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.
Writing prompts, character ideas and a short story guide
Three new free resources for getting a story started: 118 writing prompts with a premise generator, 80 character ideas with a character generator, and a guide to writing a short story, in all six languages.
Writing prompts sorted by what you want to write, from short stories and genre fiction to journal entries, poems and first lines. The generator builds a premise from a character, a goal and an obstacle.
Character ideas by genre, including villains and D&D characters. The generator rolls a look, a personality, a want, a flaw and a backstory; keep the parts you like.
The short story guide goes from idea to submission: the premise, length, the main character, a five-part structure, the opening, the ending and revision.
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Eight ways to start writing again
A new guide to writer's block matches the kind of stuck you are to the exercises that fit it, in all six languages.
A table pairs six kinds of stuck, from not knowing what happens next to rewriting chapter one again, with the exercises to start with.
Eight timed exercises, each saying what to keep and what to look for, and a worked example that turns a summary into a rough scene.
The writing prompts page links to it from its next steps.
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Agent Mode answers the big questions in full
Ask Agent Mode what should improve, or say you're rewriting, and it now reads the whole script and gives you its complete answer.
A broad request gets a whole-script answer at every effort level, Light included.
A long answer reaches you in full. Answers that ran too long used to be dropped before you saw them.
With the outline folded to a row of icons, each icon shows its name, the open one is marked, and the outline stays folded the next time you open a script.
Point at an icon, or move focus to it, to see its name.
The open tab has a bar beside it as well as a tint, so you can tell which it is without relying on color.
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Decide History's changes in one place
When you compare a save point in History, its Changes tab is now one review: decide each change, or all of them at once, then update your script.
Each change has its own Accept and Reject, and a change you've decided keeps an Undo.
Accept all and Reject all sit at the top, and the tab says when every change is reviewed.
When an action fails, the message now appears beside the control you used. A notice whose control has closed offers Retry.
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Find your way back up a long History
In a long History you can now page back up to the newest save points, and a page that fails to load keeps what you were reading on screen.
After you've paged far down, the newest save points leave the top of the list. Load newer appears there to bring them back.
If a page fails to load, the save points you were reading stay on screen, with Try again.
The writing goal planner now shows a plan of four weeks or less as a row of dated days, each with that day's target.
Buffer days before the deadline have a dashed outline, and the deadline is marked Due.
Longer plans keep the week grid, which now marks buffer days too.
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Screenwriting and production terms go deeper
Thirty-two glossary pages about the script page and the production around it now show each term in a formatted scene and answer more of the questions writers ask.
Among them: scene number, sides, residuals, voice-over and dual dialogue.
New pages for Korean television: K-drama, makjang and sageuk.
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Twenty-four more craft terms in the glossary
New glossary pages for twenty-four craft terms writers look up often, each with an annotated scene and answers to common questions, in all six languages.
Diction, cliché, premise, anachronism, suspense, comedy, melodrama and plot hole.
Symbolism, metonymy, understatement, aphorism, stream of consciousness, magical realism, frame story and the manic pixie dream girl.
Vignette, biopic, verisimilitude, sitcom, the final girl, novella, leitmotif and polysyndeton.
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Every literary device on one page
The glossary's new Literary devices page lists every device page by kind, each with a one-line definition, in all six languages.
Six groups: figures of speech; sound and repetition; irony, satire and persuasion; narration and point of view; plot devices; and character devices.
New pages for antithesis and the rhetorical question, each with an annotated scene, how it differs from its neighbors and a short exercise for your own lines.
When a glossary page names another term, hover over the link or move focus to it to read that term's definition without leaving the page.
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Watch Plot at work
A new Videos page has a chaptered tour of Plot and short captioned walkthroughs of Ask and Agent Mode, each followed by the help articles for doing the same in your own script.
The tour follows a sample screenplay from a first scene to a draft line, a question about the script, an Agent Mode edit and a save point. Jump to a chapter to start at the part you need.
The Ask and Agent Mode walkthroughs play in the site's light or dark theme with English captions, and each page lists the steps it shows.
