Slugline 2 4+
Write your movie.
Act Focused Media LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Slugline 2 is a screenwriting app devoted entirely to the writing process. It combines an elegant, minimal interface that stays out of your way, with powerful features that help you craft and refine your story.
Slugline 2 is a free download, and works without watermarks or limitations until you pass page six, at which point you can upgrade to Unlimited Writing, which includes Final Draft export. Kick the tires at no cost — or, if all you write is short films, never pay a dime!
⋮ WRITE WITHOUT FORMATTING
With Slugline 2, screenplay formatting happens automatically as you write. In fact, every single feature of Slugline 2 is driven by the words you type, from the basic elements of a screenplay, to notes, to integrated outlining. This keeps your hands on the keyboard, which keeps you writing.
⋮ DRAG-AND-DROP OUTLINING
Slugline has always been a great place to outline your story, and it’s even more powerful in Slugline 2. Anything you see in Slugline 2’s Outline Navigator can be moved and re-ordered. The associated bits of screenplay come along for the ride, creating a powerful tool for spitballing ideas in an outline, or experimenting with the structure of a 300-page epic.
⋮ VISUALIZE YOUR STORY OVER TIME
Slugline 2’s Timeline gives you an intuitive view of your story's pacing, or how your structure plays out over time. All your outline elements appear there, spaced according to page count. It’s the 30,000-foot view of your screenplay, and you’ll wonder how you wrote without it.
⋮ THE POWER OF PLAIN
Slugline 2 is based on Fountain, the plain-text screenplay format that’s free and open for all to use. The screenplays you create with Slugline 2 can be opened on any computer, using any writing app — because they are just text.
⋮ TRACK CHANGES WITH LIVE COMPARE
With Live Compare, you can keep track of changes from draft to draft, and optionally include industry-standard change marks in your printed/PDF screenplay. Live Compare works by comparing the differences between any two documents, so there’s no “track changes” to remember to turn on!
⋮ PERFECT PRINT & PDF
The writing experience may be unique, but the screenplays you output from Slugline 2 are perfectly ordinary. You can even import and export Final Draft’s FDX files. Slugline plays well with others, but can also be the only screenwriting app you ever need.
⋮ SYNC WITH SLUGLINE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD
Slugline 2 is compatible with Slugline for iOS/iPadOS. You can sync your writing via iCloud Drive or Dropbox.
⋮ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
Slugline 2 is an all-new app that replaces the original Slugline for Mac. It exists because of amazing feedback from writers like you. Please visit our website and drop us a line with any bug reports or feature suggestions you might have!
What’s New
Version 2.0.4
⋮ You can now drag-reorder the last element in the Outline! Finally The End of that bug.
Ratings and Reviews
For simply getting words on the page, this is it
This is a beautifully minimalist screenwriting app, and currently the best vision of future-proof Fountain formatting vs. features in my view, especially in the iOS world. It gets out of the way when you write, yet produces perfectly formatted pages and makes producing them nearly effortless. It's a complete app as-is, but I hope it continues to receive some love from its developers.
A paid upgrade to a broken 1.0?
Slugline 1.0 had stability issues on macOS, but on iOS it was downright dangerous to use, as it would – and did – corrupt files and ruin your work. The developers didn't take a responsible and professional attitude towards fixing those issues. Asking customers to pay for a new version now is a bridge too far. They haven't regained my trust, at least.
Beyond that, this a real dog's breakfast of an app at this point. It's now one of so many apps that promise to be minimal and distraction-free yet keep adding features that the developer has deemed necessary. The timeline view, while unattractive, is arguably kind of useful, but it's certainly not essential. Drag-and-drop outlining seems less buggy than the equivalent feature in Highland 2, but that's not saying much. Otherwise, the inability to change even the (awful) default font for headers and such is a bizarre restriction, but I suppose it's that kind of arbitrary limitation that lets the developers brand the app as comparatively simple or focused or whatever.
If you look at the functionality you're getting versus what a license for, say, Scrivener or Fade In costs, you'd be crazy to throw money at Slugline 2. Both of those apps have great screenwriting modes and are far more stable and capable, plus they can be used in a simplified distraction-free mode.
Worth the Money
I've written in many different writing apps, and this one is by far my favorite. I wrote a feature film in the original Slugline, and it really delivered on the goal, which was to keep you typing, and stop you fiddling (or procrastinating, which is what I'm doing right now...)
I bought Highland 2 for the dark mode and typewriter function, which was a feature request I made on Slugline 1. And yet I find myself back to Slugline with their release of version 2.
When writing a screenplay, the auto formatting is really the only reason why you write in a specific screenwriting app.
Slugline 2 is beautiful and clean- even cleaner than Highland. It understands my writing intention, creating the proper formatting as I type with very little frustration. Highland on the other hand requires a double carriage return between elements to properly space things out. WHAT? That's right- you have to hit the return key TWICE to space properly between action and character heading for dialogue, or from scene heading to action. No thanks.
With Slugline 2 the formatting is nearly effortless, allowing me to focus on the creativity and leave the formatting to the app.
Thank you guys for continuing this labor of love and creating a wonderful app for the rest of us to enjoy. Charging for version 2 makes total sense, and I'm happy to pay for a wonderful product. Cheers!
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Information
- Seller
- Act Focused Media LLC
- Size
- 7.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.14 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Act Focused Media, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlimited Writing Upgrade $49.99