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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HANDLES ON A SELECTION
Selecting text highlighted it and left it at that: with no grabber at either end, widening a selection by a word meant throwing it away and starting again. There is now a handle at each end to drag, and dragging one past the other turns the selection around, the way it does everywhere else on the device.
THE SELECTION STAYS VISIBLE
Reaching for a menu, or the keyboard coming and going, made the highlight disappear — while the selection itself was still there and still what the next command would act on. Cutting a selected line from the Edit menu also moved the cursor before cutting it. The highlight now stays put, and so does the cursor.
A HANDWRITING PANEL THAT STAYS OPEN
Handwriting opened as a sheet over the script, and the page underneath could not be touched — so moving the insertion point meant closing it, tapping the new line and opening it again. It is a floating panel now. Drag it by its title bar, tap any line behind it to choose where the next insert goes, and it stays up between inserts, so a run of small revisions is one panel and no reopening. Where you leave it is remembered.
A PANEL YOU CAN SIZE AND SEE THROUGH
Drag its bottom-right corner to make it bigger or smaller; made narrow, the buttons keep their icons and drop their words. The gear in the title bar sets how much of the script shows through the panel and through the writing box — turned right down you can read the line you are adding to straight through the place you are writing — and picks the ink colour your handwriting comes out in, so it stays legible against whatever shows through.
THE PAGE HOLDS STILL WHEN YOU INSERT
Inserting handwriting scrolled the script so the cursor cleared the panel, which moved the page at the one moment you were looking for what had just landed. It now stays exactly where it was.
HANDWRITING ADDED TO A LINE YOU ALREADY WROTE
Handwriting inserted mid-line arrived with no space around it — writing "(CONTINUOUS)" at the end of a scene heading gave you DAY(CONTINUOUS). It is now spaced against the words either side, while a full stop, a comma or a bracket stays tight to what it belongs to.
PASTING A LINE INTO THE MIDDLE OF ANOTHER
Paste as Fountain read an ordinary line of prose as a screenplay element and put it in as a block, which split the line the cursor was in: a scene heading pasted into came back torn in half. A single plain line now goes in as text at the cursor, and a line opening with "…", read as markup for the same reason, no longer is. Anything with real structure — a heading, a character cue and its dialogue, a transition — still arrives as those elements.
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
- 19.2 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.