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Pick the agent's model and effort in one place
On Auto, Plan and Agent, one chip in the composer now names the model and the effort for the next run, and opens a menu to change either.
The chip reads like the run it starts: the model, then the effort level.
Paid plans can choose any model they include for agent runs. A model or level your plan doesn't include opens the plan that has it.
A model you pick just before sending, or just before answering a paused run's question, is the one the run uses.
A finding from the Dramaturg can go into your script as a note under the line it's about, from an Agent Mode answer in Chat, a finished skill or a past run in the Skills tab.
In Chat, an Agent Mode answer lists the findings it didn't act on. Add them all to your script from under the answer, or choose Add to script beside the one you want.
A finished skill offers the same for findings that don't come with a change. A past run in the Skills tab has Put it in your script, to review its changes and add its notes.
Show takes you to the notes you added and Remove takes them back out. Notes never print.
Ask the Dramaturg for loglines, titles or taglines and it can put them in a block with a copy button, ready to paste anywhere.
Accept and Reject now sit right under each change the AI proposes, any decision can be undone on the spot, and the review bar becomes a small dock at the foot of the page.
Every proposed change has its own row underneath it, naming where it came from and which change it is, with Reject and Accept.
Once you decide, the row says Change kept or Original restored, with Undo to put the change back up for review. A decision you undo also comes off the run's record.
The dock at the foot of the page shows how many are left, steps between them, and offers Accept all and Reject all when more than one change is waiting. When you finish, it tallies what you kept and restored.
Deciding a change below the one you're reading no longer moves you off it.
While a reply is on its way, Chat shows each scene the Dramaturg reads and each search it runs, and the answer lists its sources with the passage each one quotes.
Each scene it reads and each search it runs appears as it starts. Choose a scene's name to go to it in the editor. Once the reply begins, the steps fold into a count.
A reply's sources sit under it in script order, with the rest behind a count after the first three. Each source's preview quotes the passage it points to.
In a long conversation, Earlier messages summarized marks where the Dramaturg starts working from a summary rather than the exact words, so you know to repeat a detail that matters.
Replies no longer end with a warning that the saved result couldn't be verified, and each one shows its model and feedback buttons again.
The glossary adds pages for the soliloquy, the prologue and epilogue, hubris, the auteur and seven more terms, each shown at work in a screenplay excerpt, in all six languages.
On the page: soliloquy, prologue and epilogue.
Character and craft: deuteragonist, hubris, anaphora, euphemism and the iceberg theory.
Film and production: feature film, auteur, storyboard and cinematography.
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Twenty-one new terms in the glossary
The glossary adds pages for irony, point of view, the narrator, tragedy, film noir and sixteen more terms, each shown at work in a screenplay excerpt, in all six languages.
Sound and comparison: alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia and analogy.
Meaning and tone: irony, hyperbole, oxymoron, imagery, allusion and allegory.
Story and character: point of view, the narrator, rising action, falling action, character types, the Mary Sue and bildungsroman.
Genre and form: tragedy, catharsis and film noir.
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A long skill run carries on past the AI's output limit
When a skill reaches the AI's output limit, Inkwell keeps every suggestion it finished and asks for the rest, so a long pass ends with a full result instead of a rerun.
Run a continuity check or a full dialogue pass on a long script and get the whole result in one go.
In Agent Mode, the Dramaturg can draft a whole scene in one change and work through every finding in a long report.
Meet the writing companion the first time you open a project
Your first Plot project opens with a short introduction to the companion panel: what each tab is for, and a first request ready for you to edit and send.
Choose Start a scene or Improve my draft, make the request your own in the message box, and send it.
The edits it proposes are highlighted in your draft, ready to accept or reject.
Replay onboarding in the command palette brings the introduction back whenever you want it.
Write and revise your screenplay, keep save points as you go, and hand off a PDF or Final Draft file when it is ready.
Your projects, save points and settings carry over as they are, and nothing about how you work in Plot changes.
The version number now says what Plot has been for a while: ready for your scripts.
