The IDE for writers
Version control, structured changes, and agentic AI skills — the tools that transformed software development, reimagined for screenwriting.
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INT. COFFEE SHOP - MORNING
MAYA (30s) sits alone, laptop open — three empty cups, one story that refuses to land.
MAYA
What if the ending was the setup?
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Run skill: Dialogue pass
AI
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Open draft lines
Navigate
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Go to scene: Coffee shop
Jump
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Create save point
Version
From draft to notes to finished pages
Changes, alternate versions, AI passes, and shortcuts — each piece is visible on its own so you can scan the whole workflow at once.
Changes you can read
See what changed by scene and line — additions, cuts, and dialogue tweaks stay readable when notes get long.
She waits.
She turns toward the door.
Draft lines
Parallel versions of the same screenplay — explore endings, tones, and structure without losing the trunk.
Skill passes
Run a pass on dialogue, continuity, or character — then review suggestions like edits in context, not a wall of chat text.
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Understand the draft
Scenes, characters, and beats
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Suggest targeted edits
Where the pass applies
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You choose what lands
Accept, adjust, or skip each idea
Keyboard-first
Palette, shortcuts, and inline edit — stay in flow without hunting through menus.
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Run skill: Dialogue pass
AI
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Open draft lines
Navigate
- ⌘G
Go to scene: Coffee shop
Jump
- ⌘S
Create save point
Version
Built different, not just better
Other tools digitized the typewriter. Inkwell treats your screenplay as real structure — scenes, lines, and revisions you can track — so collaboration and AI stay precise.
AI as co-author, not chatbot
Agentic skills that understand screenplay structure — rewriting dialogue, checking continuity, tracking character arcs. Not a chat sidebar.
Save points, not autosave
Content-addressable version control with immutable save points. Every version preserved, every change tracked, nothing ever lost.
Semantic changes, not line noise
See exactly what changed — at the scene, dialogue, and action level. Not character-by-character noise, but meaningful structural changes.
Draft lines for parallel versions
Explore alternate endings, rewrite Act 2, try a different tone — all without losing your original. Incorporate the best parts back.
Command palette & shortcuts
Cmd+K to edit inline. Slash commands for quick actions. Tab cycling between element types. Power tools for power writers.
Production-ready workflows
Locked scripts, revision colours, A-pages, breakdown reports, cast lists. From first draft to shooting script in one tool.
Why writers stick with it
Control, history, and portability — without the jargon
Beta today; we're focused on workflows screenwriters already recognize — with fewer surprises when AI is in the room.
AI that asks first
Skills suggest edits you can accept, reject, or tweak — nothing overwrites your draft without your say.
Named save points
Snapshot moments you care about — table reads, producer notes, “before the rewrite” — and return anytime.
Your words, portable
Fountain stays readable outside Inkwell. Export to PDF or Final Draft when collaborators expect it.
Plot for screenplays. Canvas for everything else.
Built on the same structured data foundation — version control, AI skills, and real-time collaboration power both products.
Plot
For screenwriters
Fountain-native screenplay editor with industry formatting, AI dialogue passes, continuity checking, and production workflows. From first draft to locked shooting script.
- 16 screenplay-specific element types
- AI skills: dialogue pass, continuity check, character runner
- Revision colours, locked scripts, A-pages
- Final Draft (FDX) import and export
- Real-time collaboration on scenes
Canvas
For documents
General-purpose structured document editor with version control, customizable block types, and AI skills. Series bibles, treatments, research docs, and beyond.
- Extensible block architecture — define your own block types
- Version control with save points and draft lines
- Embed screenplay blocks from Plot
- Markdown, PDF, DOCX, and ePub export
- AI skills: structure check, outline-to-draft, research digest
Not just another writing tool
Inkwell brings capabilities to screenwriting that no existing tool offers — because it was built from first principles, not bolted onto a word processor.
| Capability | Final Draft | WriterDuet | Inkwell |
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| AI skill passes | |||
| Version control (draft lines) | |||
| Semantic change tracking | |||
| Tab completion | |||
| Inline edit (Cmd+K) | |||
| Real-time collaboration | |||
| Fountain format | |||
| Production workflows | |||
| FDX import/export |
Some features are in development. See our roadmap for current status.
Developer tooling, writer experience
The same primitives that power modern software — version control, change tracking, skills — are profoundly more natural for screenwriting than for code.
Write in Fountain
Your screenplay is structured data from the moment you type. Scene headings, characters, dialogue — all parsed in real-time into a semantic document tree.
Version everything
Create save points to snapshot your work. Branch into draft lines to explore alternatives. See exactly what changed with semantic markup that understands screenplay structure.
Run AI skills
Agentic passes that transform your work structurally — a dialogue pass rewrites dialogue, a continuity check flags inconsistencies, a character runner maps arcs across scenes.
Ready to write differently?
Be among the first writers to experience screenwriting with version control, AI skills, and structured collaboration.