What’s new in Plot, Canvas, and the Inkwell platform — every release grouped by product, with the change to your drafting day spelled out in plain terms. For craft essays, see the blog.
A dictionary and thesaurus opens beside the word under your cursor — meaning, synonyms, opposites, related words, and rhymes — and a click puts the one you want on the page.
Press Cmd+' or right-click Look up. The panel stays beside the draft, not on top of it.
Tabs cover Meaning, Synonyms, Like this, Opposites, Related, and Rhymes.
Choose a synonym and it replaces the word, keeping capitalization and formatting.
Look-ups are on by default. Turn them off under Settings, Dictionary and thesaurus.
A help center that answers the question you came with: tasks, concepts, and reference pages that stay in step with the product, plus a link from each changelog entry to the article that teaches what shipped.
Search from the hub, or browse by topic: writing, sharing, AI, version control, and account.
Task articles walk a job step by step, with photographs of the real product.
Shortcuts, skills, plans, and settings have their own pages, and they match what you see in the app.
In the app, press ? or choose Search help to open the same articles. A changelog entry that teaches a feature links Learn how it works.
On Pro, Plot builds a scene breakdown from the headings, cues, and action already in the draft — sets, time of day, eighths, and cast — and exports it as CSV or PDF.
Open View script reports from the command palette. The Script Breakdown lists every scene with set, INT or EXT, day or night, length, page, and cast.
Extract props and vehicles from the action lines, keep the real ones, and dismiss the rest.
Export the breakdown as CSV for a scheduling tool, or as PDF for the office.
The same cast counts feed the character list and the day-out-of-days view.
Grouping those scenes into shooting days is planned.
Send a read-only link to a specific version. Choose whether readers can comment or download a PDF, set a password, an expiry, or a view limit, and revoke the link when the draft moves on.
Create a link from Share in the toolbar. It follows the current draft line, or pin it to a save point or a milestone.
Let readers comment on the page, download a PDF, or both. Pages can carry a watermark with the reader's name or email.
Add a password, an expiry date, or a view limit. Revoke a link and it stops working immediately.
See who opened it, how far they read, and for how long. Their comments arrive in Feedback.
Ask for what you need on the same board where you can see what we are building next. Every request gets its own page to vote on and discuss, and you hear from us there when it moves.
Post a feature request or a bug report and it lands on the roadmap next to the work already underway.
Upvote the requests you want, and follow one to hear when its status changes.
Say what you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead — in the discussion under any request.
Every request has its own link. Send it to a collaborator, or pick the thread back up later.
Our replies sit at the top of the thread, above the discussion.
Filter by theme to read what other writers are asking for in one area.
Read the board without an account. Posting, voting and replying take one.
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Say what you want and Auto works out how to answer
The companion opens in Auto now: ask a question and you get an answer, ask for a change and it writes one and brings it back for you to review. You stop picking a mode before you type, your screenplay reads as a screenplay in the thread, and the review opens itself when a run finishes.
Auto is where the composer starts. Ask for a rewrite or ask a question in the same box, and the model works out which one you meant.
Changes come back marked up on the draft you are already writing on, and the review opens itself when a run finishes — there is nothing to click first.
Type while a run is working. Your message waits above the composer and goes next; press Send again to interrupt the run and steer it with that message instead.
Screenplay in the thread reads as screenplay — sluglines, character cues and dialogue, not a wall of chat text.
Pick a mode when you want to be specific: Ask never touches the script, Plan proposes an approach before it changes anything, and Agent goes straight to work.
Live controls stay beside the composer while a run works, an unsent draft survives, and earlier results stay reachable in the same conversation.
Cmd+K anywhere, or a slash in the editor, now opens the same menu over the same list — navigation, settings, exports, editor commands and every AI skill — led by the commands you ran last.
Cmd+K from anywhere and slash in the editor open the same menu, so there is one place to look and one list to learn.
What you ran recently sits at the top, so the commands you use most stop being the ones you hunt for.
Type what you want to do and the closest matches rise — you do not have to remember what we called it.
Skills say what comes back before you run them: proposed edits, a report, or both.
A command that is not available right now tells you why, instead of leaving you guessing.
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Agent Mode decides its own next step
Give Agent Mode a direction and it works the draft the way you would: read a scene, make the change, read the result, decide what to do next. When it finishes, most of what it did comes back as changes you review one at a time.
Describe the outcome you want and let the agent choose the passes, instead of picking the skills yourself up front.
It reads the draft as it goes, so a change it makes early informs the one it makes next.
Name a scene or an act in your direction and it aims its passes there.
