Linewright vs eDraft‎

Linewright is a screenplay writer for iPad that opens, works, and stays out of your way. Write your script in Fountain plain text or import a Final Draft (.fdx) file. The editor auto-formats as you type: sluglines, action, characters, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions. Sluglines stay in caps. The dashes stay where you put them. The script is a .fountain file. It opens in any text editor. It always will. When you're ready, export a production-correct PDF in US Letter or A4 with every MORE and CONT'D in the right place. Or send it back to Final Draft as .fdx, and it comes back clean. Watermarking, Revisions, Cast all preserved. Real iPad-native. Built for iPad Pro and iPad Air. Apple Pencil for read-pass annotation. Multi-window for two scripts side-by-side. Stage Manager works the way you expect. iCloud Drive syncs your folders without garbling the file. Outline mode with index cards. Drag scenes around to restructure. Save the Cat beat sheet template if that's your thing. Scene navigator. Find and Replace that doesn't render off-screen. A title page editor that doesn't lose your contact info. About the AI: Linewright includes a Character Voice Check that reads your character's dialogue across the whole script and tells you when their voice drifts. It runs on Apple Foundation Models, entirely on your iPad. Nothing leaves your device. It gives craft feedback. It never rewrites your dialogue, never suggests next lines, never produces pages. You're the writer. This is a second pass. Made for screenwriters who actually write on iPad. The ones who've tried Final Draft Go and gone back to Notes. The ones writing on the couch at 10:47pm. The ones who don't want to subscribe to something that keeps shipping bugs the incumbent has known about for years. Buy once. Write forever. One-time purchase. No subscription. Lifetime updates. Compatibility: iPad running iPadOS 26 or later, optimized for iPad Pro and iPad Air. Also runs on iPhone with iOS 26. File formats: .fountain (native), .fdx (Final Draft import/export), .pdf (production-correct export). Privacy: Linewright has no account. There is nothing to log into. Scripts are stored locally and sync via your own iCloud Drive. Analytics events are anonymous and never include script content, character names, or dialogue. Acknowledgments: Bundles Courier Prime, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

eDraft is a screenplay editor for iPhone. It formats your script as you type, so you can stay with the story. New in 2.1: Everyone gets their own note colour, notes take labels, and eDraft works better with VoiceOver and Voice Control. WRITE • Scene headings, action, characters, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions are formatted for you. • Choose the element from the bar above your script. • Accept writing suggestions as you type. In German, eDraft knows INNEN. and AUSSEN. and suggests TAG, NACHT, MORGEN, ABEND and DÄMMERUNG. • Add bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and highlights. • Switch between reading and writing with one tap. NOTES • Add notes to any passage. • Everyone whose name is on a note gets a colour of their own – on the page, in the notes sheet and in the Navigator. Choose your colour in Settings. • Give notes labels such as “Rewrite”. In the Navigator, tap a name or a label to see only the notes that match. IDEAS • Tap the microphone in the library and say what is on your mind. eDraft keeps the recording. When your iPhone supports it, eDraft also writes down the words – in German when your iPhone is German. • Say “innen Küche, Tag” and eDraft offers the scene heading INNEN. KÜCHE - TAG. • Open Ideas from the script’s menu (•••). Play the recording, then place the idea as a note, action, dialogue or new scene – at the cursor or into a scene. You can undo a placement in the open script. • Your ideas reach your Mac through iCloud. Without iCloud, they stay on your iPhone. • Ask Siri: “Add an idea in eDraft”. The shortcut is also in the Shortcuts app. FIND YOUR WAY • Use the Navigator to move between scenes, see your cast, and review notes. • Create a title page. The title stays as you type it; the PDF and print show it in capitals. REVISIONS • Mark a draft when you send your script out. From then on, an asterisk marks each line that has changed – in the PDF and in print too. ACCESSIBILITY • As you write, VoiceOver says the kind of line, such as Action or Character, and a note mark says whose note it is. • For Voice Control, buttons and rows carry the words shown on them, such as a script’s name in the library. YOUR FILES • Your scripts are files you own, on your iPhone or in iCloud Drive. • Open Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain and eDraft files from Files, Mail, Messages or AirDrop, and keep them in their own format. When you save a Final Draft file, notes by other people keep their names, and title page changes stay in the file. • Scan paper pages, or import a PDF or a photo, to turn them into a screenplay you can edit. Scene numbers are kept, and CONTINUED lines are dropped. • Page Words: an eDraft script can print (MEHR) and (FORTS.) instead of (MORE) and (CONT’D). • Choose the paper size: US Letter or A4. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, eDraft starts on A4. • Export an eDraft document, PDF, Final Draft file, Fountain, rich text or plain text, or print. PRIVATE • No account and no sign-in. • eDraft collects no data and never sends your scripts to us. Recordings and scripts stay on your devices and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud.