# Inkwell marketing site, full text This file concatenates the markdown version of every Inkwell marketing page. Source: https://inkwell.app --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/ # Inkwell A screenplay editor that respects the writer. Inkwell is a professional macOS screenplay editor with a writing partner built in. Quill helps only when you ask: brainstorm a scene, punch up a line, or catch a voice that has drifted. Every idea arrives as a diff you accept or reject, and nothing changes without your say-so. Local-first. Free to start. Quill only goes online when you ask. ## What it is Inkwell is a real desktop app for macOS. It opens instantly, saves locally, and never stalls waiting on a server. It is a complete, keyboard-first screenplay editor: industry-standard formatting, outlining, inline notes, revisions, and interchange that hold up in a real production. The headline feature is a writing partner, Quill, that waits to be asked. ## How Quill works Quill is a chat-based writing partner that already knows your script. You talk to it like a script editor, and it works in three steps: 1. **Ask.** Quill has the whole script in context. Ask for a sharper twist or three takes on a line. No pasting pages into a chat window. 2. **See the diff.** Its idea lands in your script as a proposal: green for additions, red for cuts. Shown, never applied. 3. **Decide.** Accept, reject, or rewrite, line by line or all at once. The page changes only when you say so. Undo anytime. What Quill will not do, on purpose: - **It never writes for you.** Quill suggests; it does not author. Every idea needs your explicit approval before a single character lands on the page. - **It does not train on your scripts.** Your work is never used to train AI models. Only the snippet needed to answer is sent to third-party language-model providers (e.g., OpenAI, Google Gemini), and it's never used to train or fine-tune any model. - **You own everything.** Using Quill does not transfer ownership or create shared authorship. We can't speak for WGA arbitration or a studio's AI policy — no software can — but Quill never writes a page you didn't ask for and approve, and if you never use it, your script never touches an AI. - **It stays out of your way.** No autocomplete hijacking your cursor, no pop-ups mid-sentence. Quill is a chat partner that acts only when you ask it to. One thing we do keep: so a long conversation doesn't lose its thread, we store a small summary for each Quill thread on our servers — it's derived from your creative work, and it's deleted when you delete your account. ## Features - Auto-formats as you type: sluglines, character cues, and action lines format the instant you write them. - Keyboard-first: Tab and Shift-Tab cycle elements (Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, Parenthetical, Transition); smart Enter and force markers (@, !, ~, >) override the guess. - Approve every word: suggestions arrive as diffs (green for additions, red for cuts); rename a character across 90 pages and approve each change, or wave them all through at once. - Outline navigator and beat board: see the whole story at once, rearrange on cards, and drop straight back into the page. - Inline notes and synopses: [[notes]] and = synopses travel with the file and never reach the printed page. - Find and replace across the entire script. - Voice match: Quill learns each character's cadence and flags a line that drifts out of character. - Revision Mode: industry-standard revision tracking with colored generations and revision marks. - Generate Sides: pull every scene a character appears in into a clean, page-numbered set. - Title pages, edited in place and carried through every export. - Import and export Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, and PDF, with scene numbers, notes, and dual dialogue preserved. - PDF import: pull a locked PDF back into a fully editable script. - Four themes (Light, Sepia, Focus, Midnight) with the same muscle memory under each. - Works fully offline; Quill reaches the cloud only when you ask, and sync — if you turn it on — encrypts your scripts before they leave your Mac. ## The iOS Reader Inkwell Reader is a free companion app for iPhone. It opens .ink, Fountain, and PDF scripts, laid out the way they are meant to be read and sized for the screen in your hand. It has full-text search and a scene jump-list, a sides view that highlights one character's lines, and on-device offline reading (no signal required). No account is needed to read, and Quill rides along once you sign in. Free on the App Store, iOS 17+. ## Pricing Professional screenwriting software should not cost $250. The full editor is free forever; you only ever pay for Quill, and Quill runs on credits. - **Free, $0 forever:** the full editor, industry-standard formatting, import and export of Fountain, FDX, and PDF, unlimited scripts, works offline, no account required. New accounts can start a free 7-day Quill Pro trial (500 credits, no card, nothing to cancel); the free week doesn't start until you start it in the app. - **Credit packs, $4.99 for 150 credits:** pay-as-you-go Quill, no subscription. Buy a pack when a draft needs one, and nothing renews. - **Quill Pro, $10 / month or $100 / year:** 500 credits every month — room to lean on Quill through a whole draft — plus add-on packs, priority support, early access, and cancel anytime. The annual option is two months free. Credits are only spent when Quill answers, never for typing. A typical answer costs a few credits, and longer or more complex requests cost more. Writing, formatting, import and export, and unlimited scripts are always free. ## Sync and secure backup Synced on every device, secure on all of them. Draft on your Mac, and read your latest pages on your iPhone wherever you are — it's free, and off until you turn it on, one script at a time. Turn sync on for a script and it's ready to read and review in Inkwell Reader on your iPhone; what you don't sync never leaves your Mac, and syncing never moves, renames, or deletes the file on your Mac. Setup