Four descriptive reports
Review draft totals, scene rhythm, speaking-character distribution, and location coverage without a prescriptive quality score.
Free · private browser tool
Free screenplay analyzer
Analyze scene pacing, dialogue/action balance, character share, and locations from a Fountain screenplay—privately in your browser, with free CSV reports.
Private by design
Analyze a Fountain screenplay in your browser
Paste a scene or open a full .fountain file. Parsing, reporting, and CSV export all happen on this device—no upload and no account.
Current source
Built-in sample
See scene rhythm
Compare scene lengths and find pacing review points.
Map character share
Count dialogue words, blocks, and speaking scenes.
Inventory locations
Group sluglines by place, scene type, and time of day.
795 / 1,000,000 characters
Your screenplay stays in this tab. Refreshing the page clears it.
Useful output, not a score
What this tool gives you
Revision evidence
Compare long and short scenes, dialogue/action balance, character share, and repeated locations against your actual intent.
Spreadsheet-ready exports
Download formula-safe scene, character, and location CSVs for revision, table reads, or production conversations.
How to use it
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Paste or open Fountain
Use a scene, a full draft, or a local .fountain file. The screenplay never leaves your browser.
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Review four reports
Inspect the overview, scene rhythm, character dialogue distribution, and location coverage without a prescriptive quality score.
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Export useful rows
Download scene, character, and location CSVs for revision planning, a table read, or a production conversation.
Questions writers ask
Is my screenplay uploaded or stored?
No. The Fountain parser, statistics, charts, and CSV exports all run locally in your browser. Inkwell does not receive or store the screenplay you analyze here.
What does the free screenplay analyzer measure?
It reports story-word totals, scene count and scene lengths, dialogue versus action words, speaking characters, dialogue share by character, locations, interior/exterior coverage, and time-of-day patterns.
Is the dialogue-to-action ratio a quality score?
No. It is a descriptive word-level comparison, not a grade. Genre, format, voice, and the purpose of an individual scene all change what a useful balance looks like.
How are screenplay words counted?
Story words include action, dialogue, parentheticals, lyrics, and centered text. Sluglines, character cues, title-page metadata, notes, and hidden boneyard text are excluded.
What screenplay format does the analyzer accept?
It accepts Fountain, the open plain-text screenplay format. Standard and forced scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions, and common title-page fields are parsed.
Can I export the screenplay statistics?
Yes. You can download separate CSV reports for scenes, speaking characters, and locations. The exports are formula-injection safe and include UTF-8 support.
Defined in the glossary
Dialogue
Spoken lines under a character cue. In Plot, a dialogue pass proposes changes, mostly to the spoken lines, that you accept or reject one at a time.
Action
The descriptive prose of a screenplay — what the audience sees and hears, written in present tense. Also called description.
Character cue
The speaker’s name above a dialogue block, conventionally in uppercase — the label that tells the reader who is talking.
Scene heading (slugline)
The line that opens a scene: interior or exterior, location, and time of day — for example, INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT. It orients the reader and anchors production breakdowns.
Pacing
How a screenplay distributes its length rather than how much of it there is: scene length, how often scenes turn over, the balance of action to dialogue, and when new voices arrive. Two drafts with the same page count can pace completely differently.
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