Prescene
Screenplay Editor

Professional screenwriting. Completely free.

Start from a blank page or bring in your script. Prescene handles screenplay formatting, autosaves your draft, keeps checkpoints, and exports standard screenplay files. All in your browser, with no card required.

Import PDF, Final Draft, Fountain, or Fade In. Export PDF, .fdx, Fountain, or text.

The editor

The screenplay comes first.

The Salt Line · Draft 3 Saved 3:42 PM
42.

7INT. HATCHERY - NIGHT7

Rows of tanks glow pale green. NORA VOSS, 40s, walks the wet grate between them, closing one valve at a time.

NORA

(reading the gauge)

Thirty years of brine in these pipes, and the memo says the water is fine we’re down to the last sweet vein.

TEDDY

You going to tell them, or do I?

CUT TO:

Built from fictional example content. With the assistant on, rewrites land as marked-up changes; a checkpoint saves before anything applies.
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The craft

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Write without breaking your flow.

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Screenplay formatting, handled.

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Versions

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1

Propose

Rewrites arrive as marked-up changes, on the page, in place.

2

Review

Accept or reject change by change, or all at once.

3

Apply

A checkpoint saves first, automatically. Nothing changes without your say-so.

Pricing

The editor is free. AI is optional.

Write, format, import, save checkpoints, and export without a subscription. Plus, Pro, and Max add monthly AI usage for the writing assistant and the rest of Prescene. See pricing

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