is once: a single Touch ID ties your work to you, and after that the Macs and iPhones you sign in pick it up on their own. If your Mac is ever lost or stolen, a synced script doesn't go down with the machine — sign in on a new Mac and it's back. Turning sync on gives you a one-time recovery code, a spare key that's yours alone: if you ever lose every device you've signed in, that code is the only way back into your synced work — not even we can open it for you. Backup covers the scripts you sync, not every file on your Mac. Your script is scrambled on your Mac before it's ever uploaded, with a key that's made on your own devices and never sent to us — what we store is an encrypted copy we have no way to read. Delete the cloud copy whenever you like: your Mac keeps its file, and we start erasing ours right away. ## Links - Features: https://inkwell.app/features - Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill - Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader - Sync: https://inkwell.app/sync - Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing - FAQ: https://inkwell.app/faq - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/features # Inkwell Features A 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 Shift-Tab move a line through Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, Parenthetical, and Transition. Your hands never leave the keyboard. - **Smart Enter and 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: Control-Command-1 Action, Control-Command-2 Scene Heading, Control-Command-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 and 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 and replace.** Command-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 and 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 and 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 will never know you didn't. - **Fountain.** Open and save plain-text Fountain, the portable format the rest of the indie world writes in. - **PDF, back to editable.** 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. ## Links - Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md - Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill - Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader - Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing - FAQ: https://inkwell.app/faq - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/quill # Quill Quill helps. You decide. Quill is a chat-based writing partner that already knows your script. Ask it to brainstorm, punch up a line, or catch a voice that's drifted. Every idea comes back as a diff you accept or reject. It never writes a word you didn't approve. ## Three steps, and you're always the last one 1. **Ask.** Talk to it like a script editor. Quill has the whole script in context. Ask for a sharper twist or three takes on a line. No pasting pages into a chat window. 2. **See the diff.** Its idea lands as a proposal. Changes arrive in your script as a diff: green for additions, red for cuts. Shown, never applied. 3. **Decide.** Accept, reject, or rewrite. The page changes only when you say so, line by line or all at once. Undo anytime. The voice on the page stays yours. ## What Quill won't do, on purpose The reason to trust a writing partner is knowing its limits. Here are Quill's, on purpose. One thing we do keep: so a long conversation doesn't lose its thread, we store a small summary for each Quill thread on our servers — it's derived from your creative work, and it's deleted when you delete your account. - **It never writes for you.** Quill suggests; it doesn't author. Every idea needs your explicit approval before a single character lands on the page. - **It doesn't train on your scripts.** Your work is never used to train AI models. Only the snippet needed to answer is sent to third-party language-model providers (e.g., OpenAI, Google Gemini), and it's never used to train or fine-tune any model. - **You own everything.** Using Quill doesn't transfer ownership or create shared authorship. We can't speak for WGA arbitration or a studio's AI policy — no software can — but Quill never writes a page you didn't ask for and approve, and if you never use it, your script never touches an AI. - **It stays out of your way.** No autocomplete hijacking your cursor, no pop-ups mid-sentence. Quill is a chat partner that acts only when you ask it to. ## Useful, specifically Not a blank-slate chatbot. A partner grounded in the script in front of you. - **Make sweeping changes, safely.** Rename a character across 90 pages and approve each one. Big edits arrive as a stack of diffs. Wave them through at once, or vet them one at a time. Nothing is irreversible. - **Brainstorm in context.** Get unstuck without leaving the page. Ask for a sharper beat or a different take, grounded in what you've actually written. - **Guard your voice.** Quill learns each character's cadence and flags the moment a line stops sounding like themselves. - **Always grounded.** It reads your script first, every time, so suggestions sound like your draft, not generic AI prose. No copy-paste, no blank-slate chatbot. ## Quill credits Pay for the help, not the editor. - **Free to start.** The full editor is always free. Every new account can start a free week of Quill Pro — 500 credits, no card, nothing to cancel. - **Packs, pay as you go.** $4.99 for 150 credits, no subscription. You only spend credits when Quill answers, never for typing, formatting, or exporting. - **Pro, when you lean on it.** $10 a month, or $100 a year, for 500 credits every month — room to run through a whole draft. Add-on packs anytime. - **Only online when you ask.