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Literary device pages and a guide to writing a book
The glossary adds eleven literary devices, from metaphor to tone and mood, and a new guide walks through writing a book from the first idea to publishing, in all six languages.
Literary devices: metaphor, simile, figurative language, personification, juxtaposition, satire, trope, character traits, tone, mood, and ethos, pathos and logos. Each page shows the device at work in a screenplay excerpt.
How to Write a Book covers nine steps, from the premise and an outline to revision and publishing, and links each step to a free tool.
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Chat changes the words you highlight, and inline edits take a follow-up
Highlight words and ask chat to change them, and the change lands on exactly those words for you to accept or reject. An inline edit that is nearly right can be pushed the rest of the way.
Highlight words in a line or paragraph, then ask chat to tighten, reword or cut them. The change is shown on those words only, ready to accept or reject.
When you review an inline edit (⌘K, or Ctrl K on Windows and Linux), type what should change about the version on screen in the box under the review buttons and press Enter. Accept and Reject still compare against your original.
A skill run that reaches the AI's output limit now says it stopped before it finished, on the skill card, in slash commands and in chat, and Skill History marks it Cut short. A run you stop shows as Canceled.
Continue a screenplay template or tool result in Plot
Take the screenplay you started on a public template or tool straight into an editable Plot project, through signup or sign-in, without copying it over.
Screenplay templates, the screenplay converter and the title page generator have a Continue in Plot button that carries the exact result you have on screen.
If you're signed out, signup, sign-in and email verification each say your starting point is saved and open it once you're through.
A review page shows what goes into the project and which account it lands in, and Plot creates the screenplay only after you confirm.
If the transfer can't finish, because it was started in another browser, expired or was already used, the page says why and leads back to the template or tool you came from.
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A fantasy character name generator and four research and planning templates
Build a cast of names for a fantasy story or campaign, and download worksheets for Cornell notes, annotated bibliographies, literature reviews and novel outlines.
The name generator draws from twelve families, from elves and dwarves to tieflings, tabaxi and kenku. Keep the names that fit, add what each character wants or hides, and copy or download the cast as Markdown.
New templates cover Cornell notes, annotated bibliographies, literature-review synthesis and novel outlines, each with a worked example and a Markdown download.
The plot structure glossary page shows how to draw a plot diagram and works through five-act and seven-point structure with one original example.
All of it is in the six site languages.
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A free title page generator and four more formatting situations
Fill in a screenplay title page and see it the way Plot prints it, and look up how to format transitions, supers, car scenes and interrupted dialogue.
The title page generator draws your page as it prints, makes a title-only copy for blind reads, and copies, downloads or prints it as Fountain, all in your browser and in six languages.
The formatting reference adds transitions and FADE IN, supers and title cards, car scenes, and pauses and interruptions.
The script coverage glossary page explains what a reader's report covers, from the logline and synopsis to Pass, Consider and Recommend.
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Search the site from any page
Search sits in the header of every page, the mobile menu fits on one screen, and long guides and articles keep their contents in reach as you read.
Open search from the header, or press ⌘K, Ctrl K or /. Before you type it offers places to jump to; as you type it lists matching pages with their section, and See all results opens the search page.
In German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean, search also finds a glossary term or formatting page by the question it answers, such as “Was ist ein Gilligan Cut?”.
The mobile menu groups the site into Products, Learn, Compare and Company, with Sign in and Get started on the same screen.
Blog posts and help articles keep a contents bar pinned under the header that names the section you're in. Open it to jump to another. The Guides hub pins a row of section chips the same way.
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Twelve new glossary pages on the basics of story craft
The glossary now covers theme, stakes, conflict, the hero's journey and eight more craft terms, in all six languages.
Character: the anti-hero, backstory, character archetypes, character development and the tragic hero.
Story: theme, stakes, conflict, the hero's journey, the cliffhanger and the denouement. Screenplay elements gain the monologue.
Fifteen existing pages go deeper, with fuller sections, a screenplay excerpt and more questions answered: protagonist, antagonist, character arc, foreshadowing, flashback, dramatic irony, Chekhov's gun, subtext, three-act structure, beat sheet, red herring, diegetic sound, the Bechdel test, the WGA and FADE IN.