The run works on its own draft line and your script is untouched while it does. Its changes then come back to you where you are writing, marked up in place to accept or reject one at a time — a moved scene or a formatting-only tweak you take or leave with the run instead.
Pause a run, read what it has done so far, and pick it up or stop it.
Guides on what agents and managers each actually do, how to find who is repping now, how to write a query, and what to bring to the meeting — plus a private planner that keeps your target list and drafts in your browser.
Read the difference between an agent and a manager before you spend a month querying the wrong one.
Find current representation through the guild directories the guilds themselves keep up to date.
Draft a query and a meeting brief in the planner, and keep a red flag beside the name it belongs to.
The planner saves only when you press Save, and it saves in your browser — no names, loglines or queries reach us.
Every source card shows the day our editors last opened it.
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Character names that fit the decade
A free name desk for period work. Give it a story year and an age, or a birth decade, and it rolls given names people were actually being called when your character was born.
Place a name by story year plus age, by birth decade, or by period, and the desk works out which records to pull from.
Filter by gender, popularity, first letter and an avoid list. Shuffle, lock the ones you want to keep, and reroll the rest.
Check a name you have already drafted and it tells you whether that name belongs in that decade.
Names come from the US national birth records from 1880 on, and from curated period lists before that — the desk says which, and where the records run out.
It runs in your browser. Your cast list is not sent anywhere.
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What screenwriting actually pays
A free desk on screenwriter pay: the 2026 WGA minimums by contract family and writing step, what residuals add on top, and how the floors sit against published earnings for writers generally.
Look up a Guild floor by contract family, writing step and year, for feature and television work.
See what residuals add, with High-Budget SVOD shown as the three-year total it is rather than a floor.
Read the floors next to published earnings for writers generally, so a minimum is not mistaken for a salary.
The explorer is a tool in its own right, and the family, step and year you pick live in the link — send someone the exact readout.
Every figure names where it came from, and what you type stays in your browser.
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Faster everyday writing in Plot
Typing, tab suggestions, hidden sidebars, and returning to the project library now do less repeated work on the paths writers use every day.
Typing stays smoother in longer drafts, with less delay between a keystroke and the updated page.
Tab suggestions can appear sooner, and hidden sidebars stop competing with the draft until you open them again.
Returning to the project library gets the useful project list in front of you sooner, with totals filled in without holding up the screen.
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Free screenplay format converter
Open a Final Draft .fdx or a Fountain draft in your browser, read it as real screenplay pages, and take it out as a PDF, Fountain, or plain text. Parsing and the PDF both happen on your machine.
Pages are laid out in industry format — Courier 12pt, the 1.5-inch binding margin, scene numbers in the margins — using the same page-break calculator as Inkwell's own PDF export, so the page count is the page count.
The PDF comes from your browser's print dialog rather than a server, which is why no draft is uploaded and nothing is retained.
Every conversion reports what it costs in that specific file: which elements come across unchanged, which arrive as action, and what production state stays in Final Draft.
Fountain scene-number syntax no longer prints inside the slugline in exported PDFs — it is drawn in the margin, where a shooting script puts it.
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Screenplay pacing desk and pacing map
Page count says how long a draft is; pacing is how that length is distributed. A new desk publishes what published practice looks like across the screenplay clock, and a browser-private map places one draft on the same distributions.
Measured action share, scene density, and speaking-cast arrival across ten equal stretches of a screenplay, with the middle half of published practice shaded behind each curve and every value listed in a table beneath it.
Pacing map parses Fountain or Final Draft in the browser and draws the draft's own curves over the corpus band, plus a scene-length ribbon and percentile placement for eight whole-draft measures.
Reports position, never a grade: it does not detect an inciting incident, an act break, or a midpoint, and it states when a draft is outside the population it is being compared to.
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Reviewable AI writing controls in Plot
Bring the right part of a screenplay into an AI conversation, compare inline alternatives or skill-generated takes, and review proposed writing changes in the editor before they join the draft.
Mention a scene or act in Ask so the conversation starts with the context you chose.
Compare inline-edit alternatives in place, or generate skill passes as separate takes without overwriting the working draft.
Open proposed changes as reviewable editor hunks, keep or reject each one, and incorporate the result only when it is ready.
See how screenplay length varies by format and genre, then place a laid-out PDF page count against those ranges with optional Final Draft story context in the browser.
The research desk separates format conventions from measured screenplay-length distributions instead of presenting one universal target.
Enter the page count from a laid-out PDF; an optional Final Draft file stays local and adds story-word and scene-count context, not pagination.
Results describe the draft and its comparison range; they do not grade the story or upload its text.
