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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PRINTING ON iPHONE AND iPAD
Print used to land on an error screen you could only leave by force-quitting the app. The script now goes to the share sheet, where AirPrint is.
WRITING WITH APPLE PENCIL
Scribble sizes its writable area from the blank space around the caret, and mid-script there is almost none — handwriting past it replaced the text that followed. There is now a large, empty writing box, opened from the Edit menu or a three-finger tap, which inserts what it converts where you were writing. It works with a keyboard attached, where there is no on-screen bar to put a button on.
PANELS CLEAR OF THE STATUS BAR
On iPhone the Notes, Characters and Tags panels ran their headers under the clock, putting the close button out of reach.
FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES
A script note can now print on the page. Choose the location, the number format, where numbering starts and whether it restarts each page. A long note splits across pages rather than spilling, and no page gives up more than half of itself. PDF gets them exactly as they appear on screen; Word gets real Word footnotes and endnotes.
TITLE PAGE
No boilerplate title page arriving with a Fade In file, no "Untitled Screenplay" invented on Final Draft export, and no credit line printed twice. Clearing every field now removes the page rather than leaving its blank lines behind. Include Title Page has moved into the Title Page editor, where you can keep the page in your script but out of anything you print or export to PDF or Word.
NOTES
Every script note has a Go to button that finds the words it is attached to. Deleting a note now takes its highlight with it, and a script's general notes no longer follow you into the next one.
THE USER MANUAL, IN THE APP
Help > User Manual opens the manual inside OpenDraft. Download it once, about 8 MB, and it stays on the device and works with no connection, with search across every page.
A CLEARER CLIPBOARD MESSAGE
When iOS asks permission for a paste, OpenDraft now points you at the Paste prompt instead of telling you to allow clipboard access.
A NEW APP ICON
One shape that still reads at small sizes, replacing an illustration that turned to speckle below 128 pixels.
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.
