Who each Inkwell product is for
People ask us a version of the same question every week: is Inkwell for me? The honest answer is that it depends on what you write — because Inkwell is not one product with a mode switch, it is two real products on a shared platform. Plot is the screenwriter's IDE. Canvas is the document editor for everything else. They look like siblings because they are: the same version control, the same reviewable AI skills, and the same collaboration substrate power both. What differs is the shape of the thing you are writing, and that difference is enough to warrant two front doors instead of one blurred middle.
Plot is for screenplays and the work around them
If you are writing a feature, a pilot, or a season of television, you want Plot. It treats a screenplay as structured data from the first keystroke — scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue, and transitions are real element types, not styled paragraphs, so the editor formats as you type and the file round-trips through Fountain and FDX without a translation layer. On top of that structure sit the things a working writer actually needs: named save points for table reads and network notes, draft lines for the alt joke in scene four, semantic diffs that show exactly what changed between passes, and reviewable AI skills that propose edits inside the draft rather than in a sidebar.
Plot is not only for the solo screenwriter. Writers' rooms co-write on it with live presence and shared draft lines. Showrunners use it to see which pass stuck across an episode and a season. And the material that surrounds a production — treatments, series bibles, and the versioned handoff into locked pages and revision colours — lives on Plot too, because all of it is screenplay-native work that benefits from the same history model as the scripts themselves. If your document has a title page and a page count, it belongs in Plot.
Canvas is for documents that are not screenplays
Everything else is Canvas. A novel with chapters you need to navigate and revise. A research paper with citations and a structure that has to hold together. A product spec, an engineering RFC, a team wiki, a runbook, a design brief, a set of meeting notes that should not rot in a shared drive. Canvas is a block-based document editor that brings the same first-class version control to that world: named save points instead of _FINAL_v3 filenames, draft lines for a spike or an alternate section, and block-aware diffs so async review means "what changed since last sign-off," not "please re-read the whole document."
The tools you already use for these documents — Google Docs, Notion, Confluence — are excellent at frictionless co-editing and flexible wikis. We are not trying to out-Notion Notion. Canvas is for the teams and writers who want named history and semantic diffs as core primitives, closer to how engineers version code than how a word processor autosaves a single blob. If your document is prose or structured knowledge and it needs a real revision history, it belongs in Canvas.
One platform, so teams do not have to choose
The reason the split works is that it is only a split at the surface. Underneath, Plot and Canvas share the same substrate, which means a team does not have to run Final Draft for scripts and a separate tool for everything around them. The Team plan covers both: a writers' room drafts episodes on Plot while the same organisation keeps its research, planning, and production documents on Canvas, all under one permissions model and one history model. Creative and operational work stop living in two disconnected universes.
That is also why the front door matters. Rather than dropping every visitor onto a generic homepage, we built guides for how you actually write — screenwriters, writers' rooms, showrunners, novelists, researchers, teams, and students and educators. Each one is a short product walkthrough for a specific workflow, with the same depth as our product pages. If you are still not sure which door is yours, start at the who-it's-for hub and follow the audience closest to your work.