From one screenplay to storyboards, schedules and call sheets.
Switch between the three phases. This is the real interface, running on a sample project.
The script in Word, the storyboard in another app, the budget in a spreadsheet. Here you change something once and it comes out changed everywhere else.
Drop in a PDF, a Final Draft file or a Word document. plotwell reads the formatting and hands back scenes, not a wall of text.
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Rename a character in the script: the breakdown, the storyboard and the call sheet follow. Nothing here is typed twice.
Every request carries your scenes, your cast, your locations and the look you chose. You get a note about your film, not about films in general.
Give me a note on scene 1.
Your co-writer edits the scene while you are in it, and your producer reads the plan. Comments land on the line they are about.
FAQ
Yes. The free plan gives you one project, one collaborator and every feature in the product, with no credit card and no time limit. There is no base subscription: you add a second project or a second collaborator for $3 a month each, only when you need one.
No. plotwell runs in the browser on any machine, and your work saves as you write. Exports are standard files you own: PDF with a cover page, Fountain, and Final Draft (.fdx).
Yes. plotwell imports Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain files directly, and reads PDF and Word documents in your browser without uploading them anywhere. Formatting is recognised on the way in, so a script arrives as a script rather than as a wall of text.
It drafts and it reads. Script Doctor analyses a draft and marks the exact words it has something to say about, on the page, with the note one click away. The agent knows your characters and locations, so it can draft a scene, rewrite a line, or generate storyboard frames where the person in frame two is the same person in frame four. You edit everything it writes.
That is the point of it. The same script produces the scene breakdown, the stripboard, the shooting schedule, the budget and the call sheets, so the cast on the call sheet is the cast in the scene rather than something retyped into a spreadsheet. Change a line in the script and everything downstream knows.
Yes, and a series is a first-class project rather than a folder of features. Seasons and episodes each carry their own script, storyboard, breakdown and budget, while the characters, locations and look are written once and used by every episode after them. Vertical and web series work the same way.
