InkwellA professional screenplay editor, down to the details.
The headline feature is a writing partner that waits to be asked. But under it is a complete, keyboard-first screenplay editor: formatting, structure, revisions, and interchange that hold up in a real production. Here is everything Inkwell does.
Write at the speed of thought.
Auto-formats as you type
Type a slugline, a character cue, or an action line, and Inkwell formats it the instant you do. No style menus, no manual indents, no fighting the page.
Tab to cycle elements
Tab and ⇧Tab move a line through Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, Parenthetical, and Transition. Your hands never leave the keyboard.
Smart Enter & force markers
Enter promotes the next element the way a screenwriter expects. Lead a line with @, !, ~, or > to force any element when you want to override the guess.
Every element, one shortcut away
Set any element type directly: ⌃⌘1 Action, ⌃⌘2 Scene Heading, ⌃⌘3 Character, on through Transition and Lyric. The bindings follow the screenwriter convention.
See the whole story at once.
Beat board
Plot on cards in a board view, rearrange the story until it works, then drop straight back into the page. Same document, two ways to see it.
Outline navigator
A live outline of acts, scenes, and headings in the sidebar. Jump anywhere in a long script without scrolling for it.
Notes & synopses, inline
Drop [[notes]] and = synopses right in the script. They travel with the file, show when you want them, and never reach the printed page.
Find & replace
⌘F across the entire script: dialogue, action, scene numbers and all, with replace when you need to rename in one pass.
Ready for the room, not just the draft.
Revision Mode
Industry-standard revision tracking, with colored generations and revision marks, so a locked script can change on set without anyone losing the thread. Turn it on from the Revision menu when the pages lock.
Generate Sides
Pull every scene a character appears in into a clean, page-numbered set of sides, ready for the table read or the day's shoot. One step, from File → Generate Sides.
Title pages
A proper title page, edited in place (File → Edit Title Page) and carried through every export.
Industry-standard PDF & print
Export or print pages that look like they came off a production printer, with the margins, scene numbers, and page breaks a reader expects.
Works with everyone else.
Final Draft (.fdx), in & out
Import and export FDX without dropping a scene number, a dual-dialogue cue, or a note. Send pages to a producer who lives in Final Draft and they'll never know you didn't.
Fountain
Open and save plain-text Fountain, the portable format the rest of the indie world writes in.
Industry-leading PDF import
Pull a locked PDF back into a fully editable script. Sluglines, cues, and action recovered with a care most importers can't match.
And Quill, only when you ask.
Brainstorm a scene, punch up a line, or catch a voice that's drifted. Every idea comes back as a diff you accept or reject. Useful when you want it, invisible when you don't.
See how Quill works →