Save the Cat! User Reviews

Blake Snyder Enterprises, LLC

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Love

I’m just new to this app,I have many ideas and I don’t have the money to unlock all of the features and as the other people have said,this is really good.

I feel calm once I installed this app,it gives me more of a wide range of creativity as I deal upon writers block all the time.

Many of my ideas from when I was young could come to life soon and I’m happy for it,I am an independent artist,could be any art as I am very creative,I will even recommend this to someone they might find it useful.

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Roses$ForDays

2 years ago

It’s fun to use- as adding photos into board really makes script come alive

It’s extremely good when you dig deep into ‘the cats’ soul

JohnnoKeys

2 years ago

Don’t waste your money on this app

This is not a one time purchase item, you have to keep paying yearly. If this where an antivirus app or something of that kind I could understand having to renew it every year. You are only wasting your money. They don’t give you any option to buy the app out right. and if that’s not bad enough this is a weird and unorthodox method of storytelling, which is very confusing because they don’t use storytelling standards.If you wanna learn how to use this app you have to learn a completely different language in storytelling first so why bother.

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Da Storyteller

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Da Storyteller - We appreciate any and all feedback. To shed some light on pricing...we charge an annual renewal price because we continue to update the app frequently. We do this to keep up with technology so that the app is never out of date. To make this happen we proudly support a tech team with fair wages, hence the renewals. It's important to us that people who work are properly paid. As for the comments regarding storytelling standards, they are simply misleading as any writer will tell you there is no singular approach to cracking a story. We are however grateful that Save the Cat! is the most popular storytelling guide among several other useful methods. Writers love to mix and match to get to their goal of writing a story. We wish you the best of luck to find the right method for your writing style.

Excellent for Structural Foundation, But There Are a Few Concerns

While I love this app, as it makes outlining a breeze, I am confused to why there are less than 40 beat/scene cards on the Blake Snyder Save the Cat Board template. The book heavily suggests writing 40 cards. I know I can add cards wherever, but I find this part a bit confusing. It makes me concerned about the Board feature.

Also, I really wish there was a printable option. It would be so nice to finish the Beat Sheet or Board and physically print the outlines to work from.

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JoJo Tom 96

3 years ago

Wish I can change the font size or something on the UI

App seems great and I’m excited to utilize these great tools. Although it drives me crazy that the UI labels get cut off (in both orientations) and can get a little confusing at times. Hope they add a fix.

solicitoussloth

3 years ago

Genres gone

Got rid of the genre descriptions in the genre selection. Previous version had a snapshot of the thumbnail rules of any given genre

Shadowfest31

3 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback! We just updated the app and brought back the genre descriptions - please check it out :)

Crashes

Unable to upload attachments. Continues to crash.

SofaCracka

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi SofaCracka, Please contact me at tech@blakesnyder.com and we'll see if we can figure out what is happening. Haven't had any reports of a problem with uploading attachments before so maybe it has something to do with the type of file. Let me know. Thanks, Bob

Love the book, hating the app

The UX on this app is infuriating. Trying to add text to the beats and I almost always get stuck in the beat field. There’s no way to get out of it. On the occasion I can see the longline if I click on that I can get out but if not there’s no way to move out of the field. So frustrating. I hope they can fix this. Happy to send a video of what I’m talking about. Currently using the latest version on an iPhone 12 Pro.

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iamstevetay

3 years ago

DISASTER.

Work disappeared for unknown reasons. 72 hours after requesting help, still no response. Am I supposed to be tempted to go all-in with this app or stay with a perfected program (think Final Draft)? If this is supposed to be an integrated methodology, then it’s completely lost on me - and the fault lies with the developer. Too bad too - having a workable alternative would be nice. Save the Cat! Is *not* it.

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Non-Obviously Positive

3 years ago

Response from developer

Worked with this customer but the file matched on all devices and in the cloud. He had reported that the description of a scene "magically" changed before his eyes. There was no sign of other data that may have disappeared. After a couple of emails, the customer stopped responding. We've had no reports of data going missing from anyone else. In this isolated case, unfortunately, we were unable to conclusively determine what happened.

Clunky

Clunky and hard to use but good for getting an idea down during a meeting or other boring event where you can’t access a laptop and work on your script

Areg gtrv