Comparison

Biographer vs ScriptBuilder

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

Head to head
About

Biographer

Easily create illustrated eBooks and PDFs from your stories, journals, or any written project. Organize thoughts into a structured database with time-sensitive themes and reminders to jog your memory. Share your creations as eBooks or PDFs with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Create illustrated biographies, novels, and more
  • Organize thoughts into a structured database
  • Time Themes and seasonal reminders
  • Auto-create chapters and events
  • Attach photos and captions to events
  • Export as eBook, PDF, RTF, Plain Text, HTML, XML
  • Speech recognition for dictation
Features
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Conveniently create illustrated biographies, novels, screen plays, speeches, journals, instruction manuals, song books, poetry books, book reports and more! We organize your thoughts and stories into a structured database which can then be managed much more logically than a plain old writing program. Also, we make the trip down memory lane enjoyable with Time Themes and seasonal reminders to jog your memory. Your life to eBook in one tap of your finger! Any project can be saved as an eBook or PDF and shared with others vie email. Every Life Deserves a Bio! Whether you are just getting started in life or getting up there in years, you have a story to tell. In fact, you probably have lots of stories to tell. Biographer is especially designed to help you tell these stories and get them into book form in the easiest possible way. But this app is not just for biographies! Use it to write a school reports, novels, recipe books, brochures, booklets, screenplays, journals—anything! Auto-create Chapters and Events for your Biography or that of someone you want to write about. Then start remembering as best you can. We'll keep track of the years and dates for you. Attach photos and captions to events and thoughts and before long you are developing a great story which can now be shared and kept forever! Life is not a Timeline on a social network, it's a story. It's your story. Time Themes dynamically change the interface to reflect the decade you are recalling or the seasonal time of year. This helps you remember things that you might otherwise have forgotten. With the Tap of a single button, you can take all these Chapters and chronological events and create a beautifully formatted eBook that can be read by any popular eBook reader. This is a superlative gift for your children, your parents and your friends—not this app but a Biography that they can call their own and share for the ages. From now on, it's not just the famous that get biographies, it's everyone! No life story should go untold or forgotten. Biographer takes a tough writing task and breaks it into small parts that make it fun to write your story. Use the built-in speech recognition to speak your memories and thoughts to quickly create a story that is fully organized into neat Chapters. Pretty soon, you'll be sharing all sorts of stories and mini-bios with your friends and the world because Biographer lets you maintain as many separate stories as you want and make and share as many eBooks,PDFs or RTFs (for Word) as you want—no design experience needed! This is perfect for small businesses or organizations that want to tell their story and share it in the universal modern format, the eBook. Stories can also be exported as Plain Text, HTML or XML for added usefulness in collaboration or other workflows. Free version lets you work on and save as many stories as you want then when you want to share them, pay a one-time modest fee to unlock all sharing and printing functions for all your stories. Start telling your story today and enjoy Biographer!

About

ScriptBuilder

Capture and develop screenplay ideas on the go. This app guides you through clarifying your movie concept, structuring your story arc with act builders, and fleshing out characters and scenes with targeted questions. Prepare to write compelling stories with a solid foundation.

Highlights
  • Idea clarification questions
  • Story arc structure (Act 1, 2, 3)
  • Character development prompts
  • Scene building guidance
  • On-the-go idea capture
Features
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Welcome to ScriptBuilder! ScriptBuilder was made to capture and build screenplay ideas on the go. Before you face the dreaded blank page, build up your screenplay idea with ScriptBuilder! Features: • The Idea section helps you clarify your movie idea by answering specific questions, getting to the heart of your story • Structure your story arc with Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3 builders. All three act sections contain Act Beat questions to facilitate new ideas and notes which will prepare you when you're ready to build scenes • The "Character Builder" feature prompts you to answer questions about your characters to help you get to know your characters better and to discover their arcs. Getting to know your characters will make writing your scenes with these characters smoother. (Access through in-app purchase) • The "Scene Builder" feature provides useful questions that when answered help bring clarity to what the scene does to move your story and characters forward. (Access through in-app purchase) Unlimited Access: All Access (1 Month) $5.99 All Access (1 Year) $49.99 -------------------------------- I originally built this app because I found myself coming up with ideas for screenplays but didn't have a dedicated place to capture them. I also wanted a tool that would help me flesh out the story, characters, and scenes before I sat down in front of my computer to write. I want to continue to iterate on ScriptBuilder with new features to make it even better. If you have any feature requests, questions or comments, please go to the support url and send me an email :) I hope ScriptBuilder helps you along your path in creating compelling stories in both feature films and television. If it does help, please share ScriptBuilder with your family and friends. Thank you! -------------------------------- Privacy Policy: https://www.scriptbuilderapp.com/_files/ugd/b622d0_f5722cd213394590bbd181559a0af540.pdf Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Biographer4 screens
ScriptBuilder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ScriptBuilder at 4.6 against Biographer's 3.7. ScriptBuilder also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Biographer's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Biographer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and ScriptBuilder sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ScriptBuilder holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Biographer's written reviews are positive against 36% of ScriptBuilder's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Biographer ships an update every 3 months, ScriptBuilder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Biographer versus ScriptBuilder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBiographerScriptBuilder
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (7 ratings)4.6 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews — better35.7% of reviews
Number of ratings77
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTechné Mediapatrick ridd

Customer experience

Biographer

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative37.5%

ScriptBuilder

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive35.7%
Neutral23.2%
Negative41.1%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Biographer

One-time2
  • Unlock All Export and Printing$3.99
  • Screenplay Assistant$9.99
6 purchases

ScriptBuilder

Subscriptions2
  • All Access (1 Month)7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • All Access (1 year)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • Character Builder$0.99
  • Scene Builder$0.99
  • No Ads$1.99
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  • All Access (Lifetime)$69.99

Questions

Is Biographer free?
Biographer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScriptBuilder free?
ScriptBuilder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Biographer or ScriptBuilder?
ScriptBuilder is rated higher. Biographer averages 3.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while ScriptBuilder averages 4.6 from 7 ratings.
Do Biographer or ScriptBuilder have ads?
Neither Biographer nor ScriptBuilder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Biographer or ScriptBuilder?
Biographer ships an update every 3 months, and ScriptBuilder every 2 weeks. Most recently, Biographer was updated on October 5, 2026 and ScriptBuilder on October 7, 2026.

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