** The editor is local-first and works fully offline. Quill goes online only when you invoke it, and turning on sync is your choice too — when it's on, your scripts are encrypted before they leave your Mac, stored as bytes we can't read. ## Links - Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md - Features: https://inkwell.app/features - Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader - Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing - FAQ: https://inkwell.app/faq - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/reader # Inkwell Reader Your scripts, in your pocket. Inkwell Reader is a clean, fast screenplay reader for iPhone. Open a script, read it the way it's meant to be read, and jump to any scene in a tap. No account needed to read. Free on the App Store, iOS 17+. ## A real script reader for iOS Open .ink, Fountain, and PDF scripts. Pages are laid out the way they're meant to be read: correct margins, scene numbers in the gutter, dialogue where it belongs. Sized for the screen in your hand. ## Find anything fast Full-text search across the whole script, plus a scene jump-list that puts page 47 one tap away. Search dialogue, action, or a character name and land exactly where you meant to. ## Reads on a plane Scripts live on-device. No spinner, no sync prompt, no signal required. Pull a script up at 38,000 feet and it's simply there, in your library and ready to read. ## Quill rides along Sign in and your writing partner comes with you: review structure, search for a scene, or talk through a tricky beat right beside the pages. No account needed to read, and Quill stays a suggestion you choose to use. ## Sides, highlighted for you Tap a character to bold their cues and light up every line they speak. Made for memorizing lines, rehearsals, and table reads, without leaving the script you're already reading. ## Set the page the way you read Light, sepia, and midnight reading themes, the outline drawer for two-up navigation, and the same script wherever you open it. The Reader ships with anonymous usage analytics enabled by default. You can turn them off anytime in Settings → Privacy. ## Links - Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md - Features: https://inkwell.app/features - Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill - Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing - FAQ: https://inkwell.app/faq - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/sync # Inkwell Sync & Secure Backup Synced on every device. Secure on all of them. Draft on your Mac, and read your latest pages on your iPhone wherever you are — it's free, and off until you turn it on, one script at a time. If your Mac is ever lost or stolen, your synced scripts come right back. ## Seamless: set it up once, it follows you The full editor lives on your Mac. Turn sync on for a script and it's ready to read and review in Inkwell Reader on your iPhone — on the couch, on set, on the train. The first time, a single Touch ID ties your work to you; after that, the Macs and iPhones you sign in pick it up on their own — no codes to type, nothing to repeat. Sync is off until you turn it on, one script at a time, and what you don't sync never leaves your Mac. Syncing never moves, renames, or deletes the file on your Mac — it's the same local app you already write in, with sync added on top. ## Lose the laptop, keep the script Spilled coffee, stolen bag, dead drive — a synced script doesn't go down with the machine; sign in on a new Mac and it's back. Turning sync on gives you a one-time recovery code — a spare key that's yours alone. You won't need it day to day, and losing it never touches the file on your Mac. But keep it somewhere safe: if you ever lose every device you've signed in, that code is the only way back into your synced work — not even we can open it for you. That's the point. Backup covers the scripts you sync, not every file on your Mac; turn it on for the work you'd hate to lose. ## Secure: your work, and only yours Your script is scrambled on your Mac before it's ever uploaded, with a key that's made on your own devices and never sent to us. What we store is an encrypted copy we have no way to read — enough to bring your work back on a new machine, and useless to anyone else, us included. Delete the cloud copy whenever you like: your Mac keeps its file, and we start erasing ours right away. ## Links - Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md - Features: https://inkwell.app/features - Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader - Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill - Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing - Privacy: https://inkwell.app/privacy - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/pricing # Inkwell Pricing The editor is free. Pay only for Quill. Screenwriting software has cost around $250 for decades. Inkwell's full editor is free forever, and every new writer gets a free week of Quill Pro to try the AI. No card to start. ## Free forever: the editor Everything you need to write, $0. No countdown, no locked features, no watermarks. The app you download is the whole professional tool, and it stays that way. - Full screenplay editor with industry-standard formatting - Unlimited scripts - Import and export Final Draft (FDX), Fountain, and PDF - Inline notes, outline, and revision tracking - Works completely offline - No account required ## Quill credits Quill is the only thing you pay for, and only when it answers: never for typing, formatting, or exporting. Start with a free week, then pick what fits. ### Start with a free week of Quill Pro Every new writer gets 500 credits for 7 days. No card, nothing to cancel: when the week ends, you drop back to the free editor. ### Credit packs, $4.99 for 150 credits For the writer who reaches for Quill now and then. Buy a pack when you want one, nothing on autopay. - 150 credits per pack - No subscription, nothing renews - Buy another only when you want one ### Quill Pro, $10 per month or $100 per year For the weeks you lean on Quill hard. A fresh 500 credits every month, room to run through a whole draft. - 500 credits every month - $100 a year: two months free - Add-on packs anytime a draft runs hot - Priority support, early access - Cancel anytime Prices in USD. The free week doesn't start until you start it in the app; packs and Pro also work from inside the app. ## How credits work You pay for Quill, never the editor. 1. **Free to start.** A free week of Quill Pro. 500 credits, no card. 2. **Credits pay for answers.