Frequently asked questions

Inkwell is an AI-native writing platform. It treats your screenplay as structured data, so you get version control with save points and draft lines, semantic change tracking, inline AI editing, specialist skills, and Agent Mode — and every AI change arrives in the document as a suggestion you accept or reject.

Plot is the screenwriting product: a structured screenplay editor with every screenplay element type, inline and agentic AI workflows, and a full production pipeline from first draft through locked shooting-script handoff. It imports and exports Fountain and FDX and exports screenplay PDF. Canvas is a general-purpose block editor for novels, research, and long-form documents. Both run on the same platform — version control, AI tools, and collaboration power both.

Fountain is an open, plain-text markup for screenplays. Inkwell parses it in real time so your script is structured data as you type — but you don't have to write raw Fountain. The editor handles formatting and lets you Tab between element types as you write.

Yes. Inkwell imports and exports Final Draft (FDX) and Fountain, and exports industry-formatted PDF. You can bring existing scripts in and take your work out at any time.

Plot is generally available — start free in the browser today. Canvas is in early access / beta for Pro and Team subscribers.

Yes. Open Plot in any modern browser on a Chromebook, Windows, Mac, or Linux machine — start free, invite the room with a link, nothing to install.

Start with a browser editor that formats as you type. Plot does that — open it free, no desktop license. Writer adds FDX export and Pro adds production locking when an office asks.

Yes — in active development for real offline writing. Planes, trains, dead wifi: your draft shouldn’t pause when the network does. Until it ships, the full editor is live in the browser today.

Yes. Apple apps are coming so you can read and review on the go, then edit when you’re ready — same projects as the browser and desktop, not a disposable mobile notepad. Start in the browser now; phone and tablet are next.

Ask is the grounded conversation: use it for a question, diagnosis, or judgment about the draft. Edit selection changes a passage you highlight. Skills run a named craft job such as a dialogue pass or continuity check across the scope you choose. Agent Mode takes an objective scoped to a scene or an act, reads the current result, and chooses several actions as it works. Edits remain reviewable, while Ask, analysis skills, and agent runs can also return findings without changing the draft.

Yes. Skills are specialist tools inside the same writing system. Agent Mode can edit a line directly, run a broader revision pass, call a skill when the work needs a craft specialist, re-read the result, and choose what to do next.

Yes. A live run has Pause and Stop controls. The agent can also pause to ask a question when a creative choice needs your judgment. If you stop after useful work has landed on the result draft, that partial work remains available to review.

No. Agent Mode starts from a screenplay and a goal you give it; it does not turn a logline into a finished script. Today it is the path for multi-action work scoped to a scene or an act, with any proposed changes collected for your review.

No. Ghost text is only a suggestion. Edit selection and revision skills show proposed changes in the document; analysis skills can return findings without editing. Agent Mode works on a separate result draft with save points for landed edits and a final review. Accept or reject individual changes, or accept or reject them all. Nothing moves into the draft you keep until you say so.

Yes. Inkwell is designed around the writer's choice and control: AI works on a draft you supply and returns grounded answers, findings, or reviewable changes. Agent Mode may work through a separate result draft, but nothing from an AI result moves into the draft you keep unless you approve it. Current WGA guidance says GAI is not a writer, GAI-produced written material is not literary material, a company cannot require a writer to use GAI, and voluntary use on covered work requires company consent and compliance with company policy. Inkwell does not generate a whole screenplay from one prompt, and save points preserve the decisions you made. Those controls help you follow a room or studio policy; the covered engagement and its agreement remain authoritative.

Only the scoped context the requested work needs — the selected passage, target scenes, or script range plus the structured metadata required for that run. Your full account library is not uploaded as a bundle. With bring-your-own-key, requests go to the provider account you configure.

Yes. Inkwell supports the full WGA and industry production revision color sequence — white through tan — in the paid Pro tier, with locked pagination, frozen A-page labels, omitted scenes, and save-point-aware revision history carried through the production pipeline.

Yes — revision mode on Pro and above carries the screenplay from the locked White draft through numbered pages, A-pages, omitted scenes, and each WGA revision-color pass on the same structured draft line.

A-pages preserve locked pagination when new material is added after a script enters production—for example, pages 42A and 42B instead of renumbering the rest of the script. On Pro and above, Inkwell's production pipeline carries those frozen labels into A-page-aware PDF exports alongside revision colors, breakdowns, and the underlying save-point history.

Yes. Pro lets you invite up to five collaborators across your projects to work on the same screenplay. Team is built for writers' rooms — real-time collaboration, shared draft lines, shared workspaces, and role-based permissions for parallel takes without losing accountability.

Semantic change tracking shows what moved — scene by scene, line by line — not just that the file changed. On Team, collaboration surfaces who is in the document and comment threads anchor to the passage under discussion.

