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 run in your browser, with 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
Refreshing the page clears the draft.
Screenplay report
Structure at a glance
Opens as a new Plot project once you sign in or create a free account. Inkwell keeps this copy for 24 hours.
- Story words
- 94
- Scenes
- 5
- Speaking characters
- 3
- Locations
- 3
Action, dialogue, parentheticals, lyrics, and centered text
19 average · 19 median words
7 dialogue blocks
5 parsed scene headings
Dialogue / action balance
A word-level view of dialogue versus action blocks. Parentheticals and other story text are counted in the total, but excluded from this two-part comparison.
Dialogue 39%Action 61%
Scene type
- INT3
- EXT2
Time of day
- NIGHT3
- DAY1
- PRE-DAWN1
Signals, not a screenplay score
Genre, voice, and scene purpose change what a useful ratio looks like. Compare these signals with your own intent or an earlier draft; there is no universal “right” dialogue percentage.
Take the report with you
Export spreadsheet-safe CSVs. Downloads are built locally from this result.
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
- 1
Paste or open Fountain
Use a scene, a full draft, or a local .fountain file.
- 2
Review four reports
Inspect the overview, scene rhythm, character dialogue distribution, and location coverage without a prescriptive quality score.
- 3
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?
Only if you choose Continue in Plot. The Fountain parser, statistics, charts, and CSV exports all run in your browser. Continue in Plot sends a copy of the script so it opens as a new Plot project, and Inkwell keeps that copy for 24 hours.
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
The words characters speak in a story, play or film. In a screenplay each speech sits under the speaker's name in a narrow centered column; in Plot, a dialogue pass proposes tighter lines 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)
A scene heading, or slugline, is the line in capitals that opens each scene in a screenplay. It says whether the scene is interior or exterior, where it takes place and the time of day, for example INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT. Production breakdowns and schedules are built from it.
Pacing
Pacing is how fast a story feels to the people reading or watching it. In a screenplay it comes from how long scenes run, how often they change, how much is action rather than dialogue and how much is asked of the reader at once, not from page count alone.
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