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Free script breakdown tool
Break down a Fountain or Final Draft screenplay privately in the browser — scene sheets, eighths, cast, locations, and exportable CSVs — then read how the inventory differs from coverage.
Private first-pass ledger from Fountain or FDX: scenes, eighths, cast, locations, and day/night.
Interactive stripboard plus CSV exports; the screenplay never leaves the browser.
Learn guide and glossary now point at the same production inventory Plot uses for reports.
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Private screenplay review and submission tools
Inspect a Final Draft file, compare two screenplay drafts, check a submission PDF, and explore screenplay structure without uploading the script.
FDX Inspector shows the document structure and production data inside a Final Draft file before a move or cleanup.
Screenplay Diff compares two drafts by scene and text while keeping both files in the browser.
The Submission Center pairs current opportunity profiles with a browser-local PDF preflight, and the Screenplay Anatomy Atlas publishes aggregate structural patterns from 2,077 screenplays.
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Desktop + Apple apps in progress
Write in the browser today — and we’re building a desktop app for offline writing plus iPhone and iPad apps for the room on the go. Same projects on every surface.
Start free in the browser: no install, share a link with the room.
Desktop app in active development for plane-mode drafting when wifi dies.
iPhone and iPad apps next — read and review first, then edit on the same projects.
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Audience guides and Resources hub
Guides for screenwriters, writers’ rooms, showrunners, novelists, researchers, teams, and classrooms — plus a Resources hub that pulls the library together.
Audience guides for how different writers use Plot and Canvas.
Resources hub with guides, tools, templates, and switching paths in one place.
A craft glossary of screenwriting and Inkwell terms in plain language.
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Copy and paste that keeps the formatting
Move scenes between drafts and the elements arrive as elements. A character cue stays a character cue, dialogue stays dialogue, and the whole paste undoes in one step.
Copy a run of scenes from one draft and paste it into another with the element types intact.
Paste plain text and Inkwell recovers the structure when the text has it — scene headings, cues, and dialogue arrive as those elements. Prose without those markers comes in as action.
Rich text from a word processor arrives as action, ready to promote with Tab.
Cmd+Shift+V still pastes as plain text when that is what you want, and any paste undoes as a single step.
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Account email you can read and control
Verify a new account from mail that looks like Inkwell, know why every message reached you, and turn off the ones you can.
Verification mail arrives as designed Inkwell email, not a default template.
Account notices are sent in the same designed shell.
Every email says why you received it, and the ones you can turn off say where.
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Launch AI skills showcase
Meet the launch skills — dialogue pass, Continuity check, coverage, and more — each showing what it reads and what it changes in the draft.
Six core skills that edit inside the draft as reviewable changes.
Structure-aware passes, not a chat sidebar you paste from.
Bring-your-own-key guide walks through Settings → AI.
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Revision colors on Plot (Pro)
WGA-style revision colors ship with Plot on the Pro tier — production markup that matches how rooms mark up a draft.
Revision color sequence is available for paid Pro drafts.
Changed lines receive the active revision color and production revision mark.
Compare and migration pages show what is live for writers switching in.
Deciding whether to switch is its own job. The site now answers it: side-by-side comparisons against the tool you use, a screenwriting glossary, an FAQ, and a blog.
Compare Inkwell against Final Draft and WriterDuet, capability by capability.
Look up a screenwriting term and get the craft meaning, not a marketing definition.
Read the FAQ before you sign up, and the blog for how the team thinks about writing software.
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Canvas product page and early access
Canvas — the block document editor for novels, research, and long-form — has a public product page. Early access for Pro and Team; Plot stays the generally available screenplay product.
Block editor for novels, research, and team docs.
Early access from Pro and Team — join from the Canvas page.
Guides for blocks and markdown round-trip as Canvas ships.
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Save points, draft lines, and semantic changes
Version control is live on Plot: named immutable save points, parallel draft lines, and scene-level change tracking.
Save points replace _FINAL_v4 folder archaeology with named moments.
Draft lines let rooms explore alternate takes without duplicating files.
Semantic changes show what moved at scene and dialogue level.
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Password recovery
Forgot your password? Reset it yourself from the sign-in page, and the mail arrives looking like Inkwell rather than an unstyled default.
Request a reset link from the sign-in page and set a new password yourself.
Reset and invite mail is sent as designed Inkwell email.
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Core Plot editor and Fountain parser
Real-time Fountain structure, industry element types, tab cycling, auto-formatting, and ghost-text suggestions form the Plot editing baseline.
Screenplays stored as structured data as you type.
FDX and Fountain import/export for switching workflows.
Interactive demo available without an account.
Try the current build
Plot is ready to write in today. Canvas early access updates land here as they ship.
