# Southwind Screenplay — Write like it's 1972

> Write like it's 1972 (iPhone/iPad app by Ahmet Emirhan Korkmaz.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/southwind-screenplay/id6795015737 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ahmet Emirhan Korkmaz](https://appshunter.io/developer/6795015739)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-18
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/southwind-screenplay/id6795015737/reviews.md

## What is Southwind Screenplay?

Southwind is a screenplay editor that gets out of your way. Write the way the greats did — clean pages, Courier type, nothing between you and the story — while the app quietly handles the formatting.

JUST WRITE
Type INT. and it becomes a scene heading. Type a NAME IN CAPS and press Enter — it's a character cue, and the next line is dialogue. A "(" becomes a parenthetical. "CUT TO:" becomes a transition. You never stop to reach for a menu.

GUIDED SCENE HEADINGS
Start a slugline and Southwind offers the pieces: INT. / EXT. / I/E., then the locations you've already used in this script, then the time of day — DAY, NIGHT, DAWN, DUSK and more. It reads like it's holding your hand, not slowing you down.

NINE ELEMENTS, ONE KEY
Act, Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, Parenthetical, Transition, Shot, Text — switch with Tab or jump straight there. Proper margins, proper case, proper page breaks, automatically.

A LIVING CAST & WORLD
Every character and location is pulled from your script as you write — with line and scene counts, and day/night tallies. Give anyone a photo and a few notes: who they are, what they want, the contradictions underneath. Your story bible builds itself.

YOURS, AND OFFLINE
No account. No sign-up. No tracking. Your screenplay lives on your device and nowhere else. Southwind works with no connection at all.

OPENS AND SAVES REAL FORMATS
Import and export plain-text Fountain — the open screenwriting standard — so your work moves freely between tools. Or save the full .southwind file with your cast and world notes intact. Print or export a clean, industry-standard PDF with a title page.

BUILT TO GROW
Southwind is the first tool in RATE, a pipeline that carries a story from the page toward the screen. It starts here: the draft.

Write like it's 1972. Let the machine keep the margins.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-08-10

Print works from your phone now. It goes through the system print sheet, which is also the way to a PDF — and what comes out is a properly set shooting script, same as on a desktop.

On iPhone, the element row now lives inside the keyboard itself, the way Notes carries its formatting bar: it arrives with the keys, in the keyboard's own material, and the current element is simply the one in colour. The old bar at the foot of the screen is gone there, and that space belongs to the page again.

Smaller things: the bar keeps out of the way on iPad where it still carries the panels, and everything follows light and dark without being asked.

### 1.1 — 2026-08-08

Southwind is a screenwriter's tool, and this release is about writing on a phone.

The element bar now travels with the keyboard instead of arriving half a second behind it, and it sits directly on the keys where your thumb already is. Tapping a neighbouring element no longer closes the keyboard.

The top bar is one row. The name is said once, at the door, and everything else lives under a single button — which gives the page back about a third of the screen.

Opening the app for the first time now gives you an empty page instead of a sample screenplay you had to delete a line at a time. The example is still there if you want it, under the help menu.

Smaller repairs: the scenes and cast panels can be dismissed by tapping the script; the element list no longer has its top cut off on small screens; scene numbers work on a phone; and every panel has a clear way out.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-06

No release notes.

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