OpenDraft
A free, open-source screenwriting app: skip the $250 Final Draft, write properly formatted scripts in your browser, and keep your scripts on your own machine.
OpenDraft is a free, open-source screenwriting app built for one very specific problem: you want to write a script but don't want to pay $250 for Final Draft, and you don't want to hand your script to someone else's cloud server. It opens in your browser, with no sign-up and no subscription, and what you write stays on your own machine. It's MIT open source, so anyone can read the code. It does quite a lot: as you type, it formats your script to industry standard automatically, with autocomplete for scene headings, character names, and transitions; a scene navigator on the left shows the whole structure at a glance; and a Beat Board lets you break a story into cards you can drag around, so you can think the story through before you start writing. Two people can edit the same script online at the same time, and if something goes wrong you can dig into version history and restore by comparing versions side by side. Scripts can also be read aloud, one voice per character, which makes it easy to rehearse lines. Switching tools doesn't mean starting over: it imports from Final Draft, Fountain, and PDF, and exports back, so your script never gets locked into one piece of software. Besides the web version, there are Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop apps plus iOS and Android mobile apps, and you can write offline. Two things to keep in mind: first, this is still a small project with 80 stars, and the author says so himself — compared with long-established software polished for decades, the rough edges are real, so don't expect everything to feel equally smooth. Second, the repo was only created in March 2026, though it had fresh pushes on November 3, so it is alive — but fixes for a small tool mostly come from the community, so test import and export a few extra times yourself before a deadline.
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