Comparison

Biographer vs Arc Studio Screenwriting

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

Arc Studio Screenwriting

This app streamlines the entire screenwriting process, from initial idea generation to a polished script. It offers automatic professional formatting, advanced outlining tools, and real-time collaborative writing features. Worry-free editing with version history ensures your work is always safe.

Highlights
  • Automatic industry-standard formatting
  • Advanced beat-board for story visualization
  • Real-time collaborative writing
  • Intuitive outlining and story structure tools
  • Version history and worry-free editing
  • Import/export Final Draft, PDF, Fountain
Features
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Arc Studio Pro supports your screenwriting process from idea to finished script: * Format your script according to professional industry standards without even thinking about it * Write with flow, thanks to distraction-free, thoughtful design * From idea to story: Outline and visualize your story-structure with the most advanced beat-board available * Collaborate: Write with others in real-time, receive feedback and margin notes directly in your script PROFESSIONAL FORMATTING Arc Studio Pro automatically formats your screenplay to industry standards, even if you don’t know what they are. It’s super-easy to use for beginners and fully-customizable for pros. * Fully automatic, industry standard page layout and text formatting * Import and export Final Draft, PDF, and Fountain * Use intuitive shortcuts to format your text perfectly and effortlessly * The most advanced autocompletion on the market: Character names and sluglines automatically completed for you, for faster typing and consistent naming. * Elements are chosen for you based on what's most likely, and can be configured. KEEP IT FLOWING Stay focused thanks to state of the art design. Write with ease and only think about your story, not the page margins or when you saved the last time. * Intuitive interface * Autosave and automatic backups for worry-free writing * Super-pretty night mode CRAFT YOUR STORY Arc Studio Pro takes you beyond just formatting, and helps you build your story with the most powerful outlining features on the market. * Build your story from basic elements: plots, characters, and locations * Add beats and organize them in acts or sequences * Rearrange your story with intuitive drag & drop * Tag your beats with plots and characters, for intuitive color coding * Highlight certain storylines and characters to see their arcs at a glance TEAM WORK Arc Studio Pro is the screenwriting app that focuses most on collaboration. Screenwriting is often teamwork, so we want to make it as easy as possible for you to work together - that’s why we offer the most sophisticated collaborative writing tools on the market. * Write at the same time in the same document in real-time * Invite collaborators with one click via email * Comment directly on the script * Request reviews and send read-only excerpts WORRY-FREE EDITING Tying to find a certain scene or deleted dialogue? Miss a bit of text? Arc Studio Pro keeps track of all your edits and makes it easy for you and your collaborators to recover previous versions. Never search through piles of papers, different documents or endless emails again. * Search and manage your history with ease * Track your own changes * See who what others changed – who and when * Delete and recover whole scenes thanks to sophisticated history features PAY-AS-YOU-GO Arc Studio on iOS and iPadOS requires an annual Pro subscription. A 7-day free trial is included. PRIVACY AND TERMS Privacy policy: https://www.arcstudiopro.com/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://www.arcstudiopro.com/terms

Screenshots

Biographer4 screens
Arc Studio Screenwriting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Biographer at free with in-app purchases against Arc Studio Screenwriting's subscription. Biographer also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). Arc Studio Screenwriting's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (85 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, 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. Biographer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Arc Studio Screenwriting sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $99.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Biographer holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arc Studio Screenwriting has 85 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Biographer's written reviews are positive against 39% of Arc Studio Screenwriting'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, Arc Studio Screenwriting every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Biographer versus Arc Studio Screenwriting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBiographerArc Studio Screenwriting
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (7 ratings) — better3.4 (85 ratings)
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews39.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings785 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTechné MediaArc Studio Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Biographer

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

Arc Studio Screenwriting

All ratings85 ratings
Positive52.9%
Neutral8.2%
Negative38.8%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral6.1%
Negative54.5%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Biographer

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

Arc Studio Screenwriting

Subscriptions1
  • Pro$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Biographer free?
Biographer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arc Studio Screenwriting free?
Arc Studio Screenwriting is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Biographer or Arc Studio Screenwriting?
Biographer is rated higher. Biographer averages 3.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Arc Studio Screenwriting averages 3.4 from 85 ratings.
Do Biographer or Arc Studio Screenwriting have ads?
Neither Biographer nor Arc Studio Screenwriting shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Biographer or Arc Studio Screenwriting?
Biographer ships an update every 3 months, and Arc Studio Screenwriting every 3 weeks. Most recently, Biographer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Arc Studio Screenwriting on November 7, 2026.

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