SmartBreakdown

SmartBreakdown turns a screenplay into a practical workspace for the people who actually need it on set. Import a screenplay PDF, break it down by department, add notes and references, bring in the shooting schedule, and see exactly what your department needs today. Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no uploads. Even semantic search runs locally. For unreleased material under NDA, privacy is not an extra feature — it is the foundation. READ THE SCREENPLAY Import a PDF and SmartBreakdown identifies scenes, headings, scene numbers, page lengths in eighths, DAY/NIGHT and INT/EXT. Dialogue and action keep their screenplay structure. Scanned PDFs are supported, and uncertain scene headings are shown for review instead of being silently guessed. BREAK IT DOWN YOUR WAY Create your own departments and categories, choose their colours and symbols, and assign them to any scene. Add department notes, formatted text, reference images and videos, or highlight passages directly in the screenplay. Whether you work in Props, Sound, Script Supervision, Video Playback, SFX, VFX, Costume or another department, SmartBreakdown shows only the information that matters to you. ADD COST ESTIMATES Add an estimate to any note — two phones, a rain bar, three doubles. Totals are calculated per scene, per department or across any group of scenes, and can be included in PDF and Excel exports. SCRIPT, STORY DAY AND CONTINUITY Each scene can carry a running time, story day and in-scene clock time. Running times can be estimated from scene length and replaced with measured values later. See all scenes from Story Day 2, track what time a phone or watch must display, and total running times by episode or shooting day. KEEP YOUR WORK THROUGH REVISIONS Import a new screenplay draft without starting over. Departments, notes and markings stay attached to scene numbers rather than page positions. Revision colours show what changed between drafts, and you can mark revised material as reviewed as you work through it. IMPORT THE SHOOTING SCHEDULE Import a Movie Magic one-line schedule and link shooting days to screenplay scenes. Open a shooting day to see its scenes in shooting order, with page count, running time, story days and your department's workload. FIND SCENES BY MEANING Semantic search finds scenes by context, not only exact words. Search for a concept such as “phone screen”, “someone receives a message” or “computer in the background” and find relevant scenes even when the screenplay uses different wording. EXPORT ONLY WHAT IS NEEDED Create PDF and Excel reports filtered by department, scene range, episode or shooting day. Export the complete breakdown, a single department, selected scenes or a day sheet. Share a project or department file with a colleague and merge returned changes back into your production. MAC, IPAD AND IPHONE SmartBreakdown is designed for Apple devices from the start. Prepare a breakdown on Mac, carry it onto set on iPad, or quickly check the next scene on iPhone. A production is stored as a single file, so you can save it, move it and continue where you left off. YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS Your projects remain readable, printable and exportable even without an active subscription. TRY IT FREE No screenplay available? Open the included demo production with departments, notes, estimates, marked passages, a shooting schedule and draft revisions. 14 days free with every feature unlocked. No account required. SMARTBREAKDOWN PRO EUR 12.99 per month or EUR 99.99 per year. A one-time purchase is also available. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smart-app.dev/SmartBreakdown/support/privacy.html