Comparison

Final Draft Go vs Deets

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Final Draft Go

Write, edit, and read screenplays on your mobile device. Seamlessly sync scripts across platforms and enjoy industry-standard formatting. Ideal for writers on the go.

Highlights
  • Write and edit scripts
  • Sync scripts via cloud services
  • Industry-standard formatting
  • SmartType for auto-completion
  • ScriptNotes and character highlighting
  • Grammarly integration
  • Multi-language support
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Final Draft Go Final Draft™ – the #1-selling screenwriting software in the world – brings you Final Draft Go for iPhone and iPad. With this convenient, subscription-based app, you can write, edit and read Final Draft scripts on your iPhone or iPad. Go paperless and carry all your scripts with you everywhere you go, create new scripts or edit existing ones with easy-to-use features such as Tab and Enter navigation, ScriptNotes, SmartType, and more. Easily move your Final Draft scripts from desktop to iPhone or iPad and back again via iCloud, Dropbox, or email. Your scripts will appear perfectly paginated and formatted to industry standards every time. NEW FEATURES INCLUDE: ENHANCED UI New and improved user interface PINCH TO ZOOM Use multi-touch gestures to zoom in and out and customize the text size of your script view IMPROVED NIGHT MODE Change from day to night mode easily without having to leave the app UNIVERSAL CONTROL SUPPORT Work seamlessly between your iPad and Mac, using your Mac keyboard, mouse, or trackpad GRAMMARLY INTEGRATION Use the Grammarly app with FD Go to edit and proofread your work Creativity is truly portable with Final Draft Go. - Send or share your Final Draft FDX file between all your devices and computers and always be on the same page with Dropbox, OneDrive, or iCloud - Easily change script elements with classic Tab and Enter functionality or through the Elements bar (iPad) or Menu (iPhone) - Use SmartType to remember your character names, scene headings and more - Multi-language support – Write in over 95 different languages - Bluetooth keyboard support - Character Highlighting allows you to keep track of your characters for table reads or character development - Add, color-code, label, and edit ScriptNotes - Perfectly paginates to US Letter and standard European (A4) page sizes - Send feedback directly through the app - Professionally formatted TV, Film, and Stage Play templates to help get you started - Search your entire script for characters, locations, or other script elements - Export scripts to PDF via Dropbox, iCloud or email - Saves the last page you’re working on to get back to work quickly - iPhone Page View shows 100% accurate Final Draft pagination, formatting and line breaking - Automatic More’s and Continued’s - Multi-page Title Pages are supported for TV production scripts - Includes production features like Scene Numbering, Omit Scenes, Colored and Locked Pages - Shows Active or Collated Revisions with Colored Pages - Quickly switch from one revision set to another - Track key information with Cast Reports, Scene Reports, Location Reports, and more - iPhone Scene Navigator allows you to easily jump to different scenes in your script - Access all of the tools you need while maintaining context in your script in the iPhone Tools Menu - Edit your Header and Footer TESTIMONIALS: “Where has this been all my career?!? I put it through its paces doing a rewrite on the go-go-go. Does a great job. This is a real step forward! What more do you need on the road? (Maybe a chauffeur?).” David Seidler – Writer/Academy Award® winner The King’s Speech, By Dawn’s Early Light, Tucker: The Man and His Dream.

About

Deets

Features
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Deets is an address book that gets out of the way. Open it and the search field is already waiting. Type two or three letters and the right person is there, name first, with the number or address you wanted directly underneath — no photographs to load, no coloured initial blobs, nothing decorative competing with the thing you came for. YOUR CONTACTS, NOT A COPY OF THEM Deets reads and writes the Contacts app already on your iPhone, so anything synced there — iCloud, Google, Exchange, a work CardDAV account — is simply there. Edit a contact in Deets and the change lands in Contacts. There is no second database and nothing to import to get started. ADD A CONTACT FROM ANYTHING Scan a business card with the camera, choose a photo of one, paste a signature block out of an email, or open a vCard. Every path runs on your device. Deets shows you exactly what it read, including the lines it could not place, before anything is saved. SHARING WITHOUT THE SHARE SHEET Show a QR code someone can point a phone at, or copy a clean block of plain text that survives an email. Your own card is a first-class thing, not just another entry. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Put the people you reach for most on the Home Screen, in small, medium or large. Say “Search Deets” or “Show my card in Deets” to Siri, or build a shortcut of your own around them. ON YOUR OTHER DEVICES Deets is one app across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Favorites, your own card, your accent colour and your field order follow you over iCloud. On the Mac a single hotkey summons the same search from anywhere. On the watch, your favorites and their numbers are on your wrist, read-only by design. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Deets contains no networking code — not on iPhone, not on the watch, not on the Mac. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising identifier and no third-party code. Card scanning runs on your device. The only thing that ever leaves is your own settings, to your own iCloud, and even there your contacts are named by a one-way digest rather than by name or address. FREE Deets is free on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with no ads and nothing locked. Deets for Mac comes with a 14-day free trial, then a one-time purchase. Requires iOS 26 and access to your Contacts.

Screenshots

Final Draft Go4 screens
Deets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Deets at every 3 days against Final Draft Go's every 5 weeks. Deets also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Final Draft Go's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Final Draft Go sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Deets sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Final Draft Go ships an update every 5 weeks, Deets every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Final Draft Go versus Deets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal Draft GoDeets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews10.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size195 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCast & Crew Production Software, LLCMike Shear

Bugs and requests

Final Draft Go

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Constant login issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Scrolling and cursor problems
  • Formatting and editing bugs
  • Sync and file management issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Dropbox support
  • Improve Magic Keyboard integration
  • Add Beat Board and other advanced features
  • Unify account system with desktop version

Deets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Final Draft Go

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annually$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Deets

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Deets for Mac$9.99

Questions

Is Final Draft Go free?
Final Draft Go is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deets free?
Deets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Final Draft Go or Deets have ads?
Neither Final Draft Go nor Deets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Final Draft Go or Deets?
Final Draft Go ships an update every 5 weeks, and Deets every 3 days. Most recently, Final Draft Go was updated on October 24, 2026 and Deets on October 11, 2026.

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