Open Draft Screenwriting
Screenwriting Software
Free
OpenDraft is a free, open-source screenwriting application — a modern alternative to Final Draft.
PROFESSIONAL SCREENPLAY FORMATTING
Write in industry-standard format with automatic element formatting for scene headings, action,
character names, dialogue, and parentheticals. What you see is what you export.
REAL-TIME COLLABORATION
Co-write with your writing partner in real time with live cursors, just like Google Docs. No account required — just share a link and start writing together.
BEAT BOARDS & INDEX CARDS
Plan your story visually. Drag and drop scene cards, color-code acts, and restructure your screenplay without losing a single word.
VERSION HISTORY
Every save is tracked with Git-based version control. Compare drafts side by side, see exactly what
changed, and restore any previous version instantly.
CHARACTER PROFILES & PRODUCTION TOOLS
Build character bibles, track dialogue stats, tag scenes for production, and manage your entire project
from one place.
EXPORT ANYWHERE
Export to PDF, Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, and plain text. Your work is never locked into a proprietary format.
WORKS EVERYWHERE
Available on macOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Android. Run it as a desktop app or self-host in your browser.
WHY OPENDRAFT?
- 100% free and open source (MIT license)
- No subscription, no cloud lock-in
- Works fully offline — no internet required
- Privacy-first: no tracking, no analytics
- Import from Final Draft, Fountain, and PDF
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New tools for writing, rewriting and sending your script out.
BRING YOUR SCRIPTS WITH YOU
Import a script you only have as a PDF, or a Highland, WriterDuet or Celtx file. Before a PDF opens, you can check how each line was read and fix several at once.
WATERMARKS, PASSWORDS AND SIDES
Put CONFIDENTIAL, or each reader's name, on every page, and add a password. Print or export just the scenes an actor needs on their original pages, with the rest crossed out, two pages to a sheet if you like.
REPORTS
Scene, character, location, cast, breakdown and notes reports, as a spreadsheet or a PDF.
REWRITE WITH EASE
Rename a character everywhere at once. Read and polish everything one character says in the Dialogue Tuner. Keep other versions of a line or a whole scene beside it and switch between them, from Edit > Alternates.
PLAN YOUR STORY
Name your plotlines, put scenes in them, and see them all across the script on the Story Timeline. Link Beat Board beats to the scenes that carry them.
COMIC BOOK SCRIPTS
A new format for comics and graphic novels, with pages and panels numbered for you.
NOTES YOU CAN DISCUSS
Reply to notes, resolve them, assign them to a collaborator and @mention people.
KEEP WRITING
Daily goals, timed sprints and a calendar of what you wrote. Focus Mode with typewriter scrolling. Bookmarks, and macros for text you type often.
The developer, Base Information Management Pvt. Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Base Information Management Pvt. Ltd.
- Size
- 24.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Proteus Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