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Choose how hard Agent Mode works
Pick an effort level before you send: a quick, focused change, or a long run across a full script.
Light, Standard, Thorough, and Deep sit in the composer. Lighter runs use less of the month's AI, and the picker shows how much is used.
Each run's card shows the effort it ran at and how much of the month's AI it took.
Deep runs come with Pro and Team. Choosing a level beyond your plan opens the plan that has it.
Each step of the first-run guide now has a button that takes you to the control it describes: creating a project, writing, making a save point, asking the AI, and opening History.
Show me opens the control in the draft you have open. Go to this step takes you to your most recent project when you're somewhere else.
The guide stays on the step you picked as you move between pages, and keeps your place in the draft you're working on.
Nothing saves or runs on its own: the guide opens the control and you choose what happens next.
Pick an effort level or model beyond your plan, or choose Get more AI on a run the month's AI stopped, and a dialog names what's in the way and recommends the step that clears it, without leaving your script.
When the month's AI runs out, the dialog shows how much is used and when it resets, and offers a credit pack you can buy in place.
A pack bought from the dialog also turns credits on, so it's put to work as soon as it's paid and a skill run that stopped can carry on. Credits you already hold switch on with one click.
Compare plans opens the full picture. Not now closes the dialog without changing anything.
Your projects first, settings by the words you'd use, and a simpler share sheet
New writers see their projects and the starter screenplay first, Settings finds a section from everyday words, and the share sheet asks for one decision before Create link.
A new writer's projects page leads with their projects and the starter screenplay. Library stats and the writing calendar join them after two days of writing.
Find a section in Settings, and the command palette, now match the words you'd type: passkey, password, billing, sign out or export each find the section that holds them, in all six languages. The palette also adds Manage passkeys and Sign out.
The share sheet keeps every option under Link settings, which shows the defaults (view only, never expires, no password) or how many settings you've changed.
The Archived and Shared tabs say so when they're empty, and the sign-in page marks the way you signed in last time.
A free fantasy place name generator builds a naming family for kingdoms, cities, towns and worlds, and a D&D campaign ideas page pairs twelve original situations with editable session prep.
Choose a sound family and reuse a root across a map, so related places sound related. Give each favorite a landscape, a group with power, and a conflict.
Save a shortlist in your browser, or copy and download the complete place briefs as Markdown. No account needed.
Pick one of twelve original campaign situations and plan a session with its choices, clues and consequences, or download the blank prep sheet.
Both are available in English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean.
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Screenplay templates for Word, a software roundup, and a page to learn from
Download screenplay templates that open in Word or Google Docs, see screenwriting apps side by side, and read an example page with every element explained.
The feature, pilot and short screenplay starters now download as a Word file beside their Fountain file, at Plot's page layout and with styles named in your language. A new template walks through using it in Google Docs and Word.
Compare opens with a roundup of screenwriting software, led by Plot, and adds pages for WriterSolo and YouMeScript.
The screenplay example is an original opening page with scene headings, character introductions, a parenthetical, an off-screen voice and a transition, each one explained.
The glossary now answers first questions: what a screenplay is, what a screenwriter does, how to write a logline, what a spec script is, and how plot structure works.
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Next-step emails that know where you are
Short emails point you to the feature that helps with what you're writing next, in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, or Korean.
A tip arrives only while it still applies. Once you've taken the step, its email stops.
Import a script and the next email is about working with what you brought in, not about writing a first scene.
Plan emails match the plan you're on. Change plans and the letter for the old one never arrives.
Each email uses the language you chose in Settings. Turn them off under Settings → Emails → Tips and onboarding.
As you type a parenthetical, Plot suggests directions you have already written in the script, and one Enter now completes any suggestion and starts the next line.
Choose a matching direction with ↑ and ↓, then press → or tap it on a touch screen to fill it and stay on the line.
Directions you use most appear first, with recent occurrences breaking ties. Your casing, names, and parentheses stay as written.
