Lame
The fact that there are all these issues and the developers don’t have the balls to respond….. speaks VOLUMES!!!
Can’t log in
Keep getting an error message. Worked fine yesterday, now it doesn’t.
WTF
I was booted and can no longer sign- in even though I reset my password and it's say I'm free to explore. What is going on? I can't report that problem or contact anyone.
The worst app!
The app is full of glitches and it doesn’t work. Paying for an app that doesn’t work.
$$$$$$$$$$
This is my first app review. Thanks, Final Draft, for making me finally feel strongly enough about something to do this.
There was an app called FD mobile. It was free. You could access all of your screenplays and write them in the app, going seamlessly between the app and your computer.
Now, this is a paid service. Nope.
FD charges hundreds for new editions of the program that have marginal changes, and still lacks basic functionality that other, cheaper screenwriting software has (like the ability to add hyperlinks, which is a niche thing, but when you need it, you need it).
Because everything else was expensive, FD Mobile as a free app made sense. It’s the least they could do, so I thought.
Sure, it’s not that much money. But it’s more than no money, and it is the latest signal to me that FD has little care for the needs of its consumers.
This is my villain origin story. I’m going to check out Highland.
There was an app called FD mobile. It was free. You could access all of your screenplays and write them in the app, going seamlessly between the app and your computer.
Now, this is a paid service. Nope.
FD charges hundreds for new editions of the program that have marginal changes, and still lacks basic functionality that other, cheaper screenwriting software has (like the ability to add hyperlinks, which is a niche thing, but when you need it, you need it).
Because everything else was expensive, FD Mobile as a free app made sense. It’s the least they could do, so I thought.
Sure, it’s not that much money. But it’s more than no money, and it is the latest signal to me that FD has little care for the needs of its consumers.
This is my villain origin story. I’m going to check out Highland.
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My script is gone.
I used this app for scripting format, it was okay, there were many things I couldn’t do and I logged in on my phone and nothing transported. I opened the app to write and the script is literally gone. It is under no tabs, I’ve checked my files and Icloud and all my hard work and the story I loved is gone.
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Doesn’t work on iPad
And I can’t edit either….my FD account and IPad app all a mess
Trash
I cannot start a script
Stupid
If the app isn’t free, then don’t list it as free. This is boneheaded marketing
It doesn’t work
Well after purchasing this app two years ago - it didn’t work then. I forgot and bought it again. Surprise, it works less now. No phone numbers at final draft these days. Less work more and more.
Too glitchy to be charging people
This is app is way too glitchy for them to be charging people. Like fix it. Dragging to cursor to highlight text never works properly and often times it oddly quits the app. Final draft is too high caliber of a brand to have half baked software like this. Its insulting to be charged for software like this. Especially when youre forced to upgrade from the previous iOS app. Fix it.
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Beware!
Just so you know, if your subscription expires, you won’t be able to open the scripts you have already created.
Purchase failed
Purchage failed again n again
Need to fix the crashes
Wanted to like it but it kept crashing every time I would go to highlight text. After having it crash this way, multiple times over the course of my first hour, became a moment of instant regret purchasing the year outright. Lesson learned.
Bugs make it unusable. BEWARE
Everything was great until I hit about the 85 page mark, then suddenly the page started jumping like the scrolling was glitching. The cursor now jumps up or down two lines randomly. Googled and found this is a known issue with “longer” scripts (85 pages, really??) in FD Go and they have not bothered to fixed it. So FD is unusable.
How you expect to stay the “industry standard” with this kind of apathetic approach is wild. There are alternatives to FD, so keep looking!
How you expect to stay the “industry standard” with this kind of apathetic approach is wild. There are alternatives to FD, so keep looking!
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Disappointed
Buggy. Not intuitive. I don’t think I could be less impressed.
Poor Effort In 2026
The only thing that this “Go” version meaningfully adds since the last version, Final Pro Mobile is a monthly subscription.
At this point it’s been several years since the desktop has had note card views— nothing here on mobile.
Highlighting portions of text for copying and moving— sort of a crucial
function — remains twitchy and annoying with the keyboard popping up intermittently and de-selecting the text.
No liquid glass or any updates in ages— using it on iPad is pretty frustrating as the on screen keyboard doesn’t particularly care if you’re using an external one.
It just seems like for THE premier screenwriting software… this app should be the king, and an overwhelming knockout.
Twist: there are several other apps and platforms out there that can actually read and write their own .fdx format that come with an overwhelming list of awesome features and a much slicker interface, too.
I just really wish they’d give this app the love it deserves.
I think the most egregious bit is the entirely new version with the paywall.
Seriously download the old version and tell me what’s different that deserves a monthly fee.
At this point it’s been several years since the desktop has had note card views— nothing here on mobile.
Highlighting portions of text for copying and moving— sort of a crucial
function — remains twitchy and annoying with the keyboard popping up intermittently and de-selecting the text.
No liquid glass or any updates in ages— using it on iPad is pretty frustrating as the on screen keyboard doesn’t particularly care if you’re using an external one.
It just seems like for THE premier screenwriting software… this app should be the king, and an overwhelming knockout.
Twist: there are several other apps and platforms out there that can actually read and write their own .fdx format that come with an overwhelming list of awesome features and a much slicker interface, too.
I just really wish they’d give this app the love it deserves.
I think the most egregious bit is the entirely new version with the paywall.
Seriously download the old version and tell me what’s different that deserves a monthly fee.
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Black screen
I just get a black screen whenever I want to write anything.
Doesn’t Work Between Devices
This is deceptively incompatible with the Desk/Lap-Top versions of Final Draft. I had a script sent to me to revise. When I open it on my MacBook Pro in FD it is all good. When I export that version or try to open it from the cloud on my iPad using FD Go the text is not visible. I’ve changed it from Night mode to Day mode. I’ve changed it to every other display mode. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the FD Go app on my iPad. Nothing.
So what I gather is unless you originate the script on your iPad with FD Go you can’t swap between mobile and desktop devices. That effectively renders this useless and you may as well stick to writing between the laptop and desktop. Very annoying and in some cases (like in a car on a road trip) it’s preferable to use the smaller more mobile iPad device for writing.
This seems like a major bug. And it doesn’t seem like they are updating this regularly. Waste of a subscription if it doesn’t transfer script visibility between devices.
So what I gather is unless you originate the script on your iPad with FD Go you can’t swap between mobile and desktop devices. That effectively renders this useless and you may as well stick to writing between the laptop and desktop. Very annoying and in some cases (like in a car on a road trip) it’s preferable to use the smaller more mobile iPad device for writing.
This seems like a major bug. And it doesn’t seem like they are updating this regularly. Waste of a subscription if it doesn’t transfer script visibility between devices.
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Useless
Went from a great app to a totally useless app where everything opens as a black box. DO NOT BUY
