Comparison

Script Sides vs The Script Tool

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

Head to head
About

Script Sides

This app allows users to select specific scenes from their scripts and export them as clean PDFs. It supports various import formats and offers customization options like watermarks and revision colors. The entire process is offline, ensuring data privacy.

Highlights
  • Import Fountain, Final Draft (.fdx), and PDF
  • Page Per Scene or Continuous layout
  • Export combined or per-scene PDFs
  • Circled scene numbers
  • Custom watermarks
  • Revision colors
  • Fully offline operation
Features
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Select your scenes, export a clean PDF. FEATURES - Imports Fountain, Final Draft (.fdx), and PDF files. - Custom watermarks (CONFIDENTIAL, actor name, draft date, etc.) - Page Per Scene or Continuous (cross-out) layout - One combined PDF, or a separate PDF per scene - Circled scene numbers - Revision colors MADE FOR ADs, production coordinators, script supervisors, casting directors, and actors.

About

The Script Tool

Features
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The Script Tool app is for writers who already use The Script Tool. Sign in with the same email and password you use on the website. There is no sign-up in the app. Your whole library, in your pocket: • Read and edit your screenplays in proper screenplay format — scene headings, action, character, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions. • Checks: spelling, punctuation, format and character-name consistency, flagged right in the script. • Reports: pages, scenes, speaking parts, dialogue share, and breakdowns by character and location. • Collaboration: see notes from the people you've invited, and share a read-only link you can revoke at any time. • Home-screen widget: the status of your latest review and the size of your library, at a glance. • Face ID and Touch ID: the app locks itself whenever you leave it, so an unpublished script is never left open. • Notifications: when a review finishes, a collaborator leaves a note, or accepts an invitation — each one switchable. Import Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain files and download them back any time; your original file is kept byte for byte. Optional AI features run on your own Anthropic API key. Everything else works without one.

Screenshots

Script Sides4 screens
The Script Tool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: The Script Tool at 15.0 against Script Sides's 18. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Script Sides versus The Script Tool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScript SidesThe Script Tool
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1815.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavin NguyenGreg Howard

In-app purchases

None

Script Sides

No in-app purchases

None

The Script Tool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Script Sides free?
Script Sides is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Script Tool free?
The Script Tool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Script Sides or The Script Tool have ads?
Neither Script Sides nor The Script Tool shows ads.

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