Press Enter on any suggestion to fill it and start the next line: dialogue after a cue, cue extension, or parenthetical; action after a scene heading or transition. Undo reverses both together.
When two characters trade lines, a new character cue suggests who replies. Press Enter to accept it and start their dialogue, or type another name.
Press Enter on a bold or italic all-caps name to make it a character cue and start plain dialogue beneath it.
Turn Writing suggestions on or off under Settings → Editor → Script intelligence.
Compare an original Final Draft file with its converted Fountain, plain text, and formatted pages before using your own draft.
Open the worked example on the screenplay converter to read the original FDX, converted Fountain, and plain-text output.
Download Original FDX, Converted Fountain, or Converted plain text to inspect the files yourself.
See the formatted pages, compare scene numbers and overlapping dialogue, and check which production details stay in the original FDX.
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Link to a section in blog and help articles
Jump to an explanation in a blog or help article, then share a link to that section.
Open In this article and choose a heading to jump to its explanation.
Open the link beside a section heading and share its address to send someone straight to that section.
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Templates, guides, and tools in your language
Choose German, Spanish, French, Japanese, or Korean for templates, writing guides, character profiles, table-read and rehearsal tools, Fountain checks, and outline exports.
Download a screenplay starter or worksheet in the language you chose on its template page.
Follow step-by-step guides for importing a script, making save points, and exporting a PDF in your language.
Validate Fountain text or extract a screenplay outline with translated controls and results.
Develop a character with native prompts and examples, then copy or download your profile as Markdown. Choose Keep this profile to continue this tab after a draft conflict.
Plan a table read and build rehearsal sides with translated samples, run sheets, and cue practice. Japanese drafts are now timed by their actual words.
Compare writing tools in Alternatives, follow workflows in Learn, and find support through Contact in the same language.
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Work on a passage with your browser's agent
A browser agent that supports native WebMCP tools can read the open document, select a passage, and replace selected text in the Inkwell editor.
Open the document and ask a compatible browser agent to work with the passage you choose.
Selections appear in the editor, and text replacements use the editor's normal undo.
Use the browser's agent controls to choose and run its tools.
Choose an eye-friendly or traditional screenplay page, dim around your sentence, paragraph, or scene, and keep the line you're writing at a comfortable height.
Choose Eye-friendly or Traditional under Page style, or adjust element colors, page tone, and heading and cue emphasis yourself.
Use Dim around the caret to focus on a sentence, paragraph, or scene.
Set Typewriter scroll to Top, Middle, or Bottom, and highlight the current line under Settings → Editor.
Reuse a familiar location and time with one scene-heading suggestion, and choose whether writing suggestions and remembered headings appear in Settings → Editor → Script intelligence.
When Claude serves your fast AI tier, the picker now names Haiku 5.5. Check the current tier comparison before choosing a deeper pass.
The fast Claude tier and Haiku selection now resolve to Claude Haiku 5.5.
The picker names the model serving each tier and compares its standard token rates with that provider’s fast tier.
Use fast for quick passes, then choose balanced or frontier when your task needs a deeper read; actual usage depends on the tokens and pricing for the pass.
Keep production page numbers stable as the script changes, preserve inserted A-pages, and download a packet that displays the revised pages.
Lock the White production draft, then issue colored revisions from History. Inserted material uses A-pages while the office's existing page numbers stay in place.
Full production PDFs retain issued numbering and list distributed revisions on the title page. A pass with changes prints the color and date on every script page, with asterisks beside revised lines.
Choose the current revision's distribution packet in Import / Export or the command palette. It displays the affected pages, but the PDF file retains the full manuscript; use it for recipients who may read the whole script.
Review the PDF against the last issued copy when Plot warns that an older page lock was reconstructed or the page measurements changed.
Screenplay page measurements, on screen and in PDF
Plot uses 3.5-inch dialogue and 2.5-inch parenthetical columns for page counts and PDF output. The formatting reference now shows the page's measurements and a scale drawing.
Dialogue and parentheticals wrap to the same column widths in PDF output, page estimates, script breakdowns, and the screenplay converter preview.
An existing script can have a different page count when you export it again. Check the new PDF before sending it to readers or issuing production pages.
Open the screenplay formatting reference for page dimensions, margins, element widths, and the scale drawing.
Build a character profile around goals, relationships, and a defining choice, then copy or download your worksheet as Markdown.
Start blank or explore a worked example to connect a character's beliefs and behavior to the pressure they face.
Trace an opening action through a defining choice, its consequences, and the next scene to write.
Fill the prompts in the free character profile builder, or download the blank worksheet and example together as a Markdown template.
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More guides in your language
Read product pages, comparisons, audience guides, and more screenplay glossary terms in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, or Korean.
Choose a language from the site's language menu to open the translated version of a page.
Explore Plot, Canvas, AI, Features, comparisons, and guides for different writing jobs in your language.
Look up screenplay elements, script-delivery terms, character and theme concepts, outlining and pitching terms, and production and Guild terminology in the glossary.
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Answer Agent Mode with a number, a scale, or your go-ahead
When Agent Mode pauses to ask you something, it can now ask for an exact number or a point on a scale, and some questions let you hand the choice back with Use your judgment.
A number question shows its range and step, and a scale question labels both ends. If the agent suggests a value, it is used only when you choose it.
Where it is offered, Use your judgment lets the agent settle a preference for you. You can still leave any question open.
Answers you have started stay in place when you switch sidebar tabs and come back, and the question controls appear in your Inkwell language.
Built-in AI skills now use the language you chose for Inkwell.
The Skills tab, commands, Agent Mode runs and run history show each built-in skill's name, description and category in the language you chose in Settings.
Search finds a skill by its translated name or its English one.
When you type a character cue, Plot now suggests the characters already in the scene first, and you can pick a suggestion with the keyboard, the mouse, or a tap.
Suggestions put characters in the current scene first, then whoever spoke last, then the characters who speak most. Every matching name is still in the list.
Press ↑ and ↓ to choose, Enter or → to accept, or tap a suggestion on a touch screen. Your choice stays highlighted as you keep typing, and the list stays on screen beside the cursor.
A parenthetical such as (whispering) now shows one pair of brackets while you type, and saves and exports the same way.
Five new Plot skills read your draft for clue logic, suspense, dread, relationship turns, or invented-world rules, and propose focused changes you can accept or reject.
Choose Mystery Fair Play, Suspense Pass, Horror Pass, Romance Arc, or World Rules from the Skills tab.
Each pass marks its changes on the page: a sharper line, or a short planted beat added near the moment it serves. Accept or reject them one at a time.
The report beside them explains each change, names the strengths to keep, and lists what a small edit could not fix. A pass never deletes or moves your text, and it leaves the big decisions, such as who did it or how it ends, to you.
Document settings for scene numbers and continueds
Number a production draft's scenes and choose how Plot marks a character who speaks again after action, from one Document settings dialog.
Apply numbering keeps existing scene references and gives inserted scenes lettered numbers such as 24A. You can also renumber from a starting number or clear the numbers, and Undo reverses each change in one step.
Plot now adds (CONT'D) when the same character speaks again after action, in the editor and in PDF, Fountain and Final Draft exports. Turn it off in Document settings if your draft leaves them out.
A finished report in the Skills tab now has Make these changes, which hands its findings to Agent Mode so the fixes come to your page as changes to accept or reject.
Choose Make these changes on a finished report. The run works like any Agent Mode run: it can ask you a question in Chat, and its changes come to your page for review. Show the run takes you to it.
If the agent is already working on a run, this one waits and starts when that run finishes. You can cancel it while it waits.
When the run finishes, its card shows how many of the report's findings it acted on and lists the ones still open.
Edits a pass already proposed stay in the Skills tab's review, and the run leaves those lines to it. A report with nothing to change, such as one that found only strengths, says so where the button would be.
Every chart in the Screenplay Anatomy Atlas can now be downloaded as an SVG figure for slides, handouts or your own notes.
Choose Download figure on any chart, or View full-size figure to open it in a new tab.
Each figure carries its caption, the number of screenplays measured, the source credit and its license, so it still makes sense away from the page.
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Take the screenplay formatting guide with you
Print the complete screenplay formatting reference or save it as a PDF to keep at your writing desk.
Open the printable field guide from the formatting reference, then choose Print or save PDF and your paper size.
Start with the beginner path or go straight to a situation guide. Formatting questions are searchable, with links to their answers.
Each formatting article also has a Markdown copy.
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The homepage and pricing in your language
The Inkwell homepage and pricing page are available in German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean.
Choose a language from the menu at the bottom of the page, or go straight to /de, /es, /fr, /ja or /ko. Plans, features and common questions read in that language, and prices are formatted for it.
Sign-up links from a translated page open the app in the same language. A link to a page that isn't translated yet still opens the English page.
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Get coverage on an outline or treatment
Run Script Coverage on a substantial outline or treatment to get story feedback while you're still developing the draft.
Read a logline, synopsis, character analysis, and craft notes grounded in the material you've written.
Development feedback focuses on your story and revision priorities; screenplay ratings arrive when there's enough screenplay material to assess.
Agent Mode can continue through long sections as it reads your draft.
A Plot draft can hold prose, outline beats, and scenes side by side, and the journey menu shows where the draft stands on its way to a script.
Add prose, outline, and script sections to the same draft. Prose becomes screenplay elements only when you choose Screenplay and review the conversion.
The journey menu in the editor toolbar shows the draft's stage, from Notes to Shooting Script, and the writing modes the project allows.
A Treatment project can develop into a Screenplay, Teleplay, Pilot, or Stage Play in the same project, keeping its draft lines, takes, and history, and can return to Treatment.
Agent Mode and help answers start from the best match
Agent Mode now gets a suggestion for the skill that fits your request before each step, and the Dramaturg ranks the help articles it finds by how well they answer your question.
Before each step of a run, Agent Mode checks your request against every skill you have access to and is pointed at the one that fits, so it can go straight to that pass.
The suggestion is only a pointer. Agent Mode can still use any skill you have, or none, and when no skill is a clear fit it carries on exactly as before.
When you ask the Dramaturg how something in Inkwell works, it now puts the article that best answers your question first, so its answer and its links start there.
Once you have a project, your projects page lists your first steps in Inkwell during your first month: create a project, write your first words, make a save point, and, once you have a Plot project, try AI assistance. Each step takes you to the control that does it.
Steps tick themselves off as you do them, whether you start from the guide or not.
The writing, save point, and AI steps open your most recent project with the right control ready: the page for writing, the save dialog for a save point, or the AI composer in a Plot project. Nothing runs until you choose to.
Collapse the guide to show just your next step. It goes away once every step is done, or a month after you sign up.
Two new starters sit beside Blank project and Learn Inkwell when you create a Plot project, so you can begin from a working draft instead of an empty page.
Short Film is a complete short scene sequence with notes on conflict, choices and the final image.
Stage Play is a playable one-act with a cast, a practical set, blocking, and notes for a read-through.
A starter is a regular project: rename it, rewrite it, or delete it. On the free plan it counts toward your project limit.
On shorter screens the new-project window now scrolls, so the Create project button stays within reach.
The dialogue, pacing and length guides now include exercises to try on your own draft and figures from produced screenplays, and a new exercise shows what moving a scene does to the story.
Scene-order exercise: reorder seven scene cards, see which setups the new order leaves missing, and download a repair checklist to take into your own revision.
Dialogue guide: pick a speech length and see what share of turns and words run longer, then compare how counting words, paragraphs or lines changes a dialogue percentage.
Pacing guide: rearrange scene lengths to compare two orders, and note what changes at each cut in location, time, viewpoint and immediate goal. What you type stays on the page.
All three guides now show how produced screenplays compare, overall and by genre, so you can see where your draft sits.
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A second corpus on the dialogue research page
The dialogue research page now adds the Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus: 617 films whose median line of dialogue is seven words, the same as the screenplay corpus the page already measured.
See how two-person exchanges unfold: how many turns a typical exchange runs, how often speakers strictly alternate, and how much of an exchange its longest turn carries.
Compare dialogue share by where a character sits in the credits and by the credited gender of speakers.
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A clearer path through AI changes
AI changes now arrive with a clearer review bar, plain-language actions, and a composer that makes the difference between Ask, Plan, Auto, and Agent visible before you send.
The review bar keeps the current change, its place in the set, and the accept-or-reject actions together while you read the page.
The Chat composer names Ask, Plan, Auto, and Agent and explains what each mode does, so the choice is clear before you send.
Scope controls make it clearer whether your message carries a selection, scene, act, or the full script.
Settings now puts account, plan, credit, and help information into scannable sections, with clearer next steps and password changes available in place.
See your plan, usage, and credit balance grouped into one clear section.
Open a guide or contact support from a help section organized around the job you are trying to finish.
Change your password directly in account settings.
Search across help, guides, comparisons, glossary terms, essays, and free resources from one place on the Inkwell site.
Results are grouped by the kind of answer they contain, so a how-to article stays distinct from a comparison or glossary definition.
Search accepts ordinary questions as well as feature and screenwriting terms.
Open a result at the exact guide, article, definition, comparison, or resource that answers it.
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Agent Mode spends less of your allotment on thinking
A run that is only taking notes or looking something up no longer spends the same allowance as one that is rewriting the script. More of the allotment stays available for the changes you asked for.
Notes and look-ups during a run no longer use up the rewrite allowance the way an edit does.
The run still has a fixed number of actions and decisions, shown on the card.
When the agent is reading or thinking, more of that allowance stays available for the work on the page.
Ask the Dramaturg what a character says, which scenes are at a location, or who speaks in a scene, and it can look the answer up from the screenplay. Agent Mode can use the same look-ups while it works a goal.
Ask what a character says across the draft — it can look up those lines and the scenes they belong to.
Ask which scenes are at a location — it can look up the sluglines that belong there.
Ask who speaks in a scene — it can look up the speaking cast of that scene.
Agent Mode can use the same look-ups while it works a scene or an act.
Those answers come from the draft, so you do not have to paste the scene in.
The converter and draft comparison tool now include sample files so dual dialogue, scene moves, and production notes are visible before you open your own draft.
Load a sample Final Draft file in the converter to inspect dual dialogue in two columns, numbered scenes, and a per-file fidelity report.
The draft comparison tool includes a before-and-after rewrite example with a moved scene, an added scene, and changed dialogue.
Parsing and comparison stay in the browser. The reports list observable changes; they do not grade whether the rewrite improved the story.
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TV bible, coverage, and rewrite templates
Download a TV series bible, a script coverage worksheet, and a screenplay rewrite plan from the free template library — grouped by the job they serve.
Three new Markdown downloads: a TV series bible that separates pitch from continuity, evidence-led script coverage, and a rewrite plan that ranks notes by blast radius.
The template hub is grouped by writer job — screenplay starters, development, feedback, and general writing — instead of by Inkwell product.
Coverage still lives with the coverage skill. The new worksheet is there when you want a printed form, and Plot stays the place for a living bible.
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Rate an Auto, Plan, or Agent run
When an Auto, Plan, or Agent run finishes, its card now has the same thumbs Ask replies already had. Mark the run useful or not; a thumbs-down can name what went wrong.
The finished run card in the Chat tab now has thumbs, the same control Ask replies already use.
A thumbs-up marks the run useful. A thumbs-down can pick a reason, or open Tell us more.
Ask replies keep their own thumbs on the message. Rate a run and a reply separately.
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.
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.
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.
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, ghost text, 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.
Ghost text 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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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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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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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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Account email you can read and control
Confirm a new account from an Inkwell email, see why each message reached you, and turn off the optional ones.
Confirm your address from the verification email Inkwell sends when you sign up.
Inkwell also emails you when your password changes and when someone invites you to a team.
Every email says why you received it. Emails you can turn off include a link to do it.
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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 its craft meaning.
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.
Request a reset link from the sign-in page and set a new password yourself.
The reset link arrives by email, and team invites arrive the same way.
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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.
