The highest-rated screenwiting app on the Mac App Store comes to iOS!
Slugline is a minimal, distraction-free environment for the most important part of screenwriting—the writing part.
Slugline works with plain text. It automatically turns your writing into a properly formatted screenplay, without you ever needing to press the Tab key.
FEATURES
⋮ Automatic formatting
⋮ Sync files with iCloud and Dropbox, or work locally
⋮ Printed on paper or PDF, your screenplay is indistinguishable from one made with apps costing much more
⋮ Helpful structure templates, including the famous beat sheet from Save the Cat!®
⋮ Slugline’s famous Integrated outlining
⋮ Notes, Scene Synopses, and Omitted text help keep you organized
⋮ Includes Courier Prime, a beautiful typeface designed for screenplays
• THE POWER OF PLAIN
Slugline uses the free and open Fountain screenplay format, which is nothing more than plain text. You can work on your screenplay anywhere, using any writing app. When you open it in Slugline again, everything will be there, properly formatted.
• INTEGRATED OUTLINING
Start with an outline, then seamlessly transition to writing scenes. Or jot down a placeholder for your third-act twist while you’re still crafting your opening pages. Slugline allows you to be as structured as you like, even if that means not at all.
• WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
Slugline keeps getting better, and that's thanks to you! Slug us a line at http://slugline.co/contact with any questions or feedback you have, and follow us on Twitter at @SluglineApp.
I noticed the app sometimes does not sync your changes to the original file, and instead creates a separate copy of it. This then causes multiple versions of the same script to pile up in the recents section, while I really just need to maintain one version of it. Overall, the app is better than most I’ve seen for screenwriting on phone, just hope this one aspect can also be improved.
Love it
Woo5000
I have been screenwriting on my iPad much more lately, and I've found this to be a really great app for distraction-free writing. There's very little on the page, other than your own work. It's also a very user-friendly, intuitive way to learn the ins and outs of writing in Fountain (which is simple on its own). I also love that it doesn't require a subscription.
Crashing several times an hour
Da_Lone_Wolf
I enjoy the app’s simplicity and functionality. What I don’t enjoy is how the app crashes four to five times every hour. It autosaves frequently, so a crash only deletes the latest piece (either one chunk of dialogue or description) but it’s still annoying.
And I thought FD Mobile was a pain
xxyz3
Read raving reviews. Tried it for $19+ and it’s terrible. Not intuitive. Trying to hit return to get into the next correctly formatted section required backtracking. Not a seamless writing experience and I’ve been writing screenplays for a long time and have used almost all the mainstream software.
We’re back! And we’ve made creating and saving files simpler and better.
You can now create and edit screenplays anywhere you like, using the connected accounts (iCloud, Dropbox, whatever) from your Files app. Local or cloud, it’s up to you — either way, Slugline keeps track of your recently-edited screenplays in one convenient place.
Version 1.7.1
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