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Open Draft Screenwriting

Base Information Management Pvt. Ltd.

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OpenDraft is a free, open-source screenwriting application — a modern alternative to Final Draft. PROFESSIONAL SCREENPLAY FORMATTING Write in industry-standard format with automatic element formatting for scene headings, action, character names, dialogue, and parentheticals. What you see is what you export. REAL-TIME COLLABORATION Co-write with your writing partner in real time with live cursors, just like Google Docs. No account required — just share a link and start writing together. BEAT BOARDS & INDEX CARDS Plan your story visually. Drag and drop scene cards, color-code acts, and restructure your screenplay without losing a single word. VERSION HISTORY Every save is tracked with Git-based version control. Compare drafts side by side, see exactly what changed, and restore any previous version instantly. CHARACTER PROFILES & PRODUCTION TOOLS Build character bibles, track dialogue stats, tag scenes for production, and manage your entire project from one place. EXPORT ANYWHERE Export to PDF, Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, and plain text. Your work is never locked into a proprietary format. WORKS EVERYWHERE Available on macOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Android. Run it as a desktop app or self-host in your browser. WHY OPENDRAFT? - 100% free and open source (MIT license) - No subscription, no cloud lock-in - Works fully offline — no internet required - Privacy-first: no tracking, no analytics - Import from Final Draft, Fountain, and PDF

What's new

Version 2.9.0 · Nov 5, 2026

See your whole story at a glance, print just the scenes you need, and write by voice. THE OUTLINE See your acts, sequences and scenes in one list, with each scene's length. Move scenes around and group them into sequences. PRINT ONLY THE SCENES YOU NEED Export a range of scenes, or pick any you like, and choose the title page, page numbers, scene numbers and a watermark for that copy. DICTATION Speak your scene, check the words, then add them to your script. Simple voice commands start a new scene or a character's line. It's off until you turn it on. FASTER TYPING Character names, locations and transitions you've already used are offered as you type. SEE WHAT CHANGED BETWEEN DRAFTS Comparing drafts now shows rewritten lines word by word, and which lines moved to another scene. YOUR OWN SCRIPT FORMATS, EVERYWHERE A script keeps its custom format when you open it on another device or share it with a co-writer. ALSO NEW Suggest bold, italic and other styling for a co-writer to accept. Line numbers can be locked for a recording or shooting script. Long speeches continue neatly onto the next page. The status bar shows your total word count. Delete a script right from the File menu. PDFs in Tamil, Hindi and other Indian languages now print exactly as typed.

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