** You spend credits only when Quill answers — a quick question costs a few, a deep pass that reads your whole script runs more. In real use, 500 credits is dozens of Quill sessions a month. Writing, formatting, and exporting are always free. 3. **Then packs or Pro.** $4.99 for 150 credits, or Pro for 500 a month. Top up anytime. ## The honest answers The short version: the editor is free, Quill is optional, and you own everything you write. **Can I use Inkwell for free forever?** Yes. The editor is free forever: the full screenplay editor, import and export, unlimited scripts, everything. To try Quill, every new account can start a free week of Quill Pro: 500 credits, no card, nothing to cancel. After that, buy a $4.99 credit pack when you want one, subscribe to Pro, or write without Quill entirely. You never need to pay to write. **What happens when my credits run out?** Nothing dramatic. The editor keeps working exactly as before; Quill just waits until you add credits. Buy a 150-credit pack for $4.99 with no subscription, or go Pro for 500 credits a month. Your scripts, formatting, and exports are never held hostage. **What about copyright and IP?** You own everything you write in Inkwell, period. We don't claim any rights to your material. Using Quill doesn't transfer ownership or create shared authorship. We can't speak for WGA arbitration or a studio's AI policy — no software can — but Quill never writes a page you didn't ask for and approve, and if you never use it, your script never touches an AI. **Will my writing train the model?** No. We never use your scripts to train AI models. When you use Quill, only the necessary text snippet is sent to the AI provider for processing, and it's never used to train or fine-tune any model. If you turn on sync, your scripts are end-to-end encrypted before they leave your Mac — we store only the encrypted bytes and never hold your key, so we can't read them. Your creative work stays yours. **Does Quill write for me?** No. Quill suggests, it doesn't author. It can brainstorm ideas, offer dialogue alternatives, or help punch up a line, but every suggestion requires your explicit approval. You're always the writer. Quill is the assistant. **Do I need internet access?** Not for writing. Inkwell works completely offline. You only need internet when you want to use Quill AI. All your script editing, formatting, import and export, and file management works without Wi-Fi. ## Links - Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md - Features: https://inkwell.app/features - Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill - Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader - FAQ: https://inkwell.app/faq - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac --- # Source: https://inkwell.app/faq # Inkwell FAQ The questions writers actually ask. How Quill works, who owns what you write, what happens offline, and what free really includes. If something is missing, write to us at support@inkwell.app. ## Does Quill write for me? No. Quill suggests; it doesn't author. It can brainstorm ideas, offer dialogue alternatives, or help punch up a line, but every suggestion requires your explicit approval. You're always the writer. Quill is the assistant. ## What about copyright and IP? You own everything you write in Inkwell, period. We don't claim any rights to your material. Using Quill doesn't transfer ownership or create shared authorship. We can't speak for WGA arbitration or a studio's AI policy — no software can — but Quill never writes a page you didn't ask for and approve, and if you never use it, your script never touches an AI. ## Will my writing train the model? No. We never use your scripts to train AI models. When you use Quill, only the necessary text snippet is sent to the AI provider for processing, and it's never used to train or fine-tune any model. If you turn on sync, your scripts are end-to-end encrypted before they leave your Mac — we store only the encrypted bytes and never hold your key, so we can't read them. Your creative work stays yours. ## Do I need internet access? Not for writing! Inkwell works completely offline. You only need internet when you want to use Quill AI. All your script editing, formatting, import/export, and file management works without Wi-Fi. ## Can I export to Final Draft? Yes. Inkwell fully supports Final Draft's .fdx format for both import and export. Your formatting, scene numbers, notes, and dual dialogue are preserved. You can seamlessly collaborate with people using Final Draft. ## How does Quill protect my voice? Two ways. First, Quill learns the voice you've already established (each character's rhythm and cadence) and writes inside it, so suggestions read like your draft, not generic AI prose. Second, it flags when a line drifts out of character, catching inconsistencies before they reach the page. And every suggestion still arrives as a diff you approve or reject, so the final voice on the page is always the one you chose. ## Is this like ChatGPT writing my script? No. Quill is designed specifically for screenwriting assistance, not autonomous generation. It works within your script's context, offers options, and requires approval. Think of it as a writing partner who listens and suggests, not a robot churning out pages. ## Can I use Inkwell for free forever? Yes! The editor is free forever: the full screenplay editor, import/export, unlimited scripts, everything. To try Quill, every new account can start a free week of Quill Pro: 500 credits, no card, nothing to cancel. After that, buy a $4.99 credit pack when you want one (no subscription required) or subscribe to Pro for 500 credits a month. You can write complete screenplays without ever paying. ## Links - Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md - Features: https://inkwell.app/features - Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill - Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader - Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing - Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac