with the Beat Board to structure your story's turning points, or skip straight to the Script Editor if you already know your outline. Character Profiles keeps every character's voice, arc, and backstory consistent across drafts — the AI checks new scenes against it instead of writing each scene in isolation.

Every generation gives you a choice of Fast, Standard, or Premium quality — a quick pass to test structure, or a polished, production-ready draft when you're ready to lock it. You see the credit cost before you run it, and if a generation fails, those credits are refunded automatically.

Never locked in

Every screenplay exports to PDF, Word, and the industry-standard screenwriting formats — Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain — alongside the platform's own format. If you need to hand a draft to a collaborator using different software, or move off the platform entirely, your work goes with you.

Export to Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain

Final Draft's .fdx format and Fountain (the plain-text screenwriting markup) are the two formats that matter most for actually moving a screenplay between tools and people. A production office, a co-writer, a competition, or a financier may standardize on Final Draft; an indie writer or a script-to-screen pipeline may prefer Fountain's plain-text portability. The Story Maker exports to both, alongside PDF and Word, from the same locked screenplay — no reformatting pass, no separate conversion tool.

That matters most at the exact moment migration usually breaks: switching away from a tool that only exports its own proprietary format, or into one that only accepts .fdx. Because every screenplay written or uploaded here already carries clean scene headings, character cues, and dialogue blocks, the .fdx and Fountain exports open correctly in Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, WriterDuet, and any other tool built around those two formats — not a lossy, reflowed approximation of your formatting.

This is also why uploading an existing script is one of the platform's three entry points rather than an afterthought: a screenplay written in Final Draft or plain Fountain comes in, gets enhanced or extended here, and exports back out in either format whenever you need to hand it off — so choosing The Story Maker for pre-production and production planning never means giving up the ability to move your script somewhere else.

Why not just write it in a chat window

You can draft a scene in a chat assistant and it will often read well. What it cannot do is remember your project between conversations — so the character bible, the established timeline and the decisions you made forty pages ago are re-established by you, every time, in every new thread.

Here the screenplay is the project's canon rather than a conversation's output. Character Profiles constrains new scenes to the voice and history already established, and once the draft locks it flows into breakdown, scheduling and budgeting without being re-typed. The full argument, including where a chat assistant is genuinely better, is on the ChatGPT comparison page.

Formatting that survives the handoff

A screenplay is a document with rules. Margins, indentation, capitalisation of scene headings, how dual dialogue sits on the page — readers notice when they are wrong, and in some markets a script that is not correctly formatted is a script that does not get read.

Output is Fountain and FDX with correct industry margins, and the formatting is native to each of the 17 supported languages rather than an English template with the words swapped out. Malformed output is repaired before it reaches you rather than handed over broken.

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