Yes. On Pro and above, production export carries locked pagination, colored revision pages, revision marks, omitted scenes, and frozen A-page labels into a WGA-compliant screenplay PDF while breakdown reports export to PDF or CSV. Two-way FDX preserves structured handoff and Fountain remains available for a lossless plain-text round trip.

A feature spec that a stranger will pick up usually lands between 90 and 120 pages, with 100–110 as the common reader comfort band. Half-hour and hour pilots use different clocks. Page count is a pacing signal, not a quality score. The Screenplay Length desk in Resources places a count against those bands, official contest windows, and a measured story-word corpus without uploading the draft.

No. Plot is for screenplays and production workflows; Canvas is for novels, research, and team documents. Both share version control and AI tools. See the audience guides at /for for screenwriters, writers' rooms, showrunners, novelists, researchers, teams, and students.

Screenplays and teleplays → Plot. Long-form documents, research, internal wikis, or team specs → Canvas (in development). Teams and writers' rooms → Team plan on /pricing. The /for hub maps each audience with workflow detail.

Notion and Google Docs excel at flexible wikis and familiar co-editing. Inkwell adds named save points, draft lines, and semantic diffs as first-class primitives — see the comparison on /for/teams.

Yes. Educators use Inkwell to teach Fountain literacy, formatting, and structured revision. Skills propose edits students must review — a useful default when AI is part of the assignment. Contact education@inkwell.software for classroom onboarding.

Verified students and educators receive 50% off Pro after beta. Email education@inkwell.software from your institutional address with your program details — we verify manually during beta.

Yes. Their screenplays, save points, and exports belong to them. Inkwell does not delete student work when a term ends — they can export their screenplays and continue on a personal plan.

Skills run as reviewable passes — students see each suggested change and accept or reject it. That makes AI-assisted assignments auditable: you can require a dialogue pass, then grade the draft the student actually kept, not a chat transcript.

You do. Inkwell does not claim ownership of the screenplays, save points, or version history you create or bring into the product. You can export to Fountain, PDF, and FDX (Final Draft), so your files are not locked in. Separate employment, collaboration, option, or purchase agreements can still allocate particular rights.

Yes. Inkwell supports bring-your-own-key configuration so you can use your own provider account, with the model and key managed in settings. Hosted AI remains available on every plan if you prefer not to manage keys.

Your documents live in Inkwell's cloud workspace, encrypted in transit and at rest. Export to Fountain or PDF anytime, so your master copy does not depend on staying subscribed.

No. Your scripts are not used to train foundation models. AI requests send only the context needed for the work to the provider you authorize—Inkwell-hosted or your own key—and do not opt your screenplay into a training corpus.

You can request account deletion by contacting privacy@inkwell.software. We remove workspace data per our privacy policy and confirm when deletion is complete.

Enterprise and studio teams can request a security overview by emailing team@inkwell.software. During beta we answer directly — formal SOC documentation will follow as production deployments scale.

Free: $0; Writer: $19 per month; Pro: $39 per month; Team: $39 per seat, per month. Enterprise: custom pricing.

Yes — the Free plan covers everything you need to start writing: 2 screenplay projects with 2 draft lines each, save points with recent version history (named save points are always kept), up to 20 AI skill passes a month, and PDF and Fountain export. Three paid tiers build on it. Writer adds 10 projects with 10 draft lines each, up to 200 AI skill passes a month, complete version control, and FDX (Final Draft) export. Pro adds the most capable AI models, 5 times the AI quotas, custom skills, takes, production reports with revision colors, and collaboration with up to 5 people across your projects. Team adds real-time collaboration, shared workspaces, and role-based permissions for writers' rooms. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

Absolutely. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. If you downgrade, you keep access until the end of your billing period. Your screenplays and save points are never deleted.

Your screenplays, save points, and version history are always yours. You can export to Fountain and PDF on every plan — including Free — and to FDX (Final Draft) on Writer and above, at any time. Nothing is deleted when you change or cancel a plan.

Yes. Verified students and educators get 50% off Pro after beta. Contact us at education@inkwell.software with your institutional email — we verify eligibility manually during beta.

Save points are immutable snapshots of your work — think of them as save files you can always return to. Draft lines are parallel versions of your screenplay — like exploring an alternate ending without losing your original.

Canvas is in early access / beta for Pro and Team subscribers — join from the Canvas product page. Plot is generally available for screenplays today. Canvas shares the same version control and AI skill engine as Plot, extended for general-purpose documents.

Canvas is in early access / beta for Pro and Team subscribers — join from the Canvas product page. It shares save points, draft lines, and skills with Plot — extended for customizable blocks and Markdown-friendly long documents.

Canvas is designed for Markdown round-trip and structured blocks — import/export is a launch priority. During early access we will publish supported formats in the Canvas changelog; Fountain and FDX remain Plot's screenplay path.

Cross-product block embedding is part of the product-family architecture — screenplay blocks inside research docs or other Canvas documents. Early access will ship incrementally; follow the blog for Canvas milestones.