Playwriter vs EpicDraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Playwriter
Transform your play ideas into professionally formatted scripts. This app guides you through character and scene creation, offering step-by-step tutorials for aspiring playwrights. Visualize your play with pictorial representations of settings and characters.
- Automatic script formatting
- Character and location creation
- Scene writing and dialogue editing
- Pictorial scene representation
- Step-by-step playwriting guides
- Export options
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Got a great idea for a play? This innovative app takes you from a nub of an idea to a finalised script, professionally formatted and ready for printing. And if you're new to playwriting there's a complete set of step-by-step guides to teach you all the tips and tricks of professional writers. FEATURES - Export options - Automatic script formatting - Unlimited number of plays - 10,000 word guide to playwriting HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a bunch of characters. 2. Create some locations. 3. Create a scene and start writing dialogue. The app gives you a pictorial representation of your play scene by scene, showing images of the setting and of each of the characters in that scene.You can easily update characters and locations, change your mind about scene order or edit dialogue.
EpicDraft
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EpicDraft is a screenwriting app for writing, formatting and organizing screenplays. It handles industry-standard Fountain, Final Draft and PDF formats, keeps scenes, characters and locations linked to the script, and works offline. Write anywhere. The same screenplay on your phone, your tablet, your computer, or in any web browser. Start a scene on the bus and finish it at your desk. Formatting that stays out of the way. Industry-standard screenplay formatting, applied as you type. Autocomplete for characters and locations, keyboard shortcuts for every element, and a distraction-free mode for when you want the page and nothing else. A Library beside the script. Your project's wiki: loglines, synopses, treatments, characters, locations, storyboards and scenes in the same place as the screenplay instead of in another app, each one linked to the pages it appears on. Character and location pages grow into full sheets with reference lookbooks, and storyboard panels anchor to the scenes they belong to. Import and export. Open Fountain, Final Draft and PDF files, including scanned PDFs through built-in OCR. Export and print watermark-free PDF and Final Draft files. Coverage, built in. When a draft is ready for notes, EpicDraft Pro lets you share a secure read-only link and collect script coverage: structured, page-by-page feedback from your readers, gathered into one dashboard. Readers open the script in their browser and review it free, without installing anything. Real-time collaboration, per-script roles and team chat keep a whole writers room on the same pages. A full AI toolkit, on your terms. EpicDraft Pro adds a writing assistant for chat, research, loglines and in-place rewrites that knows your whole story, plus image generation for storyboards and concept art. Turn it loose on the whole project for an autonomous coverage report or consistency check. It runs on local models by default, so your pages never leave your machine. Connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or xAI account only if you choose, and give the assistant extra tools by plugging in your own MCP servers. Your files, on your hardware. Screenplays are stored locally by default and are never mined or used to train AI models. Cloud sync is there when you want it and stays switched off until you turn it on, and Pro can keep your own devices in sync peer to peer, with no cloud in between. Free to use. The editor, unlimited screenplays, import and export, 29 interface languages and every platform are free, with no watermarks and no quotas. EpicDraft Pro adds the AI writing assistant and image generation, script coverage reports, device sync, real-time collaboration, team chat, file history with restorable checkpoints, and file encryption.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: EpicDraft at Free against Playwriter's $2.99. EpicDraft also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 12 months). Playwriter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On ads and device support 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
EpicDraft is free to download; Playwriter costs $2.99 up front. EpicDraft sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per 3 months. Playwriter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Playwriter ships an update every 12 months, EpicDraft every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Playwriter | EpicDraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (29 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Felix Mood | EpicDraft, Co. |
In-app purchases
Playwriter
No in-app purchases
EpicDraft
- Pro Quarterly$19.993 Months
- Pro Annual$59.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$99.99
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