Offscreen
Write the script.Build the world around it.
A screenwriting app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Films and TV shows in plain Fountain, a world that builds itself as you write, and Final Draft scripts welcome.
Fountain · Films and TV · No AI · Pay once
Plain Fountain.
Write a screenplay the way you’d type anything. Scene headings, characters and dialogue fall into place as you go, set like the printed page.
A keyboard bar puts scene headings and notes under your thumb, and Cue lists who’s speaking, or adds someone new.
Films and
TV shows.
Start a film, or a TV show with series and episodes. Every episode is its own script, and they all share one world: rename a character in the pilot and they’re renamed in every episode.
Story state,
worked out.
Offscreen reads your script and works out the state of the story at every scene. It comes from the script itself, so it never drifts out of step with what you’ve written.
- Who’s in each scene, at a glance
- Who has met whom, and where
- What the audience knows so far
- Who’s talking most, and who’s gone quiet
- Each scene’s status, story day and synopsis
- Where page 10 falls, and how close you are to your page count
A scene map down the side of the script shows every scene at a glance. Drag it to go anywhere.
A world that
builds itself.
Anyone who speaks, and anywhere you set a scene, joins your story’s world as you write. Give characters ages, histories and how they see each other; give places their own notes.
Turn on Links and tap any name in the script to open its card. Rename one and every cue, mention and scene heading follows, with a preview first.
Bring your
scripts.
Open Final Draft scripts and they come in word for word, ready to keep writing. Bring in several at once to make a TV show. Fountain files open as they are.
Your words.
Your files.
Projects live in iCloud Drive and open on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Inside, every script is an ordinary Fountain file any screenwriting app can open, and your world travels with them.
- No AI. Nothing writes for you, suggests lines or reads your work.
- No accounts and no tracking.
- Earlier versions kept on your device, and a clear warning if anything goes wrong while saving.
Send it
anywhere.
When the draft’s ready, take it wherever it’s going: a producer, a competition, another app.
- As it prints. For competitions, producers and readers.
- Final Draft (.fdx)
- Opens in Final Draft, WriterDuet, Fade In, Highland and Celtx.
- Fountain (.fountain)
- The script alone, without Offscreen’s story data. Opens anywhere.
- Plain text (.txt)
- Laid out like the printed page, in any text editor.
- Story data (.json)
- Characters, places, scenes, who has met whom and reveals, as JSON for any tool.
- Fountain with story data
- The whole file, characters and places included, for another device.
- Anonymous
- The writer’s name, credit and contact details are left off the title page.
iPhone, iPad
and Mac.
One app across all three. Your first story is free, with every feature. One purchase, never a subscription, unlocks every story on every device you use with your Apple Account. Reading and exporting are always free.
Your projects follow you through iCloud Drive. Pick up on any of them where you left off.
One story,
two views.
Write the script, and Offscreen builds the world from it: every character who speaks, every place you set a scene, who has met whom, what the audience knows.
Change the world, and the script follows. Rename a character or a place and every line that mentions them changes with it. You see how many before you say yes.
Ages, histories and how everyone sees each other stay with the script, wherever you keep it.
See it work.
Rename a character. Write a scene. Watch the story keep up.
Change the world.
The script follows.
Rename Jack to Ernest in World. Offscreen says how many places will change before anything does, then every cue, mention and possessive follows, matching case. Undo in the script puts it all back.
Write the script.
The world fills in.
Type or dictate Name: line and convert it to proper cues and dialogue. Anyone new appears in World on their own, ready for an age, a history and a view of everyone else.
Story state,
scene by scene.
Move through the script and the panel keeps up: who’s here, who has just met whom, and every reveal so far.
Out, in
any format.
PDF, Final Draft, Fountain, plain text or JSON. Turn on Anonymous for blind-read competitions.