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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A REAL FONT LIBRARY
Around 185 fonts, grouped by what they are: screenplay, typewriter, serif, sans-serif, monospace, display, handwriting, and Noto for most writing systems. Search by name, and every font is drawn in its own face. Courier Prime 12pt is still what a new script is.
BRING YOUR OWN FONTS
Format > Fonts takes TrueType and OpenType files from the Files app. The family name is read from the font itself, so its weights group together, and your font is embedded in exported PDFs. Fonts already on your iPad are offered too, and you can add one by name - iPadOS will not list them.
YOUR FONT TRAVELS WITH THE SCRIPT
Open a script on a device without the font and OpenDraft substitutes the closest match of the same kind - a typewriter face for a typewriter face - rather than dropping everything to Courier. The name is kept, so the font returns when you open it somewhere it exists.
THE TITLE PAGE IS PART OF THE TEMPLATE
Title, Credit & Author, Draft & Date, Contact, Copyright and Notes are formatting elements like any other, so you can set the title in a display face at 24pt and leave the contact block in Courier. What you change by hand outranks the template and stays.
CUT, COPY AND PASTE
All three now work from the menus. Tapping a menu item takes the selection with it, so Cut and Copy silently did nothing and Paste never worked at all. Pasted text also keeps the font it came with, and a highlight copied from Google Docs, Word or Notes arrives formatted instead of plain.
NO MORE DEAD ENDS
Leaving a project pushed a second copy of the projects list rather than returning to it, so Back walked into the project again - and again, with force-quitting the only way out. The same fault was in four more places, including read-only history and collaboration sessions.
ROOM FOR THE WINDOW CONTROLS
In a windowed app, iPadOS draws its own three-dot control over the top-leading corner, and no inset reports it. Projects, a project's files, Settings, the treatment editor, the scene navigator's tabs and the floating menu button each put their one way off the screen underneath it. All of them now leave room, and clear the status bar full-screen on a notched device.
BUILT FOR A FINGER
The toolbar starts comfortable, and the menus, font list and dialogs have finger-sized targets. Tapping the font picker used to do nothing at all - it closed itself the instant the keyboard appeared. The close controls on the asset viewer, the zoom panel and the save-failure banner were all too small to hit.
HEADERS AND FOOTERS
Format > Header & Footer, out of the bottom of Page Setup, with buttons that insert the page number, title, date and revision colour as you type. Double-tap a header or footer on the page to type into it - {page} stays a live page number. "Show on first page" replaces a page-number box, and a script opening on front matter can start numbering where you say.
FILES AND EXPORTS
A .fountain file could come back with ** around its scene headings and the action beneath turned into dialogue; emphasis, scene numbers and unusual headings now follow the specification. Imported .fdx, .fountain, .fadein and Word title pages arrive laid out properly. Scene headings get the industry-standard two blank lines. Word no longer counts the title page, Final Draft export carries your header and footer, and Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian and Georgian export to PDF properly.
RECOVERING UNSAVED WORK
The recovery copy is written a moment after you stop typing, not every ten seconds, and now covers beats, notes, tags, profiles and page setup. Leaving for Projects or Settings saves first, and after a crash OpenDraft reopens the script you had open.
FIXES
Images are stored outside the document, so a photo no longer costs you crash protection. General keeps text you deliberately indent. Take Photo no longer closes the app. Fade In and Open Screenplay Format files open from the Files app.
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
- 22.2 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.
