# What shipped in August 2026 > Every Plot, Canvas and Inkwell platform update shipped in August 2026, newest first, with what each one changes for writers. 9 updates to Plot, Canvas and the Inkwell platform, newest first. [RSS feed](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/rss.xml) [Known Product Issues](https://www.inkwell.software/known-issues) [System status](https://status.inkwell.software/) Product Kind Where ## Aug 31 Monday 2026 2 updates Plot Resources Release ### Character names that fit the decade[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#period-character-names) 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. Plot Resources Release ### What screenwriting actually pays[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#screenwriter-pay-desk) 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. ## Aug 30 Sunday 2026 1 update Plot In the app Improvement ### Faster everyday writing in Plot[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#faster-everyday-writing) Typing, ghost text and returning to your projects all respond faster. - Typing stays smoother in longer drafts, with less delay between a keystroke and the updated page. - Ghost text appears sooner, and a closed sidebar doesn't slow the page. - Your projects page shows your projects sooner, and fills in the totals without holding you up. ## Aug 28 Friday 2026 1 update Plot Resources Release ### Free screenplay format converter[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#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. - 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. - 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. - Scene numbers print in the margin, where a shooting script puts them. ## Aug 20 Thursday 2026 1 update Plot Resources Release ### Screenplay pacing desk and pacing map[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#screenplay-pacing-desk-and-map) Page count says how long a draft is; pacing is how that length is spread. A new desk shows how produced screenplays pace themselves, and a pacing map places your draft on the same curves, right in your browser. - 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 reads a Fountain or Final Draft file in your browser and draws your draft's curves over the produced range, with a scene-length ribbon and where the draft sits on 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. ## Aug 18 Tuesday 2026 1 update Plot In the app Improvement ### Reviewable AI writing controls in Plot[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#reviewable-ai-writing-controls) 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. [Learn how it works: Rewrite a Selection with Inline Edit](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/inline-edit-and-alternatives) ## Aug 16 Sunday 2026 1 update Plot Resources Release ### Screenplay length desk and private checker[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#screenplay-length-desk-and-checker) 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 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. ## Aug 15 Saturday 2026 1 update Plot Resources Release ### Free script breakdown tool[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#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, all in your browser. - Learn guide and glossary now point at the same production inventory Plot uses for reports. ## Aug 11 Tuesday 2026 1 update Plot Resources Release ### Private screenplay review and submission tools[](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-08#private-screenplay-review-tools) Inspect a Final Draft file, compare two screenplay drafts, check a submission PDF, and explore screenplay structure, all in your browser. - 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. ## Browse by month Every update, one month to a page. 1. [November 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-11) 2. [October 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-10) 3. [September 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-09) 4. August 2026 This page 5. [July 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-07) 6. [June 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-06) 7. [May 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-05) 8. [April 2026](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog/2026-04) ## Try the current build Plot is ready to write in today. Canvas early access updates land here as they ship. [Start writing free](https://app.inkwell.software/signup) [Read the blog](https://www.inkwell.software/blog) --